Praxis Online Shop
WELCOME TO THE BRAND NEW PRAXIS ONLINE SHOP
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Specialist in radical electronic music on vinyl, we also feature a wide range of subversive literature and other countercultural goods.
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MAY 29, 2025: We have just migrated this shop to a completely new version of the shop software! Please let us know what you think of the new shop!
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Our physical shop will once again be open once a week to the public without appointments - every Friday afternoon from 4-7pm.
As we may not be able to do this every single Friday due to other commitments, we recommend to check this page or subscribe to our telegram channel https://t.me/praxisrecords where you find mostly label- and shop-related news and updates.
You want to pick up your order or just come around and browse our selection on a different day of the week?
No problem - just get in touch via email christophpraxis(at) gmail (dot) com
and we'll make an arrangement, even short notice (if possible).
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Hot tip: FREE SHIPPING starts for orders of € 49 (in Germany), € 99 (in the rest of Europe = EU + CH + UK + Norway)
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OUR BOOK with the complete first 10 issues of Datacide - the magazine for noise & politics is back in stock! CLICK HERE TO BUY.
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NEW: Become a Praxis/Datacide Super-Subscriber and get 10% off (almost) ALL items in this store for the whole of 2025 and beyond!
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VISIT OUR STORE
The ADDRESS is Weidenweg 45, 10249 Berlin-Friedrichshain.
We do recommend to place an order ahead of time, so it can be prepared for pick up, but space & time allowing, you'll be able to browse and listen to records as well.
Card payments accepted.
For those unable to visit in person, there's
FREE Shipping for orders of € 99.00+ for all of Europe, incl. EU, Norway, UK and Switzerland (in Germany temporarily from € 49.00, normally €69.00)
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Who we are:
Praxis is a label dedicated to experimental hardcore and radical breaks which was founded in 1992 in London. The first two 12" records came out at the end of that year, the Scaremonger EP and 'Knee-Jerk Reaction' by Bourbonese Qualk. These contributed to and commented on the rising techno and rave scene, coming from a background of experimental post punk and industrial music. Soon the label expanded and explored experimental hardcore, electronic weirdness, breakcore, speedcore and noise.
Since then there has been a steady stream of releases and activities, which we continue today and into the future from our base in Berlin. We have many many plans for this year, for releases as well as live events, as well as for publishing activities that go well beyond those of a 'record label'.
This shop is the primary outlet for traditional-format releases by the label, its associates and the wider network we are involved with as well as other items and productions of experimental electronic music and radical literature. This includes many exclusive titles and limited editions.
To find out more about the label's history, check out the 10th episode of The Molehill Report on our YouTube channel 'Noise & Politics' (click on the image below)
If you are a reseller (record store, book shop, online store, distributor etc.) please open a company account. We will then activate your B2B merchant account.
Reach out to us at christophpraxis <at> gmail <dot> com
“The Mountaineers” is a short term project that was founded in 1998 by 3 musicians playing together in various other projects, such as Sprawl, Werther/Wittwer, 16-17. This music comes from a very rare live performance in the Reithalle Bern. This 8:52 minutes piece is the only existing document of the explosive formation, in which the guitarist and electronic musician Stephan Wittwer, who sadly died recently, also played. Stephan was very fond of this project and always wanted to revive it, but unfortunately it never happened. We have decided to release this recording as number 000 of our live series in memory of Stephan. The Mountaineers are Stephan Wittwer, Guitars and Electronics Alex Buess, Reeds, CD-Scratch & Electronic Devices Michael Wertmüller, Drums credits released March 14, 2025 Recorded live at Reithalle Bern in June 1998 by Roger Graf Live Mix by Christoph Ali Remastered by Alex Buess
Atlas Kopko was initiated by Markus Jud in 1987 and was at the beginning more of a musical project than a band, a descendant of the group Ix-Ex-Splue with their hypnotic improvisations and meditative noise orgies to experimental industrial/noise rock. This description also fits the current production of Atlas Kopko. Atlas Kopko is a follow-up band to Ix-Ex-Splue, but with an expanded musical vocabulary that additionally includes a strong tendency towards cinematic music. The creative element of improvisation also takes a more subordinated role in Atlas Kopko's new album and, since the recordings made in 1994 were very carefully done, brought the possibility of transferring these over 29 year old recordings into the present time through current mixing and production techniques. Atlas Kopko consists in this production of musicians , who were at that time all involved in the Basel experimental music scene and some still are today . Since the Skin And Speech label was also founded at that time, it became necessary to make this exciting, diverse production accessible to the public.. credits: released January 22, 2024 Atlas Kopko: Markus Jud: Sax and Electronics - Tobi Madörin: E-Bass, Rebab - Role Schmid: Drums Manuel Liebeskind: Guitar, Banjo and Mandolin - Dani Meyer: Electronics - Markus Kneubühler: Synthesizers and Electronics All tracks composed by: Markus Jud Recorded by Alex Buess @ Wolf281 Studios, Basel 1994 Mixed by Markus Jud, 2023 Mastered by Alex Buess @ Wolf281 Studios, Basel 2023 Lacquer Cut by Adi Flück @ Centraldubs, Bern Titles generated by Andreas Kreie Kreienbühl Cover by danilot & PAZ Graphic design and Videoworks by BigRogers
2 years after their debut album on Utech Records, P/O MASSACRE goes deeper in their immersive noise experimentation in this collaboration album with Alex Buess, and Merzbow (Masami Akita 秋田昌美). An architecture of distortion, Moog processors, spring reverb, drone effects and more, then developed in different directions by two electronic/noise veterans. It’s a journey of pure sensation, destruction, and rebirth. A skull-vibrating sound decomposition to your face. For this very reason of searching the limit of frequency and sound structure, we’ve decided to make this album as double 45 rpm vinyl, for a maximum aural experience, cut for vinyl by Frédéric Alstadt at Mont Analogue Masters. As he says: “it’s the cut of the uncuttable”. The visual design and layout are taken care of by the Taiwanese noise builder Chia-Chun Xu (Karma Detonation Tapes), with the artwork from the film destroying artist Tseng Peng-Chieh. Heavy gatefold sleeve, with obi and a bonus CD which includes an exclusive track “Nonslaught” from the same recording session by P/O MASSACRE only. Double album available in two versions: Black vinyl and a colour vinyl edition with one record in marbled green and one in marbled rusty vinyl.
