Citizendia
Your Ad Here

Jack Dangers

Background information
Birth name John Corrigan
Also known as Space Children, Loop Finder General
Born 1965 (age 42–43)
Origin Swindon
Genre(s) Electronic music
Instrument(s) Vocals, synths, computers
Years active 1980s–present
Associated acts Perennial Divide
Meat Beat Manifesto
Tino

Jack Dangers (born John Corrigan, 1965, in Swindon) is an electronic musician, DJ, producer, and remixer best known for his work as the primary member of Meat Beat Manifesto. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Swindon ( is a large town in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire in the South West of England, midway between Bristol (64 km / 40 miles A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. Perennial Divide was a band formed in 1986 by Jack Dangers, Johnny Stephens and Paul Freeguard. Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an Electronic music outfit originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny See also Tino (singer Tino Corp is a Record label that is "dedicated to curating unique beats and sounds" including Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Swindon ( is a large town in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire in the South West of England, midway between Bristol (64 km / 40 miles Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an Electronic music outfit originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny He lives in San Francisco. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city

Contents

Career

Prior to founding Meat Beat Manifesto together in 1987, Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens were members of a short-lived group Perennial Divide. Perennial Divide was a band formed in 1986 by Jack Dangers, Johnny Stephens and Paul Freeguard. 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 other projects. Along with Mike Powell and Ben Stokes, he is a part of unusual breakbeat combo known simply as Tino. Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub- genres of Electronic music, usually characterized See also Tino (singer Tino Corp is a Record label that is "dedicated to curating unique beats and sounds" including Tino 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. ¡Hello Friends! (subtitled Jack Dangers plays with the records of Tino Corp

As a remixer and producer, Dangers has collaborated with and reworked material for David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, DJ Spooky, Depeche Mode, Lacuna Coil, and many others. A remix is an alternative version of a song different from the original version In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid (born Paul D Miller,1970 is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental Hip hop musician whose work is often called " Depeche Mode (dəˌpɛʃˈmoʊd are an English Electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. Lacuna Coil is an Italian Gothic metal band formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal

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. In Music, sampling is the act of taking a portion or sample, of one Sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording

Dangers also collects vintage electronic hardware; he owns an EMS Synthi 100 modular system that he claims is the only known working model. The EMS Synthi 100 was a large analogue Synthesizer made by Electronic Music Studios (London Ltd. This unit is featured prominently on RUOK?, released in 2002. RUOK? is a 2002 album by the UK industrial-techno group Meat Beat Manifesto.

An activist for animal rights and a practicing vegan, Dangers has contributed (as part of Meat Beat Manifesto) to two benefit compilations for In Defense of Animals. "Animal liberation" redirects here for other uses see Animal liberation (disambiguation. In Defense of Animals (IDA is an animal rights organization based in San Rafael California, USA. 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. Consolidated was an American radical activist recording and performing group formed in 1988 and best known in the early 1990s as an alternative dance/ industrial music

Dangers suffers from acute arthritis, which makes it difficult for him to play many conventional instruments; consequently, many of the "real" instrument sounds on his records are accomplished electronically. Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation plural arthritides is a group of conditions involving damage to the Joints of the body

Discography

Solo, as Jack Dangers:

Other aliases and collaborations:

See also Perennial Divide and Meat Beat Manifesto discography

Other credits

Compilation appearances

Quotes

"VHS is the new vinyl. Brainwaves is a Compilation album put together by Brainwashed " --from an interview in the October 2005 issue of Remix magazine. [1]

"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 PETA [2]

External links

© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic