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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.

IF GOD WAS A VAMPIRE

then he’d (HE???) invent capitalism.

Blood has a weird taste….the taste of life….

Haven’t we all noticed that sci-fi soundtracks have become worse over the years?

It almost feels like a conspiracy. “Do not think into the future! We do it for you!”

Are you able to see anything at all? Nothing, only a surface of clouds….

This planet seems to be made of fog.

One of the most entertaining things in Berlin right now is watching masses of frustrated faces rushing around buying Christmas presents.

Our tip: Sit back, don’t do anything…let those in power feel that they still depend on you, the people.

United we stand (if we don’t buy into their bullshit.).

Send your mind into the future. Today. Now.

http://www.keepitfast.com/alec-empire-interview/

and yes…in case you haven’t heard already….Alec Empire teams up with Bad Company, Sigma, and MC Master X for a huge party on New Years Eve. BASS TERROR one last time!

http://www.pluginmusic.com/features.php?page=alecempire

wasn’t hard to see …now that this lame year for music is about to end…what a lame year apart from a bunch of good things. But the good thing is that people searched a lot for politics via google. This year politics have offered far more thrill than the music scene. And THAT’S GOOD!

One warning though: The corporations won’t stop until music has vanished from this planet. We predicted the downfall of MTV ten years ago, music is next.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10019

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

A CONVERSATION IN BERLIN BETWEEN MARK STEWART AND ALEC EMPIRE

Alec: “Hey Mark…..I kind of feel that there is so much that should be said in lyrics these days, and I keep wondering why nobody really says anything.

Sometimes when I drink my orange juice in the morning I can get deeply depressed about the current state of the music scene. Which is silly I know but it keeps happening. This theory keeps popping up in my head that if there was a concentration camp in Oranienburg (city next to Berlin), the music scene would be exactly the same as it is now. It’s not even like majority of music is expressing anything deep which words can’t say… How do you feel about that? Your lyrics stood the test of time. A lot of stuff you said 20 years ago, still seems to make so much sense. What is worse…people not listening or artists not saying anything?”

Mark: “For me berlin is a hungry ghost of the city in the 20s a time of political upheaval/economic meltdown i havent seen so much decadence since the fall of rome!”

Alec: “Decadent? I feel like waiting for a train when I am in Berlin…waiting with a bunch of people who can’t get a job. Which part of Berlin you see as decadent? Can you give me an example? I was born here so I wear my pink Nu Rave shades….”

Mark: “Taste is a form of personal censorship?”

Alec: “It depends. I see it more as a filter. But I guess you are right that for many people taste is something they copy from others to belong to a larger group. The question is if that is still ?taste?. I am shocked about the fact that most people don’t even feel the need to develop something that could be described as taste. In the elections , is it about ?taste? at the end? Do people consume the politicians, like they do with ?entertainers??”

Mark: ” VOTESCAM lizard leaders kissing babies selling fake sincerity who stole your identity? nations of couch potatos chained to YOUR tv screens it doesnt look much like living to me CITIZEN ZOMBIE”

Nic and me drew a lot of inspiration from this film here… such a classic.

(Nic even referenced a quote on her album “Cold Metal Perfection“)

To turn off the annotations, go to the bottom right triangle, and click on that thing there, scroll up to the top and click again…(they kill the vibe)

When I saw Hulk with Norton in it, I kept thinking of this film the whole time.

Some of those guys in Hollywood are worse than bankers when it comes to changing money into dust….

green muscles + Tyler + boring soundtrack equals flop

huge organ + blonde who walks between living and dead + black and white water shots equals soul crushing cinema experience.

+++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!

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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Join the competition now!

and win :
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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! 

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 de Babalon:

“My new album “Scylla & Charybdis” deals with the destiny of two greek mythological figures, who once used to be beautiful nymphs and then became monsters because of witchery. I wanted to work with the story, because i find it very touching. I didn’t only want to emphasize the fact that both are monsters and kill lots of seafarers but rather concentrate on the tragic elements of their lives. The pain of suddenly being a monster, they had no choice and no way out of it. I also like the fact that their fate can be seen as a symbol for the Tragic in everybodys life nowadays, as a very real thing and not just a mythological one. Reality of life is not a polished, beautiful or fun thing. It’s tragic and utmost brutal. Bless those who have not seen it, yet. Most of us will end up as tragic monsters or as their victims. Resistance is futile!”

