Album: Actual Sounds + Voices by Meat Beat Manifesto (1998)
Genre: Techno | Style: Electronic | Mood: Energetic
Record Label: Tino Corp.
Format: Album

Description: 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, 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.

Artist Background: Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK. The band, fronted by Dangers (the only permanent member), has proven versatile over the years, experimenting with techno, dubstep, jungle (drum'n'bass), IDM, industrial, dub, and jazz fusion while touring the world and influencing major acts such as Nine Inch Nails, The Chemical Brothers, and The Prodigy. Some of the ban... Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Techno movement. Known for Electronic style.

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Techno movement. Known for Electronic style.

Tags: Techno, Electronic, Energetic, 1990s, Album, Tino Corp.

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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, 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.

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