Let me tell you something in confidence. Despite many years of interviewing everyone from sandwich makers to filmmakers, there are still people the show affords me the opportunity to talk to who reduce me to a gibbering fanboy.
Today’s guest is Alec Empire so as you might have guessed, he’s one of those guys that it takes, on my part, a sheer act of will not to be reduced to uttering Chris Farley-like lines like “Uh, you’re so cool.”
But, c’mon, this is Alec Empire we’re talking about! This is the guy who, alongside with Hanin Elias and MC Carl Crack formed Atari Teenage Riot. This is the guy who co-founded Digital Hardcore Recordings. This guy has recorded with and remixed the likes of Björk, Justin Broadrick and Coil. I think I can be forgiven any fanboy tendencies. I just have to keep telling myself what Dan Le Sac always says “…just a band.”
Fortunately, Alec makes things very easy for me. He’s got the gift of the gab and has such great stories to tell. The plan was to have a quick chat with Alec and then play Atari Teenage Riot’s “final” Brixton Academy show, but Alec was very generous with his time and the interview went long, so we’ll only hear it in the background. But Alec was also kind enough to send a bootleg recording of Atari Teenage Riot at the Hultsfred Festival from earlier in 1999 and we’ll hear that later on today’s show.
Before you leap into today’s show you should know that I had to edit down my interview with Alec. It pained me to do so and it was especially painful because three of the questions came from @s_w_u and @Spartz on Twitter. Rather than leave those segments on the virtual cutting room floor I’ve decided to make it available as bonus material, which you can download here.
If you enjoy this week’s show then why not dig into the archives and listen to my interview with Alec about Digital Hardcore Recordings and hear some classics from his label.
Speaking of label, join us again next week when we’ll showcase Diffrent Music.
See you then!
Photo Credit: ©Kmeron
- Atari Teenage Riot “Live At Brixton Academy 1999”
- Interview with Alec Empire
- Atari Teenage Riot “Intro (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Digital Hardcore (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Destroy 2000 Years of Culture (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Deutschland Has Gotta Die (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Revolution Action (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Revolution Action / Not Your Buisness (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Atari Teenage Riot 2 (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Too Dead for Me (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Western Decay (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Into the Death (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Ghost Chase (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “The Future of War / Death of A President (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “No Remorse (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “No Remorse (Reprise) (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Start the Riot (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”
- Atari Teenage Riot “Outro (Live in Hultsfred Festival Bootleg 18-06)”