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 Hanin Elias, Nic Endo and Carl Crack on stage, the mixed race, mixed sex image of the band provoked people before they even heard the music.

The seminal band was too radical in its views and statements and simply too loud and noisy to fit in neatly inside any genre, with Hanin screaming about police violence and revolution, ATR opened many doors for female artists to follow at the time.
In 1996, Alec Empire teamed up with the Beastie Boys to negotiate a label deal between Grand Royal and Digital Hardcore Recordings for North America. The album, “Burn Berlin Burn” was born.

Shortly after, tours with Rage Against The Machine, Wu-Tang Clan and Beck swiftly followed. But with the success came tension. Every musician has their own way of dealing with it, and ATR were extremely intense. Very soon the thin line between reality and paranoia started to vanish.
When John Peel asked ATR to play Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 1999, the band had just released their 3rd and best album, “60 Second Wipe Out“, which was mixed with Andy Wallace (Nirvana’s “Nevermind”, Slayer). During the song “Revolution Action“, kids stormed the stage and pandemonium descended on the capital.
When the Berlin quartet played their last show at the Big Day Out Festival, Australia in 2000 everyone was watching: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, The Clash’s Joe Strummer, Foo Fighters and Primal Scream on the side of the stage. The band finally dissolved in the wake of MC Carl Crack’s death just days before September 11th 2001.
Their records stand as a testament to the years 1992-2000, where anything seemed possible. Now Atari Teenage Riot have reunited for one more show:

May 12th 2010

The Electric Ballroom, London

184 Camden High Street, London, NW1 8QP

7pm / £16 / 14+

For tickets www.gigantic.com

The members of Atari Teenage Riot are pleased to announce that the American MC CX KIDTRONIK has officially joined the band and will be completing their line up when they hit the UK later this year. Having previously worked with Saul Williams, Kanye West and Nine Inch Nails, CX KIDTRONIK is an unstoppable and explosive MC as politically minded as the rest of ATR that bring his own element to the band.

Additionally, a brand new single “Activate” has been confirmed for May 17^th and will be released through the band’s own label Digital Hardcore Recordings.  Atari Teenage Riot are also treating fans to a free remix by the LA based dubstep genius The Builder: http://soundcloud.com/alec_empire/atari-teenage-riot-digital-hardcore-2009-remix-by-the-builder

Let the revolution begin.

www.atari-teenage-riot.com

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U.F.O. Hawaii has returned with another chilling radio show. 2010 , time to end digital playlists, playlists which were computer generated…we need real people putting together great music pieces…this is what it was always about….

Ufo hawaii 43 by EYHO Blog
U.F.O. HAWAII pt.43
Knickerbocker Irrsinn

Ufo Hawaii – Station ID
Paul Hindemith (1895 – 1963) – Kammermusik No. 1 op.24
Fujiya & Miyagi – Knickerbocker
Scala – Irrsinn In Dub
Godley & Creme – Brazilia (Wish You Were Here)
Stephan Micus – Concert for Gender, Shakuhachi and Zither
Sofa Surfers – Gamelan
Käthe Kruse – Le Sexce Rouge
Bell Orchestre – As Seen Through Windows
Alejandro Franov – Micerino Tema
Faust – Giggy Smile
Come Across Tachimbrod – Medos
Little Dragon – Twice
Panda Bear – Untitled
Zero 7 – The Space Between
Ufo Hawaii – Station ID
Phoenix Foundation – The Break Up

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The Accent’s On The Offbeat (Rmx by Alec Empire) by siluh

FINALLY ! It’s here… Austrian Indie band Landscape Izuma compiled a great remix mini album last year and released it in digital format. Since then key DJs started to spin it and it gained real credits amongst collectors.

NOW they are putting out a limited edition which comes in amazing packaging!

ALEC EMPIRE:” We have given a limited number of the real CD masters to key DJs end of last year. I always thought that the mp3 version didn’t get enough that heavy bassline across in clubs. So many people have since requested the tracks to be released as a ‘real’ record. I am so glad they have made this! The track has been a highlight in my DJ sets since months…Get your hands on this fast as it is very limited!”

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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 film, ?The Golden Foretaste of Heaven?. After the critical acclaim of his mini album, ?Shivers?, earlier this year, Alec channelled his dark energy into creating a brooding, mesmerising soundtrack to the hotly tipped film by Austrian rising star, Richard Wilhelmer.

Fresh off supporting Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails on their European leg of the tour, Alec will bring his awesome live setup to the UK showcasing material from a career spanning almost two decades. Always a knack for spotting new talent, Alec has collaborated with Robbie Furze from The Big Pink on the track, ?If You Live or Die? off his last album and has produced and written Patrick Wolf?s lead single, ?Vultures?.

Wolf also appeared on stage with Empire during his sold out London date at The Underworld earlier this year and looks certain to join up with his partner in crime for the Islington Academy show in London on November 19.

Having recently remixed IAMX, ex Sneaker Pimp, Chris Corner?s new single ?Terrified?, the hardest working Berliner in music?s next project is a team up with Major Lazer and Saul Williams for some new tracks and a remix special with Dillinger Escape Plan later this year.

As a special treat for UK fans, Alec has roped in up & coming alt techno-core outfit, Motor, who are currently on tour with D?p?che Mode as support for his UK dates.

Alec has once again reinvented himself and you can witness the Empire effect first hand this autumn as Nic Endo and him take to a stage near you.

1000 Eyes (Single Version) / Alec Empire by alec_empire
ALEC EMPIRE
The Past – The Present – The Future Tour 2009

15.10.2009 F-la Tronche, La Faiencerie
16.10.2009 B-Antwerp, Petrol
17.10.2009 Hannover, Indiego Glocksee
20.10.2009 Essen, Grend
21.10.2009 K?ln, Underground
22.10.2009 Hamburg, Logo
23.10.2009 Berlin, K17
24.10.2009 Cottbus, Gladhouse
25.10.2009 PL-Gdynia, Ucho
27.10.2009 CZ-Prague, Lucerna Music Bar
28.10.2009 A-Linz, Stadtwerkstatt
29.10.2009 A-Wien, Szene
30.10.2009 Ingolstadt, Paradox
31.10.2009 Leipzig, Lagerhof
06.11.2009 NL-Den Haag, Bazart
07.11.2009 NL-Utrecht, DBs
18.11.2009 GB-Newport, TJs
19.11.2009 GB-London, O2 Academy Islington
20.11.2009 GB-Birmingham, Eddie?s
21.11.2009 GB-Manchester, Club Academy
22.11.2009 GB-Edinburgh (GB), GRV
25.11.2009 CH-Z?rich, Stall 6
26.11.2009 F-Perpignan, CrockMore? NEW!!!
27.11.2009 CH-Vevey, Rocking Chair
28.11.2009 I-Florence (I), Siddharta
07.12.2009 I-Roma, Atlantico
31.07.2010 PL-Bolkow, Castle Party
If You Live Or Die live by alec_empire

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THE NEW UFO HAWAII MIX IS HERE!

K?nstler Treu drops new weirdo mix….check out his blog as well while listening…

track list below the cover art (which is not him by the way. who the f*** is that guy???)

