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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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Current mood:  creative
Category: Music
Atari Teenage Riot limited edition box set! 2009 version! includes rare Midijunkies T-Shirt!

while stock lasts... click this link
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ALEC EMPIRE AND NIC ENDO ARE ON TOUR ! NOW ! PLAYING MATERIAL FROM THE PAST _ PRESENT AND FUTURE! (incl. ATR songs)
06.11.2009 NL-Den Haag, Bazart
07.11.2009 NL-Utrecht, DBs
18.11.2009 GB-Newport, TJs
19.11.2009 GB-London, O2 Academy Islington
20.11.2009 GB-Birmingham, Eddie´s
21.11.2009 GB-Manchester, Club Academy
22.11.2009 GB-Edinburgh (GB), GRV
25.11.2009 CH-Zürich, Stall 6
26.11.2009 F-Perpignan, CrockMore 27.11.2009 CH-Vevey, Rocking Chair
28.11.2009 I-Florence (I), Siddharta
07.12.2009 I-Roma, Atlantico
for more info and last tickets go to
http://www.alec-empire.com/
Also check out new Atari Teenage Riot Dubstep remix by The Builder!
Atari Teenage Riot "Digital Hardcore" (2009 Remix by The Builder) by alec_empire
ALEC EMPIRE:" I WANTED TO CAPTURE THAT BUZZ NERO MIGHT HAVE FELT WHEN ROME WAS BURNING DOWN..." Read latest interview with Trashhits
http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/11/interview-alec-empire-i-wanted-to-capture-the-buzz-nero-might-have-felt-when-rome-was-burning-down/
Alec Empire's 10 tips on how to subvert the music industry on Artrocker!
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Current mood:  energetic
Category: Music
http://www.rcrdlbl.com/artists/Alec_Empire/track/1000_Eyes_

Short message from Alec:" The tour is awesome so far....a lot of sweat, a lot of intensity! This is why we do it! "
Full Tourdates
ALEC EMPIRE
The Past - The Present - The Future Tour 2009
15.10.2009 F-la Tronche, La Faiencerie
16.10.2009 B-Antwerp, Petrol
17.10.2009 Hannover, Indiego Glocksee
20.10.2009 Essen, Grend
21.10.2009 Köln, Underground
22.10.2009 Hamburg, Logo
23.10.2009 Berlin, K17
24.10.2009 Cottbus, Gladhouse
25.10.2009 PL-Gdynia, Ucho
27.10.2009 CZ-Prague, Lucerna Music Bar
28.10.2009 A-Linz, Stadtwerkstatt
29.10.2009 A-Wien, Szene
30.10.2009 Ingolstadt, Paradox
31.10.2009 Leipzig, Lagerhof
06.11.2009 NL-Den Haag, Bazart
07.11.2009 NL-Utrecht, DBs
18.11.2009 GB-Newport, TJs
19.11.2009 GB-London, O2 Academy Islington
20.11.2009 GB-Birmingham, Eddie..s
21.11.2009 GB-Manchester, Club Academy
22.11.2009 GB-Edinburgh (GB), GRV
25.11.2009 CH-Zürich, Stall 6
26.11.2009 F-Perpignan, CrockMore
27.11.2009 CH-Vevey, Rocking Chair
28.11.2009 I-Florence (I), Siddharta
07.12.2009 I-Roma, Atlantico
31.07.2010 PL-Bolkow, Castle Party
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Current mood:  determined
Category: Music
ALEC EMPIRE 2 MONTHS TOUR STARTS NOW!
watch exclusive trailer here!
Sonic terrorist, Alec Empire, returns for another blistering series of live dates here in the UK that looks set to blow the roof off every venue it invades across the country.
‘1000 Eyes’ is the new download only single taken off the animated short film, ‘The Golden Foretaste of Heaven’. After the critical acclaim of his mini album, ‘Shivers’, earlier this year, Alec channelled his dark energy into creating a brooding, mesmerising soundtrack to the hotly tipped film by Austrian rising star, Richard Wilhelmer.
Fresh off supporting Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails on their European leg of the tour, Alec will bring his awesome live setup to the UK showcasing material from a career spanning almost two decades. Always a knack for spotting new talent, Alec has collaborated with Robbie Furze from The Big Pink on the track, ‘If You Live or Die’ off his last album and has produced and written Patrick Wolf’s lead single, ‘Vultures’.
Wolf also appeared on stage with Empire during his sold out London date at The Underworld earlier this year and looks certain to join up with his partner in crime for the Islington Academy show in London on November 19.