Alec Empire: “Your tracks take time to build up the intensity. This is one strength of your music. It wouldn’t work as a 3min song. Do you think we will see more music which is longer, now that radio is becoming less important in the age of the internet? My secret hope is that the traditional song structure will be forgotten at some point in our culture. Have you ever felt you should write a “song”? or did you ever write some?”

Christoph de Babalon:

“To reach an intense experience, a piece of music has to be dense and compact, rather than just be long. I also feel it is not so much a matter of “song” or not “song”. There has to be a reason why something is three minutes or thirty minutes or three hours long. If it is both long and intense and keeps the suspense, it’s perfect. I like music that spreads out to eternity as well as having a lot of atmospherical information. Music that really creates a world around you and in you.
In these superficial and fast times it seems like the craziest thing to make tracks that are longer than 5 minutes. It seems to be some kind of taboo, because people lose attention so quickly.”

Alec Empire: “Do you think spending time of writing music is important to reach a certain level of intensity? I think it’s an interesting question to ask in these times, when everything happens faster and faster. It sometimes feels that people don’t make the effort to explore music as deeply as they could. You seem to be very careful about how and when you release your music to the public. I think that’s great…. Too many seem to load up their music on the internet right away without thinking. How do you feel about this?”

Christoph de Babalon:

“Of course, Music is a mirror of society, things are going faster and faster. So how do i feel about this? Generally i think, a great work could be done in very short time. It really depends on what the idea is. Also how it is done. I prefer spending a longer period of time on making records, because i discovered for myself that i can go deeper into the feelings and sounds. I try to create different worlds, that takes more concentration and time. For me and the listener. The first idea and selection of instruments usually goes quick, but i take a lot of time sculpturing, taking breaks and listening back. “Scylla & Charybdis”, for example, is the most complex work i have ever done, i worked on it for more than three years! Most music that’s done quickly cannot go really deep or last long. I think its not just a problem of uploading fast, also downloading today is very easy. I Like to play with different formats, as i did with the “Premium Edition”, to make people more aware of what they are listening to. i would like people to do things that are more defined and pay more attention to their lives. I have never followed any trend with my music so I guess it’s OK, I have got the time!”

Alec Empire: “Radio legend John Peel used to love your records? How did that feel to be recognized by such an important DJ ? I really miss him, I feel that we would need a person like him so much right now. Someone who discovers new music and communicates that in an interesting way to people.”

Christoph de Babalon:

“It made me very happy that he supported me. It felt like an accolade. I have always looked up to him and his way of “half of what i know people will like and half of what i think people should like”. There is noone to take his place as far as i can see.”

Alec Empire: “In my opinion you redefined “dark” in this genre. Before your releases, Jungle and Drum’n'Bass had never reached this kind of intensity. When they used “dark” string samples it always felt like a 12 year old acting as Darth Vader or something. What made you go deeper at that point in time? What kind of music did you listen to back then?”

Christoph de Babalon:

“When I started making music I had no intention of making D&B/Jungle, of course i was influenced a lot by Jungle Techno rhythms but the atmospheres i wanted to work with come from deep within me.
Some sort of melancholical longing. A sea of tears, a universe of sadness, a romatic apocalypse. I always took more atmospherical inspiration from classical music and from books and paintings. I have always seen my music more as an artistic medium to express what I feel about this world than to worship some form of lifestyle/DJ- and Clubculture. I make music for people who look beyond the shallowness of this world.”

Alec Empire: “What do you think about sampling? To me it seems that despite the advanced technology that we have today , most “artists” imitate electronic music from the 90ties. Do you feel the same way? Have you spotted any new talents which actually use technology to move music forward instead of just speeding up the process of making it?”

