Meta is a name used by several acts. One is a rapper, producer and singer from Texas who works in dubstep, trap and related electronic styles. Another is an electronic production duo formed online in mid-2011 by Andrew in Seattle, Washington, and August in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Electronic duo

The electronic Meta duo meets online through a media website in 2011 and quickly starts working together. Within their first year, they spend several months writing in person and complete a three-track EP called The Alpha. The release includes one ambient track, “Alpha”, and two dubstep tracks, “Flare” and “Phoenix Down”.

The EP is released on Lifted Music and receives support from Sub Focus, Dirtyphonics and others. “Phoenix Down” is featured on UKF’s dubstep channel, and later appears on a Ministry of Sound release, The Sounds of Dubstep Volume 5. The duo is associated with ambient and dubstep.

Other artist entries using the name

Another Meta is Predrag Ristić, also known by his stage name Meta. He is a Serbian music producer, composer, DJ and singer, known for dubstep and trap. He becomes more widely known in Serbia and across the Balkans in 2018 after collaborating with Wikluh Sky on the single “Zima”, which serves as a preview for the album Treći svetski rat.

The name also belongs to Méta Együttes, a Hungarian folk ensemble based in Budapest from 1985, founded by Beáta Salamon, with later members including Zsolt Nagy, Albert Mohácsy and István Berán. The group performs dance-house folk music, teaches in music education settings, runs the Méta-táncház club, and also appears in theatre and world-music contexts. It performs with artists such as cimbalom player Kálmán Balogh and presents a project called Heavy Méta with Hungarian blues musicians.