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First I hear that a core member dies, then I hear it isn't Empire -- from the NME site, which I can't link to because I've been having some trouble getting into it recently:

"ATARI TEENAGE RIOT FOUNDER DIES

ATARI TEENAGE RIOT founder member CARL CRACK has died.

He was found in his Berlin apartment on September 6.

Little is known about the exact details of his death, but it is believed to there was a huge deterioration in his health tied to years of over abuse of alcohol and pills.

Crack, who had just turned 30 in May, had a history of mental illness. The band had taken a one year break to allow him time to seek psychiatric help. It is understood he and ATR mainman Alec Empire hadn't spoken in a year, but had been emailing each other recently."

Anyone ever a fan? Is Digital Hardcore a good thing? Have we done a thread on them before?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was a fan back when I was in the college dorms. I used to play it to annoy my floor. I eventually made the switch to Merzbow but ATR had its time. Digital Hardcore is fun but everybody seems to be in Alec Empire's shadow.

― Honda, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

never a fan, but the greatest dhr-related record is empire's "the destroyer," of the great albs of the 90s in fact...techstep x jump up + wu tang divided by merzbow (to the nth power.) groovy.

(also, empire's pre-atr "hetzjagd auf nazis" is one of the best singles of the 90s)

― jess, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will second The Destroyer. More interesting than anything ATR put out.

― bnw, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't seem to access the site. Only an error page with some links on it. Those links/headlines lead to nothing. Uh?

― nathalie, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We did a thread before.

I was a bit of a fan of Carl Crack's solo album 'Black Ark'. Far more interesting and subtle than ATR.

― Omar, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah kind of nice noisy mess but they made one of the shittiest live show I've ever seen

― francesco, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

not a fan of the noisy stuff (being a wuss), but Alec Empire's 'Les Etoiles des Filles Mortes'(sp?) is a fantasticly weird futurist album

― m jemmeson, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked that album too. I also love Nic Endo. Urr...I mean her music. It sounds phenomenal. I also love that live album ATR released: pure NOISE!

― Kodanshi, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they made one of the shittiest live show I've ever seen
Bollox. One of the best shows I have EVER seen. Humerous, confrontational, political,... it was all thrown at us, the public.

― nathalie, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with Kodanshi on Nic Endo - her debut ep is one of the all-time great noise discs. And Shizuo - love his version of 'Heart of Glass'!

― Andrew L, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

empires' elvis remix album is fantastic...

― bounder, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

All of the DHR albums are great.

― DavidR XV, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of their schtick gets annoying after a while, but ATR is great in small doses. I've been listening to them a lot more recently than I have in a couple of years for some odd reason.

That Nic Endo solo album is great.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i cant believe i used the word "groovy" on this thread.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It was only a week after 9/11. You were still in shock.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

you were pretending to be C. Montgomery Burns

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW the Christoph De Babalon album was the best thing that DHR ever released (and they released some other good stuff; Shizuo, Destroyer are both certainly worthwhile.) Anything they did with vocals is probably to be avoided though (ATR, EC08R, Fever, etc.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW the Christoph De Babalon album was the best thing that DHR ever released

This is true.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"hetzjagd auf nazis" is still amazing, though its a bit sad he perfected this whole thing in 92 and then felt the need to go for another decade or so.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, he definitely seemed like the sort to take an idea and beat it relentlessly into the ground.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

it was always a bit funny to see the wire bend over backwards to continue their infatuation just a little longer "omg he's making bad gabba with a gameboy! zounds!" i think shapiro was the only one with the balls to point out dhr had no clothes at the end there.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Unfortunately, he was probably creaming his pants over the latest Solesides/Quannum record at the same time.

The greater irony is, of course, that they went apeshit over the American version of Empire, Kid606 right after that. I think they may be over him too, though. They seem to be all over Anticon's dick lately. Yawn.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i think kid606 was somewhere in EVERY ISSUE in 2000. it was kind of amazing, really.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It was certainly something. Haha he's certainly at EVERY SHOW I go to in SF. He must get in for free. :(

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a new Hanin Elias CD, myself.

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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