Revolution Action E.P. by Atari Teenage Riot

Revolution Action E.P. came out in 1999 on Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec Empire's own label, as the advance guard for Atari Teenage Riot's album 60 Second Wipe Out, which is where the title track lives. It arrived on 12" vinyl and CD, and it hits like a brick through a bank window: breakbeats sped past the point of dancing, noise piled on noise, and shouted slogans that make most punk bands sound like they're asking permission.

By now the Berlin crew that Empire, Hanin Elias and Carl Crack had started as a musical assault on the neo-Nazi scene had Nic Endo in the ranks too, and the fury hadn't mellowed an inch. Two videos were shot for the song and MTV banned one of them, which is about the best review a record like this could want. The same name went on the band's 1999 tour of Japan.

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