Having recently remixed IAMX, ex Sneaker Pimp, Chris Corner’s new single ‘Terrified’, the hardest working Berliner in music’s next project is a team up with Major Lazer and Saul Williams for some new tracks and a remix special with Dillinger Escape Plan later this year.
As a special treat for UK fans, Alec has roped in up & coming alt techno-core outfit, Motor, who are currently on tour with Dépêche Mode as support for his UK dates.
Alec has once again reinvented himself and you can witness the Empire effect first hand this autumn as Nic Endo and him take to a stage near you.
1000 Eyes (Single Version) / Alec Empire by alec_empire
ALEC EMPIRE
The Past - The Present - The Future Tour 2009
15.10.2009 F-la Tronche, La Faiencerie
16.10.2009 B-Antwerp, Petrol
17.10.2009 Hannover, Indiego Glocksee
20.10.2009 Essen, Grend
21.10.2009 Köln, Underground
22.10.2009 Hamburg, Logo
23.10.2009 Berlin, K17
24.10.2009 Cottbus, Gladhouse
25.10.2009 PL-Gdynia, Ucho
27.10.2009 CZ-Prague, Lucerna Music Bar
28.10.2009 A-Linz, Stadtwerkstatt
29.10.2009 A-Wien, Szene
30.10.2009 Ingolstadt, Paradox
31.10.2009 Leipzig, Lagerhof
06.11.2009 NL-Den Haag, Bazart
07.11.2009 NL-Utrecht, DBs
18.11.2009 GB-Newport, TJs
19.11.2009 GB-London, O2 Academy Islington
20.11.2009 GB-Birmingham, Eddie..s
21.11.2009 GB-Manchester, Club Academy
22.11.2009 GB-Edinburgh (GB), GRV
25.11.2009 CH-Zürich, Stall 6
26.11.2009 F-Perpignan, CrockMore NEW!!!
27.11.2009 CH-Vevey, Rocking Chair
28.11.2009 I-Florence (I), Siddharta
07.12.2009 I-Roma, Atlantico
31.07.2010 PL-Bolkow, Castle Party
If You Live Or Die live by alec_empire
for more information visit Alec Empire's website
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
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Current mood:  blessed
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new! Alec Empire in depth interview! Tour START in 4 days!!
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
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Current mood:  excited
Category: Music
Bruce Sterling
Guest of honour of GOGBOT 2009
Why Atompunk? by Bruce Sterling Why
“punk”? Because anyone can do punk, you can do punk yourself. All the
tools are there: to search, to find, to cut, to paste, to sample, to
remix, to pastiche, to connect high-tech and low-life. It costs us
nothing but the eff ort, and requires no official permission.
Why “atom”? Atom is a world: the fantastic world of the Atomic Age. Hectic and feverish, spacey and radioactive, it was an “age” that lived and died like a doomed punk poet, in only twenty years. In
the quiet ticking of atomic clock, the Atomic Age is close to us. But
in cultural time, in the assumptions of what is possible, in what life
means, in what is our reality, the Atomic Age is pre-postmodern. It’s
archaeo-futuristic. It has broken the chain-reaction of historical causality. It’s like the ..dark side of the Moon...
Th e past is an alien world, yet Atompunk is just a jet-trip away.
There is not a computer, not a cellphone to be seen, and yet there is
Sputnik. Dayglo. The nuclear arms race. Th e dark colossus of the
Soviet Union, of totalitarian megaprojects orbiting the skies and
covering half the world. Mutual Assured Destruction: an engineered end
to all of history, the fi ery consumption of all of it, in the searing ..blink of an eye..!
Time ended the Atomic Age: it broke it and set it loose from
history, like a bubble of kitsch and half-forbidden memory, like the
glass paperweight in Orwell’s atom-age book of 1948, the futuristic
“Nineteen Eighty Four.” Atompunk is not afraid of past or future,
because it is cosmotemporal: Atompunk can live gleefully in two, three,
fi ve times at once. And Atompunk does it with style.
For a few brief days of carnival, in the ancient Dutch city of
Enschede, Atompunk can carry us outside the timestream. Transcending
history, it jams a pitchfork in the dung-heap of world heritage.
Sunlight touches something hidden, and the sorrows of the moment rot
away.
Atompunk. Watch us stare ..into the abyss.., and make it our funhouse mirror!
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Monday, August 24, 2009
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Current mood:  busy
Category: Music
Alec Empire exclusive interview on Rockat Radio! click here Alec Empire exclusive interview on Rockat Radio
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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Current mood:  determined
Category: News and Politics
bitte lest meine Emailunterhaltung (von unten nach oben).
