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4.0 out of 5 stars
Music to make your ears bleed, Mar 11 2004
There aren't many bands out there on the music scene that actually falls under the 'hardcore' label and actually sounds 'hardcore'. Bands like Linkin Park, Korn and Limp Bizkit are not hardcore. They are far from what bands like Black Flag and Minor Threat were in the '80s. Frankly Linkin Park, Korn, and Limp Bizkit are the new Poisons and Warrants of metal today. Another great hardcore band I felt that truly deserved the label was the German techno/punk band Atari Teenage Riot. I bought their album "Burn, Berlin, Burn" back in the late '90s because I was looking for something different and something noisy and intense. I read about the band in a magazine and my curiousity was immediately piqued. What I heard was a great fusion of hardcore punk's political sensibilities along with the frenatic beats of hardcore techno. The results is pure chaos. If the Dada movement had a soundtrack, I would have to say that "Burn, Berlin, Burn" was it. As art was completely deconstructed by the Dada movement, the music I heard on ATR's album was deconstructed as far as song structure is concerned. There is nothing melodic about the music (except for "Speed" which I personally found to be quite catchy). ATR totally disregard the rules of music with their obviously leftist policies and chaotic techno beats and intense screaming by Alec Empire, Hanna Elias and Carl Crack. "Burn, Berlin, Burn" is definitely not for everyone but I sure as heck has enjoyed listening to it over the years.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
got gabber-punk, Jul 31 2003
First of all, this cd IS way better than 60 second wipeout.I first heard ATR on a tape my cousin lent me. After listening to the first 10 seconds I was like "dude, this is so breakbeat". Then "start the riot" shot off fast..... It was fast, loud, aggressive, and it wasnt all punk or metal. The beats were hard and the screaming was screeching, I loved it. I was like "dude!" I wanted to hear more stuff like it, which is kinda how I got hooked on gabber/hardcore. After that my life consisted of only school, work and gabber. Now all I listen to are dudes like Omar Santana, Delta 9, Ron D. Core, DJ Tron, Rob Gee, ATR, and anything else on Industrial Strength records.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
more punk rock than most punk rock, Aug 29 2002
This album captures the angst, anger, and anarchy punk rock was all about ten or twenty years ago. It's brutal and honest, thrashing and futuristic, not to mention catchy. The only reason i give it four stars and not five is that some times they get silly... in a good way, but still, the musical skill isn't perfect, even if the screaming is. Even tho I love this CD, I save the five star reviews for CDs that are techinically great as well as being tasty ear candy.
And ATR is precisely ear candy, with a lot of passion and a lot of guts, but simple old skool electronic stylings. personally, i often prefer simplier stuff.
if you like ATR i also highly recommend BABYLAND.
these bands and other digital hardcore/industrial/cyberpunk are the only true subculture for the nineties, when punk rock went from rebellion to MTV bland fad, to worse and worse and worse. digital hardcore is the new hope, and unlike bands like blink 182 and greenday, they are still not accessible to the mainstream
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