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Intelligence and Sacrifice [Explicit Lyrics]

~ Alec Empire
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  • Audio CD (22 April 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Explicit Lyrics
  • Label: Digital Hardcore
  • ASIN: B000063T1V
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 39,032 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Path Of Destruction
2. The Ride
3. Tear It Out
4. Everything Starts With A Fuck
5. Killing Machine
6. Addicted To You
7. Intelligence & Sacrifice
8. Death Favours The Enemy
9. Buried Alive
10. And Never Be Found
See all 11 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. 2641998
2. The Cat Woman Of The Moon
3. Two Turn Tables & A Moog
4. Paralle Universe
5. Vault Things Of The Night
6. Silence & Burning Ice
7. Alec's Ladder
8. Electric Bodyrock
9. 2641998

Product Description

NME, December 2001

"Alec Empire is the kind of person you always feel should be huge."


CD Description

Sixth solo album from Atari Teenage Riot founder, follow-upto 1996's 'The Destroyer'. Empire returns following the tragic death of his ATR bandmate Carl Crack with what may be the most brutal album of his career to date. Hyperspeed blastbeats collide with raw punk rock guitars and industrial samples, all topped with Empire's hoarsely shouted left-wing sloganeering.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Intelligence and Sacrifice, 28 Feb 2005
As has been said in other reviews here, the first CD of this double album alone is enough to give you value for money. Mostly heavy but catchy tracks, its easy to get into and there's always more to hear whenever you play it. Stand-out tracks are "The Ride" and "Killing Machine", and I recommend that the latter be played at top volume to get the full effect!

Alec Empire is a very angry man, and this album is concerned with much the same subject matter as his work in Atari Teenage Riot; armageddon, demise of culture, hatred of pop culture. However, it has been developed to a far higher standard and contains some incredible riffs and beats.

The second CD is not one which I originally liked, and although I have since warmed to it, its not one which I listen to frequently. Written to be played looped continually, it skitters from idea to idea in a fascinating yet disorientating way.

In short, this is a fantastic album but requires patience to get the full benefit. More people should know about this - a magnificent and important record.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars To Hell and Back, and Back into Hell..., 20 Jun 2002
Intense feelings of suicide and depression swamped the production of this album. The result is Alec Empire's self-confessed "diary". With it, the longly anticipated fusion of the two worlds of Empire's talent; the hypnotic dance and the politically bled world that existed, most predominately, in the shattered landscape of "The Destroyer".

The sharp connotations of the phrase "Welcome to a lifestyle that you can't buy into" in "Path of Destruction" see a return to form of Empire, a snarling, intense and dark figure that has remixed Primal Scream and Bjork amonst others, and has been equally influenced on and by the legendary Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The provocatively named "Everything Starts with a F**k" sets the record along the lines of extremism, with the euphoric "Ride" being the dark trance that could be expected in clubs, and the first single "Addicted to You", that is just amazing. The most striking song is the painful "... And Never Be Found", a blistering track that sees Empire whispering over the harrowing noise of a subway background. The most surreal is the second part of "New World Order", the last minutes are an unending fury of the sound of the Digital Hardcore mixing desk in flames! the sound of metal skin being torn inside your stereo and into your ears. It leaves you feeling that nothing, nothing could be so intense, so vital, so passionate.

And then you get the CD2 of the package, what Empire has himself described as "a trip through hell". A garden of channels of noise are defaced here to something that shows the extreme of extreme, the evidence of a talented genius in extreme pain. 2641998, reprised and bookended at the end of the album, extends to half its duration, a loop of repeated clashes and surreal rises and falls. It shelves and closely guards seven intense tracks, the lowest being "Alec's Ladder". The first thing that strikes you is that the absense of words is suffocating, that the freefall of sound is something that allows the tracks to run into and beyond each other. It is not controlled, what would make this seem to be incoherent actually makes it fragile, and all the more powerful. Parallels of the excellent "Limited Editions 1990-1994" album are seem here, especially on the tracks "Parallel Universe" and "Electric Bodyrock". Granting an analogue fusion with bars of intense digital expression, layers of white noise cut and pasted so effectively, the sonics are unreal. It, as always, proves that distorted beats create pain as a voice never could, and yet somehow create the impression of a low, barely auditable scream that drones through the full 72 mintues of the second CD.

Having never been able to favour the "shouty punk" over the "ambient trance", this can be seen as an introduction and an end to what Empire's music is about. Not unlike "The Geist of Alec Empire" for his dance, this seems to unify his work together, as well as, no doubt, his own and unique ways of coming to terms with his pain. the only thing that could make this excellent bodywork more impressive is the intensity in its production by an artist that only gets better and better.

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Outrageous! Never heard anything like it!, 21 Mar 2002
By A Customer
2 cds - both totally different from the other.

Cd One: mad industrial grinding beats and noise with the ol' Empire screaming away as usual. Got some right tunes on it too - Addicted To You, The Ride, NWO. All stormers, good jumping-up-and-down music for sure.

CD2 : Electronica madness! Some really dark, harsh listening mixed up with totally dance-able grooves and rhythms. Mad stuff - really worth hearing.

Can't get enough of this record!

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4.0 out of 5 stars mm, electronic
A point of note is that this album come's on 2 cd's, so you at least get value for money!
The packaging is also wonderful, the booklet is one of my favourites, the style of it... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2003 by e_ghost

5.0 out of 5 stars a new level of extremity
I have been listening to extreme music for near on a decade and very little out there compares to this in terms of heaviness and extremity. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars buy this now !!!
This record is better than almost anything i have ever heard !Alec has returned with a record which is so strong musically and vocaly. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2002 by adam242

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than any nu-metal trash
Fed up with the mainstream rock groups (Linkin Park, Blink 182, Sum 41, Nickelback etc)?... With white noise and drums, turntables and other electronica this is one of the best... Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2002 by Serpentine Lycanthroat

5.0 out of 5 stars Music to annoy the neighbours with.....
First of all there isn't very much like this out there. Electronic rock music. Like a cross between Prodigy and Slayer. Read more
Published on 30 April 2002

2.0 out of 5 stars This is mental
Having not listened to any of Alec Empire's previous stuff, I was surprised by this 2 cd outing as both are as different as different can be. Read more
Published on 25 April 2002

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