Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon

[grenster35]

Been looking for this tune for a long time! Wow, can't believe I've found it - reminds me of when I was mashed in the Dance Factory in Brum (back of what is now Sanctuary) in Digbeth.

Happy days

[trikyfingers]

Double White doves.... "whats your name where you form, what you On"?

[feeDLIO]

Some of u little kiddies on here need to get a fuckn grip man, i was listening to drum and bass back in 1917. I would be in the trenches with my gramaphone blasting out marky mark-mark and p randall dunkno. Back then we would just call it bebop-swing-funk and get on with it, not bother trying to find out who what dj would be doing what who, or where what genre would be why. Its JUST music man, listen and be happy, enjoy sharing and stop trying to appropriate it for yourself, or your generation.

[jamiebrady3]

@feeDLIO 1917 you say ? Did you get the acetate of 'Now thats what I call Jungle -327' ? I loved the 'anderson shelter' remix of 'Valley of the Gallows' I heard a story of a an Austrian soldier who got into an Italian House and found some records, unfortunately he had one of his testicles blown off in a freak sandstorm, which left him unable to bring his music to a wider audience. He did go on to great fame some 20 years later though..

[RatchetSly]

I have all the Meat Beat albums I could find in my local CD store - Original Fire, R.M.X.S, Subliminal Sandwich, Actual Sounds + Voices, R U O K ?, and At the Center - first one I bought as a kid was R U O K ?, followed by Actual Sounds. Great music, all around. Although I'm probably a heretic for liking Center the most of all them, thanks to the jazz in it.

[Blowfeld20k]

WTF some of you kiddies (any1 under 25) need to get a fuckin clue, and realise there was a scene a long time ago way before you got your 1st ipod. And back then it wasn't like it is now dance music wasn't controlled by record companies who invent new genres every time an artist farts. Clubbers weren't anal genre fascist either, who cared more about being able to categorise a tune, back then we had 2 categories "BANGING !!!" & "GTFO !!!" we managed ok like that :)

[jproctor1978]

you gotta hear DJ Hype scratchin this up 2 copies on Fantasy FM look for oldskoolmixes co uk dj hype mixes it's on there somewhere lol ;) RUFF TRACK shout to all who know this ;)

[TheChohr]

Speed this up, add these vocals: watch?v=48TyDnakXZE

and you get Papua New Guinea.

[throbgrist]

Speed this up a little and you get a great jungle track! Dangers & co. have always been ahead of their time!

[PurplePunisher69]

Its the sound of every warehouse down the M4 corridor from Bristol to Heston in 1989/1990. A defo west country Dub / tech style

[ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

In Hollywood, California(USA) they would play this at both Warehouse party's and Goth/Industrial nights, they would play Ministry, New Order, Cabaret Voltaire in both clubs, it was more open back then, good times, still have my vinyl of this track still spin it today, and yes, we called it "Industrial House" when I was 18, I was there as well ; )

[phallusbravo]

Warehouse Music is closer to what you could say, back in '89. Rave? Nah, too early. Club music. And no, emo was not what it is now. That was still called New Wave, then it became Goth. Emo was whiny-ass punk music without a soul. All these little mini-bullshit dividers were not around. This would spin, and then something else, probably Mony Mony, then something else, Man Parrish Strip for Me, some Siouxie and the Banshies, etc. If you weren't there, then you can't say. I can say.

[Sinapsy09]

MBM are the pioneers and masters of the acid tek alternative 90 the sound of chemical brothers prodigy and etc etc its only a copy of MBM....... RESPECT for the genious

[nazaxprime]

@kristianweston "unfortunately time has made it sound shite."

Yeah, I respectfully, disagree.

[viDUBla]

what's the name of the breakbeat in this track, it's been used 100's of times in the 90's, I just can't remember the name.

[riskybusiness80]

@viDUBla , i think it hot pants and another

[mellowb1]

i would have thought 'future sound of london' was the more obvious sample :/

[liamvg]

I can hear alot of b-side Prodigy in this.

[riskybusiness80]

@liamvg prodigy sampled the break for charlie of this very tune ;)

[infraoptic]

goa trance? hahaha . sounds nothing like goa trance wtf

[audioedge]

@kristianweston i dont think theres ignorance in calling it house.. back in 89 everything got played under one roof, it was a house music night (or acid house)... usually in a disused warehouse. i think calling it goa trance is wildy off the mark though and agree with your comments around that style of music. yes maybe every producer did have that sample back in the day but to me this still sounds pretty sound and i would happily drop it at any oldschool night i dj at

[5krat]

@audioedge2

this is great as is goa and psytrance tho.

