Torture Tech Overdrive

Torture Tech Overdrive is a various artists compilation album released in 1991 by If It Moves....^[1] 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.^[2][3][4] 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."^[5]

Torture Tech Overdrive
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	1991 (1991)
Genre	Electro-industrial
Length	42:25
Label	If It Moves...
Re-Constriction Records V/A chronology
Torture Tech Overdrive (1991) The Cyberflesh Conspiracy (1992)
Alternative cover
1994 CD cover

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."^[2]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Fight!"	Keith Arem, Jack Boughner	Biohazard PCB	3:49
2.	"Character Machine" (Reanimated Edit)	Anthony Floriano, Kenneth Spain, Stephen Synoski	Fixed Image	4:47
3.	"CDB" (Gizmo Edit)	R. Orret, Steve Watkins	Scar Tissue	3:41
4.	"Countdown to Meltdown '94" (Gate Edit)	Timothy Wiles	Death Method	4:28
5.	"Shallow Grave (Date With an Embalmer Mix)"	Chad Bishop, Allan King, Shayde Sartin	STG	4:21

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Numbing Device" (1991 V. Remix)	Mark Deadrick, Trevor Henthorn	Sweat Engine	4:26
2.	"White Noise"	William Hayden, Keith York	Apolitiq	4:18
3.	"So Big (Original Un-Edited Mix)"	Peter Stone	Xorcist	5:05
4.	"Back in Black" (AC/DC cover)	Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young	Rendering Service	3:27
5.	"Freedom"	Jeremy Daw, Lynda Sterling	Yeht Mae	4:04

1994 CD track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Fight!"	Keith Arem, Jack Boughner	Biohazard PCB	3:49
2.	"Numbing Device"	Mark Deadrick, Trevor Henthorn	Sweat Engine	4:26
3.	"CDB" (Gizmo Edit)	R. Orret, Steve Watkins	Scar Tissue	3:41
4.	"Shallow Grave (Date With an Embalmer Mix)"	Chad Bishop, Allan King, Shayde Sartin	STG	4:21
5.	"White Noise"	William Hayden, Keith York	Apolitiq	4:18
6.	"Crock of Shit"	Shonn Bratlien, Barry Dost, Johan Sherriffs, Thomas Patrick Smith	Pain Emission	2:59
7.	"Character Machine"	Anthony Floriano, Kenneth Spain, Stephen Synoski	Fixed Image	4:47
8.	"Secret Hate"	Michael Gunn, Jeff Tatman	Death Industry	4:52
9.	"Manifesto Primitive"	Jeremy Goody	A Release Project	3:36
10.	"So Big (Original Un-Edited Mix)"	Peter Stone	Xorcist	5:05
11.	"Countdown to Meltdown '94"	Timothy Wiles	Death Method	4:28
12.	"Flesh Feeds Soul (Perversion '94)" (Razormaid Mix)	Steven Seibold	Hate Dept.	4:17
13.	"Freedom"	Jeremy Daw, Lynda Sterling	Yeht Mae	4:04
14.	"Technocality"	Mark Deadrick, Trevor Henthorn	Sweat Engine	5:01
15.	"Roundhouse"	Larry Rainwater	Ex-Voto	4:03
16.	"Glass" (Clean Mix)	James Basore, John Belew, Marc Phillips, Christian Void	Killing Floor	4:41
17.	"Lupe Velez"	Justin Hopkins	Jimmy Jazz	0:49
18.	"Back in Black" (AC/DC cover)	Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young	Rendering Service	3:27

Personnel

Adapted from the Torture Tech Overdrive liner notes.^[6]

• Carol – compiling, design
• Chase – compiling
• Billy Peculiar – cover art

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	1991	If It Moves...	LP	IIM-001
	1994	Cleopatra	CD	CLEO 9499