Alec Empire discography | |
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Studio albums | 10 |
EPs | 18 |
Live albums | 2 |
Compilation albums | 5 |
Singles | 8 |
Video albums | 2 |
Music videos | 9 |
DJ mixes | 13 |
The following is a list of known recordings by or involving Alec Empire, excluding his work with Atari Teenage Riot.
Title | Release date | Label |
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Generation Star Wars | 1994 | Mille Plateaux |
Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions) | 1995 | Mille Plateaux |
Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5 | 1996 | Mille Plateaux |
The Destroyer | 1996 | DHR |
Les Étoiles des Filles Mortes | 1996 | Mille Plateaux |
Miss Black America | 1999 | DHR |
Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley | 1999 | El Turco Loco |
Intelligence and Sacrifice | 2001 | DHR |
Futurist | 2005 | DHR |
The Golden Foretaste of Heaven | 2007 | Eat Your Heart Out Records |
Title | Release date | Label |
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Limited Editions 1990-94 | 1994 | Mille Plateaux |
Terror Worldwide | 1996 | DHR Midiwar |
Terror Worldwide Pt. 2 | 1996 | DHR Midiwar |
Squeeze the Trigger | 1997 | DHR |
The Geist of Alec Empire | 1997 | Geist Recordings |
Bass Terror | 2008 | Eat Your Heart Out |
Title | Release date | Label |
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Alec Empire vs. Merzbow: Live CBGB's NYC 1998 | 2003 | DHR |
The CD2 Sessions: Live in London 7-12-2002 | 2003 | DHR |
Title | Release date | Label |
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Trip Men EP (with T.N.I.) | 1991 | Force Inc. |
Yobot EP | 1992 | Force Inc. |
suEcide EP (Pt.1) | 1992 | Force Inc. |
suEcide EP (Pt.2) | 1992 | Force Inc. |
Das Duell EP (with Biochip C.) | 1993 | Force Inc. |
Bass Terror EP | 1993 | Force Inc. |
Limited Edition 1 EP | 1993 | Force Inc. |
Limited Edition 2 EP | 1994 | Force Inc. |
Digital Hardcore EP | 1994 | DHR |
Death EP | 1994 | DHR |
Destroyer EP | 1994 | Riot Beats |
Destroyer EP Part 2 | 1994 | Riot Beats |
Pulse Code EP (with Ian Pooley) | 1994 | Mille Plateaux |
The Destroyer EP | 1996 | Grand Royal |
No Safety Pin Sex E.P. | 1997 | DHR |
Shards of Pol-Pottery: The 2001 Remixes EP (with El-P) | 2001 | DHR |
New World Order EP | 2001 | Beat Records |
On Fire EP | 2007 | Eat Your Heart Out |
Shivers | 2009 | Eat Your Heart Out |
Title | Release date | Label |
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"Together for Never" (featuring Lucy Devils) (split with "Raverbashing" by Atari Teenage Riot) | 1994 | Riot Beats |
"The King Of The Street / Brothers Crush" | 1996 | Riot Beats |
"Addicted to You" | 2002 | DHR |
"The Ride" | 2002 | DHR |
"Gotta Get Out" | 2005 | DHR |
"Kiss of Death" | 2005 | DHR |
"Monk Time" (featuring Gary Burger of The Monks) (split with "Higgle-dy Piggle-dy" by The Fall) | 2006 | Play Loud! |
"Robot L.O.V.E." | 2007 | Eat Your Heart Out |
Title | Release date | Label |
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"SuEcide" (Pluto Rmxs) | 1994 | white |
"SuEcide" (Wonka Remixes) | 1994 | Rare Grooves |
"Hetzjagd Auf Nazis" (Panacea remix) | 1997 | Position Chrome |
Title | Release date | Label |
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Death Favours the Enemy: Live 2002 (DVD) | 2002 | DHR |
Live at Fuji Rock 2001 (Tour exclusive) (DVDr) | 2005 | DHR |
Sixteen Years of Video Material (with Atari Teenage Riot) (DVD) | 2008 | Monitorpop |
Title | Release date | Label |
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Cut the Pussies1 | 1995 | DHR Midiwar |
DJ Spooky vs. Alec Empire (with DJ Spooky) (double cassette)1 | unknown | DHR |
Capitol Noise - Chapter 1: Noise And Politics | 1995 | Capitol Noise |
Generation Star Wars Party (19.12.'95 Bunker)1 | 1995 | DHR |
Live at CBGB's New York City 4-11-98 (CDr)1 | 2004 | DHR |
The Destroyer Mix Tape #3/98 (CDr)1 | 2004 | DHR |
The Destroyer Mix Tape #4/04 (CDr)1 | 2004 | DHR |
Japanese Noise Pt. 1 & 2 & 3 (3CDr)2 | 2005 | DHR |
Tribute to R. Mooog (2CDr)2 | 2005 | DHR |
DJ Mix Sun Ra (CDr)2 | 2005 | DHR |
Live at the Suicide Club 1995 (CDr)1 | 2006 | DHR |
Satellite of Fear (CDr)2 | 2007 | DHR |
Eat Your Heart Out Mix1 | 2008 | Eat Your Heart Out |
1Mail order and online store exclusives
2Tour exclusives
Song | Album | Date | Label |
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"Yobots Around My Neck (Theme From Tekkno Boy)" | Tekkno Boy | 1992 | Deutsche Schallplatten |
"You Must Confront" | Destroy Deutschland! | 1993 | Force Inc. |
"Anti-Nazi-Soulfood" | |||
"Forgive Not Mothafuckers! ('Cause it Doesn't Make it Alright!)" | |||
"Naomi Campbell" | Shocker: The Inferno Part II | 1994 | WEA, EastWest |
"Alec's Blues" | Tribute to the Blues - Evolve or Die | 1996 | P-Vine |
"The 6 Wisdoms of Aspasia" | The Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos | 1997 | Sideburn |
"Alleged Accused Repeated Reused" (with Matt Pizzolo, feat. Jello Biafra and Seth Tobocman) | DIY-Fest | 2001 | DHR |
"Tribute To Coil (Short Version)" | ...It Just Is | 2005 | Nocharizma/Fulldozer |
"Monk Time" (feat. Gary Burger of The Monks) | Silver Monk Time: A Tribute to The Monks | 2006 | play loud! |
Song | Artist | Album | Date | Label |
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"Dschungelfieber" (Alec Empire remix) | Space Cube | "Dschungelfieber" (Remixes) (single) | 1994 | Riot Beats |
"31202" (remix) | Ford Prefect | Noise Love Unity - Love Parade '94 (compilation) | 1994 | D'vision |
"Up Where We Belong" (FP23 mix) | SilkyWay | "Up Where We Belong" | 1994 | Phonogram |
"Imago" (Alec Empire remix) | Air Liquide | Abuse Your Illusions - Part 1.1 | 1995 | Harvest |
"Harold" (Alec Empire mix) | Sonic Subjunkies | Sounds from the City of Quartz | 1995 | DHR |
"Beautiful Day" (Digital Hardcore mix) | Nicolette | "Beautiful Day" (single) | 1995 | Talkin' Loud |
"Dactylo Rock" (Ausrufezeichen) | Stereo Total | "Dactylo Rock" (single) | 1996 | Peace 95 |
"Die Menschen Aus Kiel" (Digital Hardcore remix) | Schorsch Kamerun | "Die Menschen Aus Kiel" (Remixe) (single) | 1996 | L'Âge d'or |
"Know Your Chicken" (Alec Empire remix) | Cibo Matto | "Know Your Chicken" (single) | 1996 | Blanco Y Negro |
"MotorRazor" (Digital Hardcore remix) | Think About Mutation | "MotorRazor 96" (single) | 1996 | Dynamica |
"No Government" (Alec Empire remix) | Nicolette | 21st Century Soul (compilation) | 1997 | Talkin' Loud |
"My Way" (Remix by Alec Empire) | Audio Active | Apollo Choco Remixed | 1997 | On-U Sound |
"Bachelorette" (Hypermodern Jazz) | Björk | "Bachelorette" (single) | 1997 | One Little Indian |
"Bachelorette" (The Ice Princess & The Killer Whale) | ||||
"Jóga" (Empire State of Emergency) | Björk | "Jóga" (single) | 1997 | One Little Indian |
"Jóga" (The Destroyer) | ||||
"Mood of Mods Generation" (Alec Empire remix) | Violent Onsen Geisha & DMBQ | Digital Catastroph 1997 (compilation) | 1997 | ZK |
"Papua" (Alec Empire remix) | Surfers of Romantika | |||
"The Garden" (The White Chair remix) | Einstürzende Neubauten | Ende Neu (Remixes) | 1997 | PIAS |
"Friss Scheisse" (Digital Hardcore remix) | Schweisser | "Friss Scheisse" (single) | 1997 | Bullet Proof |
"Dr. Moog" (The Destroyer remix) | Buffalo Daughter | Socks, Drugs and Rock and Roll | 1997 | Grand Royal |
"Dance or Be Shot" | Bottom 12 | "Dance or Be Shot" (single) | 1997 | unknown |
