Experimental Electronic Music
A veteran of groundbreaking music-video and visual collaborations, Ben Stokes puts his most personal stamp on Dimensional Holophonic Sound (DHS), his singular project blending acid electronics, old-school analog imagery, and experimental video production. Simultaneously, Stokes has built a distinctive career at the intersection of sound, art, technology, and visuals.
Concept Record not only works as a creative tool; it demonstrates what can be created when Professor Ben’s instruction is heeded. The concept is to use this record alongside other records to make new records, while providing a legitimate D.H.S. album of its own right—one that embraces the features that help make physical records so fun and appealing.
Originally published in Melody Maker on May 11, 1996, Mark Roland’s review of Meat Beat Manifesto’s Subliminal Sandwich captured the arrival of a record that would go on to become one of electronic music’s most influential and genre-defining releases; republished here with permission, 30 years on.
With this highly anticipated EP, Yellow Machines raises the bar; locking down some of the best producers in the experimental electronic field and easily becomes a contender for best EP of 2024.
Explosive right from the start, Jack Dangers and Ben Stokes need no introduction. Their footprint in the breaks, bass, and baffling bleep techno/electro scene has inspired a whole generation of enthusiasts trying to catch up.
Igloo Magazine presents a serialized, long-form oral history of the work of Jack Dangers, front man for Meat Beat Manifesto, Perennial Divide, Tino Corp, The […]
There are great, deep cut, crate digging breaks here, rare vocal snippets from some hidden cache of ancient vinyl, and crunchy, hard analog bass. Somewhere […]
There’s an air of doom around us. A certain darkness, an indiscernible color, a feeling of revulsion and repelling forces. The mind begs to understand […]
Meat Beat Manifesto names its newest album after the ugliest color. Opaque Couché is out on Flexidisc via Virtual Label in LP, CD, and digital […]
Impossible Star’s tracks are all crisp and clear with plenty of space for everything to sit tight in the mix. The album mixes classic elements […]
On the cusp of releasing Impossible Star, the first full-length album in over seven years, Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto embarks on a yet […]
