Torture Tech Overdrive

{{Infobox album

| name = Torture Tech Overdrive

| type = compilation

| artist = Various artists

| cover = Various Artists - Torture Tech Overdrive.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1991}}

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Electro-industrial

| length = 42:25

| label = If It Moves...

| producer =

| chronology = Re-Constriction Records V/A

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = The Cyberflesh Conspiracy

| next_year = 1992

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = Alternative cover

| type = compilation

| cover = Various Artists - Torture Tech Overdrive (1994).jpg

| caption = 1994 CD cover

}}

}}

Torture Tech Overdrive is a various artists compilation album released in 1991 by If It Moves....{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0000122277|pure_url=yes}}|title=Various Artists: Torture-Tech Overdrive > Overview |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 26, 2019}} In October 1994 the album was reissued for a limited run of 1000 pressings by Cleopatra Records with an extended track listing additional versions of tracks.{{cite journal|first=Chris |last=Christian |url=http://www.sonic-boom.com/review/torture.tech.overdrive.html |title=Various Artists: Torture Tech Overdrive |journal=Sonic Boom |date=October 1995 |volume=3 |issue=8 |accessdate=July 26, 2020}}{{cite journal |first=Becky |last=Barnhart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQw5AQAAIAAJ |title=Schwann Spectrum |journal=Schwann Spectrum |publisher=Stereophile, Incorporated |date=1995 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=209 |accessdate=July 26, 2020}}{{cite journal |first=Becky |last=Barnhart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOwZAQAAIAAJ |title=Schwann Spectrum |journal=Schwann Spectrum |publisher=Stereophile, Incorporated |date=1996 |volume=Winter 1996-1997 |pages=255 |isbn=9781575980386 |accessdate=July 26, 2020}} The uncredited song is "Back in Black", an cover of the hard rock band AC/DC by Chase's musical outlet Rendering Service. The song "Lupe Velez" by Jimmy Jazz is about the illogicality of attempting to create a "beautiful suicide."{{cite book |first=Michelle |last=Vogel |author-link=Michelle Vogel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Qt_kZTt4JYC |title=Lupe Velez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire" |publisher=McFarland & Company |date=July 10, 2012 |page=222 |isbn=9780786489978 |accessdate=July 26, 2019}}

Reception

Sonic Boom gave Torture Tech Overdrive a positive review and said "definitely a compilation to try and find regardless of its limited edition status."

Track listing

{{tracklist

| headline = Side one

| extra_column = Artist

| title1 = Fight!

| extra1 = Biohazard PCB

| writer1 = Keith Arem, Jack Boughner

| length1 = 3:49

| title2 = Character Machine

| note2 = Reanimated Edit

| writer2 = Anthony Floriano, Kenneth Spain, Stephen Synoski

| extra2 = Fixed Image

| length2 = 4:47

| title3 = CDB

| note3 = Gizmo Edit

| writer3 = R. Orret, Steve Watkins

| extra3 = Scar Tissue

| length3 = 3:41

| title4 = Countdown to Meltdown '94

| note4 = Gate Edit

| writer4 = Timothy Wiles

| extra4 = Death Method

| length4 = 4:28

| title5 = Shallow Grave (Date With an Embalmer Mix)

| writer5 = Chad Bishop, Allan King, Shayde Sartin

| extra5 = STG

| length5 = 4:21

}}

{{tracklist

| headline = Side two

| extra_column = Artist

| title1 = Numbing Device

| note1 = 1991 V. Remix

| writer1 = Mark Deadrick, Trevor Henthorn

| extra1 = Sweat Engine

| length1 = 4:26

| title2 = White Noise

| writer2 = William Hayden, Keith York

| extra2 = Apolitiq

| length2 = 4:18

| title3 = So Big (Original Un-Edited Mix)

| writer3 = Peter Stone

| extra3 = Xorcist

| length3 = 5:05

| title4 = Back in Black

| note4 = AC/DC cover

| writer4 = Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young

| extra4 = Rendering Service

| length4 = 3:27

| title5 = Freedom

| writer5 = Jeremy Daw, Lynda Sterling

| extra5 = Yeht Mae

| length5 = 4:04

}}

{{tracklist

| headline = 1994 CD track listing

| extra_column = Artist

| title1 = Fight!

| extra1 = Biohazard PCB

| writer1 = Keith Arem, Jack Boughner

| length1 = 3:49

| title2 = Numbing Device

| extra2 = Sweat Engine

| writer2 = Mark Deadrick, Trevor Henthorn

| length2 = 4:26

| title3 = CDB

| note3 = Gizmo Edit

| writer3 = R. Orret, Steve Watkins

| extra3 = Scar Tissue

| length3 = 3:41

| title4 = Shallow Grave (Date With an Embalmer Mix)

| writer4 = Chad Bishop, Allan King, Shayde Sartin

| extra4 = STG

| length4 = 4:21

| title5 = White Noise

| extra5 = Apolitiq

| writer5 = William Hayden, Keith York

| length5 = 4:18

| title6 = Crock of Shit

| writer6 = Shonn Bratlien, Barry Dost, Johan Sherriffs, Thomas Patrick Smith

| extra6 = Pain Emission

| length6 = 2:59

| title7 = Character Machine

| writer7 = Anthony Floriano, Kenneth Spain, Stephen Synoski

| extra7 = Fixed Image

| length7 = 4:47

| title8 = Secret Hate

| writer8 = Michael Gunn, Jeff Tatman

| extra8 = Death Industry

| length8 = 4:52

| title9 = Manifesto Primitive

| writer9 = Jeremy Goody

| extra9 = A Release Project

| length9 = 3:36

| title10 = So Big (Original Un-Edited Mix)

| writer10 = Peter Stone

| extra10 = Xorcist

| length10 = 5:05

| title11 = Countdown to Meltdown '94

| writer11 = Timothy Wiles

| extra11 = Death Method

| length11 = 4:28

| title12 = Flesh Feeds Soul (Perversion '94)

| note12 = Razormaid Mix

| writer12 = Steven Seibold

| extra12 = Hate Dept.

| length12 = 4:17

| title13 = Freedom

| writer13 = Jeremy Daw, Lynda Sterling

| extra13 = Yeht Mae

| length13 = 4:04

| title14 = Technocality

| writer14 = Mark Deadrick, Trevor Henthorn

| extra14 = Sweat Engine

| length14 = 5:01

| title15 = Roundhouse

| writer15 = Larry Rainwater

| extra15 = Ex-Voto

| length15 = 4:03

| title16 = Glass

| note16 = Clean Mix

| writer16 = James Basore, John Belew, Marc Phillips, Christian Void

| extra16 = Killing Floor

| length16 = 4:41

| title17 = Lupe Velez

| writer17 = Justin Hopkins

| extra17 = Jimmy Jazz

| length17 = 0:49

| title18 = Back in Black

| note18 = AC/DC cover

| writer18 = Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young

| extra18 = Rendering Service

| length18 = 3:27

}}

Personnel

Adapted from the Torture Tech Overdrive liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Torture Tech Overdrive |title-link=Torture Tech Overdrive |others=Various artists |year=1991 |type=sleeve |publisher=If It Moves... |location=San Diego, California}}

Release history

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! Region

! Date

! Label

! Format

! Catalog

rowspan="2"| United States

| 1991

| If It Moves...

| LP

| IIM-001

1994

| Cleopatra

| CD

| CLEO 9499

References

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