Es geht um das Konzert im Lagerhof Leipzig. Der Veranstalter, der für das Alec Empire Konzert zuständig ist, hat nichts mit dem Kategorie C Konzert zu tun.
Ich rufe hiermit alle auf, die gegen Nazis sind, genau an dem Tag dort ein Zeichen zu setzen!
Vor den Neo-Nazis sich zu verkriechen hilft nichts... Wir erobern jeden Raum zurück, den Neo-Nazis besetzen wollen (Das gilt auch für die Politik).
Ich habe den Namen anonym gehalten, weil es eine private Email war.
Wie seht Ihr das? Seit Ihr dabei? Oder wollt Ihr weiter zusehen?
Adolf Hitler ist gescheitert Neo-Nazis sterben aus AB JETZT!
Alec Empire Berlin
http://www.antifa.de/cms/
06 Aug 2009, 00:23
Subject:
RE: AW: Gig im Lagerhof Leipzig
Body:
Hallo, die
meisten Veranstaltungsorte werden an Veranstalter vermietet. Wenn der
Vermieter jede Band unter die Lupe nehmen würde, wo würde da die Grenze
verlaufen? Blutharsch spielen zum Beispiel in London im Underground Club, dort habe ich auch mal früher gespielt, gleiche Story... Leider
geht es den meisten Locations einfach nur um das Geld, und eben nicht
um mehr (ob politische Einstellung oder Musikgeschmack, das ist egal
geworden). Mit Apathie könne wir nichts gegen Neo-Nazis ausrichten. Deshalb müssen wir dort reingehen, und ein klares Statement zeigen. So sehe ich das, allerdings auch deshalb, weil der Veranstalter nichts damit zu tun hat. Oder sollten wir keine Demonstrationen mehr auf den Straßen machen, wo mal Neo-Nazis marschiert sind? Ich
habe vor einigen Monaten auf meinem Blog diskutiert, ie wir uns bei
Myspace, Last FM und den anderen Socialnetworks verhalten sollen, wenn
wir sie sofort meiden, wenn die erste Neo-Nazi Band dort auftaucht. Wir können nur durch Mehrheiten überzeugen. Das ist der einzige Weg. Wenn im Lagerhof die Leute wegbleiben, weil sie meinen irgendein Statement machen zu müssen, spielen sie den Neo-Nazi Bands zu. Jeder, der mich kennt, sollte eigentlich wissen, dass ich da sehr genau vorgehe, bevor ich ein Konzert zusage. Viele Grüße, Alec ----------------- Original Message ----------------- From: xy To: Alec Empire Date: 05 Aug 2009, 20:28 Subject: RE: AW: Gig im Lagerhof Leipzig Hallo Alec, Danke für Deine schnelle Reaktion. Mich
hätte es ehrlich gesagt gewundert, wenn die von mir angeführten
Veranstaltungen von Deinem Veranstalter gebucht worden wären... Leider
ist es aber so, dass die Location erst kürzlich durch eine
Konzertveranstaltung auffällig geworden ist, die eigentlich nicht
verzeihlich ist. Kategorie C hat dort gespielt. Dies ist wirklich
finster... Was mich stutzig macht ist, dass die Betreiber dieser
Location damit keine Probleme haben und sich offensichtlich als neutral
verstehen, was immer dies auch heisst. Mich persönlich stört dies, wenn
dies ein Geschäftsgebahren ist, also egal mit wem Veranstaltungen
gemacht werden, Hauptsache der Saal ist voll und ebenso die Kasse. Mich würde Deine Sichtweise auf die Location genauer interessieren, da Du sie als neutralen Ort schreibst. Ich werde das mir mögliche tun und mal in die Infos zu den Konzerten in die Runde geben. Für
mich und meinen Verein ist es aber so, dass wir eher im Bereich der
Politikberatung unterwegs sind, also Verwaltungen, Vereine und Inis
beraten, wie sie mit dem Problem Nazis umgehen könnten. Ein Teil meiner
Arbeit ist die Recherche, über diese bin ich auch auf den Lagerhof
gestossen und habe von Deinem Konzert gelesen... und hab nen Schreck
bekommen. Den Schreck deshalb, weil ich es im Laufe der letzten
Jahre sehr oft erlebt habe, dass unwissentlich Bands des linken
Spektrums (oder solche, dies nix mit Nazis zu tun haben wollen) in
Locations gespielt haben, die auch dafür bekannt sind Nazibands spielen
zu lassen. Für mich hat dies deswegen so eine hohe Bedeutung, weil
dies eben auch ein symbolischer Akt der Besetzung eines Raumes ist. Mit
Besetzung meine ich nicht nur den Raum einer Location, sondern die
scheinbare Neutralität im Erscheinungsbild eines
Veranstaltungskalenders, wo eben Blutharsch und Alec Empire
unkommentiert nebeneinander stehen. Dies verhilft aus meiner Sicht
