Actual Sounds & Voices

Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Meat Beat Manifesto represent everything that is right about electronic music. Perhaps it's their signature acoustic drum patterns that maintain their songs' timelessness. Perhaps it is leader Jack Dangers's ability to infuse each album with a variety of influences. With Actual Sounds and Voices, Dangers builds his songs around two jazz greats improvising in a recorded session. But the jazz influence never overpowers Meat Beat's bombastic vibe--it only enhances it. Considering their track record, it seems nearly impossible that Meat Beat Manifesto could top themselves. But records are made to be broken. CDs, however, and particularly this one, are meant to be played--over and over and over again. --Beth Bessmer

Product Description
1998 album for Play It Again Sam by the veteran techno act, featuring the single 'Acid Again'. A lesson in sonic innovation, the styles on the record vary from the breakbeatassaults of the track 'Prime Audio Soup' to the space groovecut 'The Thumb'. 15 tracks.

Actual Sounds & Voices

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Actual Sounds & Voices

Average customer rating:

Peaceful Evening David and Steve Gordon Manufacturer: Sequoia Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Environmental | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Nature | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Misty Forest Morning Garden of Serenity Soothing Sanctuary Garden of Serenity II Sanctuary ASIN: B000008QVT Release Date: 1998-08-25

Tracks:

1. Dusk
2. Changing Hues
3. Under A Painted Sky
4. Amethyst And Amber
5. Deepening
6. Circle Of Warmth
7. Nightflyer
8. Gentle Breeze
9. Radiant Sea
10. Healing
11. Evenglow

Album Description

This soothing music surrounds you with the deeply calming moods of a perfect sunset. You experience a warm quiet feeling of grand piano, acoustic guitars and wooden flute along with actual sounds of early evening in the country. The music and nature sounds transport you to magical places of serenity under painted twilight skies. The harmonious interplay of David's Piano and Steve's acoustic guitar brings quiet majesty and healing relaxation of nature's most cherished moments into your life anytime you want.

Average customer rating:

Sound Effects: Actual Sounds Vol. 9-10 Various Artists Manufacturer: Gateway Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000037TQ Release Date: 2000-04-04

Tracks:

1. Waves With Seagulls
2. Carillon Synthesized Electronically
3. Regal Fanfare
4. Marshal Fanfare
5. Horror (Comic) Synthesized Music & Efx
6. Horror (Serious Drama) Synthesized Music & Efx
7. Electronic Jungle
8. Animal Life on Another Plant
9. Electronic Flourish "Magic"
10. Electronic Flourish Longer
11. Electronic Loop (Stingers)
12. Bright Active Synthesized Music (Industrial)
13. Lapping Waves
14. Shimmering Sea
15. Sea Hitting Rocks
16. Heavy Sea
17. Fighter Plane in Action
18. Anti-Aircraft Fire
19. Anti-Aircraft With Air Raid Siren
20. Air Raid-All Clear
21. Dog-Fight, Airplane (Plane 1 Enters Left, Plane 2 Enters Right; Planes
22. Plane Crash (Plane Enters Left to Right, Crash in Center)
23. Helicopter Interior
24. Helicopter Take Off
25. Helicopter Pass
26. Toy Plane
27. Toy Battle
28. Larger Battle With Dive Bomber
29. Machine Guns [Mixed Firearms]
30. Modern Battle With Mortar and M-1 Rifle
31. Fire Engine: Approach, Stop
32. Fire Engine Pass
33. Fire
34. City Fire (Fire in Center, Engine Enter Left & Right, Control on Left)
35. Surf Hitting Beach
36. Waves With Distant Boat Whistle
37. Horse Whinnies and Snorts
38. Horse Eating Oats
39. Baby Duck (2 Weeks Old)
40. Poodle Barking Outdoors
41. Wolves Howling and Pack Barking
42. Wild Dogs/Wild Dogs and Wolves
43. Lions
44. Tigress
45. Zoo-Chimps, Zebra, Elephants, Rhino, Bear
46. Bear
47. Crowd in Panic
48. Heavy Breathing and Heartbeat
49. Angry Mob (Small)
50. Electronic Wind, Hurricane
51. Rainstorm in the City With Traffic and Thunder
52. Before Performance-Crowd Moving, Coughing
53. Large Hall Applause-3 Bursts (Stereofect)
54. Orchestra Tuning
55. Crowd at Gate-Applause and Whistles
56. Department Store BKG
57. Crowd Babble
58. Running Water in Sink, Washing Hands, Sink Draining
59. Brushing Teeth Sequence
60. Washing Clothes by Hand
61. Shower Sequence
62. Drawing a Bath
63. Boat Whistle
64. Buzzers (4 Different Types)
65. Sirens (3 Different Types)

