Artist: Alec Empire
Genre(s):
Industrial
Jazz
Electronic
Techno
Other
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Intelligence and Sacrifice (Cd1)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Limited Editions 1990-94
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
The Destroyer
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
The Geist Of Alec Empire (Cd3)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
The Geist Of Alec Empire (Cd2)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
The Geist Of Alec Empire (Cd1)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
Squeeze The Trigger
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Generation Star Wars
Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
Bass Terror EP
Year:
Tracks: 5
Founder of Berlin's Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec Empire created some of the most musically diverse works of the 1990s, recording both as himself and with the trio Atari Teenage Riot. Empire was often identified with (and pigeonholed because of) his ATR productions -- lo-fi breakbeats played at the velocity of thrash that simultaneously embraced the vim of punk, the uncompromising wildness of industrial music, and the futurism of techno. On his solo albums, however, Empire ranged through isolationist ambient, electro, breakbeat, severe techno, even twisted couch music. As such, he gained fans in respective w. C. Fields while recording for the German experimental/electronic label Mille Plateaux. Still, his first gear American exposure came when the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal Records gestural Atari Teenage Riot in 1996.
Innate on May 2, 1972, in West Berlin, Alec Empire was early influenced by rap and the breakdancing setting. Later he began listening to early punk rocker and played in several bands during the late '80s. By the turn of the 10, Empire became fascinated by the profound of virulent and techno, though he scorned the do drugs culture constitutional at raves. He began recording EPs for Force Inc -- as well as their subsidiary, Mille Plateaux -- and formed Atari Teenage Riot in 1992, with Carl Crack and Hanin Elias. A slightly more rock-oriented project, ATR notwithstanding focussed on the utmost: their political themes and screamed vocals were elysian by punk, only the music concentrated on acid synth and deformed breakbeats. After an Atari Teenage Riot deal with British Phonogram collapsed, Empire secondhand the immediate payment in hand from the Phonogram squeeze to found Digital Hardcore Recordings in 1994, cathartic EPs that class by himself as well as EC8OR, DJ Bleed, and Sonic Subjunkies.
In 1995, Mille Plateax released trey Alec Empire albums: the compilation Limited Editions 1990-94; his proper debut album, Genesis Star Wars; and Down on Ice (The Iceland Sessions). That same year, Atari Teenage Riot recorded 1995, the first album to be released on Digital Hardcore. After deuce 1996 LPs, Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5 and Les Etoiles stilbesterol Filles Mortes, Empire issued his first gear album for Digital Hardcore, The Destroyer. Soon after, the DHR collective -- including ATR and EC8OR -- toured the States at the invitation of Grand Royal Records, the label operated by the Beastie Boys. Grand Royal began cathartic 7" singles by Empire, ATR, and EC8OR at the goal of 1996. Early the following year, many of Empire's albums were tending U.S. releases by his self-formed Geist Records, and Atari Teenage Riot released their American debut, Cauterize, Berlin, Burn. The double album News & Sacrifice appeared in 2002 and was followed by a series of live albums earlier Fantast appeared in 2006.
