Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune

Jack Dangers is back! And on Planet Mu out of all the labels (for European distribution; Metropolis picked up the US release). What a perfect fit, seeming that Planet Mu is one of the established labels spearing the evolution of experimental and intelligent flavors of dubstep. Right off the bet, what's amazing is that unlike other classic electronic acts (ok, I'll say Orb and Orbital), Meat Beat Manifesto is _not_ locked into the past. Dangers is fresh with the times, embracing and re-inventing dubstep, as well as excelling in every aspect of the genre! He puts pretenders to shame! Dangers lays it on thick, heavy on the bass, exquisite on the intricate beats, bringing back familiar samples, with production skills of a seasoned master. Autoimmune is MBM's tenth studio album, whose discography spans over two decades of releases on a huge roster of labels, such as Wax Trax!, Elektra, Mute, Nothing, Run Recordings, and Play It Again Sam. For a full profile, history and discography you can reference the lengthy Wikipedia entry. The newcomers should be impressed by a true veteran of electronica. And the longtime fans will not be disappointed.

Jack Dangers is back! And on Planet Mu out of all the labels (for European distribution; Metropolis picked up the US release). What a perfect fit, seeming that Planet Mu is one of the established labels spearing the evolution of experimental and intelligent flavors of dubstep. Right off the bet, what's amazing is that unlike other classic electronic acts (ok, I'll say Orb and Orbital), Meat Beat Manifesto is _not_ locked into the past. Dangers is fresh with the times, embracing and re-inventing dubstep, as well as excelling in every aspect of the genre! He puts pretenders to shame! Dangers lays it on thick, heavy on the bass, exquisite on the intricate beats, bringing back familiar samples, with production skills of a seasoned master. Autoimmune is MBM's tenth studio album, whose discography spans over two decades of releases on a huge roster of labels, such as Wax Trax!, Elektra, Mute, Nothing, Run Recordings, and Play It Again Sam. For a full profile, history and discography you can reference the lengthy Wikipedia entry. The newcomers should be impressed by a true veteran of electronica. And the longtime fans will not be disappointed.

Dangers releases an album on the beyond god-awful Metropolis records. This is pretty clearly mitigated in my mind by its co-release on Planet Mu in the UK, the exact sort of label this sort of album should be released on. But it's hard to see this being released alongside such idiocy as VNV Nation and KMFDM except as an easy route to cash. But anyways, this is far more excellent an album than one would expect for what smells like a sell-out. Jack, always the dub nerd, embraces dubstep fully in this production and adds the dancehall samples I always thought his albums needed, but were only made salient by the prevalence of dubstep & technoid ragga in the UK. Jazz has perhaps unfortunately taken the backdrop, but this shit is designed to bump hard, and laid back free-ambience ain't gonna help. The sound is really dense here, and while everything MBM has made up to this point seemed like a consistent synthesis of ideas Dangers has been throwing around, this album seems more like a progression away to something else. Which is great, it's a kind of maximalist version of dubstep.