ATR Artist Bio

Shortened name used back on the first pre-DHR releases in ’93 (the singles ATR and Kids Are United!) during the time when they were recording an album for Phonogram, before leaving and setting up their own label at the start of ’94 with the advance (some of this material was later released on the limited “ATR” CD that came with the Sixteen Years of Video Material DVD). Alec talks about this era and the founding of DHR on this podcast http://solipsisticnation.com/?p=356

The international version of the “Rage” single with Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine in 2000 also bore this name. This release included mixes of the hip-hop version of the track (with raps by MC D-Stroy of Arsonists, who’d featured on 60 Second Wipe Out) and was the last real release while the first incarnation of the group was still active, though Carl Crack did not feature.
This single was quite a departure from the sound ATR had been evolving up until the late 90s, which was increasingly noisy and thrashy, instead harking back to their earlier techno days. Alec by this point was also moving away from the ever-harder breakcore sounds he’d been focusing on in his recent solo work (with the notable exception of The Curse Of The Golden Vampire project) and would continue this brand of industrial-strength hip-hop with 2001’s Shards Of Pol Pottery with El-P. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.