Meat Beat Manifesto - R.U.O.K.? '2002

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[5:39] 01. Meat Beat Manifesto - Yüri
[5:27] 02. Meat Beat Manifesto - Spinning Round
[7:11] 03. Meat Beat Manifesto - Horn Of Jerico
[5:21] 04. Meat Beat Manifesto - What Does It All Mean?
[4:42] 05. Meat Beat Manifesto - No Words Necessary
[1:08] 06. Meat Beat Manifesto - Intermission
[5:36] 07. Meat Beat Manifesto - Supersoul
[6:36] 08. Meat Beat Manifesto - Hankerchief Head
[6:27] 09. Meat Beat Manifesto - No Echo In Space
[5:41] 10. Meat Beat Manifesto - Dynamite Fresh
[4:58] 11. Meat Beat Manifesto - Retrograde
[2:39] 12. Meat Beat Manifesto - Happiness Supreme


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ALBUM DESCRIPTION
Not just an excellent producer and long-lived electronic careerist, Jack Dangers
has also been on the cusp of nearly every trend in electronic music for well
over a decade, ranging all the way from industrial dance to ambient techno,
drumnbass to funky breaks. From the first few minutes of RUOK?, its clear hes
begun another shift, from the dense sampladelic dance of Actual Sounds + Voices
to a sparse, haunted style that leaves much to the imagination but still
displays acres of production prowess. Twelve tracks of primitivist electronics
and drum machines over unobtrusive breakbeats, the album was recorded in part
with a rare mid-70s synthesizer, the EMS Synthi 100, but Dangers certainly hasnt
donned the labcoat to make a dry avant-electronics record. With frequent funk
samples and snippets of obscure 50s trad vocals all over it, RUOK? still has
much in common with his series of populist breaks records, Tinos Breaks. It also
includes appearances from two of the rangiest co-contributors to appear on a
dance record in some time: psychedelic techno mastermind Dr. Alex Paterson (from
the Orb) and turntablist mentalist Z-Trip; the featured tracks are among the
best on offer, though the guests contributions certainly dont stick out. Though
Meat Beat Manifesto fans -- and Dangers has picked up quite a few over the years
-- may have trouble following the direction, hardcore fanatics may have
anticipated this from his solo release Variaciones Espectrales.
© John Bush /TiVo

ABOUT THE ALBUM
1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
Total length: 01:01:14
Main artist: Meat Beat Manifesto
Composer: Various Composers
Label: MBM Records
Genre: Dub, Downtempo, Abstract
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
(c) 2002 MBM Records




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