Kerrang! “tapped into something vital, dangerous and all-to-absent from so much rock music today…”  

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Thanks to all of you who emailed over the last months. Sorry, that we couldn't get back to everyone individually. There were too many. Thanks again! :) ...

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You can listen to the whole of Alec Empire's new album "Futurist" on his website here ...

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www.alecempirefansite.com


THIS IS WHERE YOU FIND EVERYTHING ABOUT ALEC EMPIRE ! Check it out! There will be loads more added! The audio player is up, more text, more info, more pics... it is the best and most complete Alec Empire site yet. keep going there because it will be updated regularly! ...

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Alec Empire is back in the studio recording after Paris show. Alec quote:" Nic and me got 30 new songs since we finished Futurist. It's time to put them down! It is slower, less punk, but more guitars. Pulse beats.

I also started a new side project which is total electronic, but it will come out under a pseudonym...haha...don't get too confused.
We had to work some shit out for the live shows:(, but now the band is ready to rock hard:). So we are planning long tours over the ...

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It's taken a while but we have just finished uploading the entire DHR and Geist catalogues onto iTunes.

Apple are currently processing the tracks at their end and promise they will be available online very shortly.

The next project will be the uploading of Alec's entire back catalogue. This is a major project and will take a few months but for the first time in years you'll be able to hear Alec's work under such names as ECP and Jaguar as well as previously unreleased mater ...

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Check out Alec Empire's show in Vienna last month online...plus DJ set after the show...and interview ( German language) - log in and listen .... http://www.play.fm/playfm_artists.php?p_id=1562 it features the line up of the European Tour 2005. Nic Endo on electronics, Steve Machine on drums, High-ko Strom on guitars.... ...

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Alec has done a photo session with Parisian fashion star photographer Fred Leveugle for GUS magazine. there is also an exclusive interview in there. ...

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This year Digital Hardcore have been toiling away yet again breaking the rules and all that kind of thing. I guess you're used to that by now! But are you used to being able to go in your local shop, ask for nearly any DHR, Geist, Rotters Golf Club or any other item you find on our online store and them actually be able to get it for you..?

Imagine no more! We will now deal with stores, retailers, kids at shows, wholesalers, whomeve ...

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Alec Empire will spin a special DJ set and Virus VJs!
the whole festival is about music and politics ....full blast

the event will happen at the venue :
Moritzbastei ...

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www.chaufferdanslanoirceur.org it will be an all electronic show - Alec will play material from his previous albums on DHR and Geist/Mille Plateaux and of course new shit.... ...

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He will do a special electronic set. more news soon. get tickets at www.schlagstrom.de ...

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Alec Empire live at the Suicide Club 1995 DJ mix will be out via DHR mailorder in the next days...limited quantity as usual ;) ...

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Some of you might be aware of the new sequel to the petrol-head movie 'Fast and Furious'. 'Tokyo Drift' follows the dangerous and hi-octane sport of underground 'drifting'.

Yada yada yada... More importantly, they decided to use Atari Teenage Riot's 'Speed' as the soundtrack to some of the drift race scenes.

These are mainly filmed in an underground car park with cars flying around corners and crashing at high speed. Well, at least it's not a romantic comedy!

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In the 3 weeks since the initial release, Atari Teenage Riot 1992-2000 has received widespread press and support from magazines and websites. This includes full reviews from NME, Kerrang and Rocksound magazines.

NME said "...take this compilation as a call to arms. As with the bands music, the sample should be viewed as the kick off"

Kerrang said "...this compilation is less a nostalgia trip and more a testament to forward-thinking sonic genius - one as unmatched today as ...

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Alec Empire will do many many live appearances this year. Check out the tourdates:

24.3. Sevilla, Spain @ zemos98 festival @ teatro alameda

--------------------------------- April
>>> April 4th B Brussels VK
>>> April 5th F Paris Nouveau Casino
>>> April 6th F Limoges CCM John Lennon
>>> April 7th F Marmande Garorock Festival
>>> April 8th F Tulle Les Lendemains
>>> April 9th F Nice Le Volume
>> neu >>> April 10th party at myspa ...

