Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5 (usually shortened to Hypermodern Jazz) is an album by German musician Alec Empire

Alec Empire

Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...

, released in 1996. It was his fourth full album, his fourth for the Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux is an influential electronica record label founded 1993 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, Germany. It is known for mostly releasing minimal techno, glitch music and other experimental electronic music.-History:...

 label, and the first of three he released in the same year (The Destroyer

The Destroyer (album)

The Destroyer is an album by electronic artist Alec Empire, his first on his own record label Digital Hardcore Recordings, released in 1996 in Europe and a revised version in 1998 in USA. Destroyer is also the name given to a series of EPs by Empire released two years before...

was released on DHR

Digital Hardcore Recordings

Digital Hardcore Recordings 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 following June and Les Étoiles des Filles Mortes

Les Étoiles des Filles Mortes

Les Étoiles des Filles Mortes is an album by Alec Empire, released in 1996. It is his fifth and final album for the Mille Plateaux label and his third of three albums released that year.-Tracklisting:#"La Ville Des Filles Mortes" - 5:41...

, also for MP, in November). The album, as the title suggests, exhibits an experimental approach to jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 utilising electronics and synthesizers.

Track listing

1. "Walk the Apocalypse - 5:12
2. "God Told Me How to Kiss" - 6:55
3. "Get Some" - 5:40
4. "I'm Gonna Die If I Fall Asleep Again" - 5:22
5. "The Unknown Stepdancer" - 1:32
6. "Chilling Through the Lives" - 5:01
7. "Many Bars and No Money" - 6:01
8. "My Funk is Useless" - 5:43
9. "Slowly Falling in Love" - 4:20
10. "Dreaming is a Form of Astrotravel" - 4:17

External links

• Hypermodern Jazz CD at Discogs
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• Hypermodern Jazz LP at Discogs
• Hypermodern Jazz Geist reissue CD at Discogs
• Official Alec Empire fansite