Christoph de Babalon:

“Sampling is great but i don’t think about it so often. I use technology not to imitate something that has been done before. I use the voodoo of sampling, I feel, I sample atmospheres rather than music. Like sampling a large room with someone crying in the corner on the other end while it’s raining outside. Someone coughing while the orchestra plays a pianissimo. Some poor soul singing in the subway and being barked at by dogs. Because we have this complex technology we must use all the new possibitlities, but incorporate and learn about the past as well. Otherwise we just repeat history, and thats not my idea. The human composer must have dominance over his machines and create something that evokes new worlds.”

Alec Empire: “I thought about the whole history of breakcore and I want to talk a bit about that first….do you remember exactly when we first met? It was this “illegal” free rave near Cologne , in some forrest…if you compare 1994 to where we are now, what do you think has changed and how do you feel about it?”

Christoph de Babalon:

“That rave was crazy. It was very foggy and superdark. Back then it all was very exciting, it was something that just started. This kind of music just hadn’t been there before. We didn’t even call it breakcore. Also there was some kind of youth culture thrill. I haven’t got much relation to a breakcore scene anymore, we are talking about 3rd generation now, and sadly, most “artists” couldn’t add anything to that style. Breakcore now is just boring repetition of formulas and to be honest the whole thing is really DEAD for me.”

Alec Empire: “Please tell us about Cross Fade Enter Tainment. It is one of the few labels which is still going. Has anything changed since you started?”

Christoph de Babalon:

“CFET is not a traditional record company, it’s a label but more like an art project. So at least we won’t go financially bankrupt, perhaps morally. We have taken a break since 2003, because we had done all we wanted at that point and we didnt want to repeat ourselves. We have received some interesting demos, some new concepts are coming up.
A new era has begun for Cross Fade Enter Tainment. We have started working on the next releases already. Stay tuned!”

Alec Empire: “You moved from Hamburg to Berlin a while back. Was there a reason ? What do you think of Berlin ? Some people look at it as the darkest city in Europe, others feel it’s changing so fast, that it is quite superficial. What do you think?”

Christoph de Babalon:

“I live in eastern Berlin in the former Stalin Allee since 10 years. A lot of the GDR-military parades were held here. A lot of history surrounds the place. That’s what I like about Berlin, this crazy history. Not so much a lifestyle thing. Berlin is very complicated and fucked up.”

Alec Empire: “What are your favorite 10 electronic albums?”

Christoph de Babalon:

“No order, only valid now:

Wicked Messenger – Black Tourmaline
Iannis Xenakis – Persepolis
Toecutter – Wetopia
Atari Teenage Riot – The Future Of War
Drumcorps ? Grist
Revolting Cocks – Beers, Steers & Queers
Underground Resistance – Revolution for Change
Cabaret Voltaire – Red Mecca
Atomsmasher – Atomsmasher
Bourbonese Qualk – On Uncertainty”

you can order this crazy packaged album here: http://cfet.com/stores

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

FINISSAGE BERLINER STRASSE – CONTEMPORARY URBAN ART & STREET CULTURE
SATURDAY / NOV 15TH / 22:00 PM – AFTER PARTY AT .BHC KOLLEKTIV / KARL-LIEBKNECHT-STRASSE 9 / BERLIN

FINISSAGE 7 PM – 10 PM WITH WORKS BY XOOOOX, JAYBO, CHARLIE ISOE, DANIEL TAGNO, ANTON UNAI, MAROK, NOMAD, MYMO, NEON, ALEX FLACH, EMESS

AFTER PARTY FROM 10 PM ON 2 FLOORS
EFDEMIN (dial) / SASSE aka FREESTYLEMAN (moodmusic) / BARBARA PREISINGER (~scape) / SCHOPPEN WITTES (fr?hschoppen) / TOMTOM GROOVE (polyfon) / KHAN live (tomlab / kitsune) / ALEC EMPIRE (eat your heart out) / MARK BOOMBASTIK live (i?m single) / ELECTRONICAT (disko b) / THE DYNAMIC MACARONIC DUO (macaroni club)

SINCE THE OPENING MORE THAN 4000 ART LOVERS VISITED THE BERLINER STRASSE EXHIBITION. THE ARTISTS AND CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY WOULD BE HAPPY TO CELEBRATE WITH YOU THE CLOSING OF THIS BERLIN ART EXPERIENCE WITH A BANGING AFTERPARTY! WE HOPE TO SEE U THERE!

