wtf no ALEC EMPIRE thread in this bitch

ATR actually kind of made me think he probably sucked until GEIST 001 came out, his 3-disc greatest hits announcement of "fuck you force inc I quit"

also one of the most consistently worthwhile contributors to the electric ladyland series, by kind of a long shot actually

whats the one with all the raekwon samples

I only really know The Destroyer, mostly because I'm lazy.

ethan I have no idea tbh

a whole album or are you talking about a single?

whole album i thought... i think it sampled rza going BANG YOUR HEAD!!!! from gravediggaz too

That's The Destroyer. That's probably my favorite of his stuff although there are some good 12"s on Force Inc which I guess are collected on Limited Edition although I don't have that.

limited edition and generation star wars are both worth picking up just for about two or three astounding tracks on each

On a DHR tip what ever happened to Christoph De Babalon? If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It was always my fave thing on the label.

oh yeah that shit was like a revelation

Why is it that whenever I think of DHR, the first band that leaps to mind is fucking EC8OR?

Haha no idea unless it's because Patric Catani is soooo sexy.

The Destroyer, totally.

"Hard Like It's A Pose" is so badass.

On a DHR tip what ever happened to Christoph De Babalon? If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It was always my fave thing on the label.

Seconded. Is my copy still around, I wonder...

Actually the entire original roster of DHR just kind of disappeared, didn't it? Shizuo, Nic Endo, Catani, De Babalon, none of them (all of whom had some great stuff out here and there) did much of anything after 2000 or so. I wonder if they all have kids and work for Volkswagon now or something.

bad batch of opiates

Nic Endo tours/records with Alec Empire, but the rest...who knows?

cdb is way more interesting than herr empire, where's his thread?

he has a number of releases besides "if you're into it I'm out of it", all great stuff. some of the better ones are "destroy berlin!", "seven up" and the fantastically titled "rise above this"

in the wtf category, I once saw a US anti-smoking tv ad that used "dead too".

Haha he released a record on floppy disc!

http://www.discogs.com/release/610995

I have the cd single of "Seven Up", I think, and it is good. Apparently De Babalon is now in Übergang which seems sort of appropriate somehow.

SHIZUO VS SHIZOR

voted for hypermodern jazz just because

I am loving this thread already, I think the time is ripe for a DHR revival. Also, the Hanin Elias EP is quite fine, there is one track that reminds me of Muslimgauze.

Les Étoiles des Filles Mortes

This is one of the weirdest, most baffling records I own, like some bastard offspring of In The Nursery.

5 xposts damn this thread is hoppin'

"the destroyer" classic for "Don't Lie, White Girl!" (4:35)

"My Funk Is Useless" / "Dreaming Is A Form Of Astrotravel"

so dope

"Lash The 90ties" / "smack"

so dope

Geration Star Wars
Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions)
Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5
The Destroyer
Les Étoiles des Filles Mortes

^^ all 5 are totally classic, right?

it's funny, i'd heard a lot of empires stuff on various mille plateux comps and things, but i'd been buying those more to get my hands on more zulutronic / kerosene / biochip c / 4e tracks

it was listening to this comp that really turned me on to alec empire.

Oh good that Nicolette DJ Kicks (non)mix. Haha I remember that made people really mad when it came out.

I forgot how utterly awesome that tracklist was until just now.

god I am going to be so pissed if I can't find my CDB when I get home
I would totally buy a DHR/Geist boxset

As much junk is in there, I would still probably be down
BOMB 20's "Field Manual" was a huge disappointment but he had a lot of great stuff on comps as I recall, plus when I saw him live he kicked fucking ass

Haha yeah most of the other stuff is not as good. Fever, ick. Although DJ Maxxximus has some good stuff where he isn't trying to rap.

oh man I actually picked up nintendo teenage robots. that was even worse than those archittetura records on caipirinha for low-concept awfulness. wtf alec

unpleasant memory

Alec Empire vs Elvis Presley

hypermodern jazz

I thought this would be another LOL MORRISSEY RACISM WHITEY thread.

His Joga remix for Bjork

god I am going to be so pissed if I can't find my CDB when I get home

leonardo will always be there for you

that is good to know, Edward

when it comes to scratching somebody's cdb itch the lights are always on

"His Joga remix for Bjork"

He did a couple of Joga remixes didn't he? I don't reminder liking either much, but that song didn't need much done to it either.

