…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.) , we [...]

+++Jean-Noël Bonnaillie+++Steven Marshall+++Frederic Collin+++Mike
Kachinski+++Alexander Schmeltzer+++
(have a look at the Top5 myspace friends!
www.myspace.com/bassterrorberlin)
It was a hard competition, probably the hardest this year…(yes, harder
than the US election - why? Because only the hardest joined, only the ones
who know and understand…and they are called: the hardcore!)
The Bass Terror competition….man….
I remember when the Bass Terror Crew formed, [...]

ALEC EMPIRE TALKS TO CHRISTOPH DE BABALON ABOUT HIS NEW ALBUM, BREAKCORE, SAMPLING TECHNOLOGY AND GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Alec Empire: “Please tell us about your new album. What made you come up with the concept? I think it is outstanding that a musician would think himself into such a imaginary world and drags the listener into it.”

Christoph [...]

SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH MSX HURRICANE
After a party like the one I witnessed last night, I get up with such a headache…it’s pounding my brain….like a sledge hammer..and I don’t even drink! X !
Berlin Mitte has spiraled down quite a bit since I was last there…and this is what you get when you do an old [...]

Writer Nathan Meunier interviewed Alec Empire about his Gameboy album which originally was released in 1998. Since then game boy music has really developed into a genre of its own. We had some request from subscribers to re-publish the interview as it is hard to find on the internet.

ALEC EMPIRE ON “WE PUNK EINHEIT”
-How did [...]

“Scylla & Charybdis”: This new release by Christoph de Babalon is dedicated to two unfortunate girls from Greek mythology. Once beautiful nymphs, both were jinxed to live their life as monsters.
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To describe his melancholic viewpoint of their fate, he chose the long forgotten romantic art of the Symphonic Poem. Influenced by works such as Arnold [...]

click here to read full review written by Thomas Venker

“Schauen wir zurück 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 für sie und ihre Haltung und ihre Musik aber keinen Abbruch tut. Die Form, für die sich [...]

Another project which Alec has been getting ready is the remastered tracks from the
legendary Bass Terror era, the time before digital hard-core started and Empire and
his gang pretty much invented breakcore (yes, we are talking 1991-1993 here!).
A lot of unreleased music which was considered “too extreme” by former label Force Inc. Music Works.
Alec:” We [...]

KINOPREMIERE DES FILMS „CHAOSTAGE - WE ARE PUNKS !”
03.10.08. / 19.30 Uhr- Apollokino Hannover
ab 22 Uhr Aftershowparty im Maritim Grand Hotel Hannover
ab 22:30 Uhr Pressekonferenz
Mit zahlreichen Größen des deutschen Films, wie Ralf Richter, Ben Becker, Helge Schneider Martin Semmelrogge, Stipe Erceg, Rolf Zacher, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Uwe Fellensiek, uvm..
„Früher fragte ich mich manchmal warum ich Punk [...]

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 Online [...]

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