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Blackmass Plastics: Under The Radar
Long awaited double vinyl from Blackmass Plastics on Uglyfunk! Excellent double pack with eight cuts. Check the great video by Dead Slow Ahead to the most disturbing track Twitch Pitch (it's the B1 on the vinyl edition). <iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eWqJyzjcLK0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Alex Buess & Daniel Buess: "Skin Craft" - RIND & NOL
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.
Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016
Back in stock!! The Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016 is made up of a total of five sections that go into depth on some topics previously examined in datacide. Some of the texts have been previously published, some are new and exclusive or translations. The first section compiles material about and by Nomex, noise artist and film maker, including a discography of his label Adverse. The second section consists of two critiques of the Left from a communist point of view, one targeting the knee-jerk anti-Imperialism still prevalent in many sections of the Left, the other is an excerpt from a critique of anarchism by Luther Blissett. The third section is concerned with our ongoing investigations and denouncements of far Right infiltration in popular culture. We see this as an integral part of antifascist activity. Featured here is the article From Subculture to Hegemony - Transversal Strategies of the New Right in Neofolk and Martial Industrial by Christoph Fringeli from datacide eleven.Part 4 consists of an appraisal of the Vision label which I ran out of Basel, Switzerland in 1986-1992. The main text is an edited English translation of a contribution to the book Heute und danach by Lurker Grand and André P. Tschan, which appeared in 2012. As it is 30 years ago now that the first Vision appeared it makes sense to document this pre-history of Praxis, which was founded in 1992 after I disbanded Vision.To illustrate this further and make a connection to the present we reprint Die Menschenhauttrommel (the human skin drum) by Alex Buess from the Vision zine Flash Team Report (Vision 18) from 1988. The final part of this almanac is a catalogue of our exclusive titles, back issues of datacide and available books.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS - a decade of noise & politics: datacide magazine 1-10
BACK IN STOCK! EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS is a complete collection of the first ten issues of datacide - the magazine for noise & politics which originally appeared from 1997 to 2008. A major project in the works for quite some time, this is a collection of the complete issues 1-10 of datacide, which originally appeared from 1997-2008. Titled “EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS”, the 364 page A4-size volume collects unique material, most of which has been out of print for many years, charting a one-of-a-kind history of the counter-cultures associated with electronic music and free festivals. The book itself has been out of print for a few years now, and is finally back in stock! ISBN 978-3-948332-01-3 “The free space of the party met the free space of the page and then you got a dynamism that encouraged expression and perversions and tangents because the covers held it together as a nomadic movement and you were convinced that music had catalysed it all and that music was somehow inherently political as it sidestepped rhetoric and dogma, and absented us from control addicts and the free space of the page was a kind of historic party, a kind of invisible college, a launching pad for driftage.” Flint Michigan EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS - a decade of noise & politics: datacide magazine issues 1-10 also contains introductions specifically written for the book release by Flint Michigan, Christoph Fringeli, Nemeton, and Dan Hekate as well as an extensive index. Resellers please enquire about further discounts.
Almanac for Noise & Politics 2015
Almanac for Noise & Politics 2015 If you’re already familiar with datacide magazine and our related record label for extreme electronic music - Praxis - then you’re familiar with the efforts we’ve made over the last two decades to continually explore the intersections of radical politics and underground rave culture, experimental and extreme electronic music, moments of free spaces and momentary freak-outs and how these can be represented on the page and through the speakers. If not, this may be a good place to start. Either way, the Almanac for noise & politics 2015 contains a selection of articles and excerpts from various issues of datacide, as well as a peek into the activities of the Praxis label and its offshoots. This first edition is meant to be a brief introduction to the wide range of topics covered in datacide. Articles include: Post-Media Operators by Howard Slater/Eddie Miller/Flint Michigan, No Stars here (track -1) by TechNET, A Loop Da Loop Era – Towards an (Anti-)history of Rave by Neil Transpontine, Radical Intersections by Christoph Fringeli, Vinyl Meltdown by Alexis Wolton, Plague in this Town by Matthew Hyland, Just Say Non – Nazism, Narcissism and Boyd Rice by whomakesthenazis.com, Interview with Christoph Fringeli/Praxis Records from Objection to Procedure, a new short story by Dan Hekate, as well as a commented catalogue. This is interspersed by new visual work by Matthieu Bourel (cover), Lynx, Sansculotte, Tóng Zhi, and Zombieflesheater! Full colour cover and 104 inside pages in A6 format!
