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Atari Teenage Riot Exclusive London reunion show announced for May New single “Activate“ confirmed Atari Teenage Riot – “Activate!” by Alec Empire In the late 90s Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) emerged out of the electronica genre, to subvert all rules of rock and techno music. The original conception was Alec Empire‘s and when joined by [...]

Atari Teenage Riot limited edition box set! 2009 version! includes rare Midijunkies T-Shirt! while stock lasts… click this link https://www.shop.the-hellish-vortex.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=199 ALEC EMPIRE AND NIC ENDO ARE ON TOUR ! NOW ! PLAYING MATERIAL FROM THE PAST _ PRESENT AND FUTURE! (incl. ATR songs) 06.11.2009 NL-Den Haag, Bazart 07.11.2009 NL-Utrecht, DBs 18.11.2009 GB-Newport, TJs 19.11.2009 GB-London, [...]

GET NEW SINGLE BY ALEC EMPIRE NOW ON RCRD LBL! http://www.rcrdlbl.com/artists/Alec_Empire/track/1000_Eyes_ Short message from Alec:” The tour is awesome so far….a lot of sweat, a lot of intensity! This is why we do it! ” Full Tourdates ALEC EMPIRE The Past – The Present – The Future Tour 2009 15.10.2009 F-la Tronche, La Faiencerie 16.10.2009 [...]

ALEC EMPIRE 2 MONTHS TOUR STARTS NOW! watch exclusive trailer here! Sonic terrorist, Alec Empire, returns for another blistering series of live dates here in the UK that looks set to blow the roof off every venue it invades across the country. ?1000 Eyes? is the new download only single taken off the animated short [...]

TIME TO STOP QUOTING AND START CREATING! by Alec Empire Let me introduce myself; I am Alec Empire and I was born in West Berlin. I believe that I am the only ‘true’ Berliner in the current music scene. As far as I can tell, all the others claiming Berlin as their home, moved there [...]

This summer is HOT! +++Breaking News: ALEC EMPIRE joins NINE INCH NAILS on European dates!+++ +++Legendary band FAUST asks Alec to come out and rock the electronics at KLANGBAD FESTIVAL! (August 8th, alongside Dalek, Unit M?bius, Cluster, Harmonia and more!)+++ +++In case you have missed it: Check out link for Alec Empire’s remix for Patrick [...]

ALEC EMPIRE & NIC ENDO (FROM ATARI TEENAGE RIOT) ARE ON STAGE NOW AT ARTROCKER DIGITAL FESTIVAL! CLICK! CLICK HERE FOR EXCLUSIVE PERFORMANCE!!!!!! VAGABONDO 2009 Over 4 virtual stages will run a program on the magazine’s website www.artrocker.tv from May 25. Artrocker magazine invited a selection of bands to a studio to create original recordings [...]

Artrocker Magazine will run the “first ever online music festival” in May! VAGABONDO 2009 Over 4 virtual stages will run a program on the magazine’s website www.artrocker.tv from May 25. Artrocker magazine invited a selection of bands to a studio to create original recordings for the festival. The sessions can be streamed or downloaded for [...]

ALEC EMPIRE TOUR REPORT http://www.gigwise.com/reviews/live/50750/Friday-010509-Alec-Empire-Patrick-Wolf-@-The-Underworld-Camden we are partying in Amsterdam tonight. having a great time. not these dumb drink yourself stupid so you forget times, it’s more like we met so many supporters again, people who really care…and after months of recording for films this just feels great! on the way to here I read [...]

TWO DAYS!!! FIRST HALF OF THE TOUR!!!! ALEC EMPIRE & NIC ENDO THE PAST – THE PRESENT – THE FUTURE TOUR 2009 Presented by Sonic Seducer Magazine 30.04.2009 Vorselaar (B) – Edma 01.05.2009 London (GB) – The Underworld / get tickets here or here 02.05.2009 Manchester (GB) – Satan?s Hollow / get tickets here or [...]

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Eat Your Heart Out News ! “THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE ON A BAD DRUG” Alec Empire , taken from Control Drug of SHIVERS Hey! It’s spring 2009! flowers start to grow…slowly but surely! The Golden Foretaste of Heaven Film by Richard Wilhelmer went down like a storm at Los Angeles David Lynch screening [...]

Sun is Shining And The Weather Is Sweet… This morning I woke up and finished my first piano ballad which will make it onto new release “Shivers” out in May! Life is different now. Another track I have done for it is called “Baby Skulls” and it’s perhaps one of the most direct political songs [...]

…we were so busy partying…so HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR! While music journalists in Germany are wondering what happened to pop music (yes, we said it years ago. In a globalized economy national pop music is becoming less relevant every year. Music , after all, is not that different to the rest of the economy.) [...]

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click here to read full review written by Thomas Venker “Schauen wir zur?ck nach Berlin. Bewusst in der Vergangenheit formuliert, da ich Atari Teenage Riot nicht mehr mit derselben Wucht als aktiv empfinde wie Die Goldenen Zitronen. Was dem Respekt f?r sie und ihre Haltung und ihre Musik aber keinen Abbruch tut. Die Form, f?r [...]

Film “Chaostage” was premiered in Hannover Germany on October 3rd (day of the reunification of Germany) and caused a massive riot. Press reports about 100 arrests. Punks , who couldn’t get into the sold out event, clashed with police forces. Film features music by Alec Empire , who also included his remix of German punk [...]

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Alec Empire was asked by German film director Tarek Ehlail to write the score for the film “Chaostage”. (Chaosdays…Yes, it’s a story which is based on the riots in Hannover in the mid 90ties. Atari Teenage Riot did also once play there.) Many great German actors are involved….Stipe Erceg, Claude Oliver Rudolph, Martin Semmelrogge, Henriette [...]

The double Atari Teenage Riot/Alec Empire DVD will be released on the 25th of July 2008! This DVD will also be available as a special limited edition box set, including DVD, CD with previously un-released ATR Tracks, exclusive T-Shirt, stickers, poster and badges. This special edition package can only be purchased at The Hellish Vortex [...]

Check out the chapter about ATR in german book “Missverstaendnisse, Stolpersteine der Kommunikation”. Caroline Wimmer wrote about the evacuation of a school near Boston in the USA in 1999, when an ATR poster for “60 Second Wipe Out” alerted the local authorities… You can purchase this book here