Actual Sounds + Voices

Actual Sounds + Voices is the sixth studio album by electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto, released in 1998.

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]

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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