The Future of War

Artist: Atari Teenage Riot
Label: Digital Hardcore
Category: Music

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Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 690261000620
EAN: 0690261000620
ASIN: B000050IBC

Release Date: 2002-03-05

The Future of War

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Tracks:

Get Up While You Can
Fuck All
Sick To Death
Press
Deutschland (Has Gotta Di
Destroy 2000 Years Of Cul
Not Your Business
You Can't Hold Us Back
Heatwave
Redefine The Enemy
Deathstar
Future Of War

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Album Description

Never before released in the US! Originally released in 1997.

Album Details

Atr is Alec Empire, Hanin Elias and MC Carl Crack. Tracks Include F**k All, Deathstar, Heatwave, Press and More.

Customer Reviews:

Destroy 2000 Years Of Culture.......2006-03-28

Digital Hardcore huh? Atari Teenage Riot, once the darlings of the "alternative" musical press, are the champions of this self-defined genre. There might be a bit of a Hardcore attitude here but, musically, this owes more to Throbbing Gristle-type deconstruction and unfettered chaos.

None of this album makes much sense, which is also it's most endearing quality. You can almost hear the music being constructed: "Cool! We got a drum beat! Let's speed it up! And slow it down! Um, do ya reckon we should do something else with it, like introduce some melody or something? OK, so melody didn't work. Let's just shout a lot!" The resulting cacophony is pretty much indescribable, structureless electronic noise over an intermittent backdrop of frenetic Gabba beats, all covered by shrieks, shouts and occasionally singing. You can dance to it, if you're simultaneously having an epileptic fit, but generally it's best to stand back and let the sound flow over you.

It seems the same lack of coherence affected the lyrics. The band is German, but all the lyrics are English. Any time Alec Empire couldn't think of the right word in English, he'd add "!!!!!!!!" The exclamation points are important, because they make up approximately half of the lyric sheet. However, look past Empire's awful grasp of English and you'll find a pretty smart message. "Get Up While You Can", the breakthrough single of this album, has all three band members railing against the state of music and the industry surrounding it. "**** All!" carries a similar, simpler sentiment, with Hanin Elias screaming "**** All!" over and over in a vicious manner which even Henry Rollins would be envious of. Basically, this band is after a new world order, and think they have the musical anarchy to spark the revolution.

A couple of tracks take a more measured approach. "Destroy 2000 Years Of Culture" is a Hip Hop style track, with a repetitive guitar line which sounds like it was borrowed from Slayer's "Angel Of Death". Alec Empire and the now deceased Carl Crack trade lines, although Crack is the more competent Rapper. "Redefine The Enemy" sees Empire ranting over a basic beat, while on "Death Star" Elias breathlessly recites a simple mantra over a distortion soaked Dub track.

Furthermore, there are three unlisted, untitled tracks at the end of the album. These tracks are a little different from the rest of the album, sounding far more conventional and more like simple Dance tracks. They don't detract from the album, but just seem a little out of place amongst the overall disorder and confusion of everything else here.

Despite the band's best efforts, there was no great musical revolution and no storming of the corporate Winter Palace. Atari Teenage Riot were forced to become the underground resistance rather than the revolutionary coup leaders, due to equal doses of apathy and confusion from the great unwashed. It is still hard to understand quite where these guys were coming from, but `The Future Of War' is a great pick-me-up for jaded and listless Rock fans.

RIOT SOUNDS!!.......2002-11-23

The soundtrack to a backstairs revolution which will scare your parents but will probably die at the first hurdle. But that shouldn't stop you trying, right??!!! More astounding sexy tunes from the mighty Alec, the late Carl Crack and the eternally hoarse and disturbingly seductive Hanin Elias (whose solo album is also superb), not that the others are not of course (too much eyeliner). ATR have continued to be a breath of fresh ox in the constant pollution of newspeak bull we seem to be fed constantly! The news of the banning of this album in Germany is particlarly disturbing! As a huge DHR fan myself I can't say this is my favourite, but tracks like "Destroy 200 years of culture' are simply of classic status in popular music, of a much needed kind in this Celine Dion obsessed mire of flatline chaff. Electrocute the mainstream! Buy Future of War!!! And wear lots of shiny black clothes!!
Check out EC8OR too, (with the disturbingly seductive Gina V. D'Orio !!!)
DIGITAL HARDCORE!!!

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