Average customer rating:

Sound Effects: Actual Sounds Vols. 7 & 8 Various Artists Manufacturer: Gateway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Indie Music | Stores | Music Gateway | Computers Brands | Computers Features | Electronics | Desktops | Notebooks ASIN: B0000037TN Release Date: 1991-01-01

Tracks:

1. Ambulance - Approach And Stop
2. Medicine Cabinet Door Open/Close
3. Heartbeat
4. Electrocardiograph Machine
5. Dentist Office - Working On Patient
6. Dentist Water Drill
7. Bus Interior, Passengers On/Off Money Drops
8. Cable Car
9. Small Motor Vehicle, Motor Scooter, Motor Bike
10. Subway Ride-In Turnstiles, Train Arrives, Ride, Exit Turnstiles
11. American Sports Car - Star - Run - Stop
12. Sports Cars - Two Quick Starts
13. Cars Passing On Highway
14. Highway Traffic
15. Volkswagon Sequence - Door Open, Close, Start, Idle, ShutOff
16. Steam Engine - Whistles, Starts, Passes, Stops, Start And Passes
17. Steam Engine - Whistles, Approach, Passes Slowly, Gathers Speed
18. Diesel Train
19. Outdoor Background - Birds, Squirrels Etc.
20. Small Waves - Close Up
21. Heavy Rain Into Flood
22. Rolling Thunder
23. Peacock
24. Pigs Feeding
25. Martin Gun - Four Bursts
26. Intergalactic Battle - Various Space Guns
27. Short Bursts - Three Different Guns
28. Bombs (Synthesized)
29. Lightening (Synthesized)
30. Music Of The Caverns
31. Spaceship Blast Off Into Flight (Traveling In Space)
32. Space Craft Landing: a) Patroship, b) Cruiser
33. Creature 1
34. Creature 2
35. Creatures Fighting
36. Suspence Music (Electronic)
37. Tropical Paradise Music (Electronic)
38. War Drama Music (Electronic)
39. Documentary Music (Electronic)
40. Game Show Theme (Electronic)
41. Oriental Music Up Tempo (Electronic)
42. Oriental Love Theme (Electronic)
43. Earthquake
44. Shoveling Outdoors
45. Outdoor Sounds (Birds & Dogs)
46. Watering Lawn
47. Hot Summer Day In The Country
48. Wind And Rain (Wind And Rain Left, Rain Night)
49. Children In The Rain
50. Wind And Thunder (Thunder Center - Travels Right)
51. Children With Pony And Cart (Approach And Leave)
52. Two Children Laughing
53. Children Playing Outdoors - Wagons, Scooters
54. Active Play - Kindergarten Class
55. Children In Wading Pool
56. Baby Crying
57. Baby Laughing
58. Carniva - Midway
59. Roller Coaster - (Left To Right And Back Again)
60. Shooting Game - Midway
61. Fireworks With Crowds
62. Firecrackers
63. Blackbirds And Sparrows
64. Sparrows
65. Gulls
66. Geese
67. Birds In A City Park
68. Jet Fighter Take Off
69. Prop Plane Fly By
70. 707 Jet Take Off
71. 707 Jet Land
72. Jet Fly By

Average customer rating: This is MBM where's the voices that are prmoised?? Wow, some people are clueless.... An imperfect masterpiece Aggressive? Chaotic? Pretentious?!?

Actual Sounds + Voices Meat Beat Manifesto Manufacturer: Pias ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Industrial Dance | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Subliminal Sandwich Satyricon Original Fire Ruok 99% ASIN: B0000249H6

Tracks:

1. Everything's Under Control
2. Prime Audio Soup
3. Book of Shadows
4. Oblivion/Humans
5. Let's Have Fun
6. Tweek
7. Acid Again
8. Let Go
9. Where Are You?/Enuff
10. Hail to the Bopp
11. 3 Floors Above You
12. Funny Feeling
13. Thump
14. Wavy Line
15. Wildlife

