Autoimmune (album)

Last updated

Autoimmune
Autoimmune-MBM-2008.jpg
Studio album by
Meat Beat Manifesto
Released8 April 2008 [1]
RecordedRoom 5
Genre Electronica, trip hop, dubstep, hip hop, breakbeat, IDM
LengthUS version 65:45
UK version 50:27
Label Metropolis Records MET531
Planet Mu ZIQ202
Producer Jack Dangers
Meat Beat Manifesto chronology
At the Center
(2005)		Autoimmune
(2008)		 Answers Come in Dreams
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
PopMatters 6/10 [3]

Autoimmune is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto. Though the album was originally announced as a 20-track double-CD release, [4] frontman Jack Dangers decided to shorten the album [5] to a single disc with different track listings between the US and European releases. [6] Stylistically, it steps up the pace from other recent Meat Beat Manifesto albums, using elements of dub, hip-hop, industrial, breakbeat and more, and it is regarded as a partial return to the early industrial sound of the band in the late 1980s. [7] The album has also been described as Dangers' take on dubstep, though he has stated that Meat Beat Manifesto has always utilized the underlying concepts of that particular genre. [5] Autoimmune is the first Meat Beat Manifesto album with Danger's vocals since Actual Sounds + Voices in 1998; he appears on the track "Solid Waste". The album cover continues the checkerboard/grid theme also seen on earlier Meat Beat Manifesto albums Actual Sounds + Voices, RUOK? and the Off-Centre EP. Most of the remaining songs that were excised from the original double-disc concept were later released on an EP available only on the Autoimmune tour. [8]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks by Jack Dangers

The UK track listing is shorter and in a different order, and includes two songs not on the US release: "House of Unique Stink" and "(Live) And Direct (Live)". Several songs are also altered in their mix. For example, "Less" includes an extra two minutes of ambient sound on the UK release, whereas "Spanish Vocoder" is missing a minute and a half of ambient sound at the end.

US CD Metropolis

  1. "International" - 1:39
  2. "I Hold the Mic!" (Featuring: Daddy Sandy) - 4:52
  3. "Hellfire" - 5:23
  4. "Less" - 5:16
  5. "Solid Waste" - 3:50
  6. "Lonely Soldier" - 5:28
  7. "Children of Planet Earth" - 5:00
  8. "Young Cassius" (Featuring: MC Azeem) - 5:37
  9. "Guns N Lovers" - 5:54
  10. "Return to Bass" - 3:55
  11. "62 Dub" - 5:49
  12. "Colors of Sound" - 5:05
  13. "Spanish Vocoder" - 6:11
  14. "International Reprise" - 1:46

UK CD Planet Mu

  1. "I Hold The Mic!" (Featuring: Daddy Sandy) - 4:53
  2. "Children Of Planet Earth" - 4:06
  3. "House of Unique Stink" - 5:00
  4. "(Live) And Direct (Live)" - 4:00
  5. "Less" - 7:11
  6. "Lonely Soldier" - 5:27
  7. "Spanish Vocoder" - 4:40
  8. "Return To Bass" - 3:58
  9. "Guns N Lovers" - 5:52
  10. "Hellfire (Remix)" - 5:20

Outtakes and B-sides

These tracks appeared on an exclusive tour EP after the release of Autoimmune and were originally intended to appear on the planned double-disc release of the album. "Bush of Lies" was first released as a free download on the band's official website.

  1. "Fuck People Abstract" - 1:47
  2. "Bush Of Lies" - 4:48
  3. "Born To Trouble" - 2:37
  4. "Hardware Performance" - 6:00
  5. "Apaphetic Sympathetic" - 3:49

Personnel

Related Research Articles

Nothing Records was an American record label specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by John Malm Jr. and Trent Reznor in 1992. It is considered an example of a vanity label, where an artist is able to run a label with some small degree of independence within a larger parent company, in this case the larger company being Interscope Records.

<i>Hellfire Club</i> (album) 2004 album by Edguy

Hellfire Club, released on 15 March 2004, is the sixth album by German power metal band Edguy. The music of the band is supported by a German orchestra, the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg. It is the band's first album released via Nuclear Blast.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Meat Beat Manifesto</span> British electronic music group

Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened as Meat Beat, Manifesto or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens that was formed in 1987 in Swindon, United Kingdom. The band, fronted by Dangers, has proven versatile over the years, experimenting with techno, breakbeat, 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 band's earlier work has been credited with influencing the rise of the trip hop, big beat, and drum and bass genres.

<i>Armed Audio Warfare</i> 1990 studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto

Armed Audio Warfare is the second full-length release and first compilation of electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto. It was originally scheduled as the group's first album for release in May 1988, but the master tapes were damaged in a fire, necessitating the rewriting and recording of the material, which was released as Storm the Studio. Armed Audio Warfare is actually a compilation of unreleased and rare tracks that give a flavour of how that first album may have sounded had it been released as planned.