[designeranoraks]

@audioedge

I'm with you, i think it still sounds mad nice, its real dreamy. This whole genre thing is fuckin with music..categorizing and pigeon-holing only narrows airplay and earplay. I understand people want a new category cos they don't wanna be stuck in that 'other' group so they make up a new genre and it all starts again. Its music, you like it or you don't. Us Hip Hip kats used to get vexed when the dance scene starting looping breaks and even sampling hip hop but hey, its all one.

[xcutekatie18x]

thumbs up if you like Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon

[tom24fps]

Truly seminal track ! However - definitively nothing to do with Goa or trance. It's absolute proto-jungle bizness made by a couple of industrial/hip hop heads! . Early trance was the arpeggio smothered tracks of Cosmic Baby or Jam and Spoon etc whose influences where in the ambient sounds of Tangerine Dream and the higher states drug music of Giorgio Moroder. MBM were politicized and rallied against 'tune in drop out' 60's casualties - many of whom ended up on Goan beaches.

[mowse73]

Dj hype never called this Goa trance when he was scratching the F*** out of it on Fantasy FM in 1990. As somebody has already mentioned back in the day if it was a banging tune it would be played. This tune was played at many a rave.

Beause it was a top tune.Period.

[mowse73]

Dj hype never called this Goa trance when he was scratching the F*** out of it on Fantasy FM in 1990. As somebody has already mentioned back in the day if it was a banging tune it would be played. This tune was played at many a rave.

[MrFunkinPure]

Goa trance my ringpiece !

This was just a tune, no need to pigeon hole it !

[trikyfingers]

Gongy! Gongy Gongy!!!! SOUND SYSTEM BANGER... LIKE ME FIRST PILL!!!

[cassacid]

RAVE!

[ElasticMinds]

i think MBM Played this at their latest denver show. Now that was a good show to be at. cool people, amazing music, and awesome video sampling

[kidcoyle7691]

stomped into brixton academy got me kranium ripped off for ever in 91.........tooooooooon:)

[e2trust]

|| Meat Beat influenced me in high school (1992) when I first started DJing. Since then I've met people in New York City and Geneva that have the same good vibes from Meat Beat Manifesto. It's almost something like punk rock... hit me to the soul.

[Yokohama231]

Fuck. Had this tune on a DJ tape years ago and it mixed into a tune that was as awesome. Not the one it does with this track. Dammit man I just cannae remember the name of it! 

[TheVimtoMoustache]

Get up them stairs.Fuckin choon.

Reminds me of the time i was trapped on a nuclear submarine that was haunted by the ghost of boney M.

[MegaWankenstein]

fuckin yesssssssssss timeless legs go to jelly when this drops...an then am up bouncy bouncyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Evolutionary777]

rrrrreeeevvvveeeerrrrrrbbbbbb!­

[rootdown1983]

Such a fucking tune. Never gets old. Utah Saints dropped this in a breakbeat set a while ago and was the 1st time I heard it on a massive system. I transformed into a nonsensical lunatic. One of few tunes that lives permanently in my record bag.

[tobinakatarx]

daym first tune i ever bought

[und3r3t]

it's not house

[audioedge]

@und3r3t you wouldnt have said that back in 1989

[Nazrapaz]

@audioedge no, it's still not house. it's Goa Trance.

[audioedge]

@Nazrapaz lol you think goa trance existed back in 1989? back then you went to a acid house music night, the genres just didnt exist back in the early days, everything got played under one roof... its easy to categorise it now 22 years after its first release

[arkidmcfc]

@audioedge

Exactly!

[infesticon]

@audioedge No no no it's wee wee stephardcore prototype.

[DFA1981]

@audioedge Goa trance didn't exist as a genre in 1989, but we did have genres, there was house, acid house, techno, balearic, new beat, freestyle, ambient...it did get played under one roof though :)

[DRUMNBA55]

@audioedge listen to those drum breaks, its not house or goa shit trance this is the beginnings of uk hardcore, had this on vinyl now its gone to a better turntable.

[gregretro]

@Nazrapaz heh heh.... "Goa Trance", right. I remember this being mixed into dub and acid jazz tracks about as much as I remember it mixed into house. New Beat too... heard this mixed into A Split Second's slower version of "Flesh".

[lostworm23]

@Nazrapaz ha ha ha ha ha Goa Trance....WTF are you on? Judging by that comment you probably wasn't even born when this was released.