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DJ ALEC EMPIRE / 29.12.2006 @ Kennedy’s, Dublin Alec:" I'll spin at this underground party in Dublin - I'm looking forward to it!" ...

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Alec will perform at Babylon Club! Showtime is 21:00 CET ...

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Alec Empire's collaboration with Gary Burger, original singer of the cult band The Monks, is out on the 2xCD compilation and as a special limited edition 7 inch single on vinyl. purchase here ...

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Alec wrote a track for the upcoming official Tribute To Coil compilation on the Russian Fulldozer Records along with these artists:

Theodor Bastard (RU)
Scanner (IT)
KK Null (ex-Zeni Geva) (JP)
Alexei Borisov (RU)
EU (RU)
Chris Connelly (Ministry, Pigface, Revolting Cocks, TKK) (USA)
Phillip Klingler aka PBK -cÏ-member Vidna Obmana
Frank Nardiello aka GroovyMan (Thrill KIll Kult) (USA)
Thomas Pa ...

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Alec Empire remixes Rammstein's new single 'Mann Gegen Mann' for Universal Records. Alec:" It's a hard track...it required a hard remix!" more infos about release date soon. ...

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Alec Empire has written a piece on Miles Davis album Dark Magus in new French cult mag Anti-Jour. The magazine also includes a scan of Alec's drawing of Miles. ...

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Alec Empire starts collaborating with Russell Simins (drummer with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) and Gary Burger (original member of The Monks) !

They start recording a new version of the song "Black Monk Time" for a documentary film about The Monks in New York middle of January 2006...

Alec:" I am very excited about this! The Monks have spearheaded what any credible musician in the scene is about right now.
To have the chance to do a project like this is just ...

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1. NIC ENDO - NEON SUNRISE From her album COLD METAL PERFECTION on GEIST Records.
Heavy bassline, face slapping snares. Nic Endo puts the intensity of death metal into the machines.

2. ALEC EMPIRE - BURIED ALIVE (LIVE EUROCKENNES FESTIVAL 5-6-2002) Alec competing with Soul Fly on the other stage at that festival, split the crowd. Raw power ruled that night. Unreleased.

3. ATARI TEENAGE RIOT - ATR II ,AMSTERDAM/HOLLAND LIVE 1999
ATR l ...

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The first three shots are Alec DJing at the Maria Club in Berlin 2nd May 2003. The next four were taken at the live performance by Alec at Naphall, Sziget in Budapest 3rd May 20003.

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"I've come to destroy what's accepted and no longer questioned" - Terror Alert: High!

'Futurist' might be the title of his latest record, but it's a term you could apply as much to Alec Empire himself. Ever since he began his first transmissions from the Berlin techno underground in 1992, his career has been chronicled by a desire to push things forward. Often at relentless speed and volume, always with an intensity few have matched, never mind maintained, and only on his te ...

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German police temporarily stopped the filming of Empire’s video for the upcoming single, “Kiss of Death,” in Berlin last week. Over fifty fans were playing ‘dead’ at various locations in Berlin. The darkly dressed bodies contrasted strongly with the sno ...

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Alec Empire’s new single Kiss of Death is released this week. The lead track of the CDS features a single edit of KoD plus the Futurist Remix of Night of Violence and radical new version of XXV3. The Rough Trade Shop ...

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What is the thinking behind the new record?

I try to approach each album differently and I was intrigued with the idea of going back to the guitar. I’ve always loved guitars. I played guitar in a punk band when I was 13 and have used them occasionally on all the albums since. However if I was going to feature guitars heavily on this album I wanted to approach them in a completely different way.

I pulled out my old Gibson SG and bought a Flying V. Before I started p ...

