Tough new world.

About the musical work of Alec Empire could easily write a phonebook thick dissertation. For over a decade, he acts on the electronic front and pioneered in the German techno and jungle. With his band Atari Teenage Riot, he founded the now much-copied style Digital Hardcore and created with the same label a creative platform for hard electronic music with a political base. That's not all he immortalized himself as a remixer for a number of big names from Björk to Slayer. For this reason, excite each new release of the exceptional great interest. With "Futurist" to Alec Empire to take the rock and roll, a genre that due to the excessive reuse of the same old clichés is collapsing near his opinion. The aim of the album either, so EMPIRE, the listener reflect those noise of the early hour, he has experienced Detroit techno and noise at the first contact with Punk. Not quite surprisingly, therefore, is that "futurist" over long distances revealed as Purebred punk album. Instead of electronic noise cascades guitars dominate in the best 3-chord style. The track lengths fit: In only 42 minutes EMPIRE roars by 12 tracks. It is striking that the electronics keep discreetly in the background, while the master surrenders the rock. And he does well. The opening track 'Kiss Of Death' is with brutal guitars and just such Shouting the direction. The issues revolve, typical for the EMPIRE'sche oeuvre to the outbreak, upheaval and decline and the tension is kept high by the first to the last chord of the plate. Again and again classic themes from 50 years Rock'n'Roll are cited, which, however, due to the submitted rate is often only noticeable at the second hearing. Alone on title "futurist" like raising questions. When assigned to the future by producing a more traditional punk album? In fact, Alec Empire already before seen material, which he designs served, but sounds like a utopia of music which frees itself from the commercial and self-referential impasse and sweeps back.
The future has already begun.