MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO

Jack Dangers is the composer and sound sculptor behind Meat Beat Manifesto. His constantly evolving musical invention has generated a long string of futuristic classics, "God O.D.", "Strap Down", "Psyche Out", "Helter Skelter", "Radio Babylon", "Edge of No Control" and "It’s The Music". The single, “Prime Audio Soup” from the Meat Beat Manifesto album Actual Sounds and Voices, was featured in the sci-fi fantasy blockbuster, The Matrix and on its platinum-selling soundtrack.

An acknowledged innovator in the electronic music scene, Jack Dangers continues to stretch sonic boundaries and influence new generations of sound activists. As a premiere remixer, producer and sound designer, he has played a seminal role in defining tomorrows’ music today. Past Dangers’ production/remixing projects include: Public Enemy, David Bowie, Orbital, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, Bush, Depeche Mode, Tower of Power, Banco de Gaia and DJ Wally.

In 2005 Dangers produced the highly anticipated DJ Spooky & Dave Lombardo (Slayer) album Drums Of Death featuring Chuck D and Vernon Reid, toured with Meat Beat Manifesto for the first time in 7 years and produced music for diverse projects including music for the movies A Scanner Darkly, Underworld: Evolution and the Matrix; Path Of Neo and Destroy All Humans video games.

His latest album Autoimmune was released by Metropolis in 2008.

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RASPUTINA

Rasputina was founded by Melora Creager in Brooklyn in 1891. The concept for the group came to her as a fully formed idea, and she wrote a manifesto. It was her intention to create an electric cello "choir"- no boys allowed, nor guitars. By placing want ads in newspapers, and in later years on the Internet, she met like-minded young lady cellists.

Rasputina is an anomaly in popular music. By not following fashion, and maintaining artistic integrity and musical enthusiasm, the group has thrived as time has passed. Rasputina exposes their passionate young fans to tales from history, and they inspire string players with alternatives to the classical world.

Rasputina made two albums for Columbia Records in the 'nineties Thanks For the Ether and How We Quit the Forest. After a short break due to the birth of Melora’s daughter, they made two albums for Instinct Records: Cabin Fever (2002) and Frustration Plantation (2004). In 2005 Melora started her own label, Filthy Bonnet Recording Co, to release a live Rasputina CD entitled A Radical Recital which was followed by Rasputina’s studio album Oh Perilous World in 2007.  A new album is currently under preparation for recording and release in 2009.

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