Meat Beat Manifesto albums have always been delightfully upfront and attention-grabbing, but "...In Dub 5.1 Surround" places the listener right at the beating heart of the action like never before. Finally an audio format that does true justice to the soundclashing sorcery of Meat Beat Manifesto! As Meat Beat Manifesto's Jack Dangers says of the 5.1 Surround Sound format: "To be able to position a sound anywhere between six speakers is very liberating and inspiring...I've got different pieces coming out of each speaker and moving into the middle and doing weird things. Doing a dub record with it is unbelievable, it just calls for that. It's always been trapped in this stereo field and is now unleashed!" Plus, when it's used in combination with DVD visuals like these...out of control! The DVD explores both technology and nature as it hops between international locales like Tokyo, Amsterdam, and San Francisco, and outer space dreamscapes (acclaimed motion-graphics artist and video director Ben Stokes [DJ Shadow] mans the visual controls). As far as songs go, Meat Beat Manifesto reimagine and reconstruct several songs from last year's "R.U.O.K.?" album and end up with almost entirely new creations. Five songs include the one-take toasting talents of the Bay Area's DJ Collage on the microphone, which grounds this ultra-modern music in its Jamaican dub roots.