Meat Beat Manifesto: Actual Sounds & Voices
- Everything's Under Control
- Prime Audio Soup
- Book of Shadows
- Oblivion/Humans
- Lets Have Fun
- The Tweek
- Acid Again
- Let Go
- Where Are You?/Enuff
- Hail To The Bopp
- 3 Floors Above You
- Funny Feeling
- The Thumb
- Wavy Line
- Wildlife
Although, I am in the minority of those who enjoyed the change of musical
direction Jack Dangers took on "Subliminal Sandwich", I still agree with my
assessment. On his new album "Actual Sounds & Voices", Jack continues down the
same musical path. The classic funk and groove are
everpresent throughout the entire album. As usual, Jack sings on only a handful
of tracks including 'Oblivion/Humans', instead focusing on the music.
The usual variety of obscure samples from old education records show up on
'Tweek' to satirize the music writer profession. Jack even pokes a little fun at
astronomy on 'Hail to the Bopp'. My favorite track has to be 'Lets Have Fun'
which starts with a thick analog bassline and cymbals and builds into a frenzy
of drums and moody keyboards. Jack Dangers is one of the few electronic music
pioneers that can so effectively trap soul into his music thereby making
"Actual Sounds & Voices" one of my favorite albums of 1998.
Meat Beat Manifesto is Jack Dangers:
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