Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune

thezovietdada, May 03, 2008

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 its 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 aint 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, its a kind of maximalist version of dubstep.

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