![]() This mix is a combination of ATR”s greatest hits, random movie/anime samples, and in your face noise (and a Frank Zappa sample). I listen to a lot of music, and the most in-your-face ATR or Alec Empire solo work still takes me places few other songs can, even it makes my head explode a little bit sometimes. Sometimes you just want to go there, y’know? You want your head rattled, your brain smashed in, your sense of what constitutes music and what constitutes noise to be shaken to its very core. When forced to describe the abrasive, acidic sound of ATR, I typically say “imagine if someone took all of the heaviest Slayer bits, put them in a sampler, and then hit the sampler with a fucking sledgehammer.” To date, ATR is the only band that have actually given me a headache. So fucking hardcore that they had to make up a genre (digital hardcore) to properly categorize their more hardcore than hardcore, louder than louder, noisier than noise sound. That’s a hell of an endorsement, but it was inaccurate. Serendipity doo!Īlec Empire is the frontman of Atari Teenage Riot, the German electronic band that Mike D of the Beastie Boys once declared to be the most punk rock shit ever. I wrote the majority of this post on Tuesday without any knowledge that today, November 29th, 2012, is the 40th anniversary of the release of Pong and that Buzzfeed has published an excellent article about the game entitled Atari Teenage Riot. ![]()
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