"Consumed" (Digital Hardcore mix) | Mark Stewart | Consumed - The Remix Wars | 1998 | Mute |
"Crash Pow" (Alec Empire remix) | The Mad Capsule Markets | Digidogheadlock | 1998 | JVC |
"Creature" (Digital Hardcore remix) | ||||
"Like Herod" (Face The Future Remix) | Mogwai | Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed | 1998 | Jetset |
"R U Still in 2 It?" (Straight Demons remix) | Mogwai | "R U Still in 2 It?" (promo single) | 1998 | Eye Q |
"Keep Trying the Old Number" (Alec Empire remix) | Thurston Moore | Root | 1998 | Lo |
"Atomic Buddha" (Version Alec Empire) | Techno Animal | Techno Animal Versus Reality | 1998 | City Slang |
"Heat" (Alec Empire remix) | R. L. Burnside | Come On In | 1998 | Fat Possum |
"Keep On Rockin'" (Alec Empire remix) | Shonen Knife | Ultramix | 1998 | MCA Victor Japan |
"Trapped in Three Dimensions" (Alec Empire mix) | Ice | "Trapped In Three Dimensions" (single) | 1999 | Morpheus |
"Godzilla March" (Digital Hardcore remix) | Destroy the Monsters | Godzilla 2000 Japan (soundtrack) | 2000 | Nippon Columbia |
"Jet Virus" (Digital Hardcore remix) | Guitar Wolf | Rock n' Roll Etiquette | 2000 | Ki/Oon |
"It's a Burning Hell" (remix) | Brainbombs | Cheap (EP) | 2001 | Load |
"Miss Lucifer" (Panther Girl) | Primal Scream | "Miss Lucifer" (single) | 2002 | Columbia |
"Miss Lucifer" (Bone to Bone) | ||||
"Digital Hardcore" (Alec Empire mix) | Merzbow | Ikebana: Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled | 2003 | Important |
"Skool Daze" (Alec Empire remix) | Chris Vrenna | "Skool Daze"/"Late Night Shopping" (single) | 2003 | Waxploitation |
"Amerika" (Digital Hardcore mix) | Rammstein | "Amerika" (single) | 2004 | Universal |
"Reach" (Alec Empire remix) | Panic DHH | "Reach" (single) | 2004 | DHR |
"Mann Gegen Mann" (Futurist remix) | Rammstein | "Mann gegen Mann" (single) | 2006 | Universal |
"Oxygen Debt" (Pandemic remix) | Most Precious Blood | Threat: Music That Inspired the Movie (compilation) | 2006 | Halo 8 |
"New York City" (Alec Empire remix) | Emigrate | "New York City" (single) | 2007 | Motor Music |
Album | Artist | Track(s) | Role | Year | Label |
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"Acid Head"/"L.S.D." | Zen Faschisten | "Acid Head" | Producer | unknown | Choose |
Show EP | Hanin Elias | — | Producer | 1996 | DHR |
Let No One Live Rent Free in Your Head | Nicolette | "Nervous", "Nightmare" | Producer | 1996 | Talkin' Loud |
Disco Sukkers EP | Killout Trash | — | Mastering | 1997 | AIPR |
ACME | Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | "Attack" | Mixing | 1998 | Matador |
So... How's Your Girl? | Handsome Boy Modeling School | "Megaton B-Boy" (with El-P) | Mixing | 1999 | Tommy Boy |
"Red Hot Riding Hood" (single) | Lolita Storm | — | Mixing | 2000 | DHR |
No Games, No Fun | Hanin Elias | "You Suck" | Producer | 2003 | Fatal |
The Bachelor | Patrick Wolf | "Vulture", "Battle" | Co-Producer, Co-Writer | 2009 | Bloody Chamber Music |
Album | Artist | Track(s) | Role | Year | Label |
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Enough of This | Martin Peter | "Bypass" | Vocals | 2005 | Angora Steel |
An edited version of the track "Naomi Campbell" from the Shocker compilation
Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) is a German band formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fuse anarchist and anti-fascist views with punk vocals and a techno sound called digital hardcore, which is a term band member Alec Empire used as the name of his record label Digital Hardcore Recordings.
Hanin Elias is a Syrian German industrial/techno artist. She was a member of Atari Teenage Riot and is now a solo artist.
