CLICK HERE TO WATCH CLIP FILMED BY ZAN LYONS

On July 24th Atari Teenage Riot suddenly took over the mainstage at FUSION FESTIVAL near Berlin, Germany.

The crowd smashed the barriers and invaded the stage during the song “Revolution Action”.

Director Zan Lyons was able to capture what was happening on camera.

Alec Empire:” It was surreal! Totally amazing crowd! Nothing got broke, nobody got hurt! Fusion Festival is a great event. There is no corporate sponsorship, it is politically charged as well. The alternative is possible, we just have to make it become real! We make music so people participate and join in…we don’t want people to just consume that stuff in a passive way… so of course for us playing Fusion in 2010 was mindblowing!”

just.ekosystem.org took photos! Visit the website!

Atari Teenage Riot has confirmed more festivals for this summer as well as European and US club shows.

09.07.2010 RS-Novi Sad, Exit Festival  NEW!!!
15.07.2010 NETHERLANDS-Enschede, Atak
16.07.2010 BELGIUM-Dour, Dour Festival
17.07.2010 FRANCE-Montmartin Sur Mer, Chauffer Dans La Noirceur
05.08.2010 TAIWAN-Taipei, The Wall  NEW!!!
07.08.2010 JAPAN-Tokyo, Summer Sonic
08.08.2010 JAPAN-Tokyo, Summer Sonic
27.08.2010 GREAT BRITAIN-Leeds, Leeds Festival
28.08.2010 GREAT BRITAIN-Reading, Reading Festival
07.09.2010 GERMANY -Hamburg, Übel & Gefährlich
08.09.2010 NETHERLANDS-Den Haag, Paard Van Troje
09.09.2010 GERMANY -Frankfurt, Batschkapp
10.09.2010 GERMANY -Berlin, Berlin Festival
11.09.2010 POLAND-Kraków, Rotunda
13.09.2010 HUNGARY-Budapest, Trafo
14.09.2010 AUSTRIA-Vienna, Szene
23.09.2010 USA-New York City, The Gramercy Theatre
24.09.2010 USA-Baltimore, Sonar
25.09.2010 USA-Pittsburgh, Diesel
30.09.2010 USA-Los Angeles, Keyclub
01.10.2010 USA-Chicago, The Bottom Lounge
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Atari Teenage Riot

• Exclusive London reunion show announced for May
• New single “Activate“ confirmed

Atari Teenage Riot – “Activate!” by Alec Empire

In the late 90s Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) emerged out of the electronica genre, to subvert all rules of rock and techno music. The original conception was Alec Empire’s and when joined by 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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Here is the second DJ Mix!!!!

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Nic Endo’s “I didn’t exist” was taken from her album “Cold Metal Perfection”, released in 2001 on London’s GEIST Records. The track was an homage to legendary independent film “Carnival of Souls” from 1962. Nic Endo often mentioned the film as an influence in her interviews, because she could identify with the lead character and her ‘alienation of society’. In 2009 a fan felt inspired to edit a music video from the original footage of the film to her music.

Nic is about to release her 3rd album over the coming months.

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ALEC EMPIRE AND NIC ENDO ARE ON TOUR ! NOW ! PLAYING MATERIAL FROM THE PAST _ PRESENT AND FUTURE! (incl. ATR songs)

06.11.2009 NL-Den Haag, Bazart
07.11.2009 NL-Utrecht, DBs
18.11.2009 GB-Newport, TJs
19.11.2009 GB-London, 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

for more info and last tickets go to
http://www.alec-empire.com/

Also check out new Atari Teenage Riot Dubstep remix by The Builder!

Atari Teenage Riot “Digital Hardcore” (2009 Remix by The Builder) by alec_empire

ALEC EMPIRE:” I WANTED TO CAPTURE THAT BUZZ NERO MIGHT HAVE FELT WHEN ROME WAS BURNING DOWN…” Read latest interview with Trashhits

http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/11/interview-alec-empire-i-wanted-to-capture-the-buzz-nero-might-have-felt-when-rome-was-burning-down/

Alec Empire’s 10 tips on how to subvert the music industry on Artrocker!

WIN LAST TICKETS FOR UK TOUR VIA GIGJUNKIE! CLICK HERE!

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http://www.rcrdlbl.com/artists/Alec_Empire/track/1000_Eyes_

Short message from Alec:” The tour is awesome so far….a lot of sweat, a lot of intensity! This is why we do it! ”

Full Tourdates

ALEC EMPIRE
The Past – The Present – The Future Tour 2009

15.10.2009 F-la Tronche, La Faiencerie
16.10.2009 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
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

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watch exclusive trailer here!

Sonic terrorist, Alec Empire, returns for another blistering series of live dates here in the UK that looks set to blow the roof off every venue it invades across the country.

?1000 Eyes? is the new download only single taken off the animated short 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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otherwise the city is deserted……. …..Alec Empire, Nic Endo and T Raumschmiere leave for Macedonian electro fest DE:SONANZ … a lot of news coming soon…

MILCH * KIM * FREITAG * MILCH DJ Set * 23 UHR *

Freitag 2. Oktober 2009

23 Uhr

MILCH DJs Galore – Italo Electricity & Frosty Videos

special guest: Hostel Zwo

KIM, Brunnenstr. 10 (Rosenthaler Platz), 10119 Berlin

http://www.myspace.com/milch

a pretty new awesome online store for Hip Hop is up … http://www.definitivejux.net

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+++Breaking News:
ALEC EMPIRE joins NINE INCH NAILS on European dates!+++

+++Legendary band FAUST asks Alec to come out and rock the electronics at KLANGBAD FESTIVAL! (August 8th, alongside Dalek, Unit M?bius, Cluster, Harmonia and more!)+++

+++In case you have missed it:

Check out link for Alec Empire’s remix for Patrick Wolf single “Hard Times”
click here!

Alec Empire and Nic Endo did an exclusive performance at Artrocker Festival:
click here to listen to audio +++

After the exciting start in May “Past – Present -Future Tour 2009!” we announce new dates!

(Did you miss any of the May shows? Read review of London show here, Patrick Wolf came on stage during the set and Nic Alec went to play “Vultures” and ATR’s “Revolution Action” )

23 Jun 2009 Nine Inch Nails/ Alec Empire @ Malta // Poznan (PL)
24 Jun 2009 Nine Inch Nails/ Alec Empire @ O2 // Prague (CZ)
26 Jun 2009 Alec Empire @ Fusion Festival! // L?rz (D)
20 Jul 2009 Nine Inch Nails/ Alec Empire @ Vrahon Theatre // Athens (GR)
24 Jul 2009 Nine Inch Nails/ Alec Empire @ Syma Sport and Event Centr // Budapest (HUN)
28 Jul 2009 Nine Inch Nails/ Alec Empire @ Nimes Festival France // Nimes (F)
30 Jul 2009 Nine Inch Nails/ Alec Empire @ La Riviera // Madrid (ES)
31 Jul 2009 Alec Empire live @ BT 59 // Bordeaux (F)
08 Aug 2009 Special ALEC EMPIRE DJ performance @ Faust?s “Klangbad Festival”! // Scheer (D)
27 Aug 2009 Alec Empire DJ @ IKRA // Moscow (RUS)
10 Sep 2009 Alec Empire solo live @ GOGBOT and ATOMPUNK Festival // Enschede (NL)
26 Sep 2009 Alec Empire live @ Ososphere Festival // Strasbourg (F)
02 Oct 2009 Alec Empire solo live @ De:sonanz Festival // Skopje (EJRM)
15 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ La Faiencerie // la Tronche (F)
16 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Petrol // Antwerp (B)
17 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Indiego Glocksee // Hannover (D)
20 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Grend // Essen (D)
21 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Underground // Cologne (D) Tickets available at TICKET 69
22 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Logo // Hamburg (D) Tickets available at TICKET 69
23 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ K17 // Berlin (D)
24 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Gladhouse // Cottbus (D) Tickets availbale at EVENTIM
27 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Lucerna Music Bar // Prague (CZ)
28 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Stadtwerkstatt // Linz (A)
29 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Szene // Vienna (A)
30 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Paradox // Ingolstadt Tickets available at TICKET 69
31 Oct 2009 Alec Empire live @ Lagerhof // Leipzig Tickets available at TICKET 69

+++After getting really exciting reviews Alec Empire’s “Shivers” is out since a few weeks. (there are too many out there to link, but check NME, click here )

note: digital version on iTunes includes bonus concert release “Live At ?bel Gef?hrlich Club 2007, feat. Robbie Furze/The Big Pink on guitars”
Beatport version has all instrumentals for all DJs.

+++Click here for Hellish Vortex link to purchase limited edition physical copy :

+++Check out lead track “Control Drug” on Big Stereo

+++The Hellish Vortex in the studio right now:

Massive collaboration Nic Endo / Alec Empire and CX KIDTRONIK (DJ of Saul Williams and Kanye West!!!) http://www.myspace.com/cxkidtronik

+++Alec Empire collaborates with MOTOR!

http://www.myspace.com/motor66!

+++more news soon!+++

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click here to watch

Patrick Wolf shot this one in New York just a couple of weeks ago. Very much influenced by cult movie Liquid Sky.

Liquid Sky Trailer click here to watch

This film has probably influenced more music for the past decade than any other film. From DJ Hell to Nic Endo. Samples turned up on many dance tracks. You can tell if someone doesn’t know this film, has not studied it…it separates the wolves from the sheep.

if flash player doesn’t show click here to watch

It’s great that Patrick just doesn’t go retro with his style (like most the others who wave the Liquid Sky flag), he reinvents it, creates completely new music… well done.

2009 is the year to bring back lyrics about issues like “revolution”. (while payments for corporate managers keep rising and musicians and workers lose their jobs)

support mp3 blogs like Big Stereo instead of Pirate Bay.

also make sure you check out new website of the Wolf

http://patrickwolf.com/

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CLICK HERE ! ! ! !

check out live footage when Alec Empire & Nic Endo brought Patrick Wolf on stage for their London show May 1st! click here to watch
AND THEN THEY EVEN PLAY ATARI TEENAGE RIOT classic 1st time after 10 years!!! together!

click here & see Alec do the New World Order Jesus Christ Pose Crowd Surf::::: click here

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CLICK HERE FOR EXCLUSIVE PERFORMANCE!!!!!!

VAGABONDO 2009

Over 4 virtual stages will run a program on the magazine’s website www.artrocker.tv from May 25.

Artrocker magazine invited a selection of bands to a studio to create original recordings for the festival.

The sessions can be streamed or downloaded for one week. Ambient, Spoken Word, Noise and Experimental pieces are performed by participants like

New York’s Suicide, Alec Empire & Nic Endo, The Aliens , Art Brut, The Dandy Warhols, Everything Everything, Violet Violet, Televised Crimewave and others.

Artrocker Magazine is really pushing boundaries with this projects, forcing the artists to leave their comfort zones and express themselves in ways they’d normally not do!

MAKE SURE YOU TUNE IN!

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buy the print issue while it’s out!

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VAGABONDO 2009

Over 4 virtual stages will run a program on the magazine’s website www.artrocker.tv from May 25.

Artrocker magazine invited a selection of bands to a studio to create original recordings for the festival.

The sessions can be streamed or downloaded for one week. Ambient, Spoken Word, Noise and Experimental pieces are performed by participants like

New York’s Suicide, Alec Empire & Nic Endo, The Aliens and others.

Artrocker Magazine is really pushing boundaries with this projects, forcing the artists to leave their comfort zones and express themselves in ways they’d normally not do!

MAKE SURE YOU TUNE IN!

www.eyho-blog.com

http://www.gigwise.com/reviews/live/50750/Friday-010509-Alec-Empire-Patrick-Wolf-@-The-Underworld-Camden

we are partying in Amsterdam tonight. having a great time. not these dumb drink yourself stupid so you forget times, it’s more like we met so many supporters again, people who really care…and after months of recording for films this just feels great!

on the way to here I read this German article about how “young people” don’t care about politics anymore and that whole blah. Well, I have seen the exact difference …and not only at our shows, the G20 rallys, Mayday…Heard “Chaostage” Berlin Premiere was sold out in minutes.

To the fifty year olds who try to analyze what’s happening: the new codes are different, they are more complex. A t-shirt doesn’t mean much if you don’t know the person who wears it. We are in disguise.

Will post more soon.

Never give up the fight,

Alec

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FIRST HALF OF THE TOUR!!!!

ALEC EMPIRE & NIC ENDO

THE PAST – THE PRESENT – THE FUTURE TOUR 2009

Presented by Sonic Seducer Magazine

30.04.2009 Vorselaar (B) – Edma

01.05.2009 London (GB) – The Underworld / get tickets here or here
02.05.2009 Manchester (GB) – Satan?s Hollow / get tickets here or 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

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click here to watch

click here to watch 2nd video

how can Berlin be so hot in April? a good day to go through the EYHO inbox…apart from all the usual psycho shit we get sent (yes, you! who is probably reading this…stop sending these pixelated Thai porn clips with Alec Empire vs Merzbow at CBGBs music dubbed onto them…

that shit ain’t hard you know…you might think it is, but it isn’t really. Same goes for that one Whitehouse fan who keeps writing pages of hate thoughts how we gone soft and Whitehouse is so much harder than us right now. You see, we never wanted to be “harder” than Whitehouse. This is not a football match. Whitehouse loses out against DJ 6666 and Nic’s White Heat anyway…so why bother)

…so where were we? ah yes, so in the pile of dirt and digital shit we found these two clips and we thought we should so post these.

there is also new live recordings up on Alec Empire’s myspace: click here

and make sure you subscribe to new YouTube channel of Nic and Alec.

one more thing…don’t listen to Whitehouse when you should listen to Masonna or The Locust. Especially not when you are in Berlin and it’s Spring and flowers grow.

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“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

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

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

awesome review of Alec Empire Staubgold DJ Mix album click here

thanks for all your amazing feedback on the Patrick Wolf collaboration. “Vultures” is a blast and we had a great time recording it. Yes, that bassline is a Minimoog through a Metasonix pedal…some of you guessed right! and yes, live or played over a big soundsystem it shines in its true evil

Got the files for another track of him called “Hard Times” and I’ll remix it in the coming days. We’ll send out a long newsletter before the weekend.

By the way I wear sunglasses to block out all the bullshit which is thrown at us every day…not to block out the sun (I live at night anyway)…

everybody wants to sell you stuff, cheaper and cheaper. This hassle is the real nightmare of the crisis.

Sometimes when I attend some family dinner or something and a relative brought some banker friend asshole and then there is always this recurring discussion about why I have the political opinion that I have, then I can only say to that standard phrase “oh but Alec, communism has killed so many people”, well the capitalists have been so busy lately killing people and destroying lives and careers, that you can only keep sunglasses on…like a rebel, age 15…

and then get the f*+* out of there as fast as you can…some of these people think they have got it all figured out….thank satan that these things are only once a year, and I always try to play shows then….

(Photo was taken by Nic Endo, part of a series…) – we’ll post a few videos soon…documenting the recording of the new record.

And before I forget , the setlist for the May shows is not completed yet…so comment & mention your favorite songs (Alec & ATR).

how anyone could have Dizzee Rascal on their stereo after that more than stupid Obama comment on BBC is beyond my understanding…(Dizzee, just take that salty eel out of your mouth… )

when you visit the new website www.alec-empire.com , make sure you actually click on many of the buttons…there are loads of little things…infos, videos, tracks, pics…. more will follow…

got to back to recording….

make sure you don’t let anyone live rent free in your head!

later,

Alec

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we just can’t help it… when the first wave is over, and most people left the boat, we get so into it…. in between….like you put your hand into ice cold water and then into steaming hot water…and then back again… until you feel nothing…

watch out….in the next days we reveal new Alec Empire release…track listing , artwork…everything… that Patrick Wolf song is hot…people love it… Empire producing beats for Big Pink right now… Nic Endo…

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watch trailer here

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Check out Philipp Virus screening “Drones and Queenbees” The Generation take-over! at Studio 1636 in Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles . from 8.15pm -10.15pm

Monitor Pop presents:

Trailer US-Premiere: “On/Off – Mark Stewart Documentary” directed by Toeni Schiffer

“Loner” Mark Stewart video 2008 by Angie Reed

US DEBUT OF RICHARD WILHELMERS “THE GOLDEN FORETASTE OF HEAVEN” , Music by Alec Empire & Nic Endo , 2009 www.richardwilhelmer.com

Shorts from Miron Zownir:

US Trailer Premiere “Phantomanie” featuring Bruno S and many more, Music by Alec Empire, 2009

“Valuev vs Violence” 2007

“Skinhead Lane”

“Now Or Never”

Shorts and Philipp Virus Videos:

World Premieres:

“Almost Ready” by Dinosaur Jr , 2008

“Free Kitten On The Mountain” by Free Kitten, 2008

Music Videos of Atari Teenage Riot, Iggy & The Stooges, Thurston Moore, Alec Empire, Nic Endo, Hanin Elias

Virus Short Films:

“Civilization Virus” 1994

“The Report” 1996

“Death Zone” 2004

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Sunday morning – brings the dawning….

cold coffee……cigarettes….empty bottles…. what a weekend this has been….Berlin is like the slowest city I know….everything drags on and on…

I just tried to watch something…John Q…stopped it..tried to listen to Marvin Gaye…which doesn’t make any sense at all…too happy…

how amazing is David Mack’s work…when will we see a film? I only liked about 17 minutes of Iron Man…to be honest… ….. many labels keep posting us video links, so we put them up here…but seriously the Bush era is over and so are jerks in 80ties clothing and beards hammering on a casio keyboard…and shitty sunglasses… so please just stop sending us that garbage…it is depressing…no not funny…it is depressing…

(oh yes, and Robbie that Lily Allen record you sent me via UPS express last Thursday is the worst! fuck man! the worst! I am so glad that your song is not on there. I REPEAT YOU ARE NOT JULIAN KAYE!!!!)

I can’t even work in the studio because Nic is recording her 30 minute piece the last days…but at least she just handed me this video….

how perfect….

I am glad that Tying Tiffany has moved on from the electro clash thing…she is much more than that…I know you know….

Good Morning Berlin….

4 Days – and counting

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Tresor pr?sentiert in Zusammenarbeit mit Alec Empire, Think Sync und Shooting People:

“TRANSDUCERS!”

BERLIN – LONDON – WIEN

Europ?ischer Film trifft auf Elektronische Musik
Am 12. Februar im Tresor! (German version)

Musikproduzent Alec Empire stellt in Zusammenarbeit mit Tresor und der Britischen Firma Think Sync und Shooting People ein besonderes Programm zusammen, um den Europ?ischen Film zu feiern!

Genauer gesagt geht es nicht nur darum, spannende neue Filme zu pr?sentieren, die sich jenseits der ?blichen Fahrbahn bewegen und dennoch Pop Appeal besitzen, sondern auch die elektronische Musikszene mit der Filmbranche zusammenzubringen.

Alec Empire arbeitet parallel zum ?blichen DJ/Produzenten “Tagesgesch?ft” mit Film.
(Eine Auswahl ist bei Wikipedia zu finden http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Empire )
In den letzten Monaten schrieb er die Soundtracks f?r 3 spannende Projekte:

“The Golden Foretaste of Heaven”: Der ?sterreichische Regisseur Richard Wilhelmer scharte Schauspieler der jungen Generation (Robert Stadlober und Friederike Kempter in den Hauptrollen) f?r einen Animation Sci-Fi (,welcher nat?rlich in einem fiktiven Berlin der Zukunft spielt: Der Klimawandel hat die einst gr?nste Stadt Europa’s zur Plattenbaumetropole in mitten einer W?ste gemacht. Eine wundervolle Parodie auf den g?ngigen Hollywoodaufgu?.) um sich. Im Tresor findet die offizielle Premieren Party mit Screening statt.

“Phantomanie”: Regisseur Miron Zownir gelang es den unberechenbaren Kultdarsteller Bruno S, der “Kaspar Hauser” aus Werner Herzog’s Filmen, nach 30 Jahren das erste Mal vor die Kamera zu bekommen!

(link zu aktuellen New York Times Artikel ?ber Bruno S. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/arts/design/25abroad.html?_r=1)

Dabei ist einer der aussergew?hnlichsten Filme gelungen, die das deutsche Kino so lange vermisst hat! Schauspieler wie George Nickel, Vivien Bullert, Natalia Avelon und Geno Lechner steigen in die Rollen bizarrer Figuren, die sich in der “selbstgezimmerten H?lle der Reichen” voller Paranoia ihre eigene Wirklichkeit stricken. Die Russenmafia, verr?ckte Sektenf?hrer, Drogen und Waffendealer, alles ist dabei. Zownir schafft es ein Berlin einzufangen, welches Kurzaufenhalt-Regisseure oft verpassen. Gro?artiges und wahnsinniges Autorenkino! Und am 12. Februar wird es im Tresor mit der offiziellen Premieren Party mit Screening und allem drum und dran gefeiert!

“Chaostage”, ein Film von Regisseur Tarek Ehlail, bei dem unter anderem deutsche Gr??en wie Helge Schneider, Stipe Erceg, Claude Oliver Rudolph, Martin Semmelrogge, Henriette M?ller und Ralf Richter mitspielen. Der Film sorgte seid seiner Vorpremiere vor allem in der Boulevard Presse f?r gro?es Aufsehen, da er kontrovers mit der Geschichte der Chaostage in Hannover umgeht. Bevor der Film im Fr?hling ins Kino kommt, werden Teaser, Trailer und sehr unterhaltsames Material der Deutsch Stars w?hrend der Dreharbeiten gezeigt.
(http://www.chaostage-film.de/new/presse.html)

Ausserdem: Die Londoner Firma Think Sync , die auch eng mit Empire und dem Raindance Festival verkn?pft ist, stellt ein spannendes Programm aus Kurzfilmen zusammen. Zum gr??ten Teil ungesehenes, teilweise die Gewinner des j?hrlichen Think Sync Wettbewerbs, der jeden Sommer in London stattfindet, in dessen Jury unter anderem Fifth Element Regisseur Iain Smith und weitere Gr??en des Britischen Films sitzen.
(link http://www.thinksyncfilms.com/)

Und jetzt zur Party! (Das Line Up sagt alles: Andrew Weatherall, die Legende aus UK, der den britischen Dance Sound wie kein anderer gepr?gt hat. David Holmes, der David Holmes, der die Soundtracks f?r die Ocean 11-13 Filme mit Brad Pitt, George Clooney usw, gemacht hat! )

Alec Empire (DE)
Andrew Weatherall (UK)
David Holmes (UK)
T Raumschmiere (DE)

Nic Endo (US)
Reznik (DE)
Fidelity Kastrow (DE)

special guests: Rummelsnuff

Start 21 Uhr

Party Link!

HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR!

While music journalists in Germany are wondering what happened to pop music (yes, we said it years ago. In a globalized economy national pop music is becoming less relevant every year. Music , after all, is not that different to the rest of the economy.) , we continue our path into the future.

Just got back from Portugal, crazy New Years Eve rave with 2000+ kids going mental (we know this term is totally British and a taboo term in modern Indie music, that’s why it has to be used again from now on. Creds to Garagem to make it happen!). Hardcore, hardcore hardcore. Drug music, dangerous and without any context to what we used to call western pop music.

People are angry, that’s why.

Gone is the decade of whiny upper class kids who pay their way into the music scene (because nobody else can afford it any longer). People feel and know that middle and working class have been pushed down by the super rich over the past decade, and now the dream of the rising working class rock’n'roll band has been lost…maybe forever.

(Remember, mostly, these images were marketing campaigns to sell a “product” to us. “These guys are like you, now go buy it.” We were never into buying music that reminds us of our neighbors…why? Because we hate them as much as they hate us.)

Now is the time for a new underground to emerge. NOW!

We want music which is exciting, thrilling, passionate, dangerous and unpredictable. The minds of the new generation are open and ready for change. It won’t happen in one day, but the door is open and it will stay open… for a while.

Those who sit back, those who are passive and expect corporations to deliver everything to them, will be left behind.

The new listener is active, is searching the internet for new music, the new listener is questioning any written information about music (yes, you, you journalists who have become the little finger of the corporates. You lost your integrity, once lost, no way to get it back…that’s part of the game.), the new listener is making up his/her own mind, creating his/her own taste. The new listener is thinking, because knowledge and ideas are gold in this era.

The old way of capitalism has failed. Even many conservatives are waking up now. In Paris we have seen more burning cars on New Years Eve than ever before.

We don’t need guns, our weapon is the mind…and we are ready to riot at any time.

I don’t need to say that our solidarity is with those who supported, lost and loved Alexandros Grigoropoulos.
(I didn’t want to say anything right away, because too many bands try to sell something on the back of those tragedies. And I hate that. But we received so many emails asking where we stand, I wanted to get it out. This is where we stand!)

The super rich are not paying taxes, why does the police protect them? They should protect the people. Us.

In 2008 we started and finished many new things : New music, films scores and more.

Thank you all for your ongoing loyalty and support!

In 2009 many of the projects we were working on are being released and premiered.

In a minute I’ll give you an update on shows and live events that we’ll do over the coming months, but 3 concerts need to be mentioned now:
Alec Empire is playing 3 exclusive shows in Great Britain. London , Manchester and Glasgow.

Alec and his band (yes, including Nic Endo) will play material from following albums: Generation Star Wars, The Destroyer, Miss Black America, Intelligence & Sacrifice, Futurist, Atari Teenage Riot (plus special guests!), The Golden Foretaste of Heaven and present new songs from the upcoming album to be released later this year.

As you might know, the shows are happening around Alec’s birthday (2nd of May) and the anniversary of ATR’s legendary show on May 1st 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ab7Dksqfnw

This will be a huge party and ticket sales are super limited.

01.05.2009 London (GB) – The Underworld (doors 7pm) tickets available through www.flagpromotions.com & www.ticketweb.co.uk
02.05.2009 Manchester (GB) – Satan?s Hollow (doors 6pm) tickets available through www.flagpromotions.com & www.ticketweb.co.uk
03.05.2009 Glasgow (GB) – Ivory Blacks (doors 7pm) tickets available through www.tickets-scotland.com / www.seetickets.com / www.ticketweb.co.uk

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!the_future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jan 10th Alec Empire & T Raumschmiere & Aux Raus! in Paris at SCANDALE!

Jan 15th Alec Empire & The Hellish Vortex in Budapest!

Jan 31st Alec Empire spinning at Chaostage Screening Saarbr?cken Film Festival

Feb 12th Alec Empire, Tresor & Think Sync present huge Berlinale Party in Berlin:

Line Up includes Andrew Weatherall, David Holmes (soundtracks for Ocean 11-13), Zan Lyons, Alec Empire, T Raumschmiere, DJ Reznik and more!
You will have the chance to see films involving Alec Empire’s music for the first time in public. (a sci-fi animation film directed by Richard Wilhelmer “The Golden Foretaste of Heaven” staring Robert Stadlober! Then Miron Zownir’s masterpiece “Phantomanie” staring Natalia Avelon, Bruno S, and more! Alec has written the score for this Berlin noir thriller. And the “Chaostage” gang will show exclusive material from the soon to be released film …but there will be lots more. We will post details over the coming weeks.)

Feb 21st Alec Empire & The Hellish Vortex live Barcelona/ Spain

THE GLOVES ARE OFF! THE BUBBLE HAS BURST!

Bass Terror 2xCD is available as CD only release next week (January 5th).
please note: only 3 copies of limited edition package left. (thanks for all your emails asking to repress, but we feel that the idea of a limited collectors release is that it stays limited, even if there is more demand. It would be unfair for those who supported the release so far.)

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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.

“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.”

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 Endo provide all the music plus sound effects for it.
The film features new music as well as a new version of “1000 Eyes”.

The cast includes Robert Stadlober, Frederike Kempter, Suzan Anbeh and Franca Gelfort…
Nic Endo and Alec Empire also appear in the story.

Alec: “Last year we have tried a new concept for the track On Fire with Philipp Virus and Miron Zownir, with Natalia Avelon in the lead role. Music videos are dead. It is thrilling to find new ways of bringing music and film together!”