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The JDs featured in SF Weekly |
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:35 |
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SF Weekly featured Jack's collaboration with Jon Drukman in their most recent edition.
 Jack Dangers is back with a new beat manifesto
By Tamara Palmer
Jack Dangers is protective of sharing too many technical details about TapeLab, his Mill Valley music studio. The place is a tangle of cables, pins, and shiny knobs that evokes post–World War II films showing telephone operators making manual switchboard connections. It's here that the producer keeps a 600-pound synthesizer so rare that he's one of the only musicians putting it to use; a vocoder collection that'd make T-Pain envious; and a gong emblazoned with the logo of Meat Beat Manifesto, his highly influential 23-year-old band. Mac laptops and a freshly dead computer tower attest that he's no stranger to digital, but it's clear that Dangers' passions lie in analog gear.
Read the rest of the article here.
The JDs' album, Education, can be found here. |
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The JDs' Education Out Now! |
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Thursday, 06 May 2010 15:46 |
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Education, the new album from the JDs, is out now!
The JDs are a collaboration between Jack Dangers and Jon Drukman, of Bass Kittens fame.
The full-length, out on Prentension Records, can be found here. |
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New Henry Jacobs album, produced by Jack Dangers, out April 27 on Important Records |
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 16:21 |
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Absurd folklorist Henry Jacobs returns with a selection of rare interviews, odd loops, sales pitches, early synthesizer demos, an ether-infused evening, and more! Produced in San Francisco and New York City, Around The World With Henry Jacobs is a travelogue that continues the story begun with The Wide Weird World of Henry Jacobs, mixing archival material from the 1950s with recent improvisations by Jacobs. Guests include Stan Freberg and Dr. Irwin Corey, with Alan Watts returning for a visit, too.
Also included is special bonus disc — First Night, one of the true gems from the collection. Recorded in February 1957 by Henry Jacobs on the opening night of the Poetry/Jazz Series at The Cellar in San Francisco, this unique document captures the first time Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti read their poetry to jazz in this very intimate setting. In contrast to Fantasy Records' Poetry Readings in the Cellar, you feel yourself a part of the audience here, moments punctuated with a register ringing, muted conversations, laughter, and clinking glasses. Includes Rexroth reading "Between Myself And Death" and "She Is Away", and Ferlinghetti reading "The World is A Beautiful Place."
Around The World With Henry Jacobs (produced by Jack Dangers, Alex Artaud, & Henry Jacobs)
Release date: April 27, 2010 (Important Records)
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Meat Beat Manifesto (exclusive) mix on Digital::Nimbus 4/16/2010 (10pm-12am PST) |
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Monday, 05 April 2010 16:58 |
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Set your receivers.
When: Friday night April 16, 2010 from 10pm-12am PST
Radio dial: KUCI 88.9 FM (Irvine, CA and surrounding cities)
Internet dial: http://kuci.org or iTunes under "Public Radio"
D::N is excited to present 'The Most Music;' an exclusive Meat Beat Manifesto 1-hr Ableton Live mix.
Jack Dangers' Meat Beat Manifesto project has inspired an entire generation of musicians and has constantly evolved (and recycled) sound into creative reformations over the past 20+ years. For this exclusive mix Jack unleashes an audio-collage of seismic induced basslines. 'The Most Music' bends, tweaks and reverberates electro-dub with ease and control that it is clearly evident; MBM's smorgasbord of analog-to-digital machinery is firmly intact from start to finish. A few classic MBM offerings and new (unreleased) tracks are mixed with vintage radio identifications, obscure broadcast announcements, Brazilian snippets, familiar (deconstructed) samples, syncopated beats, wobbly bass and heavy distortion.
'The Most Music' is a ravaging dub-infested dose of heavily drenched rhythms, off-center funk-breaks and creative sampling summed up in a 60-minute Ableton Live jam-session by Jack Dangers himself. Have a taste of what's to come with the next incarnation of MBM's sound pallet as it rips through the airwaves of KUCI 88.9FM via Digital::Nimbus Radio.
Meat Beat Manifesto links:
http://meatbeatmanifesto.com | http://myspace.com/meatbeatmanifesto
DIGITAL::NIMBUS :: Electronic Audio Freakquencies
http://digitalnimbus.com :: http://kuci.org
KUCI 88.9 FM, Friday Nights 10pm-12am (PST) |
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