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

Meat Beat Manifesto represent everything that is right about electronic music. Perhaps it's their signature acoustic drum patterns that maintain their songs' timelessness. Perhaps it is leader Jack Dangers's ability to infuse each album with a variety of influences. With Actual Sounds and Voices, Dangers builds his songs around two jazz greats improvising in a recorded session. But the jazz influence never overpowers Meat Beat's bombastic vibe--it only enhances it. Considering their track record, it seems nearly impossible that Meat Beat Manifesto could top themselves. But records are made to be broken. CDs, however, and particularly this one, are meant to be played--over and over and over again. --Beth Bessmer

Amazon.com

Meat Beat Manifesto mastermind Jack Dangers once proclaimed, "I always aim for the future. I never want an album to sound like the last one." Although a seemingly uncomplicated statement, remaining true to his aspirations has presented an interesting conundrum for Dangers. MBM do have an easily identifiable sound. The template is built from acoustic (or at least acoustic-sounding) percussion colored with hip-hop rhythms, sternum-rattling bass beats, and entrancing raps and vocal samples--with a creative precedent of sounds over melody. With such a signature style, the challenge lies not so much in aiming for the future but in creating albums that are distinctive from one another. Actual Sounds and Voices meets the challenge by employing a little convention. Unlike previous sample-heavy albums, this recording depends more on live performance. Dangers invited saxophonist and bass clarinetist Bennie Maupin (who played on Miles Davis's legendary Bitches Brew and was also a member of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters) and synthesizer whiz Pat Gleeson (also in the Headhunters) into the studio to record a freestyle jam session. Dangers picked the highlights and molded them into Meat Beat songs. The result is a ferociously danceable all-out-funk-acid-jazz-techno-fusion affront in the face of any misguided soul who thinks electronic music has no heart. Aiming for the future? Meat Beat Manifesto is the future. --Beth Bessmer

Album Description

1998 album for Play It Again Sam by the veteran techno act, featuring the single 'Acid Again'. A lesson in sonic innovation, the styles on the record vary from the breakbeatassaults of the track 'Prime Audio Soup' to the space groovecut 'The Thumb'. 15 tracks.

Customer Reviews:

This is MBM.......2005-10-10

This is and Subliminal Sandwich are the best works of MBM. I know its hard to find stuff by Dangers that isn't near perfect but those are the 2 I suggest over all others. Sandwich is more spooky than this one. This one is a speaker throbber, make sure you have a system that can keep up with it. I forgot what the name of another one I recommend is... it has some tracks by the Shamen and Atomic Babies - very cool stuff.

where's the voices that are prmoised??.......2005-09-27

I have been listeing to MBM since i was about 15, back in 91. I am a huge fam of 99% and satyricon, I am not however into their electronic music without vocals. I pretty much gave up on them b/c they abandoned the vocals, which is what made them industrial, which is what they were considered back then. I am not sure what you would call their music now, but when i herd of this album i got really excited that jack dangers would go back to adding vocals to the music. what a dissapointment, out of 15 songs, only 3 have vocals and it is not his usual rap style vocals. so if you see the title and think 99% or satyricon, dont be fooled, you will not like this CD. I do like some of their stuff that is loaded with really cool samples, but i didnt find much of that on here either, just a lot of really repetitive music that doesnt really go anywhere and doesnt have much power or emotion.

Wow, some people are clueless...........2005-04-02

This not electronic music to dance to, it's electronic music to LISTEN to.

This is quite possibly MBM's best CD next to Satyricon.

An imperfect masterpiece.......2005-01-25

Jack Dangers is definitely a genius. But whether its a genuis of his own design or just by accident is hard to tell but still a genuis none the less. As far as I can tell, no one has made an entire career out of soundcollage and design and make it seem substantial. Yet somehow his fusion of dub, jungle, industrial, hip-hop, dance and rock all seems to come together in his signature mess he calls Meat Beat Manifesto. And I think no album he's made is as sucessful in his self-created sound as Actual Sounds + Voices.

What definitely makes a difference this time around is having a stong list of versital collaberators who not only understand Danger's sound, but can work well within its expansive, limitless sound. Dangers still has a strong influence over his list of players, but they only help strengthen this album. Unlike previous attempts, the album plays out more like an album made by a band rather than an eccentric artist working in his own world(Subliminal Sandwich, while good, was far too expansive and loose for its own good). The work here is tight, detailed, undeniably groovy. Sort of like the jazz band of the future, as depicted by some surreal painter.

