''Subliminal Sandwich'' is a 1996 double album released by

Meat Beat Manifesto Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened as Meat Beat, Manifesto or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens that was formed in 1987 in Swindon, United Kingdom. The band, fronted by Dangers (the only ...

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. The album is often more experimental than the group's prior material, composed of lengthier pieces that incorporate more ambient textures and drones with and fewer samples or defined song structures. ''Subliminal Sandwich'' was composed during Meat Beat Manifesto's 1993 tour supporting their 1992 album ''

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'' and would have been released in 1994 or 1995 if not for legal tangles with the band's Belgian label Play It Again Sam. Two singles were released from the album, the original song "Transmission" and a version of "Asbestos Lead Asbestos" from the 1988 album '' Let's Play Domination'' by World Domination Enterprises.

Reception

In 2015, ''

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'' ranked the album at number 47 in its list of "The 50 Best Trip-Hop Albums of All Time," saying "it remains an interesting offering, drawing links between

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, dub, industrial and

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with a touch of

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In other media

The song "She's Unreal" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1999 film ''

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'', on a "mix tape" entitled '' Josh's Blair Witch Mix''.

Track listing

All songs written by Jack Dangers (unless otherwise noted).

Disc one

# "Sound Innovation" – 2:18 # "Nuclear Bomb" – 6:12 # "Long Periods of Time" – 4:33 # "1979" – 5:25 # "Future Worlds" – 4:56 # "What's Your Name?" – 2:47 # "She's Unreal" – 4:10 # "Asbestos Lead Asbestos" (Keith Dobson) – 6:22 # "Mass Producing Hate" – 3:01 # "Radio Mellotron" – 1:07 # "Assassinator" – 5:22 # "Phone Calls from the Dead" – 3:13 # "Lucid Dream" – 2:09 # "Addiction" – 4:07 # "No Purpose No Design" – 2:18 # "Cancer" – 4:34 # "Transmission" – 4:09 # "We Done" – 2:07

Disc two

# "Set Your Receivers" – 0:23 # "Mad Bomber/The Woods" – 10:16 # "The Utterer" – 6:51 # "United Nations (E.T.C.)" – 4:05 # "Stereophrenic" – 13:03 # "Teargas" – 0:38 # "Plexus" – 3:29 # "Electric People" – 14:03 # "Tweekland" – 7:55 # "Simulacra" – 8:20

Personnel

* Jack Dangers –

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waterphone A waterphone (also ocean harp) is a type of inharmonic acoustic tuned idiophone consisting of a stainless steel resonator ''bowl'' or ''pan'' with a cylindrical ''neck'' and bronze rods of different lengths and diameters around the rim of the bo ...

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays no ...

mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which causes a length of magnetic tape to contact a Capstan (tape recorder), capstan, which pulls i ...

theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named aft ...

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, samples,

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and dishes

Disc 1 collaborators

* Joe Gore –

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(tracks 5, 6, 7, 14) * Hell Louise – voice (tracks 6, 17) * Mike Powell – theremin, b. voice (tracks 3, 9) * Jonny Stevens – guitar (track 8)

Disc 2 collaborators

* Arjan Macnamara –

Jupiter 8 The Jupiter-8, or JP-8, is an eight-voice polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizer introduced by Roland Corporation in early 1981. The Jupiter-8 was Roland's flagship synthesizer for the first half of the 1980s. Approximately 3,300 units have ...

(track 10) * Mark Pistel – Moog, OB 8, e. bow, theremin (tracks 3, 8, 9) * Mike Powell – theremin (track 5, 8) * Philip Steir – Octapad (track 2) * Jonny Stevens – 100 M system, Oberheim OBM-X (tracks 3, 5) * Ben Stokes –

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(track 3) * Lee Walker – Jupiter 8, Jupiter 4 (tracks 4, 7) * John Wilson – feedback generator (track 3)

Art+Graphics

* Richard Borge - model making / graphic design

References

1996 albums Meat Beat Manifesto albums Albums produced by Jack Dangers Nothing Records albums {{1990s-electronic-album-stub