Meat Beat Manifesto
Meat Beat Manifesto ( Meat Beat or MBM ), is an electronic music group that was founded by Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens in Swindon, UK 1987. This was also the hometown of the band XTC, the Meat Beat Manifesto were starting. The band is described by some well-known artists as a stylistic model and used as a source of samples ( most famously The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Future Sound of London). Meat Beat Manifesto was instrumental in the development of new musical styles such as Big Beat and Drum and Bass / Jungle.
Musical development
1988 Dangers and Stephens left her first band Perennial Divide, to make a record, but the tapes were destroyed in a studio fire before the plate could be published. Then they took on the LP Storm the studio that brought them the reputation of a industrial band. In response, they released in May 1990 99 %, a more techno -heavy LP. In August of the same year, Armed Audio Warfare was released here by the fire which destroyed the actual title debut album were re-recorded. 1992 showed the album Satyricon Meat Beat more than one Electronica band.
1994 emigrated Jack Dangers from England to San Francisco, which is why Stephens left the band. Dangers led Meat Beat Manifesto as a solo -plus collaborators project further and published in 1996 the double album Subliminal Sandwich: one plate heavily trip-hop, the other electronica- influenced. Although this album is the major label debut at Trent Reznor's Nothing Records, it did not achieve the commercial success of previous publications.
1997 hired Dangers Lynn Farmer at (drums) and Jon Wilson (guitar ) to record Actual Sounds & Voices ( published in 1998 ), making the run in previous albums flirtation with jazz elements was prominently enhanced; also appeared on the saxophonist Bennie Maupin. As a single of the title Prime Audio Soup was decoupled, which is also known from the movie The Matrix (and its soundtrack ).
Published in 2002, Meat Beat RUOK? , An album that demonstrates the evolution of their sound and the newly acquired by Dangers EMS Synthi 100 in the foreground. 2003, a remix album of Storm the Studio was released, followed by ... In Dub, a remix album of RUOK? .
At the Center, was published on 29 May 2005. As part of the independent label Thirsty Ear 's Blue Series, it was produced in collaboration between Jack Dangers and jazz musicians Peter Gordon, Dave King, and Craig Taborn. Many critics were enthusiastic.
Collaboration with other artists
The cover almost all publications were designed by New York artist Richard Borge.
The live show is generally described as an intense audio- visual experience: From Marcus Adams choreographed dance routines (costumes of the dancers by Craig Morrison ), coupled to live instruments video clips, live DJ-ing, sequencer -controlled electronic instruments. For Nine Inch Nails Meat Beat Manifesto opened in 1990 in the U.S., the debut national tour.