Miss Black America (album)

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Miss Black America
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Studio album by Alec Empire
Released1999
RecordedAugust 1998
StudioDHR Studios (Berlin, Germany)
Genre Digital hardcore, noise
Label Digital Hardcore Recordings DHR LTD CD 009
Producer Alec Empire
Alec Empire chronology
The Geist of Alec Empire
(1997)		Miss Black America
(1999)		 Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
NME favorable [1]

Miss Black America is the sixth solo studio album by German producer Alec Empire, originally released through his Digital Hardcore Recordings label as a part of its DHR Limited series of single pressing albums. Recorded throughout August 1998 in between sessions for Atari Teenage Riots 60 Second Wipeout , [1] the album was produced in response to the political climate of Germany at the time. [2]

Germany Federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps, Lake Constance and the High Rhine to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.

Alec Empire German musician

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 prolific and distinguished 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.

Digital Hardcore Recordings record label

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.

Contents

The band Miss Black America took their name from this album. [3]

Miss Black America (band)

Miss Black America (MBA) were a punk-influenced rock band formed in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England in 1999.

Track listing

All tracks written by Alec Empire.

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."DFO2"3:14
2."Black Sabbath"3:39
3."The Nazi Comets"3:23
4."It Should Be You Not Me!"5:51
5."They Landed Inside My Head While We Were Driving in the Taxi up to 53rd Street and Took Over!"3:59
Side B
No.TitleLength
6."The Robot Put a Voodoospell on Me"7:32
7."I Can Hear the Winds of Saturn"6:24
8."We Take Your Pain Away"3:15
9.Untitled5:58
Total length:43:15

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References

  1. 1 2 n/a. "Alec Empire - Miss Black America". www.nme.com. NME. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
  2. ↑ n/a. "Do Riot Sounds Produce Riots? Revisiting Interviews With Alec Empire". hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com. Wordpress. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
  3. ↑ Lee, Tom. "Miss Black America (Interview)". www.noripcord.com. No Ripcord. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
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