Subliminal Sandwich


Subliminal Sandwich is a 1996 double album released by Meat Beat Manifesto on Interscope Records. It features a stronger dub and reggae influence than on any other Meat Beat Manifesto album. The first disc is the group's standard fare, a highly energetic and densely packed collection of songs that melds a variety of genres and makes heavy use of sampling. The second disc is far more experimental in nature, composed of lengthier pieces that incorporate more ambient textures and drones and fewer samples or defined song structures.
Subliminal Sandwich was composed during Meat Beat Manifesto's 1993 tour supporting the Satyricon album 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, a version of World Domination Enterprises' "Asbestos Lead Asbestos" and "Transmission".
In 2015, Fact Magazine 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 trip-hop, dub, industrial and ambient with a touch of psychedelia."
The song "She's Unreal" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project, on a "mix tape" entitled Josh's Blair Witch Mix.

Track listing

All songs written by Jack Dangers.

Disc one

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

    Disc two

  19. "Set Your Receivers" – 0:23
  20. "Mad Bomber/The Woods" – 10:16
  21. "The Utterer" – 6:51
  22. "United Nations " – 4:05
  23. "Stereophrenic" – 13:03
  24. "Teargas" – 0:38
  25. "Plexus" – 3:29
  26. "Electric People" – 14:03
  27. "Tweekland" – 7:55
  28. "Simulacra" – 8:20

    Personnel