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Alec remixed Chris Vrenna's original score to American McGee's Alice video game. It is limited to 500 copies, 7-inch vinyl. Out on Waxploitation... ...

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For the month of August the following Geist albums are available on vinyl for just £2.00 each (+p&p;).

ROPE - 'Rope Hotel'
ROPE - 'It's No Fun To Compute'
LIKE A TIM - 'I Like It When You Don't Like It'
LIKE A TIM - 'I'm Serious'
SHE SATELLITES - 'Poison Lips'


Geist Special Offers Section ...

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Nic gives an extensive interview to the Italian online zine Nixine ...

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Medecins Sans Frontieres, have requested the use of "Hearbeat That Isn't There" from Alec Empire's The Destroyer album for use in a series of Europe wide Cinema and Television adverts for the charity's appeal in 2003. ...

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Save Berlin's Palast Der Republik!
Alec Empire and Fabian Knecht (director of Kiss Of Death and New World Order) will put on a show at this famous building in Berlin Friday 25th of November 2005. The old socialist building with its controversial history has functioned as an art space for exhibitions over the past years. Now the government wants to tear it down. Many artists will rally against this over the following weeks.
Alec Empire:" Even though this building has a controversial his ...

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Two Alec Empire tracks, “The Ride” and “Everything Starts With A Fuck” have been chosen as music to accompany a documentary on the life of Danish porn star the Life of Bodil Joensen.

We believe that everyone should be free to do whatever they want but this lady took it to extremes. It’s a strange story with a sad ending and we not sure how they’re going to handle this on public television. We’ll update wh ...

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This tough motherf**** was released on February 11, 2003 and can be bought from the Load Records Website as well as many other online record stores. ...

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In December 2002 a 23 year old filmmaker Fabian Knecht met with Alec in Berlin´s SO36 to discuss making a video for the track "New World Order" Fabian had been an assistant director on over 70 music videos and commercials but this was his first music video as director. Alec was into the idea and was knocked out with the finished version.

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  This is the full info. Martin Peter "Bypass feat. Alec Empire" (Angora Steel//Compost) 03:57 we kinda forgot to put this up here in all the Futurist rush.....It's out since a bit, go and get it. ...

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The German metal band RAMMSTEIN has asked Alec to remix their song 'AMERIKA' for their next single release. It will be released on their single alongside some other remixes, but also a limited edition special release of Alec's remix will come out seperate. ...

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Stefan Kraft, a regular at Alec Empire’s shows took a great bunch of photographs at the recent London Barfly show. Check them out at his "enamic5 website"

The show was in a tiny venue and packed to the roof so Stefan must have got a few bruises taking these from right at the front of the crowd.. ...

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The "Ärzte ohne Grenzen (Medicine without Frontiers) Commercial," featuring Alec Empire's ‘The Heartbeat That Isn’t There’, won Gold in the Direct Media category at the 50th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in June. The track was requested for use in a series of Europe wide Cinema and Television adverts for the Charity's appeal in 2003. The 30 second ...

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Dave Grohl and me hung out at the Big Day Out in Australia in 2000. We talked about doing a collaboration and later he sent me a tape with a couple of backing tracks. One of these was the backing track for the song which became "Tear It Out." At the time Dave explained, Probot was just the collective name he had for a bunch of collaborations he was considering. Later, as the idea developed, he decided he wanted Probot to be a platform for an older generation of singers and I didn't really fit i ...

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The Independent, one of the four major national British newspapers, reviewed the album in the issue dated Friday April 19th.

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"Alec Empire will DJ at Throbbing Gristle's Show in Berlin at Volksbuhne! The big New Years Eve party starts 23:00 CET ! also on the bill are T. Raumschmiere, Thomas Brinkmann, Natalie Beridze, Electronicat, Acid Maria, Schneider TM Vs. Rechenzentrum – and many more. Alec will spin right after TG's concert at 23:00 - 01:00! Countdown included! see you there....." ...