Hey!

As of today, we are offering various releases as high quality MP3 DOWNLOADS (some of them include full digital booklet artwork) in the THV online shop. …Starting with the following releases:

Eat Your Heart Out mix Vol.1 – DJ Alec Empire
We Punk Einheit – Nintendo Teenage Robots
Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley – Alec Empire
Satellite Of Fear mix – DJ Alec Empire
The Golden Foretaste Of Heaven – Alec Empire
The Curse Of The Golden Vampire – Alec Empire + Techno Animal
The Destroyer – Alec Empire
GEIST mix – DJ Alec Empire
Japanese Noise mix- DJ Alec Empire
Kolorit Remix EP – Landscape Izuma
Black Ark – Carl Crack
At The Apple Store Shibuya – DJ Alec Empire
Needle Injection mix – DJ Alec Empire

Keep checking for up-dates on new mp3 downloads in the store, as we will be gradually put up more download releases in the next couple of weeks!

(Please note, that customers paying by bank transfer (money order) can access the downloads in their shop account after receipt of payment. They will get notified in a separate email.)
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What’s more: we do now have following GEIST & DHR CD releases back in stock again:

Low On Ice – Alec Empire
Generation Starwars – Alec Empire
Les Etoiles Des Filles Mortes – Alec Empire
Hypermodern Jazz – Alec Empire
Death Favors The Enemy DVD – Alec Empire
Futurist – Alec Empire
Intelligence & Sacrifice – Alec Empire
Riot Zone – Various artists
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Look forward to Alec Empire’s “BASS TERROR EDITION” and a new range of Atari Teenage Riot T-Shirts to be released in 2-3 weeks from now!

http://www.shop.the-hellish-vortex.com/

TONIGHT NOVEMBER 8TH 19:00 CET “GERMANY CALLING” SHOW ON RADIO SONETT77

DJane Fidelity and Jonty Skruff start their new radio show tonight 19:00 !

(the show will be aired again Monday 10th of November same time)

check it out in the on-demand section – finde the sonett77-player here:

click here to stream

She will also spin the Alec Empire “Landscape Izuma” Remix by Alec Empire….and a lot more great beats… make sure you check it out

while we all watch the election ….put this on as your soundtrack….Alec Empire and Mark Stewart (The Pop Group) will publish a piece here very soon…stay tuned for the two interviewing each other….

“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 Sch?nberg’s “Vekl?rte Nacht”, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Isle Of The Dead” and Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra”, Christoph de Babalon transfers this technique into the present and breaks the tradititon by incorporating the human and inhuman voices of Alexandra von Bolz’n and Hanayo to create the most haunting experience for the listener.

His Diptychon about the unforgettable story of “Scylla & Charybdis” transcends past, present and future, myth and reality.

Inside the limited Premium Edition Box of “Scylla & Charybdis” the eternalness and versatility of the subject becomes most clearly visible: The “Mother Work” (and a choice of archaic format) of the Vinyl , “The Miniatures” of the CD – showing a more fractional and microscopic apporach to the monstruos atmosphere and finally the “Mixtape” interweaving beats and atmospheres into an almost disco version. Altogether the Premium Edition includes over 120 minutes of music and comes with postcards and an A1-sized poster with Ian Liddle’s intriguing Cover artwork, all enclosed in a beautiful high quality handmade recordbox.

The Premium Edition of “Scylla & Charybdis” will be available through CFET mailorder only.