"low on ice" is soo deeep and sooo good...

opium 15:30

opium 12:00

I am an astronaut with a split tether

I have 10 minutes of oxygen

opium 11:10

I have a wife and two children back on Earth

I can't think of them because of the stars

opium 9:50

the stars are too bright

the stars

Once the stellar core is sufficiently dense, some of the hydrogen is steadily converted into helium through the process of nuclear fusion. The remainder of the star's interior carries energy away from the core through a combination of radiative and convective processes. These processes keep the star from collapsing in on itself, and the energy generates a stellar wind at the surface and propels radiation into outer space.

a supernova is produced when a star becomes so heavy that it must attempt to fuse iron

opium 6:20

I have died

one out of four dimensions which I can perceive has become utterly irrelevant

and always has been

opium 4:10

A star with a core mass too great to form a white dwarf but insufficient to achieve sustained conversion of neon to oxygen and magnesium will undergo core collapse (due to electron capture, as described above) before achieving fusion of the heavier elements.

If the mass of the stellar remnant is high enough, the neutron degeneracy pressure will be insufficient to prevent collapse below the Schwarzschild radius. The stellar remnant thus becomes a black hole. The mass at which this occurs is not known with certainty, but is currently estimated at between 2 and 3 solar masses.

opium 2:20

Black holes are predicted by the theory of general relativity. According to classical general relativity, no matter or information can flow from the interior of a black hole to an outside observer, although quantum effects may allow deviations from this strict rule. The existence of black holes in the universe is well supported, both theoretically and by astronomical observation.

opium 1:30

All death is certain. I shall tell your father what you have become!

opium 0:00

god that track is so awesome

"Alec Empire vs Elvis Presley"

great album! and very funny. i sold my copy though. i always ended up selling my atr/alec empire albums. i still have a couple though. i didn't care for the star wars album when i bought it. great cover though.

you didn't listen to lash the 90ties

you son of a fucking bitch

how about you go find that track, the full version, and then drive through an empty city at night while it plays

then tell me what you think

maybe it wasn't what i was expecting at the time? i dunno, i might like it more now.

I may have had several beverages but I know what is what, sir

i still own the destroyer. and the future of war. i sold my copy of delete yourself though.

what happened to the cool album covers? that's what i want to know. that futurist cover, what the hell is that?

dude his album covers have always been completely hit or miss

best album!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Alecempire-alecempirevselvispresley.jpg/200px-Alecempire-alecempirevselvispresley.jpg

nah, that whole dhc look was cool. gimme a cool logo and i'm there. i mean, i'm a crass fan. i'm conditioned to buy that stuff.

I always figured that his rise out of east berlin farmboy to multi-instrumental visionary with a respected label to call his own had to have a lot of narcissism in it, like protein for athletes

I'm not a big fan of the DHR aesthetic overall

i'm a sucker for the metal look. which is why i'm a gabber fan.

http://www.h2ohrecordings.com/h20h/images/hard_head.jpg

UH

that's ugly

yeah, omar had better covers. but you get the picture.

scott seward is who he is, man. nothing you or I can do.
xpost.
metalhead.

my fave hardcore mix:

Disc: 1
1. Everybody Gets Laid - Temper Tantrum Vs Unexist
2. Omnibeam - Temper Tantrum Vs Unexist
3. Lord Of Darkness - DJ Jappo
4. Robotz - DJ Cybersnuff
5. Forgotten Moments - Emotional Response
6. Anywhere - Lenny Dee & The Hardcore Warriors
7. EXLXAXL (Remix) - DJ Jappo Vs Lancinhouse
8. Synthesized - HCM
9. Welcome To Oblivion - The Multi Death Klan
10. Get The Fu#k Up - Rob Gee
11. Obliteration - Delta 9
12. I Get The Coke - Temper Tantrum
13. Son Of A Bitch - Delta 9
14. Industrial Strength - Narcotic Vs UVC
15. Here Comes The Pain (Lenny Dee Mix) - Lethal Insanity
16. The Outro - DJ Jappo Vs Lancinhouse
Disc: 2
1. Extreme Gangsta - DOA
2. Final Sacrifice - Bezerker
3. Fu#kin Core - HCM
4. Total Annihilation - DOA
5. Uncle Bill's Message - Bill
6. Spead Metal Gabber - Simo
7. Can't Fu#k With This - DJ Narcotic & UVC
8. I Hate You - Seige & Menace
9. Ready To Attack - HCM
10. Kill - DOA
11. NYC Speedcore - DOA & Narcotic
12. Deader Than ESRA - Deadman
13. End Of The Line - Dummy Plug Conspiracy
14. King Dead Acid - Deadman
15. Rotterdam Is Hard? - Simo Vs HCM
16. Break Ya Face - Unexist
17. DJ Skinhead - DJ Skinhead
18. You Smoke - Dummy Plug Consipracy

omar santana kinda did a lot of damage to music, from where I stand.
OTOH ppl love him to death, so once again I must capitulate to the facts of life.