The album itself is well paced, moving through Jack's various influences without lagging in one place for too long. You'll hear live jungle workouts(Prime Audio Soup, Let Go, Where Are You), industrial rock(Oblivion, Funny Feeling), big beat(Acid Again) and everything else inbetween. The real highlight comes near the end of the album in the form of this jazz/fusion electronic jam called The Thumb. Its expansive, quirky and above all surreal. It truly shows Jack's ability to imagine a sound and get it to come out through his players(though I'm sure he played bass on it).

But where the true wonder of this album comes in is its complete disregard for melody and hooks, yet somehow manages to remain memorable throughout. Jack's ingenious sound design and masterful ability to evoke tones and atmosphere while remaining balanced in both dancablity and listenablity I would say is his real charm as an artist. His only fault on this album is he sometimes makes his songs just too busy for mental consumption. Otherwise, this is the pinnacle of an artist who's mind knows no bounds for sound and continues to remain relevent for more then a decade. I actually get excited to see what he will put out next.

Aggressive? Chaotic? Pretentious?!?.......2004-12-13

I do not see how the above adjectives apply to this incredible CD. Yet these descriptors have been featured in an alarming number of reviews. I think the authors of said reviews just weren't listening to the music right. Granted, this is not really music for dancing (with a few exceptions. "Prime Audio Soup" for example), and that may have really turned some people off to it, and I will admit that "Where Are You?" is aggressive (it being dark jungle and all). What this music requires however is a slightly "chill" environment for one to really appreciate it. Highlights for me include "Hail to the Bopp", "Funny Feeling", the ultra chill "The Thumb", "Let Go" and "Lets Have Fun". Alright.....untill......

Average customer rating:

Ocean Reflections Moodtapes Manufacturer: Moodtapes ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001XK4OI Release Date: 2000-01-04

Tracks:

1. Across the Horizon
2. Pacific Morning
3. Ocean Reflections (Rachel's Song)
4. Neptune's Playground
5. Dance of the Giants
6. Blue Paradise
7. Home to the Sea

Product Description

Track listing: 1. Across The Horizon 2. Pacific Morning 3. Ocean Reflections(Rachel's Song) 4. Neptune's Playground 5. Dance Of The Giants 6. Blue Paradise 7. Home To The Sea

Average customer rating:

Sound Effects: Actual Sounds Vol. 5 & 6 Various Artists Manufacturer: Gateway Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000037TK Release Date: 1991-01-01

Tracks:

1. Metal Finishing Machine
2. Bulldozer
3. Pile Driver
4. Contruction Site
5. Telephone Busy Signal
6. Telephone Rings 7 Times, Receiver Is Picked Up
7. Telephone
8. Telephone Pick up, Dial, Ring at Other End, Hang Up
9. Touch Tone Dialing
10. Party Crowd
11. Open Bottle, Pour into Glass
12. Champagne Cork Pops
13. 1 St. Bernard Barking
14. 2 Puppy
15. 3. Dog Growling
16. 1 Cat
17. 2 Kitten
18. 3. Purring
19. Lion
20. Stagecoach
21. Stagecoach With Horse Whinning
22. Indians Attack (From Left) Stagecoach (Center)
23. Galloping Horses
24. Rodeo
25. Cattle Drive
26. Indian War Whoops
27. Indians Attack (From Left) On Fort (Center) Cavalry Arrives (From Rig
28. Western Gun Fight
29. Shoveling Coal
30. Rowing Boat
31. Noisy Children's Party
32. Lakeside, Bathers, Rowboat, Motor Boat
33. Men Talking, Small Group
34. Busy Restaurant
35. Men Cheering
36. Babble of Voices Mixed
37. Angry Crowd
38. Babbling, Men's Voices
39. Ship's Anchor Up
40. Anchor up, Winch Perspective
41. Boat Underway
42. Applause (Large Audience)
43. Applause, Short Bursts Orchester, Faint Presence
44. Convention Crowd
45. Football Crowd
46. Cheering Crowd, Short Bursts
47. Laughing Audience
48. Motor Start and Run
49. Factory BKG. Heavy Equipment
50. Small Machine Shop
51. Cement Mixer
52. Synthesized Clock Announces Hours, Strikes Twelve
53. Clock Ticking
54. Alarm on Electric Clock
55. Alarm on Spring Wound Clock
56. Heavy City Traffic
57. Tower Clock
58. Mantle Clock
59. Slot Machine, Coins Drop
60. Grandfather Clock
61. Cuckoo Clock
62. Cannon Shots
63. Artillery Bursts
64. Rifle Shots
65. Alarm Buzzer
66. Heavy Traffic
67. Passenger Train
68. Highway Traffic
69. Car Crash (Left to Center)
70. Horse and Wagon
71. Tires Screeching
72. Gulls and Ferry Boat
73. Car Chase
74. Car Chase (Police Join from Left, Ends in a Car Crash Center)
75. Car Starts, Drives Away
76. Explosion
77. Series of Explosions
78. Passenger Train (Interior)
79. Passing from Car to Car, Train in Motion
80. Train Leaving Station
81. Medieval Battle (Army from Left, the Other from Right Clash in Center)
82. Ship Alarm, Under Attack
83. Fire Alarm
84. Steel Mill/Factory Alarm
85. Wasp
86. Swarm of Bees
87. One Cricket
88. Insects Noises at Night (Play at Low Level)
89. Frogs
90. Bullfrog
91. Bullfrog and Insects and Brook Background
92. Single Bee
93. Mosquito
94. Electric Hoist
95. Bombers in Flight
96. Jet Bombers (Attack from Left, Bombs, Land Center, Return Fire from G)
97. Tire Pump, Garage Type
98. Windshield Wipers
99. Power Saw (Home Type)
100. Key-Cutting Machine
101. Metal Lathe
102. Small Motor