Tracklisting:
Scylla (featuring ALEXANDRA VON BOLZ’N) (12:27)
Charybdis (featuring HANAYO) (12:09)

CHRISTOPH DE BABALON is known for tripping beats, dark wide spaces and eternal melancholy. He released his first record in 1994 on Hamburg’s cult-label Fischkopf. This record (as well as all that followed over the next years) were extensively played by BBC-DJ-legend JOHN PEEL. Right after his debut he began working with ALEC EMPIRE’s Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) where he, besides a couple of other records released his most important work: the legendary album ‘If You’re Into It, I’m Out Of It’. DHR still say that it remains their most important release.

Also THOM YORKE of Radiohead is a big fan of Christoph de Babalon’s music and invited him on a tour through southern europe in 2001. Christoph remembers those shows as being ‘unreal’ – playing dark ambient in front of an average 10.000 people per show. The arena of Verona painted black – while the sun went down.

As a co-founder of the music label Cross Fade Enter Tainment [CFET] he has been putting out records by influential electronic hardcore producers such as Somatic Responses, DJ Scud, Zbigniew Karkowski and Merzbow (to name but a few) since 1994.

In order to learn more effective production techniques and gather new experience, he began working on music for theatre productions, dance performances and film. In June 2008 he hooked up with Radiohead again to play the “Daydream” Festival in Barcelona and introduce “Scylla & Charybdis” to the public for the first time. It was a sunny day – but the sky turned dark during Christoph’s set.

“The most menacing record I own” – THOM YORKE of Radiohead about “If You’re Into it, I’m Out Of It”

“The most outstanding album on DHR [...] – nobody will ever top this!!!” – ALEC EMPIRE about “If You’re Into it, I’m Out Of It”

ALEXANDRA VON BOLZ’N is famous for her work with Grindcore-band Bolz’n. Once her vocal chords are unleashed, she runs the gamut from the deepest frequencies up to the highest pitches, emitting sounds that are hardly recognizable as products of a human voice.

HANAYO is celebrated for her work with german artist Christoph Schlingensief and musicians such as Violent Onsen Geisha, Red Crayola, Vapid Dolly, Black Dog, Merzbow, Woodman, Kai Althoff, Terre Thaemlitz, The Panacea and most recently Wooden Veil.

Christoph de Babalon selected works:
1996 ‘Destroy Berlin!’ 12″ Vinyl, Digital Hardcore Recordings
1997 ‘If You’re Into It, I’m Out Of It” LP/CD, Digital Hardcore Recordings
1999 The Peel Sessions Live, Royal Festival Hall, London
1999 ‘Dark Background’ on fals.ch
2000 Split EP with Kid606 12″ Vinyl, Fat Cat
2000 ‘Rise Above This’ 7″ Vinyl, Zhark International
2000 ‘Monkey’s Uncle’ Remix for The Locust, GSL
2000 ‘Misfortune Must Be Fought Back’ Remix for Tocotronic, Motor Music
2000 Music for ‘I Suppose this time I see what he saw (a temporary switchback)’ by Norwegian Dance Company Zero Visibility Corp.
2001 ‘Untitled’ with Hanayo for ‘Mutations’ group exhibition in Tokyo, curated by Rem Kolhaas
2001-2006 Several theatre music productions in Germany with director Schirin Khodadadian
2003 Founding of ?bergang with Guitarist Christian GG Haudej
2005 ‘Atomkrieg’ sound installation for group exhibition at Kunsthaus Dresden
2006 ‘Fear Leader’ EP with ?bergang, Low Res Records, Detroit

check Christoph’s myspace
cfet.com

CHRISTOPH DE BABALON – Scylla & Charybdis
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STREETDATE: NOVEMBER 3RD !!!!!

when you watch German TV, it’s like seeing grass grow…so uninspiring, so bad….

DJ Diana Frankovic keeps banging out one great program after the other!

while too many radio DJs think too local in this city and hardly use their imagination, she puts together a great selection of tracks.