Leuten wie von Blutharsch und anderen zu einer allgemeinen Aufwertung
ihrer vertretenen Ideologie und deren Musik. Im schlimmsten Fall ist es
eben irgendiwe alles Kunst und die politischen Positionen verschwinden
aus dem Blick. Vielleicht ist es vergleichbar mit der Diskussion um
Leni Riefenstahl. Einige sehen es als ästhetische Kunst, andere als den
Ausdruck von einer Ideologie, die sich in künstlerischer Form
ausdrückt... Ich will auch nicht unnötig rumstänkern oder so, mir
war wichtig, dass Du es mitbekommst, Dir Deine Meinung bildest und
Deinem Veranstalter vielelicht mal steckst bei zukünftigen Bookings
genauer hinzugucken. Ich habe nämlich keine Lust beim Konzert auch
die Nazis zu sehen, die sonst zum Beispiel bei dieversen
Industrialveranstaltungen in Leipzig rumsteigen. Danke auch für Dein Angebot für die Flyergeschichte. Wäre schön von Dir zu hören, wie Du weiterdenkst.... Herzliche Grüße xy ----------------- Original Nachricht ----------------- Von: Alec Empire An: xy Datum: 05 Aug 2009, 15:44 Betreff: AW: Gig im Lagerhof Leipzig Hallo xy, das sind nicht Veranstaltungen, die von unserem Veranstalter gebucht worden sind. Es ist sehr wichtig neutrale Orte nicht von Neo-Nazis besetzen zu lassen. Das bedeutet in der Praxis, dort reingehen und Präsenz zeigen. Wenn Ihr wollt, könnt Ihr dort Flyer gegen Neo-Nazis verteilen oder ähnliches machen? Sagt bescheid, wir müssen das Problem angehen. Am
allerwichtigsten ist es, dass jeder, der sich gegen Neo-Nazis wehren
will, dorthin kommt. Ansonsten wird der Vermieter der Location bald nur
noch an Veranstalter vermieten müssen, die keine eindeutige Position
vertreten. Also sagt allen bescheid. Wir werden sehr wahrscheinlich noch ein gezieltes Poster dazu machen. Viele Grüße, Alec ---------------------------------- Hallo Alec, ich versuche hier über Deine email Kontakt zu Dir zu knüpfen und hoffe Du liest diese mail. Es geht um folgendes Problem: ich habe gerade gelesen, dass Du am 31.10.2009 in Leipzig, im Lagerhof ein Konzert spielst. Ich
möcht Dich darauf aufmerksam machen, dass einige Tage vorher zwei der
übelsten Nazibands der Wave Gothic Szene dort spielen. Hier der link
zum Linup des Clubs: www.myspace.com/clublagerhofGemeint sind Blutharsch und Sol Invictus. Da
Du auf diesem Gebiet hohe Sensibilität besitzt möcht ich Dich hiermit
darauf aufmerksam machen und vor einer eventuellen Vereinnahmung Deiner
Musik und Person warnen. Beste Grüße xy
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Monday, August 03, 2009
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"...remain calm..." Alec Empire & Nic Endo / Atari Teenage Riot
Alec Empire live
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
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Current mood:  determined
Category: Parties and Nightlife
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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Category: News and Politics
TIME TO STOP QUOTING AND START CREATING!
by Alec Empire
Let me introduce myself; I am Alec Empire and I was born in West Berlin. I believe that I am the only “true” Berliner in the current music scene. As far as I can tell, all the others claiming Berlin as their home, moved there to boost (or kill?), their careers. To be honest, I don’t think it matters that much... or shouldn’t in our age. I find myself talking to people from other continents more than those belonging to the so called local scene (I’m not really sure there is one and even if there is I’m not sure it’s what people would like to believe it is). Whatever, I suppose we all gain from the myth that comes with Berlin. Reality follows our imagination... Let’s hope so.
But it’s not about local scenes or absorbing something intangible from the air in Berlin. If you want to know your future you have to erase your past.
click here for ABC clip
Please excuse my English. I have been touring recently and my crew and band are from France & USA. Somehow we all speak this weird mixture of languages. It’s hard to switch back to normal you know?