U.F.O. HAWAII pt.40
Fourty Short Stories For The Long Sighted

K?nstler Treu – UFO Hawaii Station ID
Wild Man Fisher – I’m Not Shy Anymore
Daniel Figgis – Fail Better
Chateau Flight – Red Morning
Jon Brion – Tabla (Film Version – Part 2)
Roedelius – Minne
The Mothers Of Invention – We Can Shoot You
Genuine House Track
Jeans Team – Waffenladen Silber
Prince – Xhalation
Mark Springer – Bellissima
Michael Hedges – Sofa No.1
Ennio Morricone – Doricamente
Coraline OST – Wybie
Workshop – Time To Get Ritchie
Hanadensha – Spiritual
Anglagard – Saknadens Fullhet
Dauerfisch – Spragma
Emil Richards – Topaz (November)
Todd Rundgren – You Don’t Have To Camp Around
Frank Zappa – Kung Fu
Wagon Christ – Boney
David Munrow – Woman On A Horse
Can – Musette
I Scream – Extract Collage
The Velvet Undergroud – There She Goes Again
Kai Taschner -Sincerely Sam U. Ray
Der Plan – Milka Kalb
Dagmar Andrtova – Little Orchestra Of Disaster & Hope
T.Rex – There Was A Time
Tatsuo Kohki – Fluctuation
Tim Gane & Sean O’Hagan – La Consecration
Coraline OST – It Was Fantastic
The Mothers Of Invention – The Grand Wazoo
Moloko – Drop In The Ocean
Mr. Oizo – Flat 55
Talitha Mackenzie – Chakras
Tim Gane & Sean O’Hagan – Alice sur scène
Coraline OST – Wybie That Talks
Moondog – Lullaby
UFO Hawaii Station ID
Steve Martin – Pitkin County Turnaround

Enjoy the mix! It’s fall! Finally! there is a lot of really great stuff in here…in times of ipod automated playlists and shitty beatmatch DJ mixes, UFO Hawaii is always so refreshing to listen to…because you know there is a real person on the other end mixing it for us listeners…with passion and dedication.

EYHO Team

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UFO Hawaii Pt. 39 is here!

Have a psychedelic Breakfast …

http://www.lalavoxbox.com/treuland/mp3/ufo_hawaii_39.mp3

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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Achims Psychedelic Breakfast

Ufo hawaii 39 by EYHO_Blog
U.F.O. HAWAII pt.39
Achims Psychedelic Breakfast

Broadcasted 23-08-2009

K?nstler Treu – UFO Hawaii Station ID
Pink Floyd – Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast
White Noise – Love Without Sound
Ron Geesin – Affections For String Quartet
Mount Vernon Arts Lab – Warminster 4
Jon Appleton – Nyckel Harpan
Diddelmaus On Mars – Kelloggs Kills People
Belbury Poly – The Willows
Ron Geesin – A Raise Of Eyebrows
Faust – Extract VI
Jon Appleton – CCCP
White Noise – Firebird
Conventum ‘82 – Autobus 55: Visages
Jon Appleton – Time Sq x 10
Mount Vernon Arts Lab – The Black Drop
Ron Geesin – Ron’s Address
Morgan Fisher – Danse
The Advisory Circle – Fire, Damp & Air
Morgan Fisher – Lydian Theme
Jon Appleton – Nevsehir
K?nstler Treu / Ufo Hawaii – Sleeping In A Tent
The Advisory Circle – Hocusing For Beginners
Brainticket – Cosmic Wind
Roger Waters & Ron Geesin – Sea Shell & Red Stuff
Morgan Fisher – Three Faces: Face 2
K?nstler Treu – Ufo Hawaii Station ID
Ron Geesin – Whistling Heart

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ALEC EMPIRE TAKES A BREAK FROM HIS TOUR WITH NINE INCH NAILS AND TALKS WITH YIP YIP TALK ABOUT , SESAME STREET, MUSIC AND NOISE, INDUSTRY AND MORE…

click here to watch original TV Yip Yips

Alec Empire:

” Many of our readers might not know you guys yet…the two creatures from Sesame Street are quite famous out here. I remember driving my parents crazy by adapting the Yip Yip talking style for days, when I was a kid…they did almost turn me into that kid from The Shining…is that a dumb question that you get asked all the time? Or what’s the story behind the name?”

Brian:

“It’s not a dumb question, because it would seem like we definitely got the name from that. In fact, even I thought Jason got the name from Sesame Street for the first few years of doing Yip-Yip with him, until we had one of our first real interviews and they asked if we got it from that. I said “Yes”, and Jason said “No, I didn’t”. I wish we did get it from that, because it would make the question a lot easier to answer. Even I don’t believe Jason’s answer.”

Jason:

“It’s just a stupid name i thought of. It doesn’t mean anything. We had an even worse name before this one and we knew we had to change it, but we couldn’t come up with anything good. Most band names that mean something end up sounding dumb after a while, so we just wanted a name that didn’t mean anything. Something totally nonsensical.”

Brian: “Calm down, Jason.”

click here for more

Alec Empire:

” I got introduced by Gabe from The Locust years ago, have been
listening to your music ever since. Are you part of a scene in the US?
Let us know where you are coming from…”

Brian:

“When we first started, we were really into that awesome wave of weird music from the late 90’s early 2000’s of The Locust, Lightning Bolt, Melt Banana, Arab On Radar, Crom-Tech, Neon Hunk, etc. I think we were really hoping to become part of that scene, and in a way, surprising to us, we kind of did. We were lucky to meet the people and bands that we did, and we are happy to have made it into a scene at all.”

Jason:

“We seem to not quite fit into any particular scene. I think we’re a little bit too happy or silly for the heavy experimental scene, but we seem to have some sort of foothold there anyways. Maybe we would fit better in the electronic/dance scene, but we see ourselves as more like a band and some of that stuff is more like deejays.”

Brian:

“Yeah, like we feel like we don’t fit in as well with the electronic scene, even though we actually probably fit in better there. But really it’s mostly who we’ve met, and who have met us, played with us, and liked us enough to be our friends and take us out on tour.”

Alec Empire:

” Why we love your stuff is because it sounds great, I mean the sound of the music is serious (as opposed to most of these rather stupid digital joke 8bit 2 piece bands in Europe). I find it very interesting
that there seems to be more cool analogue & weird shit coming from the US. Tell us about why you sound the way you do and if there is a philosophy behind it…you know…”

Brian:

“That’s awesome that you see that our music is serious. Not that we are a very serious band, or we want to be taken very seriously, but yeah, I think a lot of people kind of think of us as more of a joke, and we are lumped with that kind of stuff so much, and we never understand why. We are seriously trying to make really interesting and fun music, and we are seriously trying to be a great band, even though we are hardly know what we are doing. It’s been kind of hard, and it’s taken us a long time to get our stuff to what we are doing now. It’s very rewarding when we finish and we know that we have figured out this music that seems to be pretty original and might possibly break some new ground musically, especially when it feels like almost everything has already been done.”

Jason:

“There’s a fine line between fun music and funny joke music. We are trying to walk a few fine lines. We want to make music that is fun, but not a joke. Music that is challenging, but not not too heady. Noisy music that is more than just noise. I don’t know why there is more weird shit coming from the US. I think a lot of people from the US think it’s the other way around.”

http://soundcloud.com/yip-yip/yip-yip-gender-changers

Alec Empire:

” It looks from the outside like you’re doing everything by yourself…since years. You’re even documenting via Twitter when you are about to post new 7inches… and still you have your music up for
free download. Is that impression true, and what do you think about your way of doing things? Does it work as an example for other bands?
Tell us your view on the “business” side of your music…(mainstream bands get praised as revolutionary innovators while they just copy the ideas from bands in the “underground” who have been doing it since
years)”

Jason:

“Giving away free digital downloads is, I think, absolutely necessary in this day and age.
I don’t really want to have anything to do with the ‘business’ side of music but dealing with the business side is unfortunately a necessary part of it for a band at our level. We can’t afford to pay people to do that stuff for us. Lucky for me, Brian takes care of all of that stuff.”

