Who is Tino? Tino is one funky-ass action figure of a Cuban drummer. According to the Tino Corp site,
- Tino Corp. is a record label dedicated to curating unique beats and sounds that are not available from any other source. It is also the main outlet for Tino's own work. As CEO and principal artist, Tino has launched the label with a series of instructional albums called Tino's Breaks, which teach a new style of drumming with every installment.
Tino resides in his native Cuba, but has made some rare appearances on U.S. soil to record material for the series of Tino's Breaks, scheduled to be released on the label. Label co- founders Ben Stokes and Jack Dangers teamed up with producer Mike Powell to produce the Tino's breaks series.
The new release, Tino's Breaks 6 Hallowe'en Dub arrives just in time for the spooky season, full of whomping bass lines, booming kick drum, and festive Halloween sound samples. Having a Haloween dance party? Rock this mother 'til the bats come home to roost.
Mysterious miniature Latin manikin Tino aside, I have been a huge fan of Jack Dangers since the very first Meat Beat Manifesto release back in the stone ages of electro-industrial beats. Jack just opened a "sound sculpture" at the Pack Place Gallery in North Carolina:
- "Microtable" by Jack Dangers
Description: "Microtable" is a sound sculpture by Jack Dangers, the veteran composer and sound sculptor behind Meat Beat Manifesto.
As music as a constant backdrop, Jack is interested in using modern materials to create abstract sculpture for an society driven by need and devices. An avid record collector and driven by musical experimentation, the microtable combines both interests into a highly recognizable sculpture created to entertain not confuse. The Microtable is part of the Appliance Series.
As the driving force behind Meat Beat Manifesto, Jack Dangers has explored and mapped uncharted terrain between hip-hop, industrial, trance, jungle and ambient music. Nimbly balancing art and the dance floor, Dangers is one of the few to have mastered studio technology as an organic instrument. In the process, he has created some stunning tracks: the cockney Public Enemy punch of "God O.D.," the loping groove of "Psyche-Out," the awesome headlong industrial funk of "Dogstar Man/Helter Skelter," the churning space jam "Mindstream"; and one of the finest electronic-based albums of all time, Subliminal Sandwich. Dangers also has worked with political trip- hoppers Consolidated and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and is an important remixer.
Article comments
1 - andy
just out of interest does dj tino live in england in a place called cleethorpes????
coz i was doing a central heating job and there was a dj there and he did me a cd and he called himself tino.....is this a different bloke????
2 - Eric Olsen
Andy my friend, this Tino is an action figure (he doesn't exist), so I would imagine it's not the guy you met.