Hanin Elias is a German industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

/techno artist. She was a member of Atari Teenage Riot

Atari Teenage Riot

'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...

 and is now a solo artist.

After Atari Teenage Riot's non-definitive break in 2000, and the subsequent death of Carl Crack

Carl Crack

Carl Crack was a Berlin-based techno artist best known for his membership in the digital hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot from 1992 to 2000....

 from a drug overdose

Drug overdose

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, the members of ATR split up, and Hanin set up her own record label, Fatal Recordings

Fatal Recordings

Fatal Recordings is a feminist record label, established by German industrial / techno artist Hanin Elias.Fatal focuses on left-wing political music. It was formed in part because Hanin Elias felt that women did not have a place to record and create electronic music...

.

Background

Elias was born and spent 3 years of her early life living in Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

. A member of a conservative family living under an autocratic

Autocracy

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 father when the family moved to Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, she ran away from home and started squatting

Squatting

Squatting consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use....

 in the city. Elias started participating in the Berlin punk

Punk ideology

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 and goth

Goth subculture

The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in England during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify...

 scenes, developing a musical career and ended up helping to found Atari Teenage Riot

Atari Teenage Riot

'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...

.

Atari Teenage Riot

After a brief, unhappy spell with the Phonogram

Phonogram Records

Phonogram Records was started in 1962 as a joint venture between Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon. In 1972, Phonogram was merged with Polydor Records into PolyGram....

 record company, ATR set up their own label, Digital Hardcore Recordings

Digital Hardcore Recordings

Digital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...

, which became known for its distinctive sound - a hybrid of punk

Punk rock

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, techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

 and heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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, also known as Digital Hardcore

Digital hardcore

Digital hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk incorporating influences from electronic music. Digital hardcore fuses elements of hardcore punk with various forms of electronic music...

.

Fatal record company

After the members of ATR split, Elias' DHR spin-off company, 'Fatal', went independent, establishing itself in Berlin instead of London. Elias has since released several albums, and her Fatal label has boasted such artists as The Vanishing

The Vanishing

The Vanishing may refer to:* The Vanishing , a Dutch film* The Vanishing , an American film* The Vanishing...

, Phallus Über Alles

Phallus Über Alles

Phallus Über Alles is a digital hardcore band from Bloomington, Indiana. The group combines layered female shouts, distorted beats, and punk guitars with feminist and anarcho-political lyrical themes.-Members / History:...

, Kunst

Kunst

Kunst is the German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese and Estonian word for "art". The German page :de:Kunst has an explanation of its etymology and use.It is a Germanic surname. As a surname, it may refer to:* Jaap Kunst, Dutch ethnomusicologist...

 and Tara Delong. Elias has also performed duets and remixes with such artists as Le Tigre

Le Tigre

Le Tigre is an American electroclash band, formed by Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman in 1998. It also featured Sadie Benning from 1998 until 2001, and JD Samson for the rest of the group's run...

, Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...

, J Mascis

J Mascis

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, Alexander Hacke

Alexander Hacke

Alexander Hacke is a guitarist, bass guitarist, singer, experimental / industrial / electronic musician from Germany....

, Merzbow

Merzbow

is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...

, and Alec Empire

Alec Empire

Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...

. In 2005, Elias began working with the industrial project Pigface

Pigface

Pigface is an industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.-History:Pigface was formed from Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour, which produced the In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up live album and video. For the tour, Al Jourgensen brought...

, joining them on their US tour.

In 2006, it was announced that Fatal Recordings was to close. Elias announced on her MySpace

MySpace

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 blog that she would be taking an indefinite hiatus from the music industry and relocating to French Polynesia

French Polynesia

French Polynesia is an overseas country of the French Republic . It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory...

 with her family.
In 2010 Hanin moved back to Berlin/Germany in order to prepare a new album for 2011.

New Album and Comeback

In June 2011, the new album "Get It Back" on Rustblade Recordings was released.

Discography

• Parfum EP (Force Inc. 1992)
• Show EP (DHR 1996)
• In Flames (1995-1999) (DHR Fatal 1999)
• "In Flames" EP (DHR Fatal 1999)
• "In Flames" remix EP (DHR Fatal 2000)
• No Games No Fun (Fatal 2003)
• Future Noir (Fatal 2004)
• Get It Back (Rustblade 2011)

External links

• Hanin Elias at MySpace
  MySpace
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• Official page at Fatal Recordings
• Hanin Elias at Discogs.com
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