Atari Teenage Riot: reviews, bio, albums and riot starter kit

Atari Teenage Riot

Musical Group

Forlisteners into radical electronic/punk hybrids, politically charged music, and high-intensity noise/industrial sounds.
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The Profile

Atari Teenage Riot is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992 by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias, and MC Carl Crack. Known for anti-fascist, anti-capitalist lyrics and extreme electronic/punk sonics, they released era-defining records in the 1990s, paused after 2000, then reformed in 2010 with Alec Empire and Nic Endo, issuing Is This Hyperreal? (2011) and Reset (2014).

Founded in Berlin (1992) by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias, and MC Carl Crack; Nic Endo joined in 1997. Associated with Digital Hardcore Recordings. Key tracks referenced in reviews include Start The Riot, Destroy 2000 Years of Culture, Activate!, Black Flags, and Codebreaker.

Two positive DeBaser reviews frame Atari Teenage Riot as a ferocious, politically engaged digital hardcore unit led by Alec Empire. Burn, Berlin, Burn! captures the early, uncompromising singles born in 1990s Berlin unrest. Is This Hyperreal? marks the 2011 comeback: Nic Endo front-and-center, relentless beats, and flashbang tracks like Activate!, Black Flags, and Codebreaker (with Steve Aoki). Overall enthusiasm is high; subtlety is not.

Notable Quotes

❝ the system must be destroyed,

❝ as soon as you play "Activate!" the tank moves bouncing on anachronistic and relentless drum machines, guitars demolish the synths, Nic Endo's schizoid voice pins you to the wall.