“Deceptacon” by Le Tigre

"Deceptacon" comes from Le Tigre's self-titled debut, released on October 25, 1999, on Mr. Lady Records, a record that set feminist political lyrics to pop music. Kathleen Hanna wrote the words, and the music is credited to Hanna, Johanna Fateman and JD Samson.

The band grew out of Hanna's circle: she had lived with Fateman when the two played in a band called the Troublemakers, and she had worked with Sadie Benning, the third founder, on a video for "Aerobicide" from her 1997 album Julie Ruin. A plan to take those songs live turned into a band. They built the tracks on cheap electronic gear they were new to, which Fateman framed as girl-punk scorn for male expertise in electronic music, and brought in Chris Stamey of the dB's as co-producer to reshape songs with digital editing.

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