Actual Sounds + Voices Explained

Actual Sounds + Voices
Type:	studio
Artist:	Meat Beat Manifesto
Cover:	Actual_Sounds_&_Voices.jpg
Released:	30 June 1998^[1]
Recorded:	1997–98
Length:	72:58
Label:	Nothing Records
Producer:	Meat Beat Manifesto
Prev Title:	Subliminal Sandwich
Prev Year:	1996
Next Title:	RUOK?
Next Year:	2002

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,^[2] coupled with a darker tone and characterized by persistent erratic breakbeats. "The Thumb" is a lengthy jazz fusion song featuring Bennie Maupin and Patrick Gleeson, both veterans of Herbie Hancock's early 1970s band.

Track listing

1. "Everything's Under Control"—0:43
2. "Prime Audio Soup"—6:17
3. "Book of Shadows"—5:43
4. "Oblivion/Humans"—5:52
5. "Let's Have Fun"—3:30
6. "The Tweek"—2:25
7. "Acid Again"—5:47
8. "Let Go"—4:44
9. "Where Are You?/Enuff"—5:59
10. "Hail to the Bopp"—4:40
11. "3 Floors Above You"—5:00
12. "Funny Feeling"—6:10
13. "The Thumb"—10:47
14. "Wavy Line"—1:17
15. "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"^[3]

In popular culture

The single "Prime Audio Soup" is featured in a scene of the 1999 film The Matrix and appears on the film's soundtrack.

It also appears in the 2002 documentary film .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Actual Sounds + Voices . . 11 March 2015 .
2. Web site: Jack Dangers: The Mind of Meat Beat Manifesto . . 11 March 2015 .
3. Liner notes from Nothing Records CD release INTD-90279.