Actual Sounds + Voices

Actual Sounds + Voices
Studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto
Released	30 June 1998
Recorded	1997–98
Genre	Big beat 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
Pitchfork	8.5/10
Tom Hull – on the Web	B+

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 such as the bass clarinet, saxophone, drums and Fender Rhodes. However, Actual Sounds + Voices is more influenced by jazz, coupled with a darker tone and characterized by persistent erratic breakbeats. "The Thumb" is a lengthy jazz fusion song featuring Bennie Maupin and Patrick Gleeson, both veterans of Herbie Hancock's early 1970s band.

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"

In popular culture

The single "Prime Audio Soup" is featured in a scene of the 1999 film The Matrix and appears on the film's soundtrack.

It also appears in the 2002 documentary film The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr.