Alec Empire videos
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Born: May 2, 1972, West Berlin, Germany Founded Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) together with Peter Lawton, as well as Geist Records and Eat Your Heart Out. Alec Empire's productions have been extremely varied, but he remains most noted for being key in the development of the digital hardcore sound, which was an initiator to breakcore.
Alec Empire (born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on 2 May 1972 in Charlottenburg, West Berlin) is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk. He was also the driving force behind the creation of the digital hardcore subgenre and the record labels Digital Hardcore Recordings and Eat Your Heart Out.