Live CBGB's NYC 1998 is a live album by German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 digital hardcore

Digital hardcore

Digital hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk incorporating influences from electronic music. Digital hardcore fuses elements of hardcore punk with various forms of electronic music...

 pioneer 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...

 and Japan

Japan

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ese noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 artist Masami "Merzbow" Akita

Merzbow

is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...

. It was recorded on November 4, 1998 at the Digital Hardcore

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...

 Festival at CBGB's

CBGB

CBGB was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and New Wave bands like Ramones, Misfits, Television, the...

 in New York

New York City

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 and was released on DHR in 2003.

Other recordings to emanate from the Digital Hardcore Festival include a CDr released by DHR in 2004 named Live At CBGB's New York City 4-11-98. The disc contains a DJ set by Empire, with live vocals by Hanin Elias

Hanin Elias

Hanin Elias is a German industrial/techno artist. She was a member of Atari Teenage Riot and is now a solo artist....

 with MC Beans

Beans (rapper)

Beans hails from White Plains; a suburb of New York City. He is one of the founding members of New York's legendary Antipop Consortium, who disbanded in 2002 but have since reformed: new material was released in the form of the group's 2009 album Fluorescent Black on Big Dada Records.With his...

 and Priest from Antipop Consortium

Antipop Consortium

Antipop Consortium are an American alternative hip hop group. The group formed in 1997, when Beans, High Priest, M. Sayyid and producer Earl Blaize met at a poetry slam in New York City...

. At the conclusion of the set, Elias can be heard announcing the imminent appearance of Merzbow.

Empire and Merzbow went on to collaborate on other projects. Merzbow played drums in Empire's live band set at the 2001 Fuji Rock Festival

Fuji Rock Festival

Fuji Rock Festival is an annual rock festival held in Naeba Ski Resort, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The 3 day event, organized by Smash Japan, features more than 200 Japanese and international musicians, making it the largest outdoor music event in Japan...

 in Japan. Empire was one of the many remix artists involved in Merzbow's Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled

Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled

Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled is a remix album by the noise artist Merzbow, released on 2003. This remix album comes in 2 CDs and features samples from another Merzbow album called Amlux...

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Track listing

1. "The Alliance" – 3:17
2. "The Destroyer and Merzbow" – 2:24
3. "A Fire Will Burn" – 0:48
4. "Nightmare Vision" – 2:08
5. "The Full Destroyer / Merzbow Meltdown" – 4:26
6. "The White Man Destroys His Own Race" – 2:28
7. "Curse of the Golden Angel" – 3:26
8. "The Predator" – 1:49
9. "Brooklyn Connection" – 2:10
10. "Dawn" – 1:48
11. "The Slayer Calls at Night" – 5:08
12. "Blow this Thing" – 2:13
13. "606: The Number of the Beast" – 1:00
14. "202 Lightyears from Home" – 1:18
15. "Shock Treatment for Corporate Control" – 1:18
16. "Enter the Forbidden Space" – 2:18
17. "A Degenerated Nation Reacting to Fear" – 5:31
18. "A Degenerated Nation Reacting to Fear Pt. II" – 8:25
19. "Some Might Even Die..." – 4:08

External links

• Official Digital Hardcore Recordings site
• Alec Empire's official fansite
• Live CBGB's NYC 1998 at Discogs.com
  Discogs
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