Brian:

“We haven’t been very good with the “business” side of our band so far, and that’s probably why we’ve hardly made any money, and why we have to work at photo labs and deliver food to pay our bills. My view on the business side of music is I think the more people who hear of your music and hear of your live shows, the more money you make when you tour, and maybe you might even make some money off of albums you put out. So the most important thing to me, at least while we are still mostly unknown, is to get us heard.

Putting a price on every song you put out is not a great way of doing that, so we have put a lot of our stuff up online for people to check out and decide if they want to support us by buying our albums or t-shirts, or by coming to our shows. Maybe that kind of carefree idea of putting up one too many songs to download for free is why we are currently label less and wondering if anyone is going to actually put out this album we’ve been working on.”

Jason:

“As cheesey as it sounds, the more you think about the business side, the less you think about the music side. I’d like to say that it’s all about the music, but I’d also like to think that at some point in our lives this music could support us financially. We are nowhere close to that point right now and I don’t know if we ever will be.”

Alec Empire:

” What are your shows like? In what type of clubs do you guys play? And how is your crowd? (this might sound boring but I think more and more bands are just about pleasing the crowd while you don’t seem that kind of band)”

Jason:

“Since we don’t quite fit into a musical niche, we get to play with all sorts of bands in front of all sorts of audiences at all sorts of venues. Our ideal shows are in well-run, all ages, d.i.y. venues with good sound. Those places are few and far between, so we will play wherever we can. Mostly we just want it to be loud. If it’s loud and we can hear our music the way it should be heard, it is a good show for us. If the audience is having fun it’s definetly a bonus.”

Brian:

“The crowds are different depending on where we are playing, and who we are playing with. We we toured with The Locust, the crowds and shows were all awesome. People at the shows usually seemed to know who we were, and were excited to see us. The sound systems were almost always great and really loud, which also helps a lot. Some shows can be weird, like when the crowd isn’t familiar with us, so they just kid of stand there and stare. We will end our set and go backstage and think that we sucked, but then end up talking to a bunch of people who say they loved the show and buy our crap.”

Alec Empire:

” What is your favorite gear when you create new music? You are recording right now as I understand. A new record? Is this going to be different? How do you approach that process?”

Brian:

“Yes, we just finished writing our new album, “Bone Up”. We are going to start recording it very soon. The biggest thing that’s going to be different than our other albums is that this album is going to have us both doing vocals. This album is way more elaborate than anything we’ve ever done.”

Jason:

“In the beginning, we had more of that digital sound because all of those types of sounds were so accessible. We could get toy keyboards at thrift stores and digitally manipulate them with Sound Forge or some other software. But that got kind of boring and digital stuff always sounded sort of hokey to me. It was probably a year before I got my first serious synthesizer and since then I’ve liked analog over digital. Analog synths a lot more fun to play, there’s no programming and everything happens immediately.

And no matter how well you know your synths, there’s always a certain level of sonic unpredictability and slight variation. There are always graduations in digital knobs so you can hear the steps when you turn them. Analog knobs are just a clean sweep. Analog synths are more visually appealing, too. Lately, I’ve become more open to digital stuff. You can get so many sounds out of way smaller devices with digital.

We’ve been using this thing Simmons made called a Multi-Mallet a lot on the songs we’re writing now. It’s like a 90’s yamaha fm synthesis keyboard but with a xylophone-like controller. It has some interesting sounds, and looks cool. We use it on almost all of our new songs.”

Brian:

“Yeah, we like to think that we are using the best of both worlds. Jason uses all older analog synths, I use a mix of old and new analog and digital sounds from all sorts of different things we find, and I use them for the drums and backing sounds. I also use samplers to run everything live, and without that new stuff, we wouldn’t be able to perform this stuff we’re writing live.

Oh, and my favorite gear right now is my Moogerfooger trio (Freqbox, Ring Mod, & MURF), the Simmons Multimallet Jason already mentioned, my Casio CZ-101, and the Alesis D4 drum module.”

Alec Empire:

” What are 5 favorite records? And why?”

Brian:

“Devo – Oh No, It’s Devo – This was the first Devo record that I got, so I think that’s the best way I can pick a favorite Devo album. Devo is the band that got me into synthesizers. If I never got this record and got so into Devo, I probably would have never been so interested electronic music, or started this kind of band with Jason. Devo rules!

watch Devo here

Cardiacs – On Land And In The Sea – This is probably my favorite Cardiacs album because I love every song on the album. It basically has everything that I would ever look for in music in one album. Organs, synthesizers, horns, weird rhythms and rhythm/tempo changes, lots of percussion, a great vocalist, and amazing song writing.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Doc At The Radar Station – The drumming on this album is insane. A lot of the time when I listen to it I try to only listen to the drums, and I try to think of how I could do anything at all like that with our rhythms. I also love how heavy it sounds without having anything really that heavy going on. The two guitarists are sick on this album. The horn, mellotron, marimba, and gong seal the deal for me. What a perfect combination of sounds. I wish there were more bands like this!

click here for BBC documentary on Beefheart

Nirvana – In Utero – I used to love Nirvana when I was a kid, and then I got back into it even more in the past few years. We started listening to it a lot on one of our tours and decided to try to do our first cover song when we got home. We wanted to do the song “Very Ape” because we thought it sounded strangely like some of the stuff we were writing. Doing that cover first as an instrumental made me appreciate the songwriting so much and helped me understand some better ways of approaching how we wrote our songs. Then a year later when we re-recorded the cover with vocals, that being my first real attempt at vocals in Yip-Yip, it made me see how great his vocals and lyrics are. But yeah, the whole rest of In Utero is awesome too, and has been a huge recent influence on us.

The Beatles – Abbey Road – Believe it or not, I never really listened to this whole album until this year. With almost any Beatles album, you’ve basically heard every song somewhere before, but I never listened to the whole albums before. There are so many different kinds of songs on the album, and a lot of them are short and to the point. Every songs has this “thing” that happens that just totally makes the song. There’s a lot of great sounds and effects, and the recording is kind of perfect. The vocals are also really great, and with us trying to do vocals now, it’s interesting to listen to stuff with such great vocals and great vocal effects and harmonies, and try to some how apply it to the weird stuff we are doing.”

click here for Beatles – Abbey Road (all DHR records from 1994-2000 were mastered there by the way)

Jason:

“Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Tarkus – The first side of this record kills. There’s a lot of crazy synth sounds and prog shredding.
Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66 – Equinox – Mostly I like this record because i bought it at a thrift store without hearing it. I bought it because it has an attractive cover with attractive people on it. The record is great and I wasn’t expecting that. I like the girls’ voices and the music is pretty. Accidently finding a great record is one of the best things in life.

click here for Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66

Roger Miller – Dang Me – Simple, silly music. Most of the songs on this album are less than 2 minutes and none are longer than 2:30. They are all funny, silly, and/or endearing.
Devo – Duty Now for the Future – Devo is one of the best bands on the planet. I think this is my favorite album of theirs. I can’t say why, but i like it more than Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo.? Like Brian, the first Devo album i purchased was Oh No, It’s Devo and that one will always be special to me because that’s how i got into them. But Duty Now has more interesting time signatures and real drums. They sound more like a punk rock band.
Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, a True Star – Great songwriting, great sounds. Todd Rundgren is a wizard.”

click here for Todd

Alec Empire:

” How do you see the future of music? I mean musically, not the “industry” -no one seems to think about the music anymore, everybody is just about how and why the industry is in a crisis. But what about the music itself though?”

