Meat Beat Manifesto: c/d

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Dancefloor genius? Or is it a little weird for someone's entire early career to be based almost entirely on Public Enemy beats?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Jack's early career was living out his Captain Beefheart fantasies and recording with Andy Partridge?

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

either way, I have pretty much all of Meat Beat's stuff on vinyl and CD. Yes, I'm a fan. And Meat Beat/Tino/D.H.S./whoever the fuck they are this week really needs to play some shows outside the Bay Area someday... I'm dying here.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You know what Meat Beat is especially good for? Halloween. Nothing darkens up a dancefloor like "Radio Babylon." Suddenly, all is very very decadent, and a little bit evil. Mmmm... Babylon.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Jack's early career was living out his Captain Beefheart fantasies and recording with Andy Partridge?

I meant those first two Meat Beat albums.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

'storm the studio' so classic it's painful. the record gets better by the year. '99%' is also required. so much better than his contemporaries or much of what's come since.

other records have good things too but in general, more diffuse. there are two amazing tracks (4 & 8) on disc 2 of 'subliminal sandwich' but is it so wrong of me not to want to listen to any album called 'subliminal sandwich'

sometimes his 'I'm so underrecognized' comments during interviews bug me, but when I listen to his records I have to say I agree with him.

― milton, Monday, 14 April 2003 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dogstar Man" was a great single.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 April 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone have an MP3 of "Still Falling" from that single? I'd, like, love you forever.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

classic if there ever was one. "acid again" is by far my personal fav.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 14 April 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

classic, definitely. Still Falling is one of my faves, too (have it on vinyl only - no mp3s). I really like the MBM remix of the Shamen's Hyperreal. The new lp isn't up there on my list, but I thought the review in the Wire was way off the mark. I thought Subliminal Sandwich was amazing...

I did my laundry with Jack Dangers once.

― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, that sounds like a story. Tell us more! Is he chatty at the laundromat? Dos he wear boxers or briefs?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, well it was quite some time ago - 1991 I want to say. MBM was playing at the Metro in Chicago (Nine Inch Nails opening - I guess that puts this in perspective enough). We didn't say much and I have no idea about the underwear preference. I remember chiding myself the rest of the day for not inviting him over to hear my music or have a smoke...I was absolutely in awe of his music at the time. It must have been the tour for 99%.

― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 14 April 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

I am reviving this because the "Hail To The Bopp"/ "3 Floors Above You" transition on _Actual Sonds + Voices_ is godly.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

CLASSIC. If only for "STS" and their freak-ass early live shows. I saw their first show in the Us, I think, at a tiny dive bar in Newark called "DJ Freak's". The guy who owned the bar was also the US manager for a bunch of Wax Trax/PIAS people, so I saw The Young Gods, Severed Heads, MC 900 Ft Jesus and MBM all on this tiny stage a few feet from the bar. Needless to say, MBM and their dancers dressed in bulbous foam lizard suits were a real spectacle.

The Young Gods show there is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen live, possibly right next to MBV + Dinosaur JR. at City Gardens, Trenton, NJ. Ah, youf.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I am very, very angry that I missed MBM when the toured with the human puppet show; I wasn't allowed to go to concerts with friends until I was 18 and like a FOOL (because I had no job and no other source of income) I listened to my parents and didn't sneak off to the concert. NIN/MBM AND I MISSED IT GRR.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

complete classic. subliminal sandwich is probably my favorite by them. it's just so fucking lush. when i listen to their later stuff (aside from RUOK) i can't help but feel like im in a rain forest.

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 6 November 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic, w/o doubt! Reminded of that when I heard the bliss that is Babylon on XFM a few days ago. Couldn't leave while that was on.

Hello, my name is Nick, and I've a music addiction. Any cures, keep them to yourself.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 6 November 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.brainwashed.com/mbm/news.php

New album ... At The Center ... released late May. Kicks off first major tour in seven years... Will I be there? Fuck yeah.

I really hate the prose in this press release though:

Jack Dangers' latest album continues to push the envelope. Jack was one of the main innovators of electronic music in the 1990s. Nowadays he has turned his attention to merging electronic music with jazz. At The Center is a hypnotic synthesis of the two worlds. These compositions feature rhythms similar to those found on earlier Meat Beat Manifesto releases...but the instrumental layers are quite different. The songs on this album are extremely fluid and trippy and feature the talents of Craig Taborn (keyboards), Dave King (drums), and Peter Gordon (flute). In many cases, the music on this disc sounds otherworldly and peculiar...and yet those solid funky rhythms somehow manage to hold things together nicely. This album may lose many early MBM fans but if so...those early fans will, in the end, be the real losers. Excellent material from a man who is still in his prime. (Rating: 5+) - LMNOP

I'm an early fan who loves the later stuff. Fuck the "losers" shit. (Then again, I haven't previewed the mp3s here yet... so who knows. I'm sure it will be a fab live show in any case)

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

There's just something too Wanna Be Dusty Grooves about that review that rubs me the wrong way.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

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