''60 Second Wipe Out'' is the third studio album by

Atari Teenage Riot 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 use ...

. It was originally released through

Digital Hardcore Recordings Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured. The ...

in 1999. It peaked at number 17 on the

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, as well as number 32 on the ''

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chart.

Critical reception

John Bush of

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gave the album 3 stars out of 5, saying, "''60 Second Wipe Out'' has all of the ingredients fans could expect from their favorite anarcho-hardcore-electronica group." Marc Weingarten of ''

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'' gave the album a grade of B+, saying: "Wielding break beats like ninja stars and synth bleets like num-chucks, lecEmpire performs mad chopsocky maneuvers that will turn you into a glutton for punishment."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Alec Empire Alec or Aleck is a Scottish form of the given name Alex. It may be a diminutive of the name Alexander or a given name in its own right. Notable people with the name include: People * Alec Aalto (1942–2018), Finnish diplomat *Alec Acton (1938� ...

Nic Endo Nic Endo (born January 7, 1976) is a Japanese-German- American noise musician who plays with the German digital hardcore group Atari Teenage Riot. The daughter of a Japanese mother and a German father, Endo was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, US ...

Hanin Elias Hanin Elias (born 31 May 1972) is a Syrian German industrial/techno artist. She was a member of Atari Teenage Riot and is now a solo artist. After Atari Teenage Riot's non-definitive break in 2000, and the subsequent death of Carl Crack fro ...

Carl Crack Carl Crack (born Karl Böhm, 5 May 1971 – 6 September 2001) was a Swazi-born German techno artist best known for his membership in the digital hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot from 1992 to 2000. Biography Around 1992, Crack displayed little ...

Additional musicians *

Dino Cazares Dino Cazares (born in 1966) is an American musician, known for being the guitarist and one of the co-founders of industrial metal band Fear Factory. He is also the co-founder of the metal bands Divine Heresy, Asesino, and Brujeria. Cazares popu ...

– guitar (10) * D-Stroy – vocals (11, 12, 13) * Freestyle – vocals (12, 13) *

Kathleen Hanna Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician, artist, feminist activist, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. In the early-to-mid-1990s she was the lead singer of feminist punk band ...

– vocals (12) * Jise – vocals (13) * Kinetics – vocals (13) * Q-Unique – vocals (13) Technical personnel * Alec Empire – mixing (10, 11, 13) * Andy Wallace – mixing (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13) *

Dave Sardy David Stuart Sardy (born 1967), more commonly known as D. Sardy, is an American composer, musician, songwriter, and multiple Grammy winning record producer. He came to prominence as the leader of 1990s noise rock band Barkmarket before turning mo ...

– mixing (12) * Steve Rooke – mastering

Charts

References

External links

* * {{Authority control 1999 albums Atari Teenage Riot albums Elektra Records albums