Atari Teenage Riot: Classic or Dud

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How come you necer hear anything about Digital Hardcore (except being slammed in the last two issues of mixer) anymore?

a.m., Friday, 19 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Because it was an aesthetic dead-end? There's just so many ways you can make insane gabber and jungle beats with shouty holier-than-thou sloganeering sound interesting. But since this is a classic or dud question it'd say on the whole: in between. ATR's "Future of War" was in a way perfect, but they should've quit after that one. A true classic is Carl Crack's solo-album "Black Ark", probably will be considered a lost classic in the year 2020. ;)

o.munoz, Friday, 19 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm with the estimable Mr.Munoz on this - a grenade can, after all, only go off once. For me, the 'Harder Than The Rest' DHR compilation is pretty much everything I've ever needed from that stable - that said the early Alec Empire solo stuff I remember as being pretty fabulously fucked up in a cheap-ass Aphex kind of way. Classic or dud? It's good they happened, put it that way.

Tom, Friday, 19 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I have to say dud, though I do like some of Alec Empire's solo stuff (_Low On Ice_ is nice low-key ambient, a bit Afxy but colder, and I thought _The Destroyer_ was more powerful than ATR.) Part of what killed ATR for me is their over-reliance on guitars. All that annoying midrange noise just isn't very powerful. I always want it to be tigher or heavier or something.

Mark Richardson, Friday, 19 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Just thought I'd toss in something about titles, related to all the recent threads. I think ATR and Alec Empire have great ones. _Delete Yourself_ is hilarious, and there is something about _Miss Black America_ that seems very provocative. Coming from a German, the latter seems so out of place you start to look for the meaning behind it. Also _Alec Empire v. Elvis Presley_ and _Generation Star Wars_ are funny to me.

Mark Richardson, Friday, 19 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Always thought Alec Empire's contribution to "Macro Dub Infection II" was its highlight (and maybe *his* highlight too) - another good, and very apt, title: "When You've Reached Your Peak (It's Time To Die)".

Not a guitar in sight, either. Did he ever follow up his 'hyperjazz' (or whatever it was called) project? All that seemed to consist of were some spooky, dislocated Bjork remixes.

AE anecdote: a friend of mine once spent some time with him in Berlin. AE was very keen to come up with some T-shirt slogans that would be offensive to British people. His suggestions included "I invented cricket" and "I invented fish'n'chips". Aw, bless.

Michael Jones, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

please.

dud.

sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 24 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three years pass...
I'M SICK TO DEATH LIKE I'VE NEVER BEEN SICK BEFORE!!!!!!

VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I felt as if I smiled one more time tonight my face would crack. my face would crack. my face would crack. my face would crack.

TOMBOT, Friday, 14 May 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

START THE RIOT!!! FUCK ALL!!!! INTO THE DEATH!!!! BANG YOUR HEAD!!!!
1 2 3 4!!!!

HAHA, anyway...for some reason i've always been fond of ATR, even if the whole DHR thing was, as noted at the top of the thread, an aesthetic dead end. I guess I just like insane gabber beats set against punk and speed metal samples.

[Nic Endo, who was a later member of ATR, released a really cool solo album which was easily one of the best things to come out of the whole DHR/Geist thing.]

latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

"AE was very keen to come up with some T-shirt slogans that would be offensive to British people. His suggestions included "I invented cricket" and "I invented fish'n'chips". Aw, bless. "

that's awesome!

latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

YOU CRY LATER DOPE CALCULATOR NOTHING LEFT BUT AN EMPTY PRAYER THE SAFE SIDE DIDNT WORK, WELL THATS TOO BAD FOR YOU!!!! WE WONT CALM DOWN! WE WONT CALM DOWN!! WE WONT CALM DOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
one bored sunday in high school i counted all the exclamation points in the sleeve for 60 Second Riot and i think it numbered around 3000. also, i am forever in love/lust with http://pro.nordnet.fr/agauchedelalune/images/HaninElias.gif

Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic, btw.

Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic.. though i preferred the joyous exuberance of stuff like Kids Are United than the hyper-serious stuff. All good though.

don (don), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

HETZJAGD AUF NAZIS

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

RAVERBASHING!!!!!! 1 2 3 4!!!

Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

'[Nic Endo, who was a later member of ATR, released a really cool solo album which was easily one of the best things to come out of the whole DHR/Geist thing.]'


nic endo's 'white heat' is a great great record, and maybe one of my first 'noisz' albs that I ever bought. did she follow it up?

more luv for this record here:

Atari Teenage Riot news -- remember them?

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
I pulled Burn, Berlin, Burn! off the shelf today. It is fucking fantastic. "Start The Riot" may be one of my favorite songs of all time.

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh Hanin, you had me at "I WANNA FUCK THE SYSTEM"...

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

FUCK ALL! FUCK ALL! FUCK ALL! FUCK ALL! FUCK ALL! FUCK ALL!

WE DISHARMONIZE THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY!
LET'S DESTROY THE FUTURE FROM HERE!

("What she said to me at the end of the day/Caligula would have blushed...")

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Raverbashing is a great song!

I like the EP more that came out before the full length a lil' better, I think.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I used to worship ATR as a teenager, and silly as they were i still have a warm spot in my heart for 'em. Burn Berlin Burn still remains one of my all time personal favorites.

Some of my earliest attempts at making electronic music were basically really really low-rent attempts at Atari Teenage Riot Songs. I wrote this one song called "Digital Anarchy", it's fuckin' HILARIOUS to listen to now.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I am tempted to start writing DHR pastiches/tributes after listening to this CD all day.

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

At one point, I thought the line in Burn Berlin Burn was him yelling:

"NATION! against! NATION!
NOBODY SPEAKS UP BUT 311!"

Classic for that song alone, I never got around to checking out anything else but it really doesn't matter.

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link

"Some of my earliest attempts at making electronic music were basically really really low-rent attempts at Atari Teenage Riot Songs. I wrote this one song called "Digital Anarchy", it's fuckin' HILARIOUS to listen to now."

oh, here's that song btw. i found the cassete it was recorded on and transferred it to my computer. warning: it's quite awful!

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2242UFXXFNMDC2TF59LHG18P9C

latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 01:53 (eighteen years ago) link

YES TO ATR. Burn Berlin Burn is da shit.

sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link

DESTROY 2000 YEARS OF CULTURE

I saw these guys play live back in 2000, it was great. So loud, and I could see everything from way at the back of the club because all the people up front moshing like crazy were ages 12-15.

dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

P R E S S

Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Friday, 12 December 2008 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Alec Empire is bringing his German noise-terrorists back to Blighty!

Digital hardcore industrialists Atari Teenage Riot are set to play the Electric Ballroom on Wednesday, May 12th. Tickets will be on sale shortly.

The band have been on hiatus following co-founder Carl Crack’s death in 2001.

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/atari-teenage-riot-schedule-uk-show/

James Mitchell, Thursday, 14 January 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link

They were great live the one time I saw them back in 2000 or so. Tempted...

Colonel Poo, Thursday, 14 January 2010 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link

I remember being so impressed with The Future Of War when I first heard it (I was doing my GCSEs so a very long time ago now). 60 Second Wipeout or whatever it was called was good, but just didn't do the trick.

dog latin, Thursday, 14 January 2010 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link

eight months pass...
one month passes...

i've been banging ATR and Alec Empire all week

jar jar bank$ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link

I recognize the creative cul-de-sac represented here but that is not keeping me from banging my motherfucking head to this shit.

lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Leaving right now to see them here in Glasgow....

krakow, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link

It was great!

Really quite chuffed with this shot in particular...