Brian:

“I think there will be less and less full bands as people figure out neat ways of using electronics, samplers, or computers with what they are doing live as a band with just a couple of people. Not that a full band who is great is a ever bad thing, but it will be easier for kids to start bands and keep them going because they won’t have to work with so many people.

I don’t know how some of the full bands we know do it, everything would be so much harder if there were more people in our band. Musically, I think right now it seems like there is a huge merging of all music in popular music and a lot of indie music too. It’s all kind of coming together, which can be neat sometimes, but sometimes just bad.”

Jason:

“I think it’s about time for a musical revolution. With the physical and sonic limitations shrinking to almost nothing, it’s going to be more about songwriting and how people use the crazy sounds that can now be created so easily. Once people start to figure out how easy it is to start a band, there’s going to be a glut of mediocre bands. The next few years are going to be interesting. I think it’s starting already.”

Brian: “Calm down, Jason.”

Alec Empire:

” Who is responsible for your artwork, design?…everything also looks really cool. Is that an important part for you? When I talk to graphic designers or artists, they miss that challenge to make
something visual which represents the music.”

Jason:

“Brian does all of the illustrations, I do all of the digitizing and digital work on them. We design everything together. We come up with ideas for how things should look and I make them look that way.
Brian: Yeah, the art side has always been a big part of what we are doing. Before we started the band, I wanted to be an artist, but after we started the band, I realized that doing it with the band would be a better way to get my art out there anyways. We like bands who do their own artwork, it’s like an added bonus. Sometimes, like this past year, the art part calms down while we try to push the music stuff to a new level, but we always get back to it eventually, like when we finish recording. I’m sure we will start messing with art for the album, new music videos and maybe a zine/single thing. We are already working on new costumes for our next live shows.”

Alec Empire:

” What have you got coming up in the future? Tours? Different plans?”

Brian:

” We are about to start recording this album we’ve been working on, it will probably take us a couple months to finish that, and hopefully by then we will find a label to put it out. By the time we are done recording, we will be ready to start playing live again because we will have learned all the parts from recording it. We were hoping to do a tour in the fall. Maybe we will get to go back overseas like we did last year. I think a lot of this stuff will start coming up once we get this new stuff out there a little bit. We can’t wait to go on tour again!”

Jason:

” I’m ready to start playing shows again soon. I’m excited about bringing this new stuff out on the road. We still have a lot of writing, tweaking, practicing to do before we’re ready for a tour. We’ve been working on this set of songs for over a year now and it is leaps and bounds beyond anything we’ve written before. I want it to get out there as soon as possible, but i want it to be perfect when it does. We really need to bone up if we want to finish it this year.”

Brian:

“Nice call back.”

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ALEC EMPIRE WILL APPEAR AT BERLIN HARD-CORE GAY CLUB “SEARCH & DESTROY” FRIDAY! TODAY!

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ALSO WATCH NEW VIDEO OF MOTOR ” DEATH RAVE” !!!!
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MONDAY JULY 20TH! ALEC EMPIRE DOES A ONE AND ONLY “THE DESTROYER” PERFORMANCE AT NINE INCH NAILS SHOW IN ATHENS! By request! (yes, Janes Addiction also play this show…a must!)

and yes, latest tourdates up on www.alec-empire.com (more UK dates, more European dates. It just doesn’t stop)

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A Day in the Death by Andrew Strasser (Bad Brilliance!)

nothing beats Destroy All Monsters on a Sunday evening….

click here to watch

propaganda makes us feel good

click here to watch

as your habbit grows….it’s going to happen…

we are so blog fatigued…it’s summer and hot in Berlin-West…why work…on anything….did you get the new update for the iPhone? Make sure to catch Patrick Wolf at Melt Festival (go there, watch him, then leave because the rest is the horror, the horror, spend the weekend in Berlin, wayyyy better)

see you next week at the shows!

*** love,

Alec Empire

www.eyho-blog.com

buy the print issue while it’s out!

www.eyho-blog.com

Dear Ufonauts,

The new UFO Hawaii Show is here.

Enjoy

?Greener Pastures?

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download & listen here:

http://www.lalavoxbox.com/treuland/mp3/ufo_hawaii_37.mp3

cover artwork:

http://www.lalavoxbox.com/treuland/mp3/ufo_hawaii_37_cover.jpg

playlist:

http://kunstlertreu.blogspot.com/

Ufo Hawaii #37 will be online until june 1st.

yours

k?nstler treu

www.eyho-blog.com

click to watch men

Dead Lazers
click to watch Kap Bambino

Major Lazer

Wave Machines – I Go I Go I Go
click here for wave machines

http://www.myspace.com/cxkidtronik

Krak!

ps: Alec says that new tourdates are up on www.alec-empire.com

www.eyho-blog.com

Hi,

autoKratz announce the release of debut album ‘Animal’ for 22nd June 2009.?There are more details on the album announcement in the press release below.

Here is a link to the brand new autokratz cover version of Swastika Eyes, an exclusive?leak which is to signal start the album campaign.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5925236935a65b80/

Mani and Bobby Gillespie are both big supporters of the cover describing it as “brilliant. proper rocking”

Cheers
Russell

“Fuzzy dancefloor joy that will nudge them into the big league”
NME

“Dance anthems of the Summer”
THE SUNDAY TIMES

?Sure to set any dancefloor on fire?
****5/5 DJ MAG

?Brilliant? LOVE the Swastika Eyes cover?
Mani & Bobby Gillespie – Primal Scream

AUTOKRATZ ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF DEBUT ALBUM ?ANIMAL?

June 22nd 2009 will see autoKratz release their highly anticipated debut album ‘ANIMAL’, a record which will see them state their undeniable claim to joining the royalty of electronic music. This extremely significant LP follows the success of autumn 2008?s acclaimed mini album ?Down & Out In Paris & London? and looks set to solidify the bands position as one of Europe’s most exciting new prospects.

autoKratz begin the campaign by unleashing a razor sharp cover of Primal Scream?s Swastika Eyes, a live favourite and a version that both Mani & Bobby Gillespie have got extremely excited about, and given their full support to.

This 11 track album will be released on pioneering Parisian label Kitsune (Digitalism, Klaxons & Simian Mobile Disco), a stable in which David and Russell autoKratz have found themselves very much at home. ?Animal? will be supported by a single release – that of the massive ?Always More? (with dancefloor smashing remixes coming from Yuksek & Shadow Dancer).

The album includes the infectious summer anthem ?Stay The Same?, the driving and relentless ?Can?t Get Enough? and the epic ?Speak In Silence?, all combining to create a remarkable collection of tracks with variety and depth, justifying the bands standing as the flag bearers of the new wave of British electronic music.

Since first storming onto the scene last year, autoKratz have swiftly established a reputation for their distinctly different releases which harbour infectious bass hooks, addictive vocals and compulsive beats & bleeps. ?Animal? however does much more, as the duo explore their songwriting craft further to create an extremely innovative record.

