Alec Empire - Intelligence & Sacrifice (Full Album)

Alec Empire - Intelligence & Sacrifice (Full Album) get it here: CD1 1. Path Of Destruction 04:29 2. The Ride 03:49 3. Tear It Out 01:56 4. Everything Starts With A Fuck 04:28 5. Killing Machine 05:11 6. Addicted To You 03:51 7. Intelligence & Sacrifice 03:39 8. Death Favours The Enemy 03:50 9. Buried Alive 03:06 10. ...And Never Be Found 04:21 11. New World Order 13:53 CD2 12. 2641998 29:57 13. The Cat Women Of The Moon 07:27 14. Two Turntables And A Moog 03:54 15. Parallel Universe 05:23 16. Vault Things Of The Night 05:22 17. Silence And Burning Ice 05:34 18. Alec’s Ladder 04:55 19. Electric Bodyrock 06:19 20. 2641998 (Reprise) 04:01 Read NME review: “This is the definitive record that Alec Empire has threatened to make ever since he worked out that his nihilist punk rock work could be done rather well with machines. The man with the best bone structure in Armageddon has been talking -- well, screaming -- a great fight for nearly a decade now. As the leader of Atari Teenage Riot, he’s rolled out assault vehicle after assault vehicle of electronically-enhanced splatterpunk. That’s in addition to his half dozen albums of solo digital noise, and countless other releases on his Digital Hardcore label. It’s an impressive and sometimes even excellent body of work; a veritable cottage industry of black leather-clad ire that has, thus far, failed to topple capitalism or end civilisation, despite some cool slogans (’Destroy 2000 Years Of Culture’; ’Riot Sounds Produce Riots’) and a lot of assiduous pogo-ing. ’Intelligence And Sacrifice’ might just be the one, though. On the first CD of this two-CD set, Alec Empire reveals himself as the missing link between Slipknot and Fischerspooner: an accomplished stylist of dystopian rock, and a force to be reckoned with. It’s all calculated, of course. This, Alec Empire’s nu-metal album, is his self-confessed “ticket to headlining festivals and stadium tours“. Everything is harder, faster, more focused, deliriously well-produced. Next to this sleek industrial cut-up bubblegum gabba thrash metal, Atari Teenage Riot’s past insurrections sound scrappy. ’The Path Of Destruction’ kicks off with a bleak declaration -- “This is our world/it has no future“ -- before a mighty barrage of bpms indicates the pummeled shape of things to come. “My message is war,“ Alec Empire screams like a skinnier Schwarzenegger on ’The Ride’, a triumph of electro menace, extreme as ever. But if the programming on ’I&S’ is gleefully unrelenting -- ’Everything Starts With A Fuck’ is particularly martial -- the chaos is powered as much by Alec Empire’s love for rock ’n’ roll as his hatred for everything. ’Killing Machine’ starts with a “One-two-three-four,“ before unfolding into a low-slung riff-fest; the excellent single, ’Addicted To You’, drags The Stooges into the digital age. Revolution and ramalama are forever intertwined in the Berliner’s aesthetic: “If you don’t hit it/It won’t fall!“ he pouts repeatedly. If anything, CD2 is even more extreme than CD1: 70 minutes of cutting-edge instrumentals that places Alec Empire’s love of pure digital sound in the hands of the fans of his shouty punk. With its atonal freeform dissonance, ’Alec’s Ladder’ is typical, but there’s a rare glimmer of humour in ’Two Turntables And A Moog’ and a timely electroclash romp in ’Electric Bodyrock’. For a man so certain that there isn’t a future, he looks like one of its most confident architects.“ By Kitty Empire/NME 2002 more infos and ticket links : Subscribe Twitter Facebook Minds Bandcamp