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 premier 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.
His latest album, Answers Come In Dreams, was just released by Metropolis in North America and Hydrogen Dukebox in the rest of the world, and was accompanied by a startling variety of videos created in-house by Jack Dangers. Meat Beat Manifesto will perform live at selected venue in North America and Europe in 2011.
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 in 2007 by the studio album Oh Perilous World. The latest Rasputina album, Sister Kinderhook, was released in June 2010.
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