The band have so far received immense support from across the board, finding spots on the playlists of Pete Tong, Annie Mac and Steve Lamacq, whilst receiving club support from the likes of Tiga, Erol Alkan and Brodinski.

Their formidable live shows across the globe have seen them become one of the most sought after breakthrough prospects in electronic music, with the band enjoying ecstatic responses at festivals across Europe including Glastonbury, Lowlands & Pukkelpop. The album is to be released as the band embarks on a hectic touring schedule with a brand new live show. The autoKratz set combines their trademark rock and roll energy with their remarkably distinctive electro sound; a recipe which has seen them touted as the most significant live electronic act to have emerged in recent years.

Of the album, David says ?As a record, Its unique and its personal. Its captured an energy which I think is genuinely exciting and reflective of who we are as people.? Russell has a similar sense of accomplishment, ?We were so keen to create something out of the ordinary; something people might not expect. The result is songs about us that we hope to have a real impact on people?.

The London based duo, inspired by Daft Punk, Kraftwerk and Underworld, have enjoyed success through remixes for Underworld, Fischerspooner and La Roux and live tours alongside the likes of Digitalism and Underworld. With ?Animal?, autoKratz have undoubtedly embarked on an ascension to prominence that ?will nudge them into the big league? NME.

Animal Track-listing:

1. Always More
2. Stay the Same
3. The Idiots Are Winning
4. Speak In Silence
5. Can’t Stand Without
6. What You Want, What You Got?
7. Can’t Get enough
8. Gone Gone Gone
9. Past Your Heart
10. Human Highway
11. Last Show

here is the original of the song (in case you missed it, we remember there was some controversy in Germany about the song)
click here to watch

www.eyho-blog.com

www.alec-empire.com
click here baby

“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 “Engine Collision Fest” and Austria’s “Diagonale” Film Festival.
watch the trailer here

While Alec’s DJ Mix album “Rauschgold” for Staubgold Records gets great reviews (a small selection of online reviews which you might not come across that easily)
digitalisindustries.com
digitalmcd.com
thesilentballet.com
hairentertainment.com

ALEC AND NIC HAVE PRODUCED NEW RECORD CALLED “SHIVERS”, a 7 track mini album (estimated playing time over 30min though). Release Date May 8th.

tracklist

Control Drug

Shivers

Baby Skull

Vampire State

t.o.t.

If You Live Or Die (2009 version feat. Robbie Furze/Big Pink on guitars)

1000 Eyes (The Golden Foretaste of Heaven Film version 2009)

Note: iTunes will have a full concert as a bonus available. (more infos soon)

Watch first part of making of series. in these videos Alec is recording weird synths which will then later make it into the songs. He also gives a quick run down on what’s happening (the films etc.).

Click here to watch

Click here to watch interview

With “Shivers” and the 2009 tour “Past -Present- Future” the Hellish Vortex launches completely redesigned Alec Empire website.
www.alec-empire.com

Make sure you click through the history section. We think the website has been long overdue. It was about time that a site explains Empire’s spider web of productions and projects…. venom

Follow Alec on twitter http://twitter.com/ALEC_EMPIRE
Join Alec on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alec-Empire/10224966919
Alec’s myspace http://www.myspace.com/alecempire

DATES!!!!!

18th of April Bass Terror official release via iTunes, Beatport and over 60 other online music stores.

20th of April Patrick Wolf/Alec Empire collaboration hits stores. “Vultures” will be available as 7 inch vinyl and digital. Patrick Wolf – Vulture

Click here to watch

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 here
03.05.2009 Glasgow (GB) – Ivory Blacks / get tickets here or here Or here
05.05.2009 Norwich (GB) – The Waterfront
06.05.2009 Amsterdam (NL) – Paradiso
07.05.2009 Hengelo (NL) – Metropool
08.05.2009 Reutlingen – franz.K
09.05.2009 Jena – Kassablanca
23.10.2009 Berlin – K17
24.10.2009 Cottbus – Gladhouse / get tickets here
28.10.2009 Linz (A) – Stadtwerkstatt
29.10.2009 Wien (A) – Szene
30.10.2009 Ingolstadt – Paradox / get tickets here
31.10.2009 Leipzig – Lagerhof / get tickets here
more dates added soon.

What else is hot right now?
Alec Empire remixing next Patrick Wolf single “Hard Times”.
Nic Endo officially writing music for David Mack’s Kabuki. (more news soon!)

Film Chaostage (with Alec’s music) starts in German cinemas this month.
click here for full list of showtimes and locations!

DIGITAL HARDCORE UK OPENS FULL ON WEBSTORE!

You requested Flac? You got it!

Make sure you check out completely new digital store at Digital Hardcore Recordings UK
http://digitalhardcore.greedbag.com/
It’s ALL up there.

Support independent artists you like, don’t support hypocrites like Pirate Bay who make millions of advertising and who are financed by right wing business men (to then point the finger at their own users in court, claiming that they do the crime. not cool! Liars!).

Click here to watch

We hope to see you at the shows or parties! Keep thinking about news ways to think! Stay awake!

Best wishes from Berlin,

EYHO Team

www.eyho-blog.com

Visit The Hellish Vortex store : many rare items up for sale this month

Lowline gives hope in these situations…while it is shocking what stuff major labels send us these days…it just doesn’t reflect on what’s going on. Manchester, Detroit and Berlin have more in common than most people realize…

Check out the free mp3…..Below this amazing cover art from their previous single.

Which we just had to post again. We are telling you…There is great stuff in the UK, you just have to wait for the right emails to arrive!

Robbie Rush took some time to answer a few questions:

LOWLINE

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watch video – click here

EYHO Blog: “Describe your band in 3 sentences please!”

Robbie Rush:”Our band make big sounding anthemic songs and draw our influences from a range of different genres including heavy droney rock, dance, and past Manchester bands like The Chameleons. There, I did it in one.”

EYHO Blog: “What do you think about the Manchester music scene? We understand that the city has a great history when it comes to music and new ideas?”

Robbie Rush:”The Manchester music scene is a little bit dead at the moment, everything seems to be following a certain trend and is very “Now”, there are a couple of good bands about though, but you’d have to dig pretty deep to find them! Yea it does have a great history but i thnk that people get a bit too hung up on that so you get a lot of bands trying to rehash something someone did 10-15 years ago. We take our influences and try to make something new rather than just recreating a certain sound.”

EYHO Blog: “Manchester or London? ”

Robbie Rush:”I know what your expecting me to say here, but thats actually a pretty hard question to answer at the moment, both cities have their merits. For people i’d definitely say Manchester, us northerners are just more friendly. Just re-populate London with Mancunians. Beautiful.”

