Actual Sounds And Voices

Artist: Meat Beat Manifesto
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music

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Media: LP Record
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 606949027919
EAN: 0606949027919
ASIN: B00000GDG3

Release Date: 1998-10-20

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Tracks:

Everything's Under Control
Prime Audio Soup
Book of Shadows
Oblivion/Humans
Let's Have Fun
Tweek
Acid Again
Let Go
Where Are You?/Enuff
Hail to the Bopp
3 Floors Above You
Funny Feeling
Thump
Wavy Line
Wildlife

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Customer Reviews:

This is MBM.......2005-10-09

This 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.

where's the voices that are prmoised??.......2005-09-26

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 15 songs, only 3 have vocals and it is not his usual rap style vocals. so if you see the title and think 99% or satyricon, dont be fooled, you will not like this CD. I do like some of their stuff that is loaded with really cool samples, but i didnt find much of that on here either, just a lot of really repetitive music that doesnt really go anywhere and doesnt have much power or emotion.

Wow, some people are clueless...........2005-04-02

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.

An imperfect masterpiece.......2005-01-24

Jack 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 Sounds + Voices.

What definitely makes a difference this time around is having a stong list of versital collaberators who not only understand Danger's sound, but can work well within its expansive, limitless sound. Dangers still has a strong influence over his list of players, but they only help strengthen this album. Unlike previous attempts, the album plays out more like an album made by a band rather than an eccentric artist working in his own world(Subliminal Sandwich, while good, was far too expansive and loose for its own good). The work here is tight, detailed, undeniably groovy. Sort of like the jazz band of the future, as depicted by some surreal painter.

The album itself is well paced, moving through Jack's various influences without lagging in one place for too long. You'll hear live jungle workouts(Prime Audio Soup, Let Go, Where Are You), industrial rock(Oblivion, Funny Feeling), big beat(Acid Again) and everything else inbetween. The real highlight comes near the end of the album in the form of this jazz/fusion electronic jam called The Thumb. Its expansive, quirky and above all surreal. It truly shows Jack's ability to imagine a sound and get it to come out through his players(though I'm sure he played bass on it).

But where the true wonder of this album comes in is its complete disregard for melody and hooks, yet somehow manages to remain memorable throughout. Jack's ingenious sound design and masterful ability to evoke tones and atmosphere while remaining balanced in both dancablity and listenablity I would say is his real charm as an artist. His only fault on this album is he sometimes makes his songs just too busy for mental consumption. Otherwise, this is the pinnacle of an artist who's mind knows no bounds for sound and continues to remain relevent for more then a decade. I actually get excited to see what he will put out next.

Aggressive? Chaotic? Pretentious?!?.......2004-12-12

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 "chill" environment for one to really appreciate it. Highlights for me include "Hail to the Bopp", "Funny Feeling", the ultra chill "The Thumb", "Let Go" and "Lets Have Fun". Alright.....untill......

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