Re: (idm) Atari Teenage Riot

From Thaddeus Herrmann
Sent Fri, Nov 7th 1997, 10:41

> ATARI TEENAGE RIOT...is being discussed and some clever guy tries to
> talk about their equipment.

Rusty Householter wrote:

> Here's how you make an Atari Teenage Riot song:
>
> 1.  Put a 4/4 bass drum loop into your 808.  Put some 1/4 cybal
> crashes.
> 2.  Set your tempo at 300 BPM
> 3.  Hook your 808 through a distortion pedal.
> 4.  Yell something like "Go!"...."Fuck it!"...."Government!"...
>
> Hell just get the Rebirth 338 demo and insert lyrics.  Any
> disagreements?
>

Yes. Alec uses a 909 for ATR, not an 808. Besides, his CPU is not fast
enough for ReBirth.  :)

Then another question occured and
Danny Freer asked:

> >'Course, the band together isn't half as good as each member's solo
> works.
>
> What are their solo projects like?  I've heard a couple Alec Empire
> records
> but nothing from the other two.


Hanin did an E.P. for DHR and an E.P. for Force Inc. years back. Carl
hasn't got any records out, but contributed some bits for the Shizuo
album.

Greetings from Berlin,
Thaddi