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v11/p1030155366-3.jpg

krakow, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link

Best viewed on black/grey, so click through if you use the standard style sheets here in particular.

krakow, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Atari Teenage Riot Announce New Single ‘Blood In My Eyes’
(March 22nd on iTunes, April 19th release on all DSPs, Dim Mak )

Single Includes Remix of Last Year’s “Activate!”
Free Download from http://www.atari-teenage-riot.com

http://gallery.mailchimp.com/1d59aca4aeedaab429816159e/images/bloodinmyeyes.jpg

Atari Teenage Riot release their new single, “Blood In My Eyes”, through Digital Hardcore Recordings as a teaser for the band’s forthcoming album, Is This Hyperreal?, set to be released Summer, 2011.

“Blood In My Eyes” features Nic Endo on lead vocal. She speaks out for the multitude of women who have become the victims of human trafficking, their sexuality exploited for financial gain right under the gaze of the ineffectual governments of the self-proclaimed civilised west. Nic, wholly in tune with her trademark Japanese face-paint depicting "Resistance," makes her point in the inimitable Atari way.

Human trafficking is an issue most musicians would rather leave untouched. In popular music it's considered cool to present yourself with the accoutrements of modern life like expensive cars, bling, champagne etc. Basically everything that makes people feel
envy and adulation towards the artists who try to portray an image of being ‘successful’, while the music industry is close to collapse - but that's another song on to be addressed on ATR's new album.

"Blood In My Eyes" is a riveting electronic punk rock diatribe, paying homage to the feminine retributive subtexts espoused by cult films like ‘Kill Bill’ and heavily censored French art-house offering, ‘Baise-Moi.’

Nic expounds a cautionary tale, alerting us that all who stand by and do nothing share the guilt.

With its straight-forward throbbing 909 drum machine patterns, massive guitar riffs, ear-splitting adrenaline rushes of noise and powerful female vocals, ‘Blood In My Eyes’ charges down an unswerving path determined to confront the future head on.

“Blood In My Eyes” is the second ATR single from Is This Hyperreal?, which is due this summer on Dim Mak. ATR’s relationship with Dim Mak begin with a simple email from Alec Empire to the label-head Steve Aoki, and the rest is history between the band known for undeniable energy, and the label known for the same.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 28 March 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link

Is This Hyperreal.org?

GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link

alt.rave

errant flynn, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link

I remember all the hype when they came out and they were DISAPPOINTING.

E-N-A-B-L-E-R (u s steel), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

man i fucking loved burn berlin burn when i was a teenager

and suddenly this second just remembered that i went to a rage against the machine concert specifically to see ATR open. it...sucked?

cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link

Love them so much that when I went to another message board after being banned here my username was Atari Teenage Riot and my nickname is Ari Atari even IRL to this day. Yup.

Hugs on Weed (AaronHz), Thursday, 12 May 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

anybody in here like White Moth?

ST 337 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 12 May 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link

three years pass...

DELETE YOURSELF!!!!

valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link

otm

the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link

I recognize the creative cul-de-sac represented here but that is not keeping me from banging my motherfucking head to this shit.

― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Wednesday, November 3, 2010 9:04 AM (4 years ago)

yep

some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link

I'M SICK TO DEATH LIKE I'VE NEVER BEEN SICK BEFORE

the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link

NOT YOUR BUSINESS!

you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link

The answer to this question was answered in the first reply:

ATR's "Future of War" was in a way perfect, but they should've quit after that one.

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2014 10:52 (nine years ago) link

Man I used to love that album as a teenager. It really sounded like the most nihilistic, punky noise in the world. Then I bought 60 Second Wipeout which felt like a nu-metal parody of that record. Not without its cool moments, but I couldn't take them seriously by that point.

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2014 10:54 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRaBfKU2Sl4

Went nuts on this album, Monday mornings in boring college lectures, headphones on. DL p much otm up here, but this is still one for the ages.

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link

three years pass...

frikkin awesome old raw Carl Crack breakcorey mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR2hX3aUFrY

brimstead, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link

nice

sleeve, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link


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