Meat Beat Manifesto :: Eccentric Objects/Sounds of the 20th Century (TinoCorp, 12")

The cover art on the first 250 copies is entirely hand-printed and personalized by Jack Dangers, with the remaining jacket covers custom silk-screened in four different versions. The EP comes with a bonus 9″ flexidisc, Sounds of the 20th Century and is being issued in an edition of only 1000 numbered copies, a random 100 of which are signed by Jack Dangers.

The four songs I would recommend to those who prefer his more dub styled songs from Actual Sounds and Voices (PIAS/Nothing) and Subliminal Sandwich (PIAS). And the drums sound very much like a standard acoustic set along with some great analog synth bass lines and occasional honky saxophone. All songs are instrumental except one which has a prominently featured female vocal sample. None of the songs exhibit any trace of his squeaky, squealy, post-industrial techno, however.

The first side of the flexi has some scientific audio experiment from the 50’s or 60’s where somebody recorded sounds of internal organs doing their work and a second experiment where the pitch of a male voice is altered. The second side of the flexi starts out with an eavesdropped recording of a woman speaking in Spanish on the phone (ala Scanner style) and moves into a noise/synth/ambient track towards the end.

Neat stuff indeed, but hopefully Jack gets back to that good ol’ bumpin’ & throbbin’ grindy aggro techno next time around.

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