 Tricky asked Mark Saunders to co @-@ produce Maxinquaye after being impressed by his previous work with English rock band The Cure on their albums Mixed Up ( 1990 ) and Wish ( 1992 ) . They recorded Maxinquaye in the first half of 1994 at Tricky 's home studio in Kilburn ; further recording later took place at the <unk> and Eastcote studios in Notting Hill . Island Records , 4th & B <unk> 's parent label , set up equipment in the home studio at Tricky 's request , including an Akai <unk> sampler , an Atari 1040 computer with Logic software , an Alesis ADAT recorder , an AKG <unk> microphone , a Behringer Composer compressor , and a Mackie 1604 mixing desk . The recording sessions were somewhat chaotic , and Saunders , who had the impression he would only perform engineering duties , often found himself serving as a DJ and programmer . Tricky instructed him on what to sample , regardless of different tempos and pitches , and asked him to piece the results together , something Saunders achieved by pitch @-@ shifting the respective samples until the combination sounded satisfactory . The samples they experimented with were taken from the many vinyl records that Saunders recalled were " littered " all over Tricky 's floor . Influenced by dub music 's production techniques , Tricky exhaustively altered borrowed sounds on his sampler , mixed tracks as they were being recorded live in the studio , and preserved sounds that otherwise would have been unwanted in the final mix , including glitches and crackles . 