EYHO Blog: “Do you plan to come over to Germany to play shows? “

Robbie Rush:”Yea we’ve always felt that the German music scene might be one we’d slot into nicely, we’re actually playing at The Magnet Club in Berlin on April 3rd and have some other shows in Hamburg and Munich in the pipeline.”

check out Lowline on myspace

New single “Monitors” will be available digitally on iTunes next Monday (17th!)

www.eyho-blog.com

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TRACK LISTING:

1. IRMLER/REUBER: Kintopp Lifelike (Alec Empire Remix)
originals on staubgold 44/staubgold 48 cd/lp

2. GROENLAND ORCHESTER: Haudura
staubgold 7 12″ / staubgold 10 cd

3. KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF: Lichterloh (N?ze Remix)
staubgold 63 12″ / staubgold 70 cd

4. MAPSTATION: When You Collide
staubgold 29 cd/lp

5. SCHWABINGGRAD BALLETT: ICE Bertolt Brecht (A.E. Dub)
original on staubgold 61 cd/lp

6. ORGAN EYE: Tema #2
staubgold 74 cd/lp

7. THE LOOP ORCHESTRA: Radiophony
quecksilber 5 cd

8. AUTISTIC DAUGHTERS: Hotel Exeter Dining Room
staubgold 81 cd/lp

9. FAUST: Stretch Over All Times
staubgold 37 cd/lp

10. FAUST: A Seventies Event
staubgold 37 cd/lp

11. HARALD SACK ZIEGLER: Gross Genug
staubgold 59 cd

12. DIE WELTTRAUMFORSCHER: Liebe Lilli
staubgold 57 2cd/lp

13. HEAVEN AND FEAT. ALEXANDER HACKE: Scarlet Woman (A.E. Dub)
original on staubgold 87 cd/lp

14. KLANGWART: Zweitoneins (A.E. Remix)
original on klangstelle 5 lp / staubgold 84 cd/lp

15. BETA ERKO: Zaspiam (A.E. Dub)
original on quecksilber 9 cd

16. PAUL WIRKUS: Blask
quecksilber 4 cd

17. MAPSTATION: More People Than Two (A.E. Dub)
original on staubgold 29 cd/lp

18. ALEC EMPIRE: Outro

EAT YOUR HEART OUT BLOG

Dear Ufonauts,

The first UFO Hawaii Show in 2009 is here!

?The Phoenix Asteroid?

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download & listen here

cover artwork

playlist

Ufo Hawaii #36 will be online until february 23.

yours

k?nstler treu

ANDREW WEATHERALL DELIVERS 2 EXCLUSIVE DJ MIXES

Andrew Weatherall gave us these two exclusive DJ mixes as a gift, k? There are for you only! We will throw the most insane party on February 12th in Berlin at Tresor Club – where it ALL started!

to me this is important as Andrew’s mix of guitar music and beats back then in the early 90ties created RAVE in Manchester. Who knows where we all would have been without his mixes for Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, That Petrol Emotion, Jah Wobble, James, The Grid, New Order, Saint Etienne, Meat Beat Manifesto, Finitribe, S’Express, A Man Called Adam, Future Sound of London, Galliano, Stereo MC’s, Leftfield, Johnny Lydon, The Wolfgang Press, Psychic TV, Orb & My Bloody Valentine ! (yes, in the gutter! you are right about that)

So Andrew’s mixes are pure education (this is not what he’ll spin that night though). Enjoy them while you can!

Transducers! starts at 21:00 CET on Thursday 12th during Berlinale Film Festival.

Warning: This will be full of actors and film people! (uh yeah baby)

for more info go to:

Official TRANSDUCERS! Website

or

Tresor Berlin!

C L I C K HERE FOR PODCAST STREAM

http://www.garagem.com.pt/v3/

Cueing up for New Years Eve once in a life time Bass Terror Rave!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7796663.stm

The world is going to hell because of capitalism and the pope has nothing better to do than attacking gays.

Today is Christmas, I didn’t invent it, you didn’t either. Why do we keep traditions in the western world if religious leaders allow themselves to make remarks like this?

Get out of the church while you can. If they change and you care about being religious, then you can still get back in. But people have to make a point. And they have to make it now.

Statements like this kill people in the real world. Every time society faces a real problem, someone in the high ranks has the idea to bring up the gay thing to prevent the population to see what is really going on.

Don’t get played by those in power.

Go to the doctor NOW!

Or just check out OUTO

Every time I am in the UK and I play a Japanese record to somebody, I get this pale wimpy face expression back. yes, fuck Fireman and Last Shadow Puppets and all that shit.
Sorry for swearing, but the UK has been pumping shit out into the world especially in 2008…and we are so glad this year is over. (yes you, we don’t hate you because you are worse in football, we are disappointed music fans and we hate most German music…so don’t leave us hanging here, k???)
“OUTO – U.K”

It feels like this decade is over, almost the last century comes to an end now (yes what a surprise it never really ends on December 31st 1999 you know… it crossfades for a bit, and then we all see the new century in all its glory)
“OUTO – Death Of Victims”

Sometimes people ask me “hey Alec, why are you so angry? everything is good in the world. What would you change?” Of course I never even reply to that, because I am not angry per se, actually I have moments of the Jesus Christ mood when I could just hug everybody on this planet and I imagine driving in a Porsche with Korn, those guys from around the corner here in Kreuzberg who talk the Taliban talk, Kathleen Hanna, The Cramps and Ex-chancelor Schr?der …and we are all going on holiday, singing a song in the car, and we are about to cross the border to Poland and shit….so, yes, I sometimes love this world. but if I oculd get my hands onto the education system I would get teachers to teach this album to children age 9.
“OUTO – No Future”

Deal with your anger, it’s ok to confront your aggression, deal with it, make it your friend…do not swallow it down….don’t pretend smiling. Waiters in Berlin are not rude, they are alive because they don’t fake it.

At some point when the American hardcore scene started evolving backwards and make it a business, got t-shirt and merch “entrepreneurs” they lost it (same with Hip Hop by the way)…they lost the reason to exist in this world. That was the moment when I turned to Japanese punkrock.
“OUTO – Skate To Hell (I know kinda week this title, but song is awesome)”

Many people say those guys over there just imitate western music. Well, they don’t know what they’re talking about. These times are long gone (if they ever existed – I doubt that anyway). The bands over there are huge fans of music, they analyse it, they know how to play it, they find their own way of saying the things that need saying.

Just look at the titles here…“British Bulldog”, “Leather face”, “Never Win” and “Crazy Mom”….UK rock bands could shoot as much heroin as they want they would still not come up with song titles like these…British bands have song titles like “tape song” or “love deserter” or “Midnight surprise” – I am fucking falling asleep… the best thing about Berlin is when you are at a minimal techno club night and people joke at the bar about UK bands who talk with their high pitch Russel Brand voices how much rock’n'roll they are…it’s like their parents tought them that…or wait, they went to Paul McCartney’s music school and learnt songs from the white album….

So those Japanese bands they close themselves off the rest of the world, because they don’t care. When I am on tour I love understanding the other countries…this is the real reason why I would go out and play there. When you play music you can connect with people on a different level and you can absorb much more this way.

New century rock’n'roll has this “proud to be dumb” mentality while when I listen to Television (yes, not my generation…way before me) or Nico’s camera obscura, I feel that they were smarter than the rest of the society. they knew stuff most of us don’t or will never find out. They were looking at the goldfish instead of being the goldfish.

Midweek…Wednesday…December 3rd. I made a list and I figured…I know more good stuff than bad by now….I have won. Amazing feeling.

+++Jean-No?l 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, and we did the first tracks, we
never thought that about 16 years later, people would still care about it.

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Thank you for your participation…

Alec Empire

WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS SHORTLY!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!

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We couldn’t believe how many of you participated in the competition! It’s awesome to know that so many people out there love this music!

The real question is, when EYHO rules the west-side and SHITKATAPULT the east-side, who is Omar Little in this mousetrap called Berlin?

represent – in full effect

The man named Nico passed on this DJ mix to us.

