Actual Sounds + Voices

Actual Sounds + Voices is the sixth studio album by electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto, released in 1998.

Actual Sounds + Voices
Studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto
Released	30 June 1998[1]
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	[2]
Pitchfork	8.5/10[3]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B+[4]

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,^[5] 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"^[6]

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.