Our opinion is: forget about the computer generated playlists – anyone can load up a bunch of mp3s, call it internet radio station…..important is the personality which drives a good radio show.

why still have radio, when every track you want to listen to is just a mouse click away?

so the DJ/DJane is what matters at the end!

listen to her latest show!

mms link

radio station link is: click here

She should so get Paul Van Dyke‘s Saturday slot (which is a complete joke by the way- that guy takes the same CD mix he uses for his DJ gigs and streams it….this is exactly the kind of thing which is so boring….but time is our side! we know…dinosaurs) !!!!!

Her show runs night from Sunday to Monday 0:00-3:00

check out her playlist:

Womanizer (The Teenagers Remix) / Britney Spears
Kolany / Jaques Palminger
Naturra / Bj?rk feat. Thom Yorke
Allein alene /Polarkreis 18 vs. Nephew
Tourist / Polarkreis 18
Listen! Those lost at sea sing a song on Christmas Day / Get Well Soon
Cut out / Ray /Death in fiction
Ich und mein Computer / Deichkind / Arbeit nervt (ltd.deluxe edt./ m boy)
Kids (Soulwax Remix) MGMT
New York storm / Tomcraft feat. Tommy Sunshine
3 little words / Frankmusik
When you’re around (Boys Noise Remix) / Frankmusik
Mindestens in 1000 Jahren / Frittenbude
Taken away Digitalism
Detroit / Morgan Geist / Double Night Time
Sky and sand Paul Kalkbrenner / Berlin Calling Soundtrack
Changes of perception / Monika Kruse
Super black / Northern Lite
Erdbeben (1000 Robota Remix) / Fettes Brot
Bullenpolizei / Onkel Berni
My love sees you/ Beni / Kitsun? Maison Compilation 6
Herzensbrecher / Caracho
Was ist Musik / Justus K?hncke / Pop Portrait Tocotronic
Washington DC / The Magnetic Fields / Pop Portrait Tocotronic
Beat control / Tilly And The Wall O
1000 eyes / Alec Empire / The Golden Foretaste Of Heaven
Who took the pill? / Bonaparte
Heureka / Tomte
Tango / Super 700
To cut a long story short / Cazals
Who / Five O’Clock Heroes feat. Agyness Deyn
Your english is good / Tokyo Police Club
Kill me at the ponyranch / Miyagi
Wir ziehen die Zeit / Klez.e
Stilberatung (Restsexualit?t) / PeterLicht / Melancholie & Gesellschaft
No sunlight / Death Cab For Cutie
Bruises / Chairlift
The music makes me sick / It’s A Musical
Waste / The Amber Light / Play
Ion square / Bloc Party / Intimacy
Problems / Alter Me / The Fall
Moscow state circus / Eugene McGuinness

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Alec Empire delivers his latest DJ Mix – EYHO Berlin style!

Using turntables and his whole analogue weapon arsenal:

ARP 2600, Metasonix Wretchmachine, Korg MS20, Moogs, Sherman Filterbanks, Vostok and a lot more….When Alec spins he blurs the line between a DJ set and a real recording session.

After his night at legendary Tresor Club in Berlin a few weeks ago, he stayed awake and made this.

Alec: “It was great because I had the record players running into my mixer, had all my gear there, and it felt like surfing or something…keep the beats going and going, do abstract brain stuff on top of it. You know every mix I do is different, and at the moment I love this style…but this can change next weekend…as a DJ you have to stay in motion all the time. I had “Stalker” playing from VHS while I did this…”

Strictly limited edition!

2xCD RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE IN THE HELLISH VORTEX ONLINE STORE!

https://www.shop.the-hellish-vortex.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=124

click here

Our friends from Halo8 and Kings Mob are throwing a party in New York today!

this is for the release of SLUMBER PARTY SLAUGHTERHOUSE: THE GAME !!!!

(with Alec Empire’s song “Down Satan Down” as main theme song by the way)

Masuimi Max is starring in it…she was probably the only reason why we logged into Myspace four years ago.

(and not Crystal Castles or any of the shitty nu rave from the UK…when was the last time a good record came from the island??? but that’s another question)

These days someone will have to pay, so this game is soooo made for now. The poster says it all.

read what they have to say:

“Happy Halo-ween everybody!

