Bourbonese Qualk: Autonomia 2xLP

BACK IN STOCK!!  Fantastic mega-mix of over 50 tracks from the first 20 years of the label's history, mixed by Diskore, Fiend, and Baseck of Darkmatter Soundsystem! <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2297546853/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e32c14/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://praxisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/20-years-of-praxis-praxis-20">20 Years of Praxis (Praxis 20) by Praxis</a></iframe> Check out the detailed track list here: praxis-records.net/praxis-20-tracklist/ you can choose between a black or a white cassette case (note that only a small handfull of black cases are left now. if you don't specify, you'll receive a white one)

Simon Crab from Bourbonese Qualk with a solo CD with new material! label info: Exclusive to Fathom, ‘After America’ is the first solo album by Simon Crab – most well known as the founder and front-man of the group Bourbonese Qualk (1979-2003). The album contains 20 new tracks recorded from 2010-2014 at various locations in the UK and featuring contributions from Geoff Leigh (Henry Cow) and Dave Smith (Guapo)

LAST COPIES!! Scud & Nomex: Maschinenbau EP Maschinenbau was a label run by DJ Scud from Ambush and Nomex from Adverse which released only two 7”s in 1997/98. The first, Eurostar/Piling Machine, was limited to just 300 copies. It combined psychogeographical exploration and field recordings with Amiga-produced non-conformist breakcore and noise-abuse, while the second one, Total Destruction, became a classic of breakcore / noise crossover with several appearances on compilations such as Collision Course on PIAS (compiled by Kevin Martin, aka The Bug), but nevertheless fell into relative obscurity - like most of the great early breakcore - during the following decade.Twenty years after the original 7”s, Praxis is proudly releasing a 12” with all four original tracks at the end of September 2018 with the catalogue number Praxis 56. <iframe style="border: 0; width: 480px; height: 600px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=496939698/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e32c14/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://praxisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/maschinenbau-ep-praxis-56">Maschinenbau EP (Praxis 56) by Scud &amp; Nomex</a></iframe>

All copies come with a download code for the digital release! This 2012 four-tracker by Electric Kettle was his first record in 5 years. Showing him at the peak of creativity these are superbly crafted tracks full of detail and depth! One track was written alongside GVK. <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=771548912/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e32c14/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://praxisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/news-from-berlin-praxis-50">News From Berlin (Praxis 50) by Electric Kettle</a></iframe> And here's the video promo for the release party in 2012 (by Sansculotte) <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/42089843?byline=0&amp;color=ff0000" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>

Rare copy of the limited DJ Promo pressing! From the label vaults! These "DJ PROMO" Editions were pressed in limited runs (usually 250 copies, which was the case with this particular one as well, if I remember right) a few months before the regular editions. This particular copy is almost certainly unplayed, but it has some strange surface marks on the second half of track B2 and the whole track B3. Not from playing or needle, but it looks like a line of scratches, which are thankfully shallow and barely audible (if then in the silent bit between tracks). For this reason this copy is cheaper than normal!

Two powerful compositions by Alex Buess and Daniel Buess, rearranged by Cortex. RIND is a work using three large self-built cow skin frame drums, 1 horse skin container drum, metal plates and electronics. NOL is a composition by Alex Buess for a percussion trio from 1995. The two pieces were recorded live in 2010 and 2003 respectively, also featuring the musicians Daniel Stalder, Peter Conradin Zumthor and Matthias Würsch. They were electronically treated by Cortex in the studion in 2015. This release continues the collaboration with Alex Buess that goes back to the pre-Praxis days of the Vision label since 1987 and includes Praxis 31 by 16-17 and Praxis 48 by Cortex, both of which also included Daniel Buess. Cover art by Darkam and layout by Lynx. ALEX BUESS – is a musician, saxophonist, composer, producer who lives in Basel, Switzerland. He has collaborated with Stephan Wittwer, Paul Schütze, Kevin Martin, Peter Brötzmann, William Parker, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Bill Laswell, Kevin Shields, Tim Hodgkinson, Michael Wertmüller and many other musicians in the wide field of improvisation, electronics, electroacoustic music and composition. He plays/played in the groups ICE, GOD, Phantom City, The Bug, Sprawl, Cortex and his own group 16-17, as well as Melx and The Electric Noise Twist. The latter were part of a close collaboration with Christoph Fringeli’s Vision label from 1987-1991, before Christoph moved to London and started the Praxis label, a collaboration that continued over the decades with releases by 16-17 and Cortex on Praxis. Alex has written compositions for various contemporary music ensembles and also works as a producer and sound engineer. He has appeared at numerous new music festivals and his compositions are performed in Europe and throughout the world. His studies include electronics, acoustics, musicology, phonetics,semantics and composition and his work reflects his experiences with electronic technology, written contemporary music, film music, new mixing and production techniques and computer music. DANIEL BUESS - studied at the Musikhochschule Basel with Siegfried Schmid and with Isao Nakamura in Karlsruhe. Studies in traditional South Indian percussion music, specially the Mridangam from 1995 till 1998 and in Arabic percussion music in Cairo, Egypt from Nov. 2007 till Jan. 2008. Daniel was involved in various groups and ensembles in the realm of experimental and improvised music, like “Ensemble Phoenix Basel” of which he was a core-member and solo-percussionist since its foundation in 1998, Cortex, 16-17 (both with Alex Buess), HOW2 (with the percussionist Daniel Stalder), “Katarakt”, “B&B” (with the flautist Christoph Bösch), MIR (with Papiro and Michael Zaugg), Buggatronic (with James Hullick). Other collaborations include artists like Hany Bedair, Knut Remond, Zbigniew Karkowski, Kasper T.Toeplitz, John Duncan, Michael Wertmüller, Phill Niblock, Julio Estrada, Stephan Wittwer, Volker Heyn, Thomas Lauck, Tim Hodgkinson, Iancu Dumitrescu and many others. At his regular tours through Europe, Asia and Australia, he performed at the most highly recognised festivals for experimental music as well as at several underground-places, open spaces and independent venues. Sadly Daniel passed away in February 2016, making “Skin Craft” unexpectedly a posthumous release.

This is a copy in excellent condition of the limited "DJ Promo" pre-release of the second Praxis record. Hand stamped white labels. Summer 1992! Important note: On some turntables the track Take Control may jump. This is in the pressing and is hence the case for all copies of this pressing. As a consequence the record was re-cut at the time (1992) and the release copies (with labels) have a slightly different sound (and don't jump on the A2 track). We're offering this from the Praxis archives "as is". Besides the pressing flaw (which may not be evident, depending on your turntable), the record is in excellent condition. Comes in the original Praxis label sleeve from 1992. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=9uXgGOjCOXAC6wPa&amp;list=PLB50SGP_xxZ2fM6aPewu6-2g1qwTg-X8u" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>