Scorn is an English electronic music project. The group was formed in the early 1990s as a project of former Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nic Bullen. Bullen left the group in 1995 and the project continued on until the end of 2011, as an essentially solo project for Harris. Harris restarted the project in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bomb the Bass</span> English electronic music project

Bomb the Bass is an electronic music alias of English musician and producer Tim Simenon.

<i>Subliminal Sandwich</i> 1996 studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto

Subliminal Sandwich is a 1996 double album released by Meat Beat Manifesto on Interscope Records. The album is more experimental than the group's prior material, composed of lengthier pieces that incorporate more ambient textures and drones and fewer samples or defined song structures.

Jack Dangers is an English electronic musician, DJ, producer, and remixer best known for his work as the primary member of Meat Beat Manifesto. He lives in San Francisco.

<i>Storm the Studio</i> 1989 studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto

Storm the Studio is the debut album by English electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto, released on 20 February 1989 by Sweatbox Records in the United Kingdom and later that year by Wax Trax! in the United States. Recorded in three recording studios, the album contains four compositions, each split into separate parts, that mostly originated as twelve-inch singles the band released in 1988. The record's inventive musical style features elements of industrial music, electro, dub, noise rock and hip hop music, and incorporates breakbeats, noise and sporadic rap vocals. The group also incorporated heavy usage of sampling in a fashion they compared to pop art. Television was a further influence on the record, and numerous items of television dialogue appear throughout Storm the Studio as samples.

<i>Actual Sounds + Voices</i> 1998 studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto

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

<i>RUOK?</i> (album) 2002 studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto

RUOK? is a 2002 album by the British industrial techno group Meat Beat Manifesto. Some editions included the mini Enhanced CD Free Piece Suite. The album was recorded at Tape Lab Studios in California and was mastered at The Exchange in London. It features the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer.

Lawrence Chatman, better known as DJ Collage or Mista Chatman, is a reggae vocalist and electronic music producer. Raised in Chicago, he moved to the Bay Area in the early 1990s, and now calls Seattle home. His style of music is referred to as reggae fusion.

<i>Windowpane & the Snow</i> 1995 compilation album by Coil

Windowpane & The Snow was a CD released by the band Coil. This release compiles the two EPs, "Windowpane" and "The Snow". The original versions of the songs "Windowpane" and "The Snow" appear on the album Love's Secret Domain.

<i>Live 05</i> 2006 live album by Meat Beat Manifesto

Live '05 is a live album by Meat Beat Manifesto initially sold during their live tour in 2006. Left over copies were sold online via the band's official website. The concert recorded took place at Cabaret Metro in Chicago on June 22, 2005. This is a limited edition of 1,000 and each disc is packaged in a digipak signed and customized by Jack Dangers. On the reverse side, near the center of the disc, the text "NEAT BEAT MANIFESTO-LIVE '05" is printed.

This is the discography for Meat Beat Manifesto.

<i>At the Center</i> 2005 studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto

At the Center is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto, released in 2005 as part of the "Blue Series" of Thirsty Ear records fusing jazz with electronica.

<i>Archive Things 1982–88</i> 2007 compilation album by Meat Beat Manifesto / Perennial Divide

Archive Things 1982–88 is a compilation of Jack Dangers early work, much of which was issued in very limited editions.

<i>Answers Come in Dreams</i> 2010 studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto

Answers Come in Dreams is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto. It consists of lengthy ambient, glitch, and dubstep-focused pieces, with an attention to texture rather than the raw sampling and breakbeat rhythms seen on many of the group's previous releases.

Kenneth James Gibson is a musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter and a founding member of Bell Gardens, Furry Things, Eight Frozen Modules, and [a]pendics.shuffle.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matt Colton</span> English mastering engineer

Matt Colton is an English mastering engineer and member of the mastering group of the Music Producers Guild. He has mastered recordings for artists such as Muse, Coldplay, James Blake, George Michael, Hot Chip, Gary Numan, Peter Gabriel, Flume and Erasure.

References

  1. ↑ "Meat Beat Manifesto, "Autoimmune"". Brainwashed . Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ PopMatters review
  4. ↑ "Meat Beat Manifesto News". Brainwashed . Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 "MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO :: It's all about the rhythm". Igloo magazine. 1 April 2008. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "Autoimmune". Archived from the original on 11 April 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
  7. ↑ Scott Thill (7 April 2008). "Meat Beat Doses the World With New Manifesto, Autoimmune". Wired. Archived from the original on 25 April 2009. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  8. ↑ "2008 Tour EP" . Retrieved 8 April 2009.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.