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, has proven versatile over the years, experimenting with techno, breakbeat, industrial, dub and jazz fusion while touring the world and influencing major acts such as Nine Inch Nails, the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy. Some of the band's earlier work has been credited with influencing the rise of the trip hop, big beat, and drum and bass genres.
Subliminal Sandwich is a 1996 double album released by Meat Beat Manifesto on Interscope Records. The album is more experimental than the group's prior material, composed of lengthier pieces that incorporate more ambient textures and drones and fewer samples or defined song structures.
Jack Dangers is an English electronic musician, DJ, producer, and remixer best known for his work as the primary member of Meat Beat Manifesto. He lives in San Francisco.
Perennial Divide was a British electronic music band, formed in 1986 by Jack Dangers, Jonny Stephens, Andy Ward, Paul Freegard and Steve Searley. It was relatively short-lived; Dangers and Stephens left it in 1988 to form Meat Beat Manifesto.
Storm the Studio is the debut album by English electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto, released on 20 February 1989 by Sweatbox Records in the United Kingdom and later that year by Wax Trax! in the United States. Recorded in three recording studios, the album contains four compositions, each split into separate parts, that mostly originated as twelve-inch singles the band released in 1988. The record's inventive musical style features elements of industrial music, electro, dub, noise rock and hip hop music, and incorporates breakbeats, noise and sporadic rap vocals. The group also incorporated heavy usage of sampling in a fashion they compared to pop art. Television was a further influence on the record, and numerous items of television dialogue appear throughout Storm the Studio as samples.
Actual Sounds + Voices is the sixth studio album by electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto, released in 1998. Like its predecessor, Subliminal Sandwich, the album deeply intertwines multiple forms of electronic music with live instruments such as the bass clarinet, saxophone, drums and Fender Rhodes. However, Actual Sounds + Voices is more influenced by jazz, coupled with a darker tone and characterized by persistent erratic breakbeats. The single "Prime Audio Soup" is featured in a scene of the 1999 film The Matrix and appears on the film's soundtrack.
Battersea Shield is a 2004 EP by The Orb and Meat Beat Manifesto. It was sold in an embossed tin based on the design of the Battersea Shield, instead of a standard jewel case.
Danny Saber is a musician in Los Angeles. He is an audio engineer, record producer, and remixer as well. He is a former member of Black Grape and Agent Provocateur. He plays organ, and keyboards, and is a prominent Los Angeles DJ.
¡Hello Friends! is a compilation album DJ'ed by Jack Dangers including music produced by himself and Ben Stokes.
Pro.File 1 Meat Beat Manifesto/Jack Dangers Remix Collection is a collection of remixes by Jack Dangers and his collaborative Meat Beat Manifesto.
Loudness Clarifies/Electronic Music From Tapelab is a double album by Jack Dangers. Disc two compiles ten years worth of Jack's experimental musique concrète tape work and is a selection of electro-acoustic works recorded between 1993–2003 for film, radio and television. Disc one is similar to Dangers' work with Meat Beat Manifesto.
This is the discography for Meat Beat Manifesto.
Off-Centre is a release by Meat Beat Manifesto which follows the album At The Center. Drums and percussion from tracks 1-4 are credited to David King. Steinway Grand Piano, Fender Rhodes and Hammond B3 instrumentation from tracks 1-4 are credited to Craig Taborn. Jack Dangers is crediting for writing, producing and engineering the album in addition to playing bass, bass flute, bass clarinet and everything else on tracks 1-4. Tracks 5 and 6 were recorded at Metro, Chicago, June 22, 2005. The live line up was Lynn Farmer on drums, Mark Pistel on sampler, and Ben Stokes and Jack Dangers on video sampler. One month before release Postcards and Maintain Discipline where available as free MP3s for download from Amazon.com. The album was released in CD format and 12" vinyl.
Travelogue Live '05 is a live DVD of a Meat Beat Manifesto performance at Cabaret Metro in Chicago, Illinois, on June 22, 2005. AllMusic called the video "a visually intriguing package" and "a fun jaunt and might spice up a party."
At the Center is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto, released in 2005 as part of the "Blue Series" of Thirsty Ear records fusing jazz with electronica.
Archive Things 1982–88 is a compilation of Jack Dangers early work, much of which was issued in very limited editions.
Autoimmune is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto. Though the album was originally announced as a 20-track double-CD release, frontman Jack Dangers decided to shorten the album to a single disc with different track listings between the US and European releases. Stylistically, it steps up the pace from other recent Meat Beat Manifesto albums, using elements of dub, hip-hop, industrial, breakbeat and more, and it is regarded as a partial return to the early industrial sound of the band in the late 1980s. The album has also been described as Dangers' take on dubstep, though he has stated that Meat Beat Manifesto has always utilized the underlying concepts of that particular genre. Autoimmune is the first Meat Beat Manifesto album with Danger's vocals since Actual Sounds + Voices in 1998; he appears on the track "Solid Waste". The album cover continues the checkerboard/grid theme also seen on earlier Meat Beat Manifesto albums Actual Sounds + Voices, RUOK? and the Off-Centre EP. Most of the remaining songs that were excised from the original double-disc concept were later released on an EP available only on the Autoimmune tour.
Ellipsis is a remix album by Scorn, originally released in 1995 on Earache Records. It was remastered along with Evanescence and released as a two disc set in 2009.
99% is the third studio album by British electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto. The album peaked at #6 on the CMJ Radio Top 150.
Answers Come in Dreams is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto. It consists of lengthy ambient, glitch, and dubstep-focused pieces, with an attention to texture rather than the raw sampling and breakbeat rhythms seen on many of the group's previous releases.
