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Artist
  
Meat Beat Manifesto

Producer
  
Jack Dangers

Release date
  
4 June 1996

Label
  
PIAS Recordings

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Released
  
4 June 1996 (4 June 1996)

Recorded
  
1993–1996 in San Francisco, London and Chicago

Length
  
68:50 (disc 1)69:03 (disc 2)

Subliminal Sandwich(1996)
  
Actual Sounds + Voices(1998)

Genres
  
Techno, Electronica, Industrial music, Trip hop, Big beat, Electro-industrial

Similar
  
Meat Beat Manifesto albums, Trip hop albums

Subliminal Sandwich is a 1996 double album released by Meat Beat Manifesto on Interscope Records. A stronger dub and reggae influence is felt here than on any other MBM album. The first disc is standard MBM fare, a highly energetic and densely packed collection of songs that meld a variety of genres together and make heavy use of sampling. The second disc, on the other hand, is far more experimental in nature, being composed of lengthier pieces that incorporate more ambient textures and drones and fewer samples or definable song structures.

Contents

Subliminal Sandwich was composed during the 1993 tour supporting the Satyricon album and would have been released in 1994 or 1995 if not for legal tangles with Meat Beat's Belgian label Play It Again Sam.

In 2015, Fact Magazine ranked the album at number 47 in its list of "The 50 Best Trip-Hop Albums of All Time," saying "it remains an interesting offering, drawing links between trip-hop, dub, industrial and ambient with a touch of psychedelia."

The song "She's Unreal" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project, on a "mix tape" entitled Josh's Blair Witch Mix.

Disc one

  1. "Sound Innovation" – 2:18
  2. "Nuclear Bomb" – 6:12
  3. "Long Periods of Time" – 4:33
  4. "1979" – 5:25
  5. "Future Worlds" – 4:56
  6. "What's Your Name?" – 2:47
  7. "She's Unreal" – 4:10
  8. "Asbestos Lead Asbestos" – 6:22
  9. "Mass Producing Hate" – 3:01
  10. "Radio Mellotron" – 1:07
  11. "Assassinator" – 5:22
  12. "Phone Calls from the Dead" – 3:13
  13. "Lucid Dream" – 2:09
  14. "Addiction" – 4:07
  15. "No Purpose No Design" – 2:18
  16. "Cancer" – 4:34
  17. "Transmission" – 4:09
  18. "We Done" – 2:07

Disc two

  1. "Set Your Receivers" – 0:23
  2. "Mad Bomber/The Woods" – 10:16
  3. "The Utterer" – 6:51
  4. "United Nations (E.T.C.)" – 4:05
  5. "Stereophrenic" – 13:03
  6. "Teargas" – 0:38
  7. "Plexus" – 3:29
  8. "Electric People" – 14:03
  9. "Tweekland" – 7:55
  10. "Simulacra" – 8:20

Personnel

  • Jack Dangers – voice, bass, waterphone, bass clarinet, mellotron, theremin, synthesizers, samples, turntables and dishes

    • Disc 1 collaborators

  • Joe Gore – guitar (tracks 5, 6, 7, 14)
  • Hell Louise – voice (tracks 6, 17)
  • Mike Powell – theremin, b. voice (tracks 3, 9)
  • Jonny Stevens – guitar (track 8)

    • Disc 2 collaborators

  • Arjan Macnamara – Jupiter 8 (track 10)
  • Mark Pistel – Moog, OB 8, e. bow, theremin (tracks 3, 8, 9)
  • Mike Powell – theremin (track 5, 8)
  • Philip Steir – Octapad (track 2)
  • Jonny Stevens – 100 M system, OBM-X (tracks 3, 5)
  • Ben Stokes – percussion (track 3)
  • Lee Walker – Jupiter 8, Jupiter 4 (tracks 4, 7)
  • John Wilson – feedback generator (track 3)

    • Songs

    1Sound Innovation2:18
    2Nuclear Bomb6:12
    3Long Periods of Time4:33

    References

    Subliminal Sandwich Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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