Jack Dangers (born John Stephen Corrigan, 11 January 1965) is an English electronic musician, DJ, producer, and remixer best known for his work as the primary member of

Meat Beat Manifesto Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened as Meat Beat, Manifesto or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens that was formed in 1987 in Swindon, United Kingdom. The band, fronted by Dangers (the only ...

. He lives in

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Career

Prior to founding

together in 1987, Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens were members of a short-lived group Perennial Divide. While Stephens remained a member for several years, Jack Dangers is the only person credited as a member of the band on every Meat Beat Manifesto release. In addition to his career with Meat Beat Manifesto, Jack Dangers has also contributed to other projects. Along with Ben Stokes (DHS-(Dimensional Holofonic Sound)) and Mike Powell, he is a part of the

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combo known simply as Tino. Tino's material is released through their independent label, Tino Corp. Another collaboration called Loop Finder General was announced at one time, but the only recording that has surfaced under this name is a track on '' ¡Hello Friends!'', a Jack Dangers DJ mix album primarily featuring Tino material. In 1999, Dangers worked with guitarist and producer Danny Saber of Black Grape to form a project named Spontaneous Human Combustion. The project was unusual in that it was among the earliest to make and release music entirely online for free without the involvement of a music label. As a

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er and producer, Dangers has collaborated with and reworked material for

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, Coil, dubLoner, and many others. In 2021 he contributed drum programming to "Girl Is A Gun" by Halsey. Dangers is an avid collector of obscure audio and video material, and frequently employs samples from his collection of records and videotapes in his music and during live shows. Dangers also collects vintage electronic hardware; he owns an EMS Synthi 100 modular system that he claims is the only known working model. This unit is featured prominently on RUOK?, released in 2002. An activist for

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and a practising vegetarian, Dangers has contributed (as part of Meat Beat Manifesto) to two benefit compilations for

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. He credits his active concern for these issues to fellow musicians Consolidated, for whom he has produced several albums and done a number of remixes. His remix of

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's "What Is Hip?" was nominated for a Grammy in 2006. In 2023, Dangers remixed

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’s track ''David’s Pass'' for the remix album ''Further Translations'' on Gibson’s Meadows Heavy Recorders label. Also featured on the album is

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, Scanner, Christopher Willits, and others.

Discography

Solo, as Jack Dangers: * '' Variaciones Espectrales'' (2002) * '' Forbidden Planet Explored'' (2004) * '' Loudness Clarifies / Electronic Music from Tapelab'' (2004) * ''Music for Planetarium'' (2008) Other aliases and collaborations: :''See also Perennial Divide and Meat Beat Manifesto discography'' * '' Let's Go Disco'' (as Space Children) (1988) * '' ¡Hello Friends!'' (DJ CD) (2001) * '' Pro.File 1 Meat Beat Manifesto/Jack Dangers Remix Collection'' (with Meat Beat Manifesto) (2002) * ''Hiss & Buzz'' (with dubLoner) (2005) * ''Tracks'' (with

Bomb The Bass Bomb the Bass is an electronic music alias of English musician and producer Timothy Simenon (born June 1967). As a name, Bomb the Bass came from Simenon's approach to collaging and mixing sounds whilst DJing in the mid- to late 1980s; he says ...

) (2001) * ''Education'' (The JDs) (with Jon Drukman of Bass Kittens) (2010) Other credits * Remixed "The Snow" on Coil's EP '' The Snow'' (1991). * Remixed "You've Been Around" on

's single "

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" (1993). * Remixed "One" on Bigod 20's single "One" (1994). * Remixed "Back in the Box" on

's single "Back in the Box" (1994). * Remixed "Insect Kin" on Bush's remix album ''

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'' (1997). * Remixed "Amlux" on

's album '' Merzbeat'' (2002). * Remixed "Kill People" on Excepter's ''FRKWAYS Vol. 2'' remix 12 (2009). * Remixed "Soulsonic" on Tox Simian's ''Soulsonic'' EP. (2011)

Compilation appearances

* "A Strange Case of Instrumentation" and "The Self Enjoy" on ''Brainwaves'' (2006 November)

Quotes

"I don't believe in slamming people in the face with my beliefs; I really go for more subtle references to politics. If people have an inch of compassion or a few brain cells, they should be able to figure it out."—from an interview for

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References

External links

*
Meat Beat Manifesto & Jack Dangers archive
at Brainwashed.com
Meat Beat Manifesto official site
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