Alec Empire: "So to say, Atari Teenage Riot was a soundtrack for most people to unite themselves again and do many things.
The deals is, we made the statement 'riot music produce riots' and this is it. Music for us is functional music. It's not pop-music, ergo popular music, but music, according to our view, which has the main function to push the people, make them euphoric and make them do something.

We have a main difference to Prodigy for example. Prodigy is a sort of fake to me. They want to be punk, have different haircuts and say somehow they are punks. They are clowns for me. Their music has no political energy for me."

Moderator: "Prodigy doesn't pretend to be political, but do you feel that a band should be political?"

Alec Empire: "Ehmmm no. I want to say that everything is political. Gudrun Ensslin of the RAF once said "Everything is politics even if I have sex" and it is so.

The deal with Digital Hardcore is, that you don't stand still, that the music developes . The sound of Drum'n'Bass or House for example stumbles in this days. For this reason we have much more bands than producers on our label and things continue to develope.
For example a band like EC8OR. The interesting thing is that Patrick, who programs the music, is more into hardcore, techno and gabber. And Gina, the singer of the band, comes more from the sorta 60's trash punk scene. And then the whole thing mixes up and becomes interesting.

Patrick Cremer (EC8ER): "Music which is really popular in Berlin is techno, easy listening or studentrock, the totally oposite of this and our concerts are crowded usually and there are lot of people they are against us are typical boring sleep party-shit."

BERLIN

Alec Empire: "At the very beginning The Tresor (-Club) was, a very important Club where many things in the underground happened. All the Detroit (-techno) DJ's Underground Resistance, Jeff Mils and such people came here. The Club was something like a cellar, very dirty, with puddles on the floor and everything was improvised.

Moderator: "What is played here nowadays?"

Alec Empire:"...House....it was very hard music in the past, extremely hard. Nowadays it's is just tralalala, nothing interesting, I think."


The rest is in english!