Meat Beat Manifesto ""...In Dub 5.1 Surround"" Available on DVD January 20, 2004

Through Music Video Distributors

9-Dec-03

Music Video Distributors and Lake Shore Records are pleased to announce the home viewing release of Meat Beat Manifesto - ...In Dub 5.1 Surround for North American distribution on DVD.As a producer, Meat Beat Manifestoís Jack Dangers has long been at the forefront of the digital music revolution, audibly influencing everything around him and providing the architectural audio blueprints for contemporary artists as wide ranging as Nine Inch Nails and the Chemical Brothers. Now with the use of 5.1 Surround Sound at his fingertips, Dangers presents a transforming take on the traditional that allows sounds to bounce between speakers and dance around a room in a way previously only hypothesized. Meat Beat Manifesto albums have always been delightfully upfront and attention grabbing, but ...In Dub 5.1 Surround places the listener right at the beating heart of the action like never before. Here is an audio format that does true justice to the soundclashing sorcery of Meat Beat Manifesto.ìTo be able to position a sound anywhere between six speakers is very liberating and inspiring,î says Jack Dangers on the use of the 5.1 Surround Sound format. ìIíve got different pieces coming out of each speaker and moving into the middle and doing weird things. Doing a dub record with it is unbelievable, it just calls for that. Itís always been trapped in this stereo field and is now unleashed!îItís long been a favorite device for Meat Beat Manifesto to revisit and reconstruct sparking ideas into alternate song versions, the culmination of which is this special project. The DVD launches you into an immersive experience that explores both technology and nature as it hops between international locales like Tokyo, Amsterdam and the home base of San Francisco as sensuously as it does outer space dreamscapes. Acclaimed motion-graphics artist and video director Ben Stokes (DJ Shadow) mans the visual controls, with some valuable input and footage from Dangers.The two are regular collaborators, and the duo behind the critically acclaimed (and DJís best friend) Tino Corp. project and label of the same name. Theyíve honed an effortless synergy of their considerable talents over the years. Here, the audio and visuals were created simultaneously ó some songs even feature alternating camera angles and footage ó making for intimately connected visual interpretations of Meat Beat Manifesto. ìA true innovator, MBM main man Jack Dangers helped lay down the rules for dub-inflected electronica, throwing down heavy breaks atop challenging experimental sound.î- CMJ