Noirodyn: Construct Deconstruct
TEMPORARY LOW PRICE! A new full length CD album by Noirodyn, aka Vile Enginez. Fernando Narvàez Perez has so far mainly made his mark under his Vile Enginez monicker with a debut on Zhark International from 2004 and several releases on the Praxis sublabel Sub/Version, both on vinyl and digital. The project mutated into Noirodyn with a first digital-only release for Praxis in 2013 titled Infradesigns. Immediately it was evident that Fernando was applying his production skills to a more varied sound but regularly returning to slamming beats and far-out noise constructions making Noirodyn the logical continuation and development of Vile Enginez. Construct Deconstruct contains 16 new tracks ranging from slower grooves to hectic intensifications arranged into a continuous mix, showing his creative energies at a peak. Coverart by Sansculotte. <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=460321922/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e32c14/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://praxisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/construct-deconstruct-praxis-54">Construct Deconstruct (Praxis 54) by Noirodyn</a></iframe>
Datacide Fourteen (A5 edition)
Half size version of Datacide 14 with spine. Identical content with the normal edition, but the layout has been slightly tweaked and some mistakes have been corrected. The normal A4 magazine version is also still available HERE
Lkpas, Atrys: Love In Hostile Area
Lkpas, Atrys: Love In Hostile Area (Marasm 30)
Datacide Fourteen
Features: When Will We Leave the 20th Century?; Dancing with Death: The Excremental, the Sacred & Ecstatic Community in Free Party Culture; Archeology of the Radical Internet: Reflections on the early European Counter Network in the Age of ‘Networked Social Movements’; ‘They Hate Us, We Hate Them’: Resisting Police Corruption and Violence in Hackney in the 1980s and 1990s; Journeys in the Naked City. Adventures in New York Before the Rain; Wild Ride> Subcultural Rumblings in the Pacific Northwest _ form of: mutant vehicle; German Data Angst. Fiction and Poetry: Cut-Up-Marx; Incorrect Classification Possible; The Bodyshop; Star Spores: The Computerised City; Star Spores: The Magnetic Timetable. Print Reviews: Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora; Sound System Culture: Celebrating Hudersfield’s Sound Systems; G.P.O. v G.P-O: A Chronicle of Mail Art of Trial; The Rabbit Hole and other writings by Cyrus Bozorgmehr; Splitting in Two: Mad Pride and Punk Rock Oblivion; Die Revolution war für mich ein grosses Abenteuer. Paul Mattick im Gespräch mit Michael Buckmiller; More Years for the Locust: The Origins of the SWP; Das Israelpseudos der Pseudolinken; Emperor Palpatine. Music: Invincible Tedium; Shuffle from Plunderphonics: ‘Chris Cutler’ Remixed; Vinyl Meltdown, Side B; Datacide Activities Since the Last Issue. News: Endless War; Surveillance, Control and Repression; Social Media and Internet Surveillance; Music Industry and Copyright; Uganda – Anti-Homosexuality Bill Update. Plus: Record Reviews, Charts, Comics and Illustrations, as well as the lives and times of Bloor Schleppy.
V/A: Memento Mori
Homage to Saoulaterre from El Gusano Rojo, Dan Hekate, Nomex, and Metatron. The fifth release on Hijos de Puta with a beautiful magical drawing by Élise Gérrard, artwork by Lwik Abroyeur, on marbled transparent green 180g vinyl.
Datacide Thirteen
Release date: 12 October 2013. 76 pages. Datacide: Introduction Nemeton: Infiltration and Agent Provocateurs; Vision Tech; Endless War; Surveillance, Control and Repression CF: NSU Update Two in London: UK Anti-Fascist Round Up Comrade Omega: Crisis in the SWP, or: Weiningerism in the UK David Cecil: Confessions of an Accidental Activist Neil Transpontine: Spiral Tribe Interview with Mark Harrison Neil Transpontine: ‘Revolt of the Ravers’-The Movement Against the Criminal Justice Act in Britain, 1993-95 Split Horizon: What is This Future? Fabian Tompsett: Wikipedia-A Vernacular Encyclopedia Howard Slater: Shared Vertigo Dan Hekate: Crystal Distortion Howard Slater: Cut-Up Marx Howard Slater: EARTH ‘A RUN RED Marcel Stoetzler: Identity, Commodity and Authority: Two New Books about Horkheimer and Adorno Nemeton: Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency (book review) Christoph Fringeli: One Night in Stammheim. Helge Lehmann: Die Todesnacht von Stammheim – Eine Untersuchung (book review) Christoph Fringeli: Anton Shekovtsov, Paul Jackson (eds.): White Power Music – Scenes of the Extreme Right Cultural Resistence (book review) CF: Press reviews John Eden: Emencified Shrill Out: Nomex at the Controls Alexis Wolton: Vinyl Meltdown, Prt. 1 Record reviews by Zombieflesheater, Nemeton and Kovert DJ Charts Matthieu Bourel: Rioter Sansculotte: Overdosed Plus: The Lives and Times of Bloor Schleppy
Datacide Twelve
release date: 20 October 2012. 68 pages Darkam: The Art of Visual Noise Nemeton: Political News Christoph Fringeli: Neo-Nazi Terror and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany Cherry Angioma: Communisation Theory and the Question of Fascism Christoph Fringeli: From Adorno to Mao – The Decomposition of the ’68 Protest Movement into Maoism (extended book review) Split Horizon: Control and Freedom in Geographic Information Systems Riccardo