Average customer rating:

Autumn Whisperswinter Dreams Manufacturer: Moodtapes ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA2NVW Release Date: 2000-01-04

Average customer rating: This is MBM where's the voices that are prmoised?? Wow, some people are clueless.... An imperfect masterpiece Aggressive? Chaotic? Pretentious?!?

Actual Sounds + Voices Meat Beat Manifesto Manufacturer: Nothing ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Industrial Dance | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Subliminal Sandwich Satyricon Original Fire Ruok 99% ASIN: B00000DCZF Release Date: 1998-10-06

Tracks:

1. Everything's Under Control
2. Prime Audio Soup
3. Book Of Shadows
4. Oblivion, Humans
5. Lets Have Fun
6. The Tweek
7. Acid Again
8. Tweek, The
9. Where Are You?, Enuff
10. Hail To The Bopp
11. 3 Floors Above You
12. Funny Feeling
13. The Thumb
14. Wavy Line
15. Wildlife

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

Meat Beat Manifesto represent everything that is right about electronic music. Perhaps it's their signature acoustic drum patterns that maintain their songs' timelessness. Perhaps it is leader Jack Dangers's ability to infuse each album with a variety of influences. With Actual Sounds and Voices, Dangers builds his songs around two jazz greats improvising in a recorded session. But the jazz influence never overpowers Meat Beat's bombastic vibe--it only enhances it. Considering their track record, it seems nearly impossible that Meat Beat Manifesto could top themselves. But records are made to be broken. CDs, however, and particularly this one, are meant to be played--over and over and over again. --Beth Bessmer

Amazon.com

Meat Beat Manifesto mastermind Jack Dangers once proclaimed, "I always aim for the future. I never want an album to sound like the last one." Although a seemingly uncomplicated statement, remaining true to his aspirations has presented an interesting conundrum for Dangers. MBM do have an easily identifiable sound. The template is built from acoustic (or at least acoustic-sounding) percussion colored with hip-hop rhythms, sternum-rattling bass beats, and entrancing raps and vocal samples--with a creative precedent of sounds over melody. With such a signature style, the challenge lies not so much in aiming for the future but in creating albums that are distinctive from one another. Actual Sounds and Voices meets the challenge by employing a little convention. Unlike previous sample-heavy albums, this recording depends more on live performance. Dangers invited saxophonist and bass clarinetist Bennie Maupin (who played on Miles Davis's legendary Bitches Brew and was also a member of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters) and synthesizer whiz Pat Gleeson (also in the Headhunters) into the studio to record a freestyle jam session. Dangers picked the highlights and molded them into Meat Beat songs. The result is a ferociously danceable all-out-funk-acid-jazz-techno-fusion affront in the face of any misguided soul who thinks electronic music has no heart. Aiming for the future? Meat Beat Manifesto is the future. --Beth Bessmer

Album Description

1998 album for Play It Again Sam by the veteran techno act, featuring the single 'Acid Again'. A lesson in sonic innovation, the styles on the record vary from the breakbeatassaults of the track 'Prime Audio Soup' to the space groovecut 'The Thumb'. 15 tracks.

