Atari Teenage Riot are...

• Alec Empire - vocals, keyboards
• Hanin Elias - vocals
• Nic Endo - vocals, keyboards
• Carl Crack - vocals (died 2001)

Germany may not have been the most obvious place for the start of an anarchy-inspired musical movement that would become known as Digital Hardcore, but that's exactly what happened with the fucked off angry young men (and women) of Atari Teenage Riot. Initially comprising of figurehead Alec Empire, MC Carl Crack and vocalist Hanin Elias, ATR took the cash they collected from an aborted major label deal and set up their own Digital Hardcore Records.

Uncompromising genre-smashing albums Delete Yourself (1995) and The Future Of War (1997) turned the Berlin-based trio into underground cult heroes, before the addition of extra noisemaker Nic Endo. The slightly more refined, but no less skull-crushing, LP 60 Second Wipe Out (1999) followed (the title a reference to nuclear holocaust), succeeded by the brutal Live At Brixton Academy 1999 (2000).

Each member of the group worked on individual projects in their own time, with Alec Empire releasing a series of solo albums featuring the other ATR members. Carl Crack died in September 2001, the culmination of deteriorating health caused by mental illness. He had issued a mail-order only solo album, Black Ark, in 1998. Whether ATR will continue has yet to become clear - the band were already on a self-imposed sabbatical at the time of his death.

Releases

• 1992-2000 - album, out 17/07/2006 on Digital Hardcore Recordings. (post review)
• Panic DHH - Panic Drives Human Herds - album, out 19/04/2004 on Digital Hardcore Recordings. 1 review (read/post)
• Redefine the Enemy - album, out 18/11/2002 on Digital Hardcore Recordings. (post review)
• Rage EP - ep, out 06/11/2000 on Digital Hardcore Recordings. 1 review (read/post)
• Live at Brixton Academy - album, out 24/07/2000 on Digital Hardcore Recordings. 1 review (read/post)
• Digital Hardcore Videos - cinema on Digital Hardcore Recordings. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 16/11/2002: ATR redefine their enemy
• 18/03/2002: Alec Empire gets addicted to you
• 05/11/2001: Alec Empire goes solo
• 21/09/2001: Carl Crack: Too Dead For Me

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