Alec Empire is a German experimental electronic musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot, as well as a solo artist, producer and DJ. He has released many albums, EPs and singles, some under aliases, and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk. He was also the driving force behind the creation of the digital hardcore genre, and founded the record labels Digital Hardcore Recordings and Eat Your Heart Out Records.
Alec Empire DJing at Throbbing Gristle's 2005–2006 New Year's Eve party
Alec Empire performing live in Prato, Italy on 13 January 2007
Alec Empire at Nocturnal Culture Night festival 2016
Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) is a German band formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fuse left-wing, anarchist and anti-fascist views with punk vocals and a techno sound called digital hardcore, which is a term band member Alec Empire used as the name of his record label Digital Hardcore Recordings.
Nic Endo and Alec Empire performing at Fusion Festival in 2010
A.T.R., (in French) Hellfest 2013.