Atari Teenage Riot: 1992-2000

Performer: Atari Teenage Riot
Distributor: NAIL Distribution

Notes: Liner Note Author: Alec Empire. Photographers: Steve Gullick; Eva Vermandel; Michael Lavine; Charles Clouser. ATARI TEENAGE RIOT 1992-2000 spans the near decade-long career of the infamous Berlin electro-punks. Initially formed as a reaction to the growing neo-Nazi influence in Germany's rave scene, Atari Teenage Riot's confrontational anti-fascist political agenda influenced a new generation of D.I.Y. techno producers to embrace punk's ethic of harder-faster-louder, signaling teenage rebellion's paradigm shift away from three-chord punk to computer sequencers. If A.T.R.'s industrial-strength noise blasts and breakneck BPMs sometimes lack subtlety, leader Alec Empire's razor-sharp production helps to lend a stark clarity to the anarchic proceedings. Tracks like "Deutschland Has Gotta Die" and "Delete Yourself" pair distorted breakbeats over angry chants from vocalists Hanin Elias and MC Carl Crack. Reacting to the politically apathetic, escapist values of much commercial pop music, A.T.R. created anthems for inciting--if not riots--a youth-culture revolution.

Combining driving techno beats with the musical fury and political sloganeering of hardcore punk, Berlin-based Atari Teenage Riot, led by DJ and techno artist Alec Empire, were at the fore of the Digital Hardcore movement based around Empire's label of the same name. Atari Teenage Riot viewed themselves as a vital alternative to both a politically reactionary dance music scene and a tepid punk scene in Germany in the 1990s. ATR/DHR albums were released on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal Records in the United States.

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