Meat Beat Manifesto "Prime Audio Soup" Play It Again Sam Records BIAS 352 CD 1998 (28:20)
Prime Audio Soup (Edit) (3:36)
Prime Audio Dub (5:18)
Prime Audio Soup (Vegetarian Soup by Boards of Canada) (7:06)
Prime Audio Soup (The Herbaliser Remix) (6:46)
Prime Audio Soup (The Concussion Mix by Biomouse) (5:34)
Meat Beat Manifesto is Jack Dangers
Overall impression: good. "Prime Audio Soup" is the second single
(the first being "Acid
Again") from Meat Beat's superb
'98 album, "Actual
Sounds + Voices". Track 1 hacks the album version about in
half, otherwise it's pretty much the same. The "Dub" is a less
crowded and re-arranged version of the original also by Dangers. The Boards
of Canada and Herbaliser mixes just barely retain the vibe of the original
track, each sounds very much in the style of the remixer. BoC keep a synth
line and the 'set me free' sample but overall it has the sparse, space-verb,
downtempo groove that sounds like most anything off of BoC's "Music
has the Right to Children". The Herbaliser remix is more uptempo,
he also keeps the 'set me free' sample and adds a bit of scratching and
the usual atmospheric background samples that most Herbaliser tracks have.
The Biomouse mix is an incredibly annoying aggro-distorted mess of spliced
together chunks of the original track and new chunks of noise, samples,
guitars, etc. Yuck. So, overall: 4/5 get a thumbs up. I happen to prefer
them in the same order as the track listing ...
Meat Beat Manifesto at Brainwashed
Where did I get this cd? - mail order via Rioux's Records. Email Jason.