Meat Beat Manifesto Immunizes Ears, Brains
Rejoice, left-leaning multimedia jam fans. Meat Beat Manifesto is back with a bracing new effort called Autoimmune. I covered the release with a double-shot of love on Wired. To wit:
Meat Beat Doses the World With New Manifesto, Autoimmune
Two decades ago, Jack Dangers co-founded Meat Beat Manifesto, a band that delivered an explosive mashup of performance, multimedia and head-trip soundtracking that teased brains as ably as it packed dance floors.
Today, the synth collector and sonic experimentalist is hobbled by psoriatic arthritis and, he jokes by phone, he's "walking around like Howard Hughes." The autoimmune disease hits you hard in the joints and digits -- the worst possible places for a guy who makes a living pounding on synths and sequencers.
"You get used to it," Dangers says of the disorder. And perhaps you morph the experience into a banging effort called Autoimmune, Meat Beat Manifesto's 20th anniversary release due Tuesday. Autoimmune, Meat Beat Manifesto's 20th anniversary release due Tuesday... MORE @ WIRED
Sonic Immunity: Q&A With Meat Beat Manifesto's Jack Dangers
Wired: You've always mashed sound and video in interesting ways. I get a kick out of the samples, especially that classic Pinback line from Dark Star.
Dangers: One of the tracks were playing is "Nuclear Bomb" from Subliminal Sandwich, and we're cross-referencing a lot of imagery for it. We're superimposing Bush speeches over the banjo scene from Deliverance.
Wired: Oh man, that's hilarious.
Dangers: Exactly. If you just play the audio, you wouldn't get the same song. The visual adds much more impact: A creepy close-up of him licking his lips. Ben Stokes plays the Bush sample and I play the Deliverance sample... MORE @ WIRED
Meat Beat Doses the World With New Manifesto, Autoimmune
Two decades ago, Jack Dangers co-founded Meat Beat Manifesto, a band that delivered an explosive mashup of performance, multimedia and head-trip soundtracking that teased brains as ably as it packed dance floors.
Today, the synth collector and sonic experimentalist is hobbled by psoriatic arthritis and, he jokes by phone, he's "walking around like Howard Hughes." The autoimmune disease hits you hard in the joints and digits -- the worst possible places for a guy who makes a living pounding on synths and sequencers.
"You get used to it," Dangers says of the disorder. And perhaps you morph the experience into a banging effort called Autoimmune, Meat Beat Manifesto's 20th anniversary release due Tuesday. Autoimmune, Meat Beat Manifesto's 20th anniversary release due Tuesday... MORE @ WIRED
Sonic Immunity: Q&A With Meat Beat Manifesto's Jack Dangers
Wired: You've always mashed sound and video in interesting ways. I get a kick out of the samples, especially that classic Pinback line from Dark Star.
Dangers: One of the tracks were playing is "Nuclear Bomb" from Subliminal Sandwich, and we're cross-referencing a lot of imagery for it. We're superimposing Bush speeches over the banjo scene from Deliverance.
Wired: Oh man, that's hilarious.
Dangers: Exactly. If you just play the audio, you wouldn't get the same song. The visual adds much more impact: A creepy close-up of him licking his lips. Ben Stokes plays the Bush sample and I play the Deliverance sample... MORE @ WIRED
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