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"Addicted To You" taken from the album "Intelligence &Sacrifice" ...

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the Kerrang! review with large picture and text (not for slow connections) from or text only

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We have added a new section to our mailorder site. We will either be selling or providing links to other stuff we think is cool.

First items are the radical new UK magazine / Fanzine "Careless Talk Costs Lives" For more info click here or go to the Careless Talk website

Second is the album "Desolate" by Zan Lyons. For those who ...

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A major interview covering the story behind the recording and release of Intelligence & Sacrifice. February 2002 1) Intelligence and Sacrifice... how did the title come about?

I see I&S; as my first real solo album in a way, it’s a masterpiece, so I don’t want to give away too much. Because it’s kind of complex and trying to simplify it doesn’t give anyone out there the real idea of the album. But anyway I try…

The record dea ...

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Check out a new Alec Empire interview at:

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Alec discusses Intelligence And Sacrifice, Atari Teenage Riot and the current scene... ...

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1) Tell me a bit about the process of making your new CD "Cold Metal Perfection".

I’ve made an album called SHE-SATELLITES in 1998, the new album progressed really from that. Cold Metal Perfection is over an hour long, musically it goes into more directions, like Jazz. Herbie Hancock, James White and Freddie Hubbard were a huge influence on me. But also Classical music played a major role in making the album. I interpreted a piece of Igor Stravinsky. My drum sounds reall ...

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Alec Empire was on the cover of last week. If you missed it click on the logo to find details of how to get back issues.

There is an in depth interview by Catherine Yates. This is the most revealing interview that Alec has ever done. He talks about the last days of Atari Teenage Riot, Carl Crack's ...

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Alec was presented with the Kerrang! Award “Spirit Of Independence” (recognising achievements in independent music) this week. Other winners included The Foo Fighters and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

Kerrang! is UK based and is the biggest selling Music Magazine in the world. Check out the Kerrang Website The awards ceremony w ...

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Alec Empire speaks on the banning of ATARI TEENAGE RIOT's "Future Of War" in Germany!

ATARI TEENAGE RIOT's "Future Of War" auf dem index in Deutschland!

The record Future Of War by my band ATARI TEENAGE RIOT was placed on the index in Germany on the 8th of May 2002. To keep a long story short, this means it is forbidden to sell this music in public.

The record was released worldwide in spring 1997 and has sold about 200.000 units. When international artists, for example the Beastie Boys (who released the record on their own label Grand Royal for the U.S.) or Beck (who, after he heard the record once, invited the b ...

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Motormark Live Dates (last updated 27/04/05)

THURSDAY 19 MAY 05 - HAMBURG DE - ASTRA STUBE
FRIDAY 20 MAY 05 - LEIPZIG DE - POP UP FESTIVAL,
SATURDAY 21 MAY 05 - BERLIN DE - ZENTRALE RANDLAGE,
WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 05 - AMSTERDAM NL - VPRO LIVE SESSION
THURSDAY 26 MAY 05 - LIEGE BEL
FRIDAY 27 MAY 05 - UTRECHT NL - DB STUDIOS
SATURDAY 28 MAY 05 - BREDA NL - MEZZ
SUNDAY 29 MAY 05 - KORTRIJK BEL - THE PITS ...

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Motormark Reviews (last updated 16/11/04)

Online album reviews can be found at;

"a pop-seared baptism of sonic bile" Plan B,

"12 tracks that drill into the mind and reveal your more adventurous side" Musos Guide, and

"a firecrack of scratchy punk and squelching drones and amphetamine Atari beats" Damn Pest < ...

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How do I contact DHR?

Because Spam is taking over we have stopped making this a clickable link. Please send emails to destroyer@digitalhardcore.com"

By post:

Digital Hardcore Recordings
PO Box 35019
London
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Alec Empire Live at FujiRock Festival

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