Time to dig up a review I had written about their initial album.
DJ 6666 Feat. The Illegals – Death Breathing DHR CD 12
"a very outstanding 'later' release of DHR, taking the breakcore genre to its logical conclusion, and its end:
there are no longer any traces of jungle / breakbeat / 'uk happy hardcore' elements, just unrelentless noise and distortion.
In fact, even the funk and groovy-ness of earlier alec empire releases is slipping away at times, leaving room for cold, hypnotic, repetitive drumloops that crush everything in their paths.
nihilism and bleakness has taking over the breakcore genre.
yet, while the album starts on an ultra dark trip, it gets worse. as the album goes on, the track structures, logic and rationality itself seem to fall apart (or get broken to their core). the later tracks often including little more than just swirling noize, or last and lost fragments of a slowed down, mangled breakbeat.
a journey into decay and mindlessness.
and i love it for that."
Interestingly, there seem to be some bonus tracks on the bandcamp release that were not released before. Haven't fully deciphered this yet (due to changed track names), but they add to the positively disorienting and destructive feel of the originally released tracks!
Get it here:
https://alecempire.bandcamp.com/album/alec-empire-dj6666-feat-the-illegals
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