Jack Dangers

Throughout the broad field of electronica, Jack Dangers has served as both acknowledged and unacknowledged inspiration for countless musicians, just as he drew early motivation as a teenager from Cabaret Voltaire’s cut-up experimental electronics and Kraftwerk’s techno-pop. His leadership of Meat Beat Manifesto in turn played a formative part in shaping the drum’n’bass, big beat, and trip-hop movements of the 1990s while also leaving substantial marks on industrial, acid house, and ambient techno.

Born Jack Corrigan in Swindon, England in 1967, Dangers first developed his approach in the mid-1980s alongside future Meat Beat Manifesto partner Johnny Stephens in Perennial Divide. While that band remained active, he created Meat Beat Manifesto as a planned single release for “I Got the Fear.” Multiple albums later, the politically engaged and stylistically unrestricted project had established itself as a central force in dance music, absorbing influence from the Bomb Squad production team even as it shaped the work of others.

Beginning in the early 1990s, Dangers collected numerous production and remix assignments, assisting Consolidated and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy while reworking material by David Bowie, Bush, and Depeche Mode. He repaid an artistic debt to Public Enemy through production contributions to the He Got Game soundtrack and launched the Tino Corp. label with video director Ben Stokes. In 2001 the Shadow label issued Hello Friends!, a mix CD compiled by Dangers that spotlighted the Tino Corp. catalog.