Career
He lives in San Francisco. In addition to his career with Meat Beat Manifesto, Jack Dangers has also contributed other projects. Along with Ben Stokes (DHS-(Dimensional Holofonic Sound)) and Mike Powell and he is a part of unusual breakbeat combo known simply as Tino.
Tino material is released through their independent label, Tino Corporation
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. As a remixer and producer, Dangers has collaborated with and reworked material for David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, DJ Spooky, Merzbow, Depeche Mode, Coil, and many others
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. Dangers also collects vintage electronic hardware.
He owns an Express Mail Service Synthi 100 modular system that he claims is the only known working model.
This unit is featured prominently on RUOK?, released in 2002. An activist for animal rights and a practising vegetarian, Dangers has contributed (as part of Meat Beat Manifesto) to two benefit compilations for In Defense of Animals. 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.
An acknowledged and celebrated innovator in the electronic music scene (his remix of Tower of Power"s "What Is Hip?" was nominated for a Grammy in 2006), Dangers continues to push audio and visual boundaries with his live shows and video posts on YouTube.