Autoimmune (album)

This article is about the Meat Beat Manifesto album. For other uses, see autoimmune.

Autoimmune
Studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto
Released	2008 April 08
Recorded	Room 5
Genre	Dubstep
Length	US version 1:05:45 UK version 50:27
Label	Metropolis Records MET531 Planet Mu ZIQ202
Producer	Jack Dangers
Meat Beat Manifesto chronology
At the Center (2005) Autoimmune (2008) Answers Come in Dreams (2010)

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Autoimmune is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto. Originally announced as a twenty track 2xCD release, Dangers decided to shorten the album down to a single disc with different track listings between the US and European releases. Stylistically, it steps up the pace a bit from other recent MBM albums, flirting with elements of dub, hip-hop, industrial, breakbeat and more, and this has resulted in the album being billed as a partial return to the early industrial sound of the band in the late 80s. The album has also been described as Jack Dangers' take on dubstep, though Dangers has stated that MBM has always utilized the underlying concepts of that particular genre. This is also the first MBM album to feature Danger's vocals since Actual Sounds + Voices in 1998; he appears on the track "Solid Waste". The album cover continues the checker-board/grid theme also seen on past MBM albums Actual Sounds + Voices, RUOK?, and the Off-Centre EP. Most of the remaining songs that were excised from the original double-disc concept were later released on an EP available only on the Autoimmune tour.

Track listing

All tracks by Jack Dangers

The UK tracklisting is shorter and in rearranged order, and includes two songs not on the US release: "House of Unique Stink" and "(Live) And Direct (Live)". Several songs are also altered in their mix. For example, "Less" includes an extra two minutes of ambient sound on the UK release, whereas "Spanish Vocodor" is missing a minute and a half of ambient sound at the end.

US CD Metropolis

1. "International" - 1:39
2. "I Hold the Mic!" (Featuring: Daddy Sandy) - 4:52
3. "Hellfire" - 5:23
4. "Less" - 5:16
5. "Solid Waste" - 3:50
6. "Lonely Soldier" - 5:28
7. "Children of Planet Earth" - 5:00
8. "Young Cassius" (Featuring: MC Azeem) - 5:37
9. "Guns N Lovers" - 5:54
10. "Return to Bass" - 3:55
11. "62 Dub" - 5:49
12. "Colors of Sound" - 5:05
13. "Spanish Vocoder" - 6:11
14. "International Reprise" - 1:46

UK CD Planet Mu

1. "I Hold The Mic!" (Featuring: Daddy Sandy) - 4:53
2. "Children Of Planet Earth" - 4:06
3. "House of Unique Stink" - 5:00
4. "(Live) And Direct (Live)" - 4:00
5. "Less" - 7:11
6. "Lonely Soldier" - 5:27
7. "Spanish Vocoder" - 4:40
8. "Return To Bass" - 3:58
9. "Guns N Lovers" - 5:52
10. "Hellfire (Remix)" - 5:20

Outtakes and B-sides

These tracks appeared on an exclusive tour EP after the release of Autoimmune and would have originally appeared on the planned double-disc release of the album. "Bush of Lies" was first released as a free download on the official MBM website.

1. "Fuck People Abstract" - 1:47
2. "Bush Of Lies" - 4:48
3. "Born To Trouble" - 2:37
4. "Hardware Performance" - 6:00
5. "Apaphetic Sympathetic" - 3:49

Personnel

• Jack Dangers – performer, producer
• Lynn Farmer – drums
• Ben Stokes – video
• Mark Pistel – wires
• Daddy Sandy – vocals on "I Hold the Mic!"
• MC Azeem – vocals on "Young Cassius"
• DJ Z-Trip – turntables
• Rich Borge – album art by