Actual Sounds + Voices
Studio album by
Meat Beat Manifesto
Released30 June 1998[1]
Recorded1997–98
Genre
Length72:58
LabelNothing Records
ProducerMeat Beat Manifesto
Meat Beat Manifesto chronology
Subliminal Sandwich
(1996)		 Actual Sounds + Voices
(1998)		 RUOK?
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Pitchfork8.5/10[3]
Tom Hull – on the WebB+[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

  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

The song "Prime Audio Soup" can be heard as background music for the ring girls at 20:42 in the 2002 documentary film The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr, and featured on the main soundtrack of the 1999 film The Matrix.

References

  1. ↑ "Actual Sounds + Voices". Brainwashed. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Actual Sounds + Voices at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Pitchfork Media
  4. ↑ Hull, Tom. "Grade List: Meat Beat Manifesto". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "Jack Dangers: The Mind of Meat Beat Manifesto". All About Jazz. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Liner notes from Nothing Records CD release INTD-90279.


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