Atari Teenage Riot was one of Berlin’s most incendiary groups during its late ’90s / early ’00s heyday. They took electronic music’s building blocks and gleefully deconstructed them, turning jungle into what frontman Alec Empire called “digital hardcore.” On this episode of Berlin Zwanzig – the first in the series – Vivian Host sits down with Empire to discuss how ATR’s “Revolution Action” came to be and why Berlin in the '90s felt a little bit like the end of the world.

Introducing Berlin Zwanzig, a new podcast from Red Bull Music Academy. Vivian Host and a crew of Berlin scene stalwarts chart the evolution of the city from 1998 to 2018 through 20 key tracks.