Released
May 1999

Label
Digital Hardcore Recordings

Reviewed by
Jason X

Contact
Digital Hardcore Recordings


Last Edit/Update
19 May, 2000

Atari Teenage Riot

60 Second Wipeout

Track Listing

1. Revolution Action
2. By Any Means Necessary
3. Western Decay
4. Atari Teenage Riot II
5. Ghostchase
6. Too Dead For Me
7. U.S. Fade Out
8. The Virus Has Been Spread
9. Digital Hardcore
10. Death Of A President D.I.Y.!
11. Your Uniform (Does Not Impress Me)
12. No Success
13. Anarchy 999

Break out the SWAT teams and throw in the tear gas! The riot is back!!! Those German anarchists, Atari Teenage Riot have returned with their latest album in digital distortion. Their latest release on Digital Hardcore Recordings, 60 Second Wipe Out says it all! A chaotic groove of beats and riffs to further pound your mind into nothingness. Backed up by Carl Crack and Alec Empire, Hanin Elias’s vox will knock your ass off; literally speaking!

The album starts off with "Revolution Action" and continues to pound you to the ground until you reach "Western Decay!" By then you’d have suffered a heartattack from Carl’s pulsating beats. Moving onward to "Atari Teenage Riot II," the march of chaos continues. Start off with some old Atari and Colecovision sounds, and we have the base for what the Riot stands for!

After the math, time to do a little "Ghostchase" before you get hit with some "Too Dead For Me." You’ll like the beginning to this song because it offers a few seconds of calm to catch your breath. Brace yourselves though because this is about all the breather you’re gonna get before they tear you up again! Skipping through until we reach "Digital Hardcore," we have a song that needs no explanation: Pure, Digital, Hardcore! I hope you brought your gasmasks and shit kickers because we’re going to war!

As much as I would like to go on with the rest of the album, I don’t want to give away this album too much. I’ll just get to the point! I find 60 Second Wipe Out a worthy successor to Burn, Berlin Burn! perhaps even better! Why is that? They may still have the same style to be found in their past work, but then again, who else does? They’ve got originality. With a genre that’s in need of some, they’ve taken theirs and shoved it down our throats! Prepare yourselves fellow Americans, Atari Teenage Riot have come to destroy 2000 years of culture!!!! Trendy motherfuckers need not apply!