Actual Sounds + Voices

Actual Sounds + Voices
Studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto
Released	30 June 1998[1]
Recorded	1997–98
Genre	Electro-industrial, breakbeat, electronica, IDM, nu-jazz, experimental, ambient
Length	72:58
Label	Nothing Records
Producer	Meat Beat Manifesto
Meat Beat Manifesto chronology
Subliminal Sandwich (1996) Actual Sounds + Voices (1998) RUOK? (2002)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Almost Cool	7.5/10[3]
Pitchfork Media	8.5/10[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 like the bass clarinet, saxophone, drums, and Fender Rhodes. However, Actual Sounds + Voices is notably 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 hit 1999 feature film The Matrix, as well as its 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

• Bennie Maupin - Saxophones, bass clarinet on "The Thumb"
• Patrick Gleeson - Synthesizer on "The Thumb"^[6]

References

1. "Actual Sounds + Voices". Brainwashed. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
2. Actual Sounds + Voices at AllMusic
3. http://www.almostcool.org/mr/720/
4. Pitchfork Media
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.