I am used to change. Dramatic changes in the case of my country. When I was a child I always sensed that post-World War II vibe - even decades later. Everybody has seen it in a film or read a book; but there are aspects Berliners have never really talked about in public. For example: how many women were raped at the end of the War? We can barely imagine that deep pain and its consequences on society. Then there’s the GDR and the Wall finally coming down. On the surface Berlin looks cool; parties, clubs like nowhere else in the world but to me it always feels like children celebrating themselves, dancing on a mass grave, not knowing, innocent... The beginning of Lord of the Flies.
click here for deleted scene clip
Where I come from, the majority is a potential threat to the individual. The silent majority can decide over life and death of real people, just because they ignore political news on that day of the football match.
watch clip
watch next clip here
Change... Some feel threatened by change and others actually fear it and would become über-active just to stop it from happening. It makes them so nervous. I associate change with new opportunities and taking chances.
But I believe things are really changing. Right now! For the past nine years the music scene has reminded me of a dying dog, bleeding to death, bleeding dry and trying to bite its attackers who stand just out of reach, watching...

Hopefully by now, the majority of people have understood that doing nothing is the most powerful and damaging action they can take these days. Not buying a car, not buying music, not voting. Years ago I went on what most would call a “date” and the girl didn’t know anything, she looked good, but that night I realized I was bored with that shiny surface of everything in our society. When I first heard John Coltrane I knew instantly that there was so much more than I could understand on the first listen. Music can store information and emotions that words and images fail to describe.
watch John Coltrane here
With most music that came out during the “Bush Era” you could dig and dig and discover absolutely nothing. The past nine years have been a black hole - we can admit it now that this era is coming to an end. Musicians were scared, scared of not selling, of not being “accepted”. The social networks reflect that perfectly. Become popular at all costs. Lie, fake your profile (I am not talking about making it look the best it can be, but pretending you are someone else), use bots to get that snowball rolling, survive the download madness. If you are reading this and don’t know what I am talking about, compare the past few years with the 40’s or 50’s.
The music scene has been doing the same as the financial world; the exact same. Investing in non-existent capital, trying to create ‘value’ out of thin air. And most people have been busy making sure that they are on the “right” side of things, where most people gather, than listening to their inner voice. Because being alone or out of step seemed to be the worst thing that could happen.
It was safer to quote others. Just don’t take the risk to be the first to try something that you might regret later. That is the worst environment for true creativity.
It has become obvious that capitalism has not brought us what it promised. Short term thinking, maximizing profits only works for a little while and then the whole system collapses.
I am fascinated how the game industry tricked kids into buying Guitar Hero. Do you want to play the guitar? Press this button. Pop Idol (American Idol) - it’s the same thing. Get to the top without skills and do it fast. The real pleasure of playing an instrument is the learning process, and then applying it. To then face your judge: the mob, the audience, the crowd.
click here for free Guitar Hero excitement in the real world
I learned everything I know about music in the “underground” scene. This is where people helped each other. If there is a great musician, who is so innovative that non musicians fail to see it, then everyone helps pushing, giving credits until it is understood (The Crystal Castles hypocritical slogan on the NME cover last year “we get sounds that nobody else gets” while stealing them without crediting couldn’t describe better what I am trying to say here).
click here for copyright private investigators
In the past, major record labels couldn’t live without the Indies, because they were unable to discover the new talent which had the potential to shape the future of music. It strikes me they have learned to love each other. Shrinking sales have made majors adapt marketing techniques which were first explored by the Indies, and the lines have been blurred so much sometimes it’s difficult to tell them apart. It’s like a boxing match where both contesters are just hugging each other. Boring to watch. No tension.
This is about to end now. I love how blogs challenge the traditional music press. The information is going up so fast, you are forced to think! Is that really true? Is that some bullshit hype? Who paid for that???
New music pops up here and there and by the time the machinery wants to grab it to package it and sell its tiny little soul, it’s already gone.
Philosopher Gilles Deleuze comes to mind... Imagine a tree with Red Hot Chilli Peppers sitting on top, Metallica and all the other mega bands just below. In the past every band wanted to climb that tree and take their place, like the monkey chief. In the future there won’t be any trees, friends, there will be only grass. And a lot of it. Fifteen minutes of fame reduced further to the length of a mouse click. In a globalised world, pop music like we used to define it, has no future.
What an exciting opportunity this holds! www.eyho-blog.com
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