Absolutely "a must have" for every listener to electronic music. The collage of samples, the beat, the overdraft, that's all the intellectual puzzle for these who like to think. He knew what he did.

Yeah not quite as immediate or flipped as the two previous entries. But still probably one of the cornerstone releases that provided the template that was later flipped and re flipped by practically anyone who liked big HUGE room shaking sound. i.e. Dust/Chemical Bros. Prodigy and anyone else who turned everything up to 11.

Track# "Hello Teenage America" samples JOY DIVISION's "Untitled" track (b-side of the Komakino flexi). Being a huge Joy Division fan, I smiled when I first heard this back in 1990! The Prodigy would lift the beat from "Helter Skelter" and make a huge hit with their "Charly" release. There is are reasons that Meat Beat Manifesto have a huge fan base and this is one of those reasons!

Meat Beat Manifesto's major label debut on Elektra doesn't pack the same sonic punch as their earlier Sweatbox/Wax Trax! releases but it still sounds like nothing else that was coming out at the time (certainly not on a major label). The '99%' release brings new listeners up to date with Dangers & Co. Eight of the ten tracks are new and the other two, 'Helter Skelter' and 'Deviate' (originally from singles or ep's), have been heavily remixed. MBM's offering shows the project in transition: some harder elements of their past releases are still clearly heard but on a few tracks like 'Hello Teenage America' and '10X Faster' there's a slower more dub-influenced groove that would begin to hold sway on subsequent releases. Indeed, while some older fans may see '99%' as a bit of a commercial compromise, new fans may still be awed by its scope of sounds. Thirteen years on (2003), it still sounds as fresh and original as the day it was released.