When you look back on the career of Jack Dangers, you realize that he’s been largely responsible for a good number of what are now considered genres in the world of electronic music. Drum and bass, breaks, and even to a large extent downtempo/dub and electro all bear certain hallmarks that are characteristically his.

Starting in 1987 with his first Meat Beat Manifesto material, including what eventually became the Armed Audio Warfare album, Jack proclaimed to the masses, "Let there be breakbeats." And the people listened, and it was good. Continue on to the 1991 MBM album, 99%, which contains Radio Babylon, perhaps the first song that can be recognized as jungle/drum and bass. And once again, the people heard, and decreed that henceforth they would listen to this new style of music. Flip the record over and you have the bleep-y sample-a-thon Helter Skelter, an early prototype of modern electro-breaks. 99% also contains the much coveted Now single, a clear progenitor of what today is referred to as downtempo. To many long-time fans of his, it comes as no surprise that Jack represents the next wave on the sonic ocean. Even in recent years, in his work with fellow-audio/videologist Ben Stokes (Dimensional Holophonic Sound) as Tino Corp., Mr. Dangers is constantly re-integrating the latest (or strangest) musical technologies. All you need to do is go to a Tino/DHS/Meat Beat Manifesto show to see that he’s doing things that nobody else has even considered. Just when everybody thinks they know how to play, Jack goes and changes the game on us.

Here then is Robotsound™’s first official Top 10 list, dedicated to His Jackness [it was either that, or "all that is Danger-ous"]. Compiled from singles/eps, remixes and side-projects – I urge you to go forth and hunt down this material, whatever the cost.