Technical Difficulties

Hate Dept. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Restless Records
• ASIN: B00000I9EC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,827 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anyone Realize Who These Guys Are?, August 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Technical Difficulties (Audio CD)

I downloaded "release it" from the guy's website and soon find myself picking it up at the music store where there are 10 other LPs to be bought. Hello!! This CD rips it up!! A mix of Prodigy, Depeche Mode, Atari Teenage Riot, and good producing make this worth every penny. Not quite Orgy, but a wonderful addition to the genre. Pass it on...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hate Dept. unflagging in their energy & showmanship, November 26, 1999

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Justin Pogue - See all my reviews

This review is from: Technical Difficulties (Audio CD)

Hate Dept., once a band playing for $300 bucks a show 600 miles from home and counting on the good graces of the promoters for food and shelter (wait a sec, how does that seperate them from any other band, ever? But anyway...) were at the very least always enthusiastic and immensely talented on stage. When their first album "Meat your maker" came out it had little to no distribution save the immediate LA area, and I had to grab one off of the band themselves when they came through town. And then I was hooked. Since then they have developed not so much their talent (which was never lacking in the first place) but their production values have gone up to enable slicker, more ear-friendly releases. Which I must confess I do not enjoy as much as "Meat Your Maker". It's not to say that they're not good albums, including this one, its simply that on "Meat" they covered up some gaps in technology by overlaying crunching guitar riffs that enhanced the industrial feel of the album in a totally KMFDM way that worked REALLY well for them. Now, I would suppose because of increased production values and capability (or maybe musical direction, hell, I dunno)those industrial elements have been replaced with a more ambient or synth-poppy feel. Still good stuff, but I confess I'm a fan of music with sharp teeth.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dance/industrial/EBM, from one of the finest in the genre, August 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Technical Difficulties (Audio CD)

This album effectively expresses the emotional twists and turns of resentment and frustration with the world and the people in it. Hate Department may not be the appropriate name for the group. No HATE seems to be expressed, more like anger and frustration, chanelled more appropriately and poetically. To steal a line from Skinny Puppy: "With your eyes open, you know soft-spoken changes nothing." This album is far from soft-spoken, but not "preachy." I find myself in political and emotional agreement with many of the lyrics.

Do you like to dance to Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Forma Tadre, or old Nine Inch Nails? This is excellent dance music as well. I can't figure out why this has not been all the rage on the dance floors everywhere, though I do hear it in the harder clubs.

Hate Department is not out of place in ballad land with "Wait" or "Leaving" either. Surprisingly, some deep rich vocals are blended in.