" Membranes is a ghost record by Benjamin Brejon & Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, which is an unfinished non-record. We started it in 2007. And finished it a million times. But never really. I found these mixes in a forgotten cloud and the cassette label "specific interest"decided to release them as they are. But it's just one version and one format. The principle of the dub is the spirit and the replicas. The spirit of a spirit. Substitutions. Not an original master.Remixes of a lost source. Like translating a non-native language into another language, passing things on to others; This vinyl release is a Polaroid image of a zone of sound, rhythms, lyrics, dynamics of an unquantifiable or particular moment in history. It could have been recorded yesterday or tomorrow. Or not recorded at all. This mix has emerged from the abyss." (Benjamin Brejon) The S|S vinyl master once again sheds new light on the sound of some of the mixes previously released on cassette. Mixes from a lost source emerge in new splendor from the abysses of sound. credits released September 13, 2024 MEMBRANES are: Instruments Benjamin Brejon & Jonathan Uliel Saldanha Vocals Adolfo Luxuria Canibal Ivo Machel Mark Stewart Strings Henrique Fernandes (double bass) Mathieu Werchowski (violin) All music by Beast Box (Brejon/Saldanha) ................................................................................................................ Mixed & produced by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha Vinyl compiled, mastered and produced by Alex Buess ................................................................................................................ Artwork Kristin Gerwien/ Julius Brejon (Original Artwork) Reworked for this vinyl edition by Roger „Big Rogers“ Graf
In this World by Cindytalk was released in 1988 in two parts, this is the first one with the catalog number CHIME 00.27Sused copy. Visual grading VG+, but some crackle in quiet parts, so I'm being a bit strict here. Sleeve however had wear around the edges and corner. Some traces of a removed sticker. Inner sleeve has a 'Music & Goods Exchange Notting Hill Gate' sticker.
Original cassette release from 1985. First release on Lydia Lunch's own label Widowspeak. Great condition.
Original ROIR tape release of live recordings of 8 Eyed Spy, Lydia Lunch's band in the early 80s. Tape in top condition.
Reissue on SST from 1988. Used copy in excellent condition - a little bit of tape hiss, but pays fine.
Extremely rare promo tape version of Dog Star Man. CAUTION: sound on the tape has deteriorated over the decades and is "wobbly". Don't buy this for the sound, only if you are a MBM completist. I believe this is the only copy of this item on the internet - no discogs entry yet (as of August 2025!!).
Used copy in excellent condition
Used copy in excellent condition. Grey cardboard, not numbered, black tape.
Tape version of the seminal Chris & Cosey album Heartbeat. Original on Rough Trade from 1981. Still decent sound quality.
Zahlreiche Anstreichungen, aber sauber genug, um das Buch als eigenen Studienband zu benutzen. Der gesamte Text ist gut lesbar.
The vinyl companion to the CD "The Later After" (adn73), DJ Hidden's "After Before" gathers on a 12" two of the most club-oriented tracks from the album. A deadly tool for any DJ and a sign of many packed dancefloors, these two loud, slowly building, insidious and agile tracks demonstrate DJ Hidden's ability at twisting the very roots of drum'n'bass and fusing them with his own high-fi production and melodic skills.
Second hand copy of Dylan's Blackout/Dogfight on Droppin' Science from 1998. Original pressing in VG+ condition.
Dred Bass on Second Movement Records from 1998. Original pressing.VG+
The first release by Panacea for Outbreak, original pressing from 2005. Used copy in excellent condition. Vinyl in perfect shape, sleeve has a little bit of storage wear.
One side by Nanotek, the other together with Machine Code.Used copy in perfect condition.
Last 12" on Aural Carnage, Bazooka's label for hard drum'n'bass - early 2000s style - from 2007.Used copy, VG+
1996 vs. 2006 on this remix 12" on Bazooka's Aural Carnage label. Features a slamming mix by DJ Hidden & Eye-D of Darkside of the Moon, as well as hilarious rework of You Are Not Ready by Bazooka himself. In top condition!
