Atari Teenage Riot
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Berlin hardcore dissenters Atari Teenage Riot were among a new generation of German techno artists (also including Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire, Ec8or, The Speed Freak, DJ Bleed, etc.) who sought to reconnect music with political radicalism through ever more challenging, experimental hybrids, engaging everything from speed metal and acid to jungle and hardcore punk. Formed in 1992 by Empire, Hanin Elias, and Carl Crack, Atari Teenage Riot's controversial first single, "Hunting for Nazis," was released by German techno stronghold Force Inc. that same year (Force Inc. owner Achim Szepanski is also known for his commitment to political radicalism). Subsequently, the group released a string of singles and full-lengths, all of them instantly recognizable for their brash, noisy fusions of brittle, 200-plus-bpm breaks, massive guitar riffs, and a good deal of shouting. Similar in motivation to Detroit's Underground Resistance or industrial dance group Consolidated, Atari Teenage Riot professed a concern with a general conservative shift in the Western political climate (particularly in Germany after the collapse of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe) and supported the development of new, overtly political forms of youth culture by way of response.
Read More...Somewhat surprisingly, the group's early singles landed them a recording deal with U.K. major Phonogram in 1993, through whom they released a number of singles before skipping out on their contract (the label reportedly wanted more straight-ahead, commercial techno from the group). Using their Phonogram advance for the full-length album they never delivered, Atari Teenage Riot formed Digital Hardcore Recordings in 1994, the imprint under which they released most of their subsequent material, including the full-lengths Delete Yourself! and The Future of War, plus a number of singles and EPs. DHR also expanded to include a number of up-and-coming German artists -- including Ec8or and Shizuo -- with similar political leanings, and signed a domestic licensing deal with Beastie Boys' label Grand Royal in 1996. Partly as a result of that deal and partly through the increasing popularity of Atari Teenage Riot member Alec Empire (who released a number of solo full-lengths and singles through Force Inc., Chrome, Mille Plateaux, and Riot Beats, as well as DHR), Atari Teenage Riot became one of the first new-school European techno artists to achieve success in America, with alternative radio and MTV picking up on the group in late 1996 and the release early the following year of an American compilation collecting tracks from the first two albums.
Their third album, 60 Second Wipe Out, appeared in 1999 on Elektra, and featured new vocalist Nic Endo. After that release, the band went on hiatus to allow Crack to seek psychiatric treatment and deal with declining health caused by long-simmering addictions. Unfortunately, the break was not enough and Crack was found dead in his Berlin apartment on September 6, 2001. The band dissolved soon after, with a live album appearing in 2002 along with a pair of posthumous compilations, Burn, Berlin, Burn! and the rarities set Redefine The Enemy. Years later, however, Atari Teenage Riot reconvened with Empire and Endo joined by vocalist CX Kidtronik. In 2011, the trio released Is This Hyperreal?, a true-to-old-form return that was issued in the U.S. through Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label. ~ Sean Cooper, Rovi
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Speed - (2:48) - 17,597 playsLyricsNews, drug abuse to the future
And the hypocrites cry who dies next
And I tell you a story from the underground
Nothing funny about get down to get hyped
Kill me and no one's gonna miss me
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Revolution Action - (5:47) - 6,829 playsLyricsAction!
Come on! go!
It's time to live and it's time to die! (x3)
It's time to live - revolution action!
What we gonna go for? what we gonna go for?
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Into The Death - (3:24) - 6,950 playsLyricsBang your head
Come on, 1, 2, 3, 4
Into the death, into the death, into the death
Into the death, into the death, into the death
Into the death, into the death, into the death
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Atari Teenage Riot - (3:35) - 5,989 playsLyricsI will be more successful than all those that went before me
Because the time is right the, the season is right, you are right, the conditions are right
We must go free! now! now is the time!
Go!
Are you ready?
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