Eat Your Heart Out

(for english version please click on alternative blog article) Alec Empire’s Label Eat Your Heart Out pr?sentiert eine exklusive Remix EP der Indie Band Landscape Izuma, dessen Tran Lap Vinh Georg aus Wien f?r Aufsehen sorgt! Sein Debut Album “Kolorit” (ver?ffentlicht auf Robert Stadlober’s Label Siluh) wird als spannender Take auf die “Slowcore” Indie Bewegung [...]

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

ALEC EMPIRE TEAMS UP WITH AUSTRIAN DIRECTOR WILHELMER AND ACTOR ROBERT STADLOBER New upcoming Austrian director Richard Wilhelmer is producing a 20 min short film together with Alec Empire (which was inspired by Empire’s last album “The Golden Foretaste of Heaven”; film carries the same name) in HD and surround sound. Alec Empire and Nic [...]

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

Eat Your Heart Out Records, owned by DJ Alec Empire, presents an exclusive remix EP by indie band Landscape Izuma for their debut album “Kolorit” (released on Siluh Records) which is highly regarded as a unique take on the “slowcore” indie movement. The remix EP takes the intimate soundscapes of the album out onto the [...]

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

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Alec Empire’s Grown-Up Teenage Riot “My thinking is way more radical than it used to be but I’m afraid that the next steps would involve getting weapons.” Denying that he’s in any way mellowed with age, erstwhile Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) chief and Digital Hardcore guru Alec Empire admits he’s somewhat ambivalent about today’s world [...]

click here to read! Alec Empire was recently interviewed by American website Plug In music… he talks about the past (Release of 2x DVD “Atari Teenage Riot/ Alec Empire”), the present (his band The Hellish Vortex) and the future!

Alec Empire did a remix of German punk classic “Bullenschweine” from legendary band Slime for upcoming film “Chaostage”. Alec:” I was really proud to do this mix because I listened to this band a lot when I was still in school. No other band from the German punk scene was more important to me. They [...]

Alec Empire has finished his soundtrack for Tadanobu Asano’s film 224466, to be released later this year. Many might know Asano from movies like ‘Ichi The Killer’, ‘Electric Dragon’ and ‘Zatoichi’. Alec Empire: “This film is totally out there.It is all about the famous Japanese motorway called 246 which connects many cities in Japan. It [...]

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

ALEC EMPIRE FEATURED IN ‘FUTURE MUSIC’ MAGAZINE Make sure you check out the big Alec Empire special in ‘Future Music’ this month. It has an inside view on Alec’s studio in Berlin. He is also talking about his philosophy on sound and mixing.

Alec Empire & The Monks included their song “Monk Time” in the “57 Songs: Musicians For Minneapolis” compilation. Alongside Dick Dale, Fishbone, Faust, Helmet, Lee Scratch Perry & George Clinton, Los Lobos, Stray Cats and many others. 100% of the proceeds raised through the sale of the CD will be donated to the Minnesota Helps: [...]

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ALEC EMPIRE & THE BIG PINK ON TOUR! London-based band ?THE BIG PINK? will be supporting Alec Empire throughout the German tour. To find out more about The Big Pink, click this link: www.rocksellout.com 01.04. Stuttgart (GER) ? Die R?hre 02.04. M?nchen (GER) ? Ampere 03.04. N?rnberg (GER) ? Hirsch 04.04. K?ln (GER) ? Luxor [...]

check out the review from source uk ! “Legendary Rammstein guitarist Richard Z Kruspe releases ?New York City? as the first single to be taken from his new band project and album Emigrate. The original mix is the rockfest you would expect it to be from a member of one of the most influential rock [...]