Monday is the perfect day to reflect. Does your job make sense? Still? Has your relationship died recently and you don’t want to admit it? Do chemicals help your body?

Everything with Judith Juillerat in it is always a pleasure.(and yes, make sure you book your flight now for the Scandale Party in Paris/January 10th with T.Raumschmiere and Alec Empire!)

The DJ Mix was manufactured by Jerry Abstract from the US/Seattle.

Shitkatapult DJ Mix click here to listen

TRACKLISTING MEGAMIX!!
00:00 – 02:30
Peter Grummich _ Awaking Naked _ strike61
Anders Ilar _ Ludwijika II _ strike82
Lusine Icl _ Seemingly _ strike50
Napoli Is Not Nepal _ A Night Outside The Bunker _ strike33
02:30 – 05:31
Lusine Icl _ Seemingly _ strike50
Holz _ Glut _ strike62
Apparat _ Forward / Backward _ strike20
Peter Grummich _ Switch Off The Soap Opera _ strike61
05:31 – 09:45
Anders Ilar _ Hydro _ strike42
Fenin & Meteo _ Fete 1 _ strike75
Boxtype _ Scared _ strike23
Peter Grummich _ Switch Off The Soap Opera _ strike61
Anders Ilar _ Ludwijika II _ strike82
09:45 – 12:45
Fenin _ Konstrukt _ strike58
Boxtype _ Scared _ strike23
Anders Ilar _ Ludwijika II _ strike82
12:45 – 16:20
T.Raumschmiere _ Nietenbolzen _ strike32
Sami Koivikko _ Materialist _ strike43
Fenin _ Konstrukt _ strike58
16:20 – 18:40
Kero _ Midgetpumper _ strike21
Judith Juillerat _ A(r)mour _ strike67
Anders Ilar _ Replik _ strike34
18:40 – 22:55
Das Bierbeben _ Schizophrene _ strike47
Das Bierbeben _ Neigt Eure K?pfe _ strike47
Anders Ilar _ Replik _ strike34
Apparat _ Interrupt II _ strike41
22:55 – 24:22
Peter Grummich _ Dirty Disco Rock _ strike48
Hakan Lidbo _ My First Honest Penny _ strike38
Das Bierbeben _ Schizophrene _ strike47
24:22 – 26:16
T.Raumschmiere _ The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle _ strike32
Hakan Lidbo _ My First Honest Penny _ strike38
26:16 – 28:05
Quasimodo Jones _ Bad Cock, Good Cock _ strike56
T.Raumschmiere _ The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle _ strike32
28:05 – 30:50
Schieres _ Gefrierbrand _ strike77
Lee Anderson _ Das Quietscheentchen _ strike27
Jerry Abstract _ Mudtsmut _ strike70
Quasimodo Jones _ Bad Cock, Good Cock _ strike56
30:50 – 36:06
Jerry Abstract _ Mudtsmut _ strike70
Apparat _ Montreal _ strike69
Lee Anderson _ Das Quietscheentchen _ strike27
36:06 – 37:20
Apparat _ Montreal _ strike69
Sun Electric _ Sissy _ strike 86
37:20 – 40:29
Modeselektor _ Hasir (Live) _ strike50
Makeem The Vinylistic _ Crime Does Not Pay _ strike05
Apparat _ Montreal _ strike69
Sun Electric _ Sissy _ strike 86
40:29 – 44:46
Phon.o _ Bluehende Landschaften _ strike64
Modeselektor _ Hasir (Live) _ strike50
Phon.o _ Stop Da Shotblocka _ strike50
Das Bierbeben _ Reproduktion _ strike50
Kyborg _ Mod _ strike10
44:46 – 47:18
CLP _ Rockin’ Wiz Us _ strike98
Phon.o _ Stop Da Shotblocka _ strike50
Nanospeed _ Hobel _ strike05
47:18 – 48:48
Apparat _ Holdon (Modeselektor remix) _ strike89
CLP _ Rockin’ Wiz Us _ strike98
Phon.o _ Riding Dirty _ strike64
48:48 – 50:33
Anaphie-stic _ Throw Me A Bone _ strike50
Phon.o _ Riding Dirty _ strike64
50:33 – 52:47
Drugbeat _ Kill Yourself On The Dancefloor Tonight _ strike52
DJ Flush _ From Reggae To Hell _ strike55
Anaphie-stic _ Throw Me A Bone _ strike50
52:47 – 55:12
T.Raumschmiere _ E _ strike92
Jerry Abstract _ Grittin _ strike48
Elastic Heads _ Kickin’ _ strike50
55:12 – 57:17
Elastic Heads _ Kickin’ _ strike50
T.Raumschmiere _ E _ strike92
Motor _ Din10 _ strike50
Elastic Heads _ Heat _ strike 74
57:17 – 59:20
Peter Grummich _ The Clippers _ strike60
Elastic Heads _ Heat _ strike 74
Fenin _ Years Ago _ strike91
CLP _ That Girl _ strike98
59:20 – 61:45
Anders Ilar _ Rare Island _ strike37
Sun Electric _ Afterglow _ strike86
Fenin _ Years Ago _ strike91
Peter Grummich _ The Clippers _ strike60
Elastic Heads _ Heat _ strike 74
61:45 – 66:00

Apparat _ Komponent (Telefon Tel Aviv remix) _ strike89

Sun Electric _ Afterglow _ strike86

you can purchase all of these records here

ALEC EMPIRE IS ABOUT TO RELEASE A DJ MIX CD ALBUM FOR COOL RECORD LABEL STAUBGOLD

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yes, you heard right….the label which released Faust, Dalek, and a lot more crazy and weird music.

they all team up for an event which doesn’t happen often. last chance to experience something like THAT this year.

Subscribe to our blog, add a comment…. a “special algorithm which was implemented by our programmers” will select 20 winners who will get free tickets to the event! So join now…competition closes December 3rd 8:00 o’clock Berlin time!

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click here
December 1st Release of superbag Bass Terror 2xCD (20tracks) !

Join the competition now!

and win :
the full set (including 2xCD, Hoody, dog tag etc.)
or
the 2xCD plus "Bass Terror" dog tag
or
limited edition "Bass Terror" dog tag   !!!!!!!!!!!

To participate just become a myspace friend of
www.myspace.com/bassterrorberlin
AND
register with www.eyho-blog.com


The winners will be announced next weekend ,
Saturday 29th of November.

In 1992 Alec Empire and Carl Crack started a sound system
called Bass Terror.
About a handful of other DJs joined right away.
They promoted the first ever purist jungle and breakcore raves
outside the United Kingdom.
In Berlin squads and run down warehouses a new sound was
developed.
Journalists couldn't compare it to rave or breakbeat anylonger.
A new term was chosen:

Breakcore. 

The sound was harder, faster and way louder than its UK
prototype. 




One other significant difference: Bass Terror was highly charged
political with its Anti-Nazi and Anti-Racist slogans and artwork.
Empire and Crack saw the extreme right wing having a rising
influence on the German techno scene.
Bass Terror was formed as a movement of resistance.
One of the first tracks released was called "Hetzjagd auf Nazis!"
(German for "Hunt Down And Kill The Nazis").

Frankfurt based techno label Force Inc. Music Works started
a sublabel called Riot Beats to give this sound a new push
and platform.
A year later Alec Empire would start
Digital Hardcore Recordings (1994).

