60 Second Wipe Out

1	Revolution Action 4:09
2	By Any Means Necessary 2:38
3	Western Decay 5:50
4	Atari Teenage Riot II 6:08
5	Ghostchase 4:34
6	Too Dead for Me 4:17
7	U.S. Fade Out 2:52
8	The Virus Has Been Spread 1:15
9	Digital Hardcore 4:11
10	Death of a President D.I.Y.! 4:43
11	Your Uniform (Does Not Impress Me!) 5:48
12	No Success / Kathleen Hanna 3:48
13	Anarchy 999 4:07
14	No Remorse (I Wanna Die) 6:47

Barnes & Noble

What do you get when you take the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the U.K." and James Brown's "Funky Drummer" and throw them in a blender? Give up? Atari Teenage Riot, the Berlin-based über-punk anti-dance dance band that makes the Lo-Fidelity Allstars sound like Gordon Lightfoot. ATR's warp-speed breakbeats, noise guitars, and hardcore techno sound first shocked the dance world on 1997's BURN, BERLIN, BURN, and they haven't let up a bit on their explosive new 60 SECOND WIPEOUT. On cuts like "By Any Means Necessary" and "US Fadeout," singer-producer Alec Empire and second-shouter Hanin Elias sound like teenage sugar freaks who've just discovered hip-hop, punk rock, and anarchist ranting. Hilariously absurd and undeniably fun, ATR's noise is as exhilarating as it is aggravating. And while it isn't for everybody -- tracks like "Digital Hardcore" are little more than squealing examples of techno gone horribly awry -- it does ring with a certain poignancy as we hurtle toward the millennium. If you've ever listened to Prodigy and thought, What a bunch of wimps, then this might be for you. Jon Dolan

All Music Guide

It would be silly to expect some sort of crossover or sellout on Atari Teenage Riot's major-label debut, 60 Second Wipe Out. Instead, the group that introduced distorted breakbeat thrash to American/alternative audiences returned with an album of much the same. There is no lack of anarchist politics and hands-in-the-air shout-alongs, whose lyrics are pretty aptly summed up by the titles "Death of a President D.I.Y.!," "By Any Means Necessary," and "Revolution Action" (the latter was released as a trailer single, perhaps intentionally, on the same day the German legislature met in Berlin's Reichstag for the first time in over 50 years). Frontman Alec Empire's computer-thrash productions haven't taken any giant leaps in the two years since the previous ATR LP, though he does add bridges to a few songs, including the marathon five minutes of "Western Decay." Still, 60 Second Wipe Out has all of the ingredients fans could expect from their favorite anarcho-hardcore-electronica group. John Bush