Alec about The message, pop music, song texts, album titlebr br Video interview with Alec Empire!! FaceCulture spoke to Alec Empire, founder of the band Atari Teenage Riot. He told about growing up in Berlin, the Berlin wall, his family and their political backgrounds, socialism, kapitalism, how the German history has influenced his views and way of thinking, musical influenses, cutting himself, his scars, his anger and how it helped him to create music.