The original EP series were only released on vinyl
in the years 1992/93.
Now 15 years later, Alec Empire is about to re-release these tracks
for the first time in digital remastered format -
plus previously unreleased tracks from that era! 

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 friend a favor…nevertheless…it’s always good to experience all kinds of different things. ….I guess…usually it’s the music. last night felt a bit like landing in this big empty space, white, nothing….death but without the thrill to enter the unknown. So in Berlin-West you wake up the next morning…that gray city…everything smells like cigarettes…dry throat. Immediately my mind tells me: Put this CD on…Araki Kenta….come on, you got it months ago in Japan…and you still haven’t even opened it!

In Los Apson , one of my favorite record stores in the world (which seems weird, now that there are probably 31 stores left on the planet…having a favorite record store sounds like saying this is my favorite gray whale.), so in Los Apson the guy showed me this CD, described it as video game music. And I buy it straight away – you know when you can see what is good just by looking at the artwork.

Even though most of this music makes this silly link to children entertainment. I assume because these sounds remind us of when we were 4 years old and this was the music that came with games and toys. When you enter a new age, you change the music, that’s what it used to be. Now people who are 42 years old listen to music which could have been made for 10 year olds…not even that! it sounds like it was recorded by 10 year olds…just without the imagination, and the fun that comes with not following / knowing too many rules in your life.

One of my first songs that I wrote at the age of ten was called “Don’t touch that stove – you’ll get burnt!” (in German though)….people around me always interpreted as something sexual… so this raises the question: Who decides which music is being liked and understood by kids, when even adults have their music taste on such a tight leash, that the definition of the term “music taste” could be replaced with “poodle” ?

If you want safety in your life, go to bed, stay there and don’t do anything, but don’t listen to music which is not challenging you. Use sound to connect new dots in your brain…it will thank you for it.

Video Game music is not for kids – never has been really. If you really listen back to the 80ties arcade game music, you’ll find music which could be compared to pieces Bach wrote for String Quartets….
So this is when Araki Kenta comes in…I wasn’t expecting anything because of my headache…it got me staring at the speakers….there is this guy somewhere in Japan making this, and some tracks have the quality of the first Neu! album…but done with 8bit computer sounds… he is not trying to be funny…this is serious stuff… I should have played that last night to those art pinheads…and not Boredoms…

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Even though this was my most fun moment… to stand there letting this 12 minute track go on, get heavier by the minute, and one sound engineer screaming in my ear, the lighting guy freaking out, see people leave, others try to wrap their brain around it, and then the handful, we call them the elite in our DJ scene, these are the ones who get it….the top of the pyramid, they react, they understand , they get involved and not just consume! they (still) feel and think….their bodies as one….
If you go to a Baby Shambles concert you see people behave like rice grain… dumb people glued to a dumb band with guitars. total rock’n'roll conformity, created by tabloid magazines…believing like fundamentalists in the old lie, that a drug can make a musician create something exceptional ….at some point around when Bush got elected UK music died…when hero John Peel died, it was totally over….

Look towards the East more…you will find the best music there…it will take a few years until the USA is back on track…like Obama said , it’s a long way…and this is also the case for the music scene…aspirin….and a six pack red bull….the pain will hopefully go away…

Alec Empire

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 you come to use the game boy as a tool for creating music?

ALEC: It was very obvious to me. When I started Atari Teenage Riot, I loved the idea of using a tool which is supposed to be a videogame only.

Of course the Atari back then was a proper little computer, like the Amiga. When Nintendo released the music programm I just had to get it. Since I started DJing in the early 90ties I was always playing video game music in my sets. Not the usual novelty joke stuff, serious game music which I find amazing as music to listen to.

-What game boy program did you use specifically to compose “We Punk Einheit”? What other game boy programs, if any, have you used to create music and what are your impressions of those programs. (The main programs I’m aware of are the game boy camera, Little Sound DJ, and Nanoloop).

ALEC: I did We Punk Einheit with the game boy camera. But then started to use Nanoloop live in all of my solo electronic shows. The programs are limited but it that?s the challenge of it. The feedback that I got from people was ?how on earth did you come up with that on this little machine??
I think it?s a mind set, many people look at an instrument like this and see it as a gimmick. I respect it in the same way I respect a piano or a guitar.
When I used the game boy live , and I use different ones, the first one, the second one and so on, because they all have different frequency ranges, I mean a different sound, I realized how powerful the machine really is when heard over a big P.A.

-How long did it take to create “We Punk Einheit”? Tell me about the composing and recording process used to create the record.

ALEC: I can?t really tell how long it took, because I did the record in between recording sessions for an album I have done called ?Miss Black America?. I would guess I did one song a day. I remember making the music felt like when you reach a high level in a video game, old school video game, you reach a difficult level, everything goes fast and you react quick…it?s exciting, thrilling…your body releases adrenaline or something…that?s how it felt…very similar how I record music in general.
A lot of super quick decision making. When a pilot flys in a fighter jet, he or she can?t step back and think, because then it?s too late. You have to trust your instinct in that moment.

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-Musically or thematically what did you set out to do in creating this
particular record?

ALEC: There is a link to the old game Space Invaders or Astroids, also in the artwork. To me these were quite nihilistic games, because you could only lose.
The aliens would always take over. I loved that when I was a kid. The music and sounds that came with it. Very cold , like an unstoppable machine which destroys you, the player. You can be sure about that when you start the game.
We did game boy parties in 1998, they were called the ?Out? parties, DJs were called ?bodysnatchers? and not DJs. We played video game music, no wave and weird Japanese art records there. It was a strange atmosphere there in Berlin. With the double album I wanted to capture that vibe. We Punk Einheit ist he document of that time.
I was so bored with the British music press praising the Beatles on and on. At those parties we wanted to draw a line once and for all and reject the old tradition of music making which is (still) stopping or slowing down the evolution of music….if you know what I mean. I grew up in Berlin. The artists in Germany made a fresh start after the Hitler regime. They thought that if a society that evil came out from the art created before it, then we must invent a new way of thinking and creating. Sometimes you have to let go of the past, and this is what we did back then.

-What was your favorite and least favorite part of working with a gameboy to produce the record.

ALEC: I had a great time the whole time…because once I got in there, it was like composing in a little articifical world on its own…if you know what I mean. It felt like being in the world of 80ties space invaders or house of terror. When I was a kid, I dreamed about being in these worlds.

-Have you incorporated game boy sounds into any other records you’ve put out?

ALEC: Yes, I have on various ones….CD2 from ?Intelligence and Sacrifice? or ?The Live Sessions in London 2002?. And more… I always have it ready to go, it?s sitting next to all my other instruments in the studio.

-Have you used a game boy in live performances and if so how was it utilized? Have you used other video game hardware to create music?

ALEC: I used the game boy many times live. I was even once attacked by another musician at a show in Helsinki at a festival. He was angry at me because he said it?s not ?music?. Using the game boy can provoke many people in an audience.
It is looked at like the ?anti-instrument?. Which is not right of course, because it is a mini computer with a synth. I have never used other video game hardware live. Mainly because the game boy really sounds good.

-what are your thoughts on some of the music out there that has been created using game boy hardware?

ALEC: I think people should stop treating it as a ?fun? tool and get serious with it.
To me that?s the part where the humour comes in. To go ?haha this is a game boy , it makes ping pong sounds? is a joke told too often already. It really reflects on the person using it.

- Thank you very much for your time.

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