Digital hardcore is a fusion genre that combines hardcore punk with electronic dance music genres such as breakbeat, techno, and drum and bass while also drawing on heavy metal and noise music. It typically features fast tempos and aggressive sound samples. The style was pioneered by Alec Empire of the German band Atari Teenage Riot during the early 1990s, and often has sociological or leftist lyrical themes.
Alec Empire is a German experimental electronic musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot, as well as a solo artist, producer and DJ. He has released many albums, EPs and singles, some under aliases, and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk. He was also the driving force behind the creation of the digital hardcore genre, and founded the record labels Digital Hardcore Recordings and Eat Your Heart Out Records.
Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured. The funds for setting up the label came from the payment which Atari Teenage Riot received for their aborted record deal with the major UK record label Phonogram Records.
Swingin' Utters is a Californian punk rock band that formed in the late 1980s. After U.S. and European tours supporting the release of 2003's "Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones", some band members concentrated on raising their new families. From 2003-2010, the band played frequently, though mostly limited to the west coast of the United States and Canada, taking a break from any longer, comprehensive touring or recordings. During this time, they released the "Live in a Dive" double live album on Fat Wreck Chords (2004), and "Hatest Grits", a b-sides and rarities compilation (2008). After a seven-year gap in the release of any new, original recordings, the band released the "Brand New Lungs" 3-song 7-inch ep in 2010, followed by the "Here, Under Protest" LP (2011), and have since released four more records, and have resumed touring internationally.
Toxic Reasons were an American punk rock band, formed in 1979. The band released nine full-length studio albums between 1982 and 1995.
Thaddeus "Thaddi" Herrmann is a German electronic musician, label owner as well as music and technology journalist.
Ian Pooley is a German record producer and DJ. While incorporating samples of various musical genres, Pooley's creations are usually classified as house or tech house with Brazilian influence.
Thomas-René Gerlach, known professionally as DJ Tonka, is a German electronic dance musician. He is also known as Tonka, Chip Tunes, and Thomastic.
Burn, Berlin, Burn! is a compilation album released by Atari Teenage Riot in 1997. Initially released in the United States by the Beastie Boys' record label Grand Royal, the album is a collection of tracks from their first two albums Delete Yourself! and The Future of War. After Grand Royal Records went defunct, the album was later remastered and re-released on Digital Hardcore Recordings.
Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley is a recording by Alec Empire which incorporates Elvis Presley samples.
Atari Teenage Riot: 1992–2000 is a greatest hits compilation by the seminal digital hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot. The album was released on band member Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings on 3 July 2006 and features 18 tracks from the band's back catalogue.
Country Teasers were an art punk band formed in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1993.
Disorder are an English street punk band that formed in the Bristol area of England in 1980, and has existed with varying line-ups. They are aligned with politically charged punk bands.
Rage E.P. is a release by Atari Teenage Riot. Although the title of the release is "Rage E.P.", it only contains versions of the song "Rage", so it is similar to a single. The CD versions are enhanced CDs which contain the single file of the music video "Too Dead For Me" in MPEG format. A 12" vinyl edition also exists.
Revolution Action E.P. is an extended play by the German digital hardcore group Atari Teenage Riot, released in 1999 on 12" vinyl and CD formats to promote the album 60 Second Wipe Out, where the title track originates. Two music videos were produced for the track, one of which was actually banned by MTV. "Revolution Action" was also the name of a tour and live various artist release titled Revolution Action Japan Tour 1999 EP.
Christoph de Babalon is a German electronic producer, experimental artist and DJ, best known for his work on Alec Empire's label Digital Hardcore Recordings, most notably If You're Into It, I'm Out of It (1997). He also is the co-founder of the label Cross Fade Enter Tainment (CFET).
430 West Records is an independent record label based in Detroit, Michigan, United States, formed in 1990 by Lawrence Burden, Lenny Burden, and Lynell Burden, just months after recording their debut record for Derrick Mays' Transmat label. 430 West was formed as an outlet for the Burden Brothers' own productions. Later it was expanded to be the home for releases by electronic music artists Jay Denham, Terrence Parker, Eddie Fowlkes, Aux 88, Wild Planet, and Gerald Mitchell, among others. In 1998, 430 West also became the musical home for the trio's youngest brothers, Lance Burden and Lorne Burden.
88 Fingers Louie is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, which was formed in 1993. After disbanding in 1999, guitarist Dan Wleklinski and bassist Joe Principe formed the well-known punk rock band Rise Against. The band reunited in 2009, and has continued playing shows in Chicago, Canada, Belgium, Las Vegas, and Asbury Park. The band held a 20th anniversary show in 2013. The name comes from a Flintstones gangster who sells dodgy pianos.