Actual Sounds + Voices
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Actual Sounds + Voices | ||||
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File:Actual Sounds & Voices.jpg | ||||
Studio album by | ||||
Released | 30 June 1998[1] | |||
Recorded | 1997–98 | |||
Genre | Big beat, electro-industrial, breakbeat, electronica, IDM, nu jazz, experimental, ambient | |||
Length | 72:58 | |||
Label | Nothing Records | |||
Producer | Meat Beat Manifesto | |||
Meat Beat Manifesto chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Pitchfork | 8.5/10[3] |
Tom Hull – on the Web | B+[4] |
Actual Sounds + Voices is the sixth studio album by electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto, released in 1998. Like its predecessor, Subliminal Sandwich, the album deeply intertwines multiple forms of electronic music with live instruments such as the bass clarinet, saxophone, drums and Fender Rhodes. However, Actual Sounds + Voices is more influenced by jazz,[5] coupled with a darker tone and characterized by persistent erratic breakbeats. The single "Prime Audio Soup" is featured in a scene of the 1999 film The Matrix and appears on the film's soundtrack.
Track listing
- "Everything's Under Control"—0:43
- "Prime Audio Soup"—6:17
- "Book of Shadows"—5:43
- "Oblivion/Humans"—5:52
- "Let's Have Fun"—3:30
- "The Tweek"—2:25
- "Acid Again"—5:47
- "Let Go"—4:44
- "Where Are You?/Enuff"—5:59
- "Hail to the Bopp"—4:40
- "3 Floors Above You"—5:00
- "Funny Feeling"—6:10
- "The Thumb"—10:47
- "Wavy Line"—1:17
- "Wildlife"—4:05
Personnel
- Jack Dangers - Producer, vocals, bass
- Lynn Farmer - Drums, percussion
- John Wilson - Prepared guitars
Additional musicians
- Bennie Maupin - Saxophones, bass clarinet on "The Thumb"
- Patrick Gleeson - Synthesizer on "The Thumb"[6]
References
- ^ "Actual Sounds + Voices". Brainwashed. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
- ^ Actual Sounds + Voices at AllMusic
- ^ Pitchfork Media
- ^ Hull, Tom. "Grade List: Meat Beat Manifesto". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- ^ "Jack Dangers: The Mind of Meat Beat Manifesto". All About Jazz. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
- ^ Liner notes from Nothing Records CD release INTD-90279.
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