that cover reminds me of this one amazingly hideous album i owned ... it was some old drum and bass comp i had. the cover is a woman made of silver metal w/ huge bass speaker cones for boobs. and she's holding them. i thought it was the back cover to the "techsteppin" comp, maybe? please find and post.

hey scott I noticed that you have no instances of "Shaftman" by "The Shaftman" so your favorite hardcore mix is actually just a really long laborious shit

what is "opium"? do you mean "la guerre d'opium"?

please tell me there's a gabber thread on this board somewhere

journey de baja:

http://www.discogs.com/release/99444

On a DHR tip what ever happened to Christoph De Babalon? If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It was always my fave thing on the label.

it's so cool to see love for CdB. i bought everything starting with destroy berlin! up to (but excluding) that floppy thing. dude was fucking great, though i remember thinking the 12" on six shooter wasn't the greatest shit ever. and the split w/kid 606, but who puts their best material on a kid 606 release?

anyway, voted for the destroyer. "when you reach your peak it's time to die" and so on.

One of my friends booked a show for Alex Empire years ago and he asked for 24 white towels on the rider.

Another of my friends worked at DHR in the UK for a bit and Carl Crack died on his first day in the job

*Alec

ok so 24 white towels on the rider, what does that mean

THE DESTROYER

that shit can still give your taint a chemcal peel at the right volume

you know what else can do that is a trip on an amtrak

love that the album starts with "opium". such a nervy move.

Another vote for Alec Empire vs Elvis Presley. Oh wait ;)

"nobody's ever heard of me but I'm gonna start my bangin' world debut with 15 minutes of alienating atmospheric drone"

I am going to continue to pretend this thread is all about cdb. and it's not really a threadcrap cuz tom threadstarter is encouraging such behavior.

hum-de-dum leonardo cdb duh dah.

i didn't even know about ubergang until this thread, not the speed-paranoia shit i was expecting from him, but still has the insanely detailed beat programming.

what what what

what does it say on the interior of the hypermodern jazz cd?

here's all i can figure out

"es ist S*****, und es war f*** der k****** w***** den ich ja ???? ?????

jedenfalls ??? ich ???? in ???? ??? ??? ich ???? wirklich nicht mehr in ????, ich have zu viele gesehen ???? allein mit wir und ???? ??? stimmung (?), die mich blut schreiben (?) ????

mein blick ???? in ???? die Eig???? verwinschen (?) ???? wansch (?) sich ??? einem ??? ???? etc etc"

i dunno, i don't have enough german to decipher the words that i don't know off the top of my head (even jedenfalls was a stretch)

can anyone help?

there's a bit in the middle that goes

"es ???? an, ??? mir zu ????, ???? ????, wie ein wichtiger Mozart", interested to see what the context is

I once made a pathetic attempt to be social (lol, "once") by telling this techno dj guy at the college station that alec empire was dj'ing near by and his expression of contempt towards me is still burned into my brain.

bigpants sheep motherfucker

^^^ surprised this was not ever actually an alec empire song title

anyway the merzbow vs empire cbgbs album showed up in my mail today, it's pretty worth it, even if most of merzbows contributions seem to be kinda mixed way in the background (not really clear on if that was the case at the show myself since I was just kind of staring at him doing whatever the fuck he was doing with his weird metal on metal scraping noise-tar plugged into about 30 pedals all on a table

busy being lou reed

anyone know where the samples in "My Face Would Crack" are from?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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Let's do a Panacea poll next!

Dan would vote in all these Panacea polls.

I wonder if they all have kids and work for Volkswagon now or something.

Hey I resent that remarik, Mr Posho. Wait till you sperminate Mrs Posho. ;-)

I never got around to buying his recs but loved the ATR gigs I saw. Completely mental, had a good laugh at'em.

BANG YOUR HEAD

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow, no love for generation star wars or limited editions. nobody to blame but myself, I guess.

Hah it seemed like more people posted on this thread than voted in this poll.

"opium" rocking my world - AGAIN.

(c de B, not alec, but bless him for making the record happen)