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Alec Empire

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Berlin, Germany

Alec Empire has been in the music business for a long time. His first record was released while he was still at school. At the age of fourteen he formed his English-speaking band, Die Kinder (The Children), supporting bands like Die Toten Hosen.

With his last band, Atari Teenage Riot, he incited rebellion, battled as a DJ with Q-Bert and Mixmaster Mike, and made more remixes than most people have had hot dinners!



In a 2002 edition of Kerrang Dave Grohl stated: “He’s Alec’s number one fan…Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) met Alec backstage at a gig in Australia and declared: ‘You inspired me!’” (…and we have the witnesses to prove it!)

Empire’s first post-ATR solo album, Intelligence and Sacrifice (2002), on Digital Hardcore Recordings lead to the English press calling him a rock god. Photos from a Japanese show of this era feature 20,000 kids enraptured as Alec, Charlie Clouser (Nine Inch Nails), Nic Endo (Atari Teenage Riot) and two drummers give it their all. Intelligence and Sacrifice went on to sell impressive numbers and won a Kerrang award.

After great success during his time in London, including the creation of the genre-defining label Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec decided to return to Berlin and start afresh.

What happened?

Alec: “I wanted to reorient myself completely. I had the feeling I needed to drive my music in another direction.”

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    yesterday evening
    im sure there was one of him l had there where he did have that. i am looking over all pics from the I&S shows I have, due to wanting to do an exhibition. He was lifting a mic stand or something, like on the facebook, when he puts it along his shoulders. very funny, fair enough, i guess you want to look good, i guess depends how vain you want to be. oh well, night all. SF

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    yesterday evening
    i'll try post some of my i&s 2002 pics here. then i can tell you. the camera never lies, yeah what IS hanin's lyric in that atr song? about james dean n all? i forget. night. SF

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    yesterday evening
    i wouldn't like to know. well i'm guessing he's a natural aryan german, no offense to him. i still can never tell what colour eyes he has. brown? i wish he'd STOP dying his hair though, he's going to loose too much of it before too long for good. the ochre/blond/ cornfields type/colour is damn way cool. SF

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  • DoomSai wrote:
    Thursday morning
    Maybe or he's blonde down there too?

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  • justinsp wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    do you guys think alec still shaves his armpits?

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    7 days ago
    66 photos. some new ones are up there. hope you all like them. hell i need to eat. later. SF

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    10 days ago
    in reply to zgoda. haha i was listening to the best of velvet underground yesterday & thinking how much it reminded me of TGTOH. very bowie/iggy/ lou reed combo with futurist. indeed.

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  • zgoda wrote:
    11 days ago
    Lou Reed or David Bowie... :) On Futurist' cover Alec looks like Lou Reed, but overall feeling of The Golden Foretaste... is Bowie'ish. In the best possible meaning (I mean, late 70's).

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  • sibrid66dar wrote:
    21 days ago
    Alec Empire on last fm could be so much fun if spitfiredhc dumbshit wouldnt spam all over each page. cant you just stop it xxxx if you need to take a shit go to the toilet and dont do it here with every stupid thought that finds its way into your brain

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    26 days ago
    does anyone know why it is robot l.o.v.e? i was wondering what it stands/stood for. love of violent empire? yeah sounds about right. maybe you alec will say? c'mon now, hell why did you call it that if no one knows??? SF

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    28 days ago
    it's alec tag time. yeah i've been thinking about playing hypermodern jazz lately. all i can remember is hearing that spun in am maria one time, god walked down the street & taught me how to kiss. for some reason it sums up berlin. at 6am when u walk out of a club, just like down satan down does in the way of the traffic & the lights & smiley happy people. i dunno it just does. i can't think say or explain way. hmmm c'mon tresor time, jezte bitte. make noize miestro dj battles. SF

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    last month
    hmm natalia. she is cool, not so much for the video. check out the ride, addicted too you, also the futurist stuff too. kiss of death rules. they're all good, also with ATR vids too. the gfxs are what makes them cool. SF

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  • Kocica28 wrote:
    last month
    Natalia A.is cool.I could date her ;) But I am not so bad too.

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    last month
    yeah herr empire took them out of the EYHO catalogue. ive had my eye on them now they're just gone. poof, alec magic, took them away. i find it cold. cold as a russian snow ice kingdom palace. warm & dirty? sorry i won't like it. dj yes, live no. SF

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  • Garden wrote:
    last month
    fitting in is for babies... dude just plunges his determined ways in, it's just a damn style.. and these lovesongs are totally different. Golden.. is massive, i find it dirty & warm, not clean & cold, but that's taste.. at first i listened to it a couple of times, eventually felt nothing, went back to the older stuff... gotta get used to change. aye SF, if u want noise, listen to those Alec Empire - Japanese Noise cds, they're lush & nostalgic. ;p

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    last month
    yeah the new album rocks when he's spinning it for a dj sense. makes for a perfect night. futurist will always be my favourite but can't not miss addicted to you, the ride & I&S the song too. love it all. the 'foretaste about love & peace? i think it's about acceptance. he's lost something/one he truly believes in, wants to fit in, doesn't know where to go. i don't like all this cold moog analyated synth though. to leon teremin for my liking. the futurist rocked, i miss that, raw explosive energy haha there 3 words that sum up alec empire. yeeeeahhh go me! a german + iggy pop = alec? hmmm i digress. but yeah the blitzkrieg noise terror is missing. ;( SF

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  • kinin-e wrote:
    last month
    I like Futurist the most, the new album sounds so 'clean' and 'soft'... and he sings about love and peace...

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    last month
    i can't do it now, but i promise i ll do it at some point. yeah when alec's not looking. haha. yeah i ll put them up *surprise* then they'll be there. haha. hell there's maniac ness going on here. SF

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  • spitfiredhc6666 wrote:
    last month
    lovely photos. some on here take me back to the I&S shows. priceless expressions but the face culture is the best of late. the CAI photos are on the pc & on my myspace. i think those are truly beautiful, as are the paris shots from the futurist show there. oh i could put some bangface here. they are b&w. yeah a dj collective, c'mon then hit us with it, tresor berlin style, bass terror, we want it, we got it right????? SF

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  • Pyramidek wrote:
    last month
    namnatulco: Intelligence & Sacrifice, The Destroyer, Generation Star Wars. Three Empire's best albums in my opinion, if we're talking 'bout heavy stuff of course :)

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