Meat Beat Manifesto

"We've got an RY30, but we never use it to program beats. We might use the bass drum off it, or the tambourines, but that's all - just to add to a loop, to beef it up. "

""We always over-compress the drums, to get that kind of sucking effect, and we use this really simple 1-dial unit, the dbx 118. That's brilliant, it's just up/down, fast/slow. If you over-compress it gives such a warmth. I've used it right across a few mixes - including a Shamen remix. Micky Mann, who does our sound, has also worked with The Shamen, and they picked up on the same effect. The rate of compression we've always used, and still do, really appealed to him, and it's just this dbx - such a good unit, it kills anything."

"This was the first single. It’s all about being paranoid. The drum machine was the [Roland TR] 606, I think. I’d use the percussion and distort it. It was a sound that would fill out the track."

"This one is based around the Kawai R-100 drum machine, triggering the gate. It’s basically all Kawai, and me doing stuff through the noise gate, and the odd sample here and there, with my vocals and some sax."

"Out of the studio and on to the stage, the emphasis falls on sampling. A fully-expanded Akai S1000 does most of the hard work (Dangers calls it "the brain") in conjunction with a pair of Octapads. Additionally there's a Korg M1, a Yamaha RX5 for certain drum duties, and a Roland MC500 MkII sequencer."

"Out of the studio and on to the stage, the emphasis falls on sampling. A fully-expanded Akai S1000 does most of the hard work (Dangers calls it "the brain") in conjunction with a pair of Octapads. Additionally there's a Korg M1, a Yamaha RX5 for certain drum duties, and a Roland MC500 MkII sequencer."

Can be clearly seen at 4:26 in the video. All the synths you can see are from Jack Dangers' personal collection.

"Then I added synth from the studio’s Roland JX-3P. And the vocal hiccup sound was a bit of trapped audio in the Neve AMS. Every ’80s studio seemed to have one."

"Out of the studio and on to the stage, the emphasis falls on sampling. A fully-expanded Akai S1000 does most of the hard work (Dangers calls it "the brain") in conjunction with a pair of Octapads. Additionally there's a Korg M1, a Yamaha RX5 for certain drum duties, and a Roland MC500 MkII sequencer."

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In a Facebook post by Meat Beat Manifesto, the Korg microKONTROL is visible, highlighting its role in their setup.

In a Facebook post by MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO, the Korg KP2 Kaoss Pad 2 is visible, indicating its use by the artist.

In a Facebook post by Meat Beat Manifesto, the Apple Powerbook G4 is featured, highlighting its role in their music production setup.

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

In a 1993 interview featured in Muzines, Meat Beat Manifesto is mentioned using the Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo.

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

In a 1993 interview featured in Music Magazine Archive, Meat Beat Manifesto discusses their use of the Drawmer DL221 Two Channel Compressor/Limiter.

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive

As listed in this 1993 interview on the Music Magazine Archive