[Hammersmith80]

@lostworm23 I've always considered MBM an industrial-trance act, sure they used break-beats but the production and sounds they used lend themsevles to that genre which is now in full flight with the likes of Assemblage 23. MBF are underrated pioneers of industrial music.

[Nazrapaz]

@lostworm23 Goa is a place in india. during the 60s to late 70s alot of people moved here from america. you could call them hippies. they produced music. trance was created. in the mid 80s alot of these people moved back to america. though some stayed. Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens were some of these people. and although Goa Trance was not formed from one genre, it was still formed. and although it was not called Goa Trance at the time, it is now by some.

[lostworm23]

@Nazrapaz Goa is a place I spent 8 years living in so please don't patronize with your geography lesson. The hippies listened to the likes of Pink Floyd etc back in the day. Contrary to your beliefs and readings they did not create trance. If you're going to do your homework, do it properly. 'and although Goa Trance was not formed from one genre, it was still formed. and although it was not called Goa Trance at the time, it is now by some'. That 'some' are fucking clueless idiots.

[Nazrapaz]

@lostworm23 When I'm born doesn't have anything to do with knowledge. shit's written down. the ability to read is common in america. you're 38, stop thinking a barrier between screens makes you a better person. I would have thought within 40 years, some wisdom would have been gained, but I was wrong.

[lostworm23]

@Nazrapaz if 'shit's written down' you're reading the wrong shit. 

[pimpdaddyfrench]

@Nazrapaz On every single youtube video there's a standout ridiculous comment.....you claim the title on this one!

[pacaha]

@Nazrapaz wtf???? goa...............fuck no

[mechonomic]

@Nazrapaz blödsinn !!!!

[fsol13]

@Nazrapaz

Goa Trance, what you been smokin

[youdontknowxpand]

@Nazrapaz OMFG! It's the precursor of Jungle/DnB... -.-

[MoOniEmOnKeY]

Oi fucking oi =o)

fuck the prodigy, MBM did it first, and did it properly, prodigy were fakes, just posey essex boys. fuck i love this tune, what i would do for a flashback right now, banging tune!

[mashupski]

cassington and lechlade. nuff said.

[astralandrew]

isnt this credited widely as the first DnB choonage?

[grahamhg]

@astralandrew there's a battle between this and we are ie....

[PROgreyson]

i think it's not house :)

[DjChoci]

tonka it was indeed......

[mtct27]

eXxtasis en Babylon!

[SmoooothEight]

Proper version. Proper Job......! They just don't make sounds like this anymore.

[BruvaBob]

Still after 20 years no one has come near to making anything this rough.

so many hazy memories of goin mental in some field or warehouse to this tune.

nice upload

[Dshizzle1029]

This style of beat needs to be brought back into electronic music.

[firestoneism]

meat beat maifesto, radio babylon

[MilaRosska]

Planet FM.............Spiral Tribe.........

[skoopism]

@MilaRosska yes to the planet f.m massive!!! yes to the spiral crew!!! xxx

[MegaThecolonel]

Fucking great spanging track, very heavy when that bass kicks you in the guts

[Mushy1983]

sounds like Prodigy break & enter too. Awesome tuuuuuune!

[windymiller1111]

2 copies + Hype +fantasy fm = ; )

[throbgrist]

The first jungle track - tho' unofficially...

[TheDjsticky]

This one was a landmark track and still sounds wicked now. Even more amazing when you think it was most likely made on an Atari st and a couple of samplers that held 3 or 4 samples each ..Awsome

[Stylah3001]

proto dubstep



[Logic0100]

Top tune :O)

[BRAKESUK80]

one of the best tracks ever made

[Gagic79]

I love Prodigy

[trikyfingers]

You Have No Idea How Much This Track Means To Me.....Sound Track To A Generatin!

[S3rrgiio]

that sample is from "rivers of babylon" of bomey m??

[Cs82Hun]

@S3rrgiio

Aye aye

[dznally]

didn't future sound of london sample this baseline for papua new guinea??

[jezoakley909]

it was 1990 in the circus warp tent. Harvey from Tonka soundsystem if i'm not mistaken. I remember it well........kind of.

[andymck68]

Original Dub Step before it's time?

[2Emos1Razor]

@andymck68 Not even close.

[SamuelKing1oz]

Original bad boi tune!

