Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened as
Meat Beat,
Manifesto or
MBM, is an
electronic music group originally consisting of
Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens, and formed in 1987 in
Swindon, United Kingdom. The band, fronted by Dangers (the only permanent member), has proven versatile over the years, experimenting with
techno, dubstep,
drum and bass,
IDM,
industrial,
dub and
jazz fusion while touring the world and influencing major acts such as
Nine Inch Nails,
The Chemical Brothers and
The Prodigy. Some of the band's earlier work has been credited with influencing the rise of the
trip hop,
big beat, and
drum and bass genres.