''Delete Yourself!'' is the debut album by German
digital hardcore
Digital hardcore is a fusion genre that combines hardcore punk with electronic dance music genres such as breakbeat, techno, and drum and bass while also drawing on heavy metal, industrial and noise music. It typically features fast tempos a ...
band
Atari Teenage Riot
Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) is a German band formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fuse anarchist and anti-fascist views with punk vocals and a techno sound called digital hardcore, which is a term band member Alec Empire used as the na ...
.
The song "Speed" was used in the 2006 film ''
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift''.
Track listing
Samples
*"Into the Death" samples
Thanatos
In Greek mythology, Thanatos (; , ''Thánatos'', pronounced in "Death", from θνῄσκω ''thnēskō'' "(I) die, am dying") was the Personifications of death, personification of death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referre ...
' "Bodily Dismemberment"
Thanatos accuse Atari Teenage Riot of 'borrowing' one of their riffs
, Blabbermouth.net
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, July 17, 2004, last accessed 2006-09-27.
*"Riot 1995" samples Dinosaur Jr.'s "Sludgefeast"
*"Atari Teenage Riot" samples Nirvana
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's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Personnel
;Atari Teenage Riot
*Alec Empire
Alec Empire (born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on 2 May 1972)https://www.alec-empire.com/ae Alec Empire official website biography is a German experimental electronic musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot, a ...
– vocals, programming
*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 fr ...
– vocals
* Carl Crack – MC
;Additional
*Berlin and London Rioters – shouting vocals
*Alec Empire – producer (tracks 1 to 3, 7 to 9, and 11 to 12)
*David Harrow
David Harrow was born on 29 June in London, England. He lives in Los Angeles and works as a record producer, DJ, and multimedia artist.
Early life
In the early 80s, David Harrow performed as a keyboardist in art school, various squats in Lo ...
– producer (tracks 4 to 6 and 10)
*Alan Branch – engineer
*Henni Hell – cover art
*Phillipp Virus – band photography
*Mathias Sander – live photography
Notes
External links
''Delete Yourself'' CD
at Discogs
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Atari Teenage Riot
at MySpace
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Official Digital Hardcore Recordings site
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1995 debut albums
Atari Teenage Riot albums
Grand Royal albums