[richlufc92]

Always reminds me of the Hacienda's 10th birthday bash in '92. Think Paul Oakenfold dropped it in his set, but could be wrong about who was DJ at the time.

[masterofallhesurveys]

Saw some DJ at The Nation in Liverpool (now Cream) back in 91/92 mixing this with Aphexs "Didgeridoo' top work ! This track is responsible for a lot peoples ideas.....

[robbieroofinsulation]

PHAT! thanks = )

[shoowtime]

Excellent.

[023michel023]

This is breakbeat, techno, some say industrial dnb,some say bigbeat electro

W.T.F. this classic rocks !!!

[Neomorpheous90]

it is considered oldskool drum&bass!

[ol2rap]

umm, it's a classic for sure, but it is not house music. far from it.

[kweej]

most wicked X SAFe

[kallefredrikson]

this aint house man, this is some badman original junglist dnb!

[smittty1911]

whoa.

[Riptorn73]

Dont 4get Mental Cube-chile of the bass generation.....entrokid

[DARTHANDREW1]

Check out stuff from satin storm ...tune called 1999 and loads of other tunes by him....

also genaside 2 - death of the kamakazie..do it!!!

[MrJack141516]

I love this track, does anyone know any similar styled music out there that I could listen to? I'm into this type of music, but it was written before I was born so it's hard to find some of it because I have no memory of the time.

[entrokid]

fierce ruling diva-floorfiller,shut up and dance-lamborgini,forgemasters-­track with no name,forgemasters-conga,unique 3-the theme,acts of madmen-the dream,wood allen-airport 99,frank dewulf-the b sides,human resource-dominator,Lfo-Lfo,rhy­thmatic-take me back,sub sub-space face,outlander-vamp,mental cube-Q,annette-dream 17,kid unknown-nightmare,forgemasters­-pump me,..............theres a few to wte your appetite mate,keep diggin theres some great oldskool magic out there.

[MrJack141516]

@entrokid and Dartandrew1, cheers, I'll get looking.

[robbykhu]

@MrJack141516

try we are ie by lennie de ice.

[leonjollans]

@MrJack141516 check out Renegade Soundwave - especially The Phantom and the RSW In Dub LP if you can find it. Awesome awesome stuff

[MrJack141516]

Hey bro, yeah I love Renegade, I have their "probably a robbery" single somewhere. I'll check out those ones in a sec. :)

[leonjollans]

spotify link: spotify:album:01aRXIZ5T2y89Y1W­3I7EsL if you have it. One of my prize possessions. Good times :-)

[stlkr]

this is where Prodigy got their beats for Charly.

[DjRevTech]

@stlkr All from the hotpants break I bet

[joho0]

@stlkr It's also used as the bass and drum line for FSOL Papua New Guinea

[Nuuitaparola123]

@stlkr Actually Meat beat manifesto got this bassline from 23 Skidoo - Fire :)

[stlkr]

@Nuuitaparola123 i remember Chemical Brothers sampling 23Skidoo in BlockRockinBeats... =)

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

@stlkr Meat Beat Manifesto borrowed it from Bobby Byrd though.

[JullCzar]

Hey man, I always got a strangly kind of feeling, of that underground electronic musicc, now that I found a type of tresure the superavit its for all that wants, it , dont you

[robbykhu]

OMFG!!!! My head's gonna explode!!!!

[sludgedozer]

Meat Beat Manifesto is the bomb, wit da beat!!!

Woooooo ...... alright!!!!

[djfirkins]

Damn, this is wobblin!

Woo Allright! sample is taken from Cheryl Lynn's Encore (Dance Version).

[ahdkaw]

killer tune, sweet memories.

[razortube101]

So that where Future Sound of London got the Bass line for Papa New Guine from

[ThePED73]

this was so ahead of its time its unbelievable,fuckin love it.four aces used to rock to this back in the day,I think mbm had a time machine or they can see into the future or something!!lol..

[veyronzondaf]

This is where it all began, along with We Are I.E! Thanks for posting!

[biggie1692007]

tune meat beat manifesto classic... 4 aces club, 89 aka The Labyryth, Dalston

[swanee325]

first heard this at the astoria crazy club 1989 tune !!!!!!!!!

[ev3nflow]

Glastonbury 1989. the travllers tent (the one with the big yellow tonka toy speakers).

The dj played this, and everybody loses the plot..

When it finished he just picked the needle up and put it on again, and did this 4-5 i think..never seen that before or since..

But it was a fucking awesome moment in time. going of to this for 30 minutes..

I remember a lad coming in that tent on a horse too..wild..

