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Founder of Berlin's Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec Empire created some of the most musically diverse works of the 1990s, recording both as himself and with the trio Atari Teenage Riot. Empire was often identified with (and pigeonholed because of) his ATR productions -- lo-fi breakbeats played at the speed of thrash that simultaneously embraced the energy of punk, the ...more

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  • Kick Some Soul, Pt. 1
  • Nobody Gets Out Alive!
  • Heartbeat That Isn't There
  • Hard Like It's a Pose
  • Civilization Virus

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  • Alec Empire @ contactmusic
  • ATARI TEENAGE RIOT STICKERS
  • Alec Empire: The Destroyer [Pitchfork Review]
  • THE DESTROYER
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