It’s that time of year again where we all dress up like ninjas and jump out from behind the dishwasher to scare mom!

Here at the Legion of Doomed Filmmakers (featuring your friends from Halo-8, UnitShifter, Backseat Conceptions, Burning Angel, Bloodshot Pictures, Burning Paradise, & Kings Mob) we have a slew of horror themed events coming up with sexy zombiegirls, premiere horror movies, and ridonkulous parties.

|| Sat OCT 11th – NYC ||
‘SLUMBER PARTY SLAUGHTERHOUSE: THE GAME’ screening-party
9pm, Pioneer Theater

It’s the world premiere of “Slumber Party Slaughterhouse: The Game!” an interactive, high-larious, campy-horror event that mixes Rocky Horror-style ‘audience participation’ with pub trivia-style competition. Put your slasher movie knowledge to the test while helping hapless geek Paul Tard take revenge on his knucklehead friends!

SPS stars JOANNA ANGEL, TIFFANY SHEPIS, MASUIMI MAX, WHISKY LUX, DAISY SPARKS, ALISTER ANGEL, CALI NOVA, MORGAN MAE, WENDY MCCOLM, MELISSA BACELAR, & KATIE NISA!

Scenes are directed by DOUG “FINGERLESS” SAKMANN, KURLY “KNUCKLES” TLAPOYAWA, JOANNA “ARIANA” ANGEL, RAMZI “KNEECAPS” ABED, & MATT “WIDEMOUTH” PIZZOLO.

Get tix here https://www.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=161281
click here for tickets
$10 or $6.50 to members/students/seniors ”

“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 die sich Alec Empire, Hanin Elias, Carl Crack und die sp?ter hinzugesto?ene Nic Endo entschieden hatten, dieses so unglaublich intensive, explosive Gebr?u, das sie selbst als Digital Hardcore bezeichneten, konnte nur mit voller Wucht gegen die Wand gefahren werden; der Blick auf die Soloprojekte, der auf der DVD get?tigt wird, zeigt aber auch bei ihnen die Offenheit und F?higkeit, den Stil zu modifizieren, nur zuletzt eben nicht mehr mit dieser Stilsicherheit und Intensit?t der ersten Jahre.

W?hrend die Zitronen wichtige Worte sprachen und in den Wohlfahrtsaussch?ssen den Diskurs suchten, sprangen ATR kompromisslos auf LKWs und riefen zur “Revolution Action” auf, zur Zerst?rung der Kultur der letzten 2000 Jahre, lieferten den Soundtrack zum “Riot”, zu den Berliner 1.-Mai-Protesten, mit ordentlich “Speed” im Blut, “Sick To Death” und immerzu united mit den Kids.

Mehr Slogans geht nicht. Mehr Energie auch nicht. Ein Wirbelsturm tobte damals ?ber Deutschland mit Alec Empire als Role-Model. Heute haben wir stattdessen Ed Banger – blo? dass denen die Inhalte abgehen.”

Film features music by Alec Empire , who also included his remix of German punk classic “Bullenschweine” by legendary Band Slime.

RTL TV click & watch here!

Watch TV report on YouTube

Express Nachrichten read here

FAZ click here

HAZ read here….

now check this out….

N24

Welt reports 74 punks arrested by police

PAZ online

Quiet Earth in english

Kinofilme Blog

October 3rd – Hannover Alec Empire DJs at After Party /Film Premiere

October 11th – Alec Empire DJs Concorde Club /Potsdam
Lindenpark, Lindenpark, Stahnsdorfer Strasse 76-78, 14482 Potsdam

November 29th – Alec Empire rides out for final electronic solo show this year !
Dresden Scheune, Scheune, Alaunstr. 36, 01099 Dresden

Dezember 4th – Alec Empire Djs big Staubgold event at Maria Club, Berlin.

There are more dates coming in. Alec Empire has agreed to write the film score for Phantomanie,
feat. Natalia Avelon, Bruno S. (yes, his first role since that Werner Herzog movie!) and many others…
More news soon.