[djscotty1111]

@ev3nflow I heard back then from a girl who came from the UK that it was WILD !!! It was pretty good in Vancouver lots of video somewhere wish I was in the Uk then ;))) Hey M8 any video of that party in Glastonbury?

[ev3nflow]

@djscotty1111

No video that i know of mate...It was 1989 and a mobile phone then was like a house brick..anyone with a cam corder was loaded...jeeez how things have come a long way...

But that same year there was epic illegal warehouse partys around blackburn not far from where i live in manchester.. .where hardcore uproar did their song live..this was pretty much us lot having large..top night this was..

[DjChoci]

@ev3nflow tonka it was indeed

[MrMacDougall]

@ev3nflow one of the best youtube comments on...moment in print.  I think about that horse and this song sometimes

[dazlants]

Dungeons in Lea Bridge Rd, Hackney. Back in da day!! Whoo! Alright!!! Forgot all about this one, some cnut nicked it off me

[ac006h4724]

as loud as it goes is not loud enough for this tune......woo aiighht baylon.....!!!!!! absiolute classic oldskool..........

[martinone1]

So eine riesige Scheisse, nichts mehr zu sagen...hehefuck

[jarta13]

the prodigyyyyyyyyy

[10mustard]

superb!

[Lokito303]

damonjon:

charley says "now i know where my beats came from!

+1 LOLLLLLL!

[TheGoat455]

lol :)

[weaselbird]

Awesome. I first heard this in El Molino rave in Tenerife just outside Las Americas - I worked there in 91-92 and just about survived.

[yemoss]

search THE AMEN BREAK on youtube for a little D-n-B history; very thought-provoking.

[fashraff]

the fuckin best  woooo alright

[jumperontrain]

oh yeah! love that bassline and looped beats, oldskool fav for sure!!

[RajCunt]

if you ask me The Chemical Brothers ripped MBM off.... fuckers

[hiphopper32]

Some people consider this track to be the first jungle/Drum and bass song.

[damonjon]

charley says "now i know where my beats came from"

[ac006h4724]

absolute classic........much respect for posting this....

[justpiscean]

check the drum sample...prodigy.

[pressgangers]

and the prodigy didnt even give thanx to MBM for nicking the sample

[justpiscean]

yeah too true geezer

[hajke2]

This drum sample is originally an excerpt from the famous The Winston's-song 'Amen Brother'.

You can find it somewhere else on UTube.

[shaftahoy]

@hajke2 Definitely not.

[TheMadFerret]

What a fuckin' tune!!

[Snapper4298]

WOOOOO... ALRIIGHT !!!

[murcuryvapor]

This is Dub.

[davebellard]

My all time favorite MBM track. Without a doubt. listening to this on a P.A. system all fucking smoked up is heaven.

[thetimefly]

fsol sampled this on papa new guinea.... that's why it works well. pissed jack off too. strange thing to, to piss off the sample master by sampling him.

[ministepz]

It's that good, The Prodigy sampled it!! BREAK AND ENTER!! Both bigggg tunes!!!

[421mog]

AWESOME!

I last heard this when I first heard this in the late 1980s in a squat on the Camberwell Rd, Brixton!

Some fucker nicked my tape at a party, and I haven't heard it since - 20 years is a long time to not hear your fav track!

[5thessence]

I might have been in your squat but promise I didn't nick the tape.

I remember sticking my head in the Fridge sound system to this track also about 20 ears ago. Natalie what's her name used to spin it. Ears still ringing...

[Chudhole]

This song kicks serious ass.  Its on par with "Headhunter".

[kirstyarohanui]

This tune is so good, reminds me of my old raving days and now I think I have blown the bass on my speakers !! ooops

[leftfield70]

Remember this tune !!!!! wicked.First heard it on sunset radio (aka 808 state) it was so different from everything else out at the time, sounded unbelievable booming out 2 a full crowd.Thanx for posting this!!!

[justinhams1010]

:) funny cos i was listening to f,s,o,l. papua new guniea which made me think of this, i can see how they'd work well together, misty water coloured memories .

[synergy365]

Now this is a massive TUNE!!!! Easy now. This was waayyyy before drum and bass and still sounds better than most of the D&B tunes of today. Used to drop this back to back with Papua New Guniea (Future Sound of London) - crowd used to go OFF!!!! Thanks for positing this man!

[dischordantbelief]

Totally agree!! MBM were way ahead of their time. This and Helter Skelter are awesome.