Product Description

Meat Beat Manifesto has been hailed as one of the frontrunners in the electronic music scene since 1987. Front man Jack Dangers has avoided being categorized by continuously expanding his musical influences and overall direction of the band. No two albums sound alike. Now, with this tenth release, the group is pushing musical boundaries even further, creating a tour de force of electronic genius sure to spark renewed interest in the dubstep and electronic music scenes.

Track Listing

1. International
2. I Hold The Mic!
3. Hellfire
4. Less
5. Solid Waste
6. Lonely Soldier
7. Children Of Planet Earth
8. Young Cassius
9. Guns N Lovers
10. Return To Bass
11. 62 Dub
12. Colors Of Sound
13. Spanish Vocoder
14. International Reprise

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128575 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Dusteppalicious!
I love this album! Best think yet, and I love the new direction. [...]

"Let's start this off by weeding out a few people. If you belong to any of the following groups, skip this review completely, and just go buy the album right now (yes, seriously):

1. Any previous Meat Beat fans
2. Fans of electronic dub, glitch, or dubstep music
3. Lovers of grimey, deep bass

Now that we have them on their way, I can get to talking about what makes Meat Beat Manifesto, and this album in particular, so interesting.

Jack Dangers, the figure-head visionary behind the group, started playing heavy, repetitive, industrial-esque music many many years ago in a country far, far away. He found his sound-style early on--with a love of Dub/Reggae, syncopated rhythms, and obscure samples--and has been refining that sound ever since. We have seen MBM move from the raw industrial sounds, to acidy electronic samples, to dub, then a quick dip into jazz, all while keeping a seriously grounded, deep reggae-like bassline and layers upon layers of funky drum patterns.

I was almost certain that Jack and Crew were going to spiral off into more of this Jazz-infused madness with their new record, but was pleasantly surprised to find Autoimmune following in the footstep of the best previous albums, but yet again, pushing new sound elements into the already perfected mixture. By adding the wicked dirty dubstep bass sounds to their palette (distinguished by the dark, gritty mood, sparse rhythms, and emphasis on bass), Meat Beat Manifesto has followed the natural course which today seems totally fitting (although was shockingly new when I first played the album).

So who really should be a fan of Meat Beat Manifesto? If you are a fan of deep, dirty funk, dub/reggae, hip hop, dubstep, or glitch; it is a must-have. Mind you, MBM is all and none of these at the same time. You will hear pieces and parts of most everything and yet if they were played alongside of any of these on a radio station, it would definately stand apart. If you however, prefer your music light, fluffy, and soft... you could probably easily skip this release and be on your way.

Okay, so all this means mostly nothing without some music right? Well, here you go... a few samples of the new album, fresh-in-stores tomorrow. Enjoy."

panoply of ideas
MBM's Jack Dangers has, from the beginning, continued to hone his panoply of ideas with each release, sometimes dedicating whole albums to just one of them (i.e. dub on In Dub, the use of his EMS Synthi 100 on R.U.O.K?). His practice makes perfect, as demonstrated on Autoimmune, a culmination of the 21-year-old MBM mythology. The hip-hop of "Young Cassius" tears apart your speakers with vocoders, spine-bending breaks and an MC (Young Cassius) tough enough to handle it; "Hellfire", "62 Dub" and "Guns `n' Lovers" feature enough bass and lugubrious backdrop sounds to make Scorn blush; MBM's trademark scratchy spoken-word samples abound, particularly on "Solid Waste" where Dangers takes his fierce, punctuating, circa 1992 raps (Satyricon) and explodes, both politically and musically, alongside baller-a$$ turntable scratches. Some artists can get away with recycling concepts, especially when said old tricks are creative light years away from anyone else on the planet.

Possibly the best Meat Beat album since Subliminal Sandwhich
If RUOK took Meat Beat in the direction of modern hiphop done with access to a room full of rare vintage synthesizers, Autoimune refines that vision to a razor blade and adds a splash of everything that has made Meat Beat work from album to album. Eclectic, polished, ugly, beautiful, and soulful. Solid Waste echoes Freindly Fa$cism era Consolidated and songs like Edge Of No Control and Asbestos Lead Asbestos while other songs echo everything from Jack Dangers solo work on Important Records to strait ahead hip hop and dub. All is infused with challenging rhythms and gut shaking bass.