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EAN: 0606949027926 Label: Nothing Records Limited Inc. Manufacturer: Nothing Records Limited Inc. Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nothing Records Limited Inc. Release Date: October 06, 1998 Studio: Nothing Records Limited Inc. Editorial Review: Amazon.com's Best of 1998: Meat Beat Manifesto represent everything that is right about electronic music. Perhaps it's their signature acoustic drum patterns that maintain their songs' timelessness. Perhaps it is leader Jack Dangers's ability to infuse each album with a variety of influences. With Actual Sounds and Voices, Dangers builds his songs around two jazz greats improvising in a recorded session. But the jazz influence never overpowers Meat Beat's bombastic vibe--it only enhances it. Considering their track record, it seems nearly impossible that Meat Beat Manifesto could top themselves. But records are made to be broken. CDs, however, and particularly this one, are meant to be played--over and over and over again. --Beth Bessmer Amazon.com: Meat Beat Manifesto mastermind Jack Dangers once proclaimed, "I always aim for the future. I never want an album to sound like the last one." Although a seemingly uncomplicated statement, remaining true to his aspirations has presented an interesting conundrum for Dangers. MBM do have an easily identifiable sound. The template is built from acoustic (or at least acoustic-sounding) percussion colored with hip-hop rhythms, sternum-rattling bass beats, and entrancing raps and vocal samples--with a creative precedent of sounds over melody. With such a signature style, the challenge lies not so much in aiming for the future but in creating albums that are distinctive from one another. Actual Sounds and Voices meets the challenge by employing a little convention. Unlike previous sample-heavy albums, this recording depends more on live performance. Dangers invited saxophonist and bass clarinetist Bennie Maupin (who played on Miles Davis's legendary Bitches Brew and was also a member of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters) and synthesizer whiz Pat Gleeson (also in the Headhunters) into the studio to record a freestyle jam session. Dangers picked the highlights and molded them into Meat Beat songs. The result is a ferociously danceable all-out-funk-acid-jazz-techno-fusion affront in the face of any misguided soul who thinks electronic music has no heart. Aiming for the future? Meat Beat Manifesto is the future. --Beth Bessmer Album Description: 1998 album for Play It Again Sam by the veteran techno act, featuring the single 'Acid Again'. A lesson in sonic innovation, the styles on the record vary from the breakbeatassaults of the track 'Prime Audio Soup' to the space groovecut 'The Thumb'. 15 tracks. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This is MBMThis is and Subliminal Sandwich are the best works of MBM. I know its hard to find stuff by Dangers that isn't near perfect but those are the 2 I suggest over all others. Sandwich is more spooky than this one. This one is a speaker throbber, make sure you have a system that can keep up with it. I forgot what the name of another one I recommend is... it has some tracks by the Shamen and Atomic Babies - very cool stuff. Rating:  - where's the voices that are prmoised??I have been listeing to MBM since i was about 15, back in 91. I am a huge fam of 99% and satyricon, I am not however into their electronic music without vocals. I pretty much gave up on them b/c they abandoned the vocals, which is what made them industrial, which is what they were considered back then. I am not sure what you would call their music now, but when i herd of this album i got really excited that jack dangers would go back to adding vocals to the music. what a dissapointment, out of ... Read More Rating: - Wow, some people are clueless....This not electronic music to dance to, it's electronic music to LISTEN to. This is quite possibly MBM's best CD next to Satyricon. Rating: - An imperfect masterpieceJack Dangers is definitely a genius. But whether its a genuis of his own design or just by accident is hard to tell but still a genuis none the less. As far as I can tell, no one has made an entire career out of soundcollage and design and make it seem substantial. Yet somehow his fusion of dub, jungle, industrial, hip-hop, dance and rock all seems to come together in his signature mess he calls Meat Beat Manifesto. And I think no album he's made is as sucessful in his self-created sound as Actual ... Read More Rating: - Aggressive? Chaotic? Pretentious?!?I do not see how the above adjectives apply to this incredible CD. Yet these descriptors have been featured in an alarming number of reviews. I think the authors of said reviews just weren't listening to the music right. Granted, this is not really music for dancing (with a few exceptions. "Prime Audio Soup" for example), and that may have really turned some people off to it, and I will admit that "Where Are You?" is aggressive (it being dark jungle and all). What this music requires however is a slightly ... Read More |
