Atari Teenage Riot
Formed around 1992 by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias and Carl Crack, I
first heard them on some late night C4 show doing a version of Sham 69’s
If The Kids Are United it had so much power and attitude, anyway a
couple of years later I saw them in Koln, Germany at a label seminar
type thing (PopKomm), they didn’t come on til 3 in the morning and were
bloody stunning.
Through a friend I met Pete their label boss and said that i’d love
to do a one-off single with them… 2 years later it happened. And what a
single it was, a split with upcoming (at that time) London band Asian
Dub Foundation on a 7” picture disc.
Great band now split up after Carl died, if you never saw them you missed a very special band.
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Formed around 1992 by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias and Carl Crack, I first heard them on some late night C4 show doing a version of Sham 69’s If The Kids Are United it had so much power and attitude, anyway a couple of years later I saw them in Koln, Germany at a label seminar type thing (PopKomm), they didn’t come on til 3 in the morning and were bloody stunning.