Customer Reviews:

This is MBM.......2005-10-10

This is and Subliminal Sandwich are the best works of MBM. I know its hard to find stuff by Dangers that isn't near perfect but those are the 2 I suggest over all others. Sandwich is more spooky than this one. This one is a speaker throbber, make sure you have a system that can keep up with it. I forgot what the name of another one I recommend is... it has some tracks by the Shamen and Atomic Babies - very cool stuff.

where's the voices that are prmoised??.......2005-09-27

I have been listeing to MBM since i was about 15, back in 91. I am a huge fam of 99% and satyricon, I am not however into their electronic music without vocals. I pretty much gave up on them b/c they abandoned the vocals, which is what made them industrial, which is what they were considered back then. I am not sure what you would call their music now, but when i herd of this album i got really excited that jack dangers would go back to adding vocals to the music. what a dissapointment, out of 15 songs, only 3 have vocals and it is not his usual rap style vocals. so if you see the title and think 99% or satyricon, dont be fooled, you will not like this CD. I do like some of their stuff that is loaded with really cool samples, but i didnt find much of that on here either, just a lot of really repetitive music that doesnt really go anywhere and doesnt have much power or emotion.

Wow, some people are clueless...........2005-04-02

This not electronic music to dance to, it's electronic music to LISTEN to.

This is quite possibly MBM's best CD next to Satyricon.

An imperfect masterpiece.......2005-01-25

Jack Dangers is definitely a genius. But whether its a genuis of his own design or just by accident is hard to tell but still a genuis none the less. As far as I can tell, no one has made an entire career out of soundcollage and design and make it seem substantial. Yet somehow his fusion of dub, jungle, industrial, hip-hop, dance and rock all seems to come together in his signature mess he calls Meat Beat Manifesto. And I think no album he's made is as sucessful in his self-created sound as Actual Sounds + Voices.

What definitely makes a difference this time around is having a stong list of versital collaberators who not only understand Danger's sound, but can work well within its expansive, limitless sound. Dangers still has a strong influence over his list of players, but they only help strengthen this album. Unlike previous attempts, the album plays out more like an album made by a band rather than an eccentric artist working in his own world(Subliminal Sandwich, while good, was far too expansive and loose for its own good). The work here is tight, detailed, undeniably groovy. Sort of like the jazz band of the future, as depicted by some surreal painter.

The album itself is well paced, moving through Jack's various influences without lagging in one place for too long. You'll hear live jungle workouts(Prime Audio Soup, Let Go, Where Are You), industrial rock(Oblivion, Funny Feeling), big beat(Acid Again) and everything else inbetween. The real highlight comes near the end of the album in the form of this jazz/fusion electronic jam called The Thumb. Its expansive, quirky and above all surreal. It truly shows Jack's ability to imagine a sound and get it to come out through his players(though I'm sure he played bass on it).

But where the true wonder of this album comes in is its complete disregard for melody and hooks, yet somehow manages to remain memorable throughout. Jack's ingenious sound design and masterful ability to evoke tones and atmosphere while remaining balanced in both dancablity and listenablity I would say is his real charm as an artist. His only fault on this album is he sometimes makes his songs just too busy for mental consumption. Otherwise, this is the pinnacle of an artist who's mind knows no bounds for sound and continues to remain relevent for more then a decade. I actually get excited to see what he will put out next.

Aggressive? Chaotic? Pretentious?!?.......2004-12-13

I do not see how the above adjectives apply to this incredible CD. Yet these descriptors have been featured in an alarming number of reviews. I think the authors of said reviews just weren't listening to the music right. Granted, this is not really music for dancing (with a few exceptions. "Prime Audio Soup" for example), and that may have really turned some people off to it, and I will admit that "Where Are You?" is aggressive (it being dark jungle and all). What this music requires however is a slightly "chill" environment for one to really appreciate it. Highlights for me include "Hail to the Bopp", "Funny Feeling", the ultra chill "The Thumb", "Let Go" and "Lets Have Fun". Alright.....untill......

Average customer rating:

Whale Song - Actual Whales, Accompanied By Music Manufacturer: GB Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000B9W9R2

Product Description

Actual Whale Song Accompanied By Music Specially Composed by David Britten. Tracks 1. Songs of the Pacific 2. Atlantic Calling 3. Indian Oceans Lullaby 4. Antarctic Chorale 5. Ocean Home - Dolby Surround Sound-

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