MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO - Actual Sounds and Voices
Songs: 15  Time:  72:57
The attack of Jack!  Meat Beat Manifesto returned in 1998 with Actual Sounds and Voices.  Not only was this a return to the scene for Jack Dangers and company, but it also marked a return to the old Meat Beat sound that so many other acts have fashioned their music after.  Prime Audio Soup is a prime example of the stable MBM sound.  Massive, trippy beats, funky baselines, and an abundance of peculiar samples are all strung together to create another MBM classic.  High frequency chirps and bleeps are combined with rolling beats on Book of Shadows.  Add in a bass heavy rhythm line and a few cymbals and a thunderous club song is born.  The great thing about tracks like this are their crossover potential.  You might go to you local 'industrial' club one night and hear this track and the next night you could wander into a 'techno' club and hear the same song.  The combo piece Oblivion/Humans reinvents the trippy sci-fi sounds of a few years back.  This is also one of the few tracks in which Mr. Dangers sings.  The Tweek is a short, experimental track that focuses on a barrage of samples which all pertain to audio.  Acid Again sports the old Thrill Kill Kult samples from Confessions of A Knife (you know the one……'never acid again') combined with standard MBM hip-hop beats, analogue synth sounds, and breaks like you've never heard before.  Let Go has some of the best-constructed breakbeats of any track.  Once again generating a sci-fi feel, Hail to the Bop combines beat constructed partially of raggae styled sounds and subtle, lofty sequences.  Funny Feeling is a slower, less beat heavy piece in which Mr. Dangers once again picks up the mic.  Utilizing some jazzy sounds and combining them with dense rhythms and light beats, MBM creates The Thumb, a 10-minute piece that really shows the novelty of behind Jack's sound.  The final track, Wildlife, is a beatless instrumental that comes off sounding the soundtrack for a 1950's murder/mystery.  It's great to see Meat Beat Manifesto recreating their original style and updating it for the 90's. Actual Sounds and Voices is one of the best CD's of 1998!
   
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