Autoimmune is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto

Meat Beat Manifesto

Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK...

. 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

Dubstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....

, 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?

RUOK?

RUOK? is a 2002 album by the UK industrial-techno group Meat Beat Manifesto. Some editions included the mini Enhanced CD Free Piece Suite. Recorded at Tape Lab Studios, California. Mastered at The Exchange, London...

, and the Off-Centre EP

Off-Centre

Off-Centre is a release by Meat Beat Manifesto which follows the album At The Center. Drums and percussion from tracks 1-4 are credited to David King. Steinway Grand Piano, Fender Rhodes and Hammond B3 instrumentation from tracks 1-4 are credited to Craig Taborn...

. 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

Jack Dangers

Jack Dangers is an electronic musician, DJ, producer, and remixer best known for his work as the primary member of Meat Beat Manifesto. He lives in San Francisco.-Career:...

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
   MC Azeem
   Azeem Ismail , better known simply as Azeem is a performance poet and hip-hop MC, residing in Oakland, California.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 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

• Lynn Farmer – drums
• Ben Stokes – video
• Mark Pistel
  Mark Pistel
  Mark Pistel is a producer, engineer, programmer, remixer and song writer, who has been working in the genres of Electronic music, Experimental music, Break Beat, Hip-Hop, and Dance, since 1988....
  
   – wires
• Daddy Sandy – vocals on "I Hold the Mic!"
• MC Azeem
  MC Azeem
  Azeem Ismail , better known simply as Azeem is a performance poet and hip-hop MC, residing in Oakland, California.-Biography:...
  
   – vocals on "Young Cassius"
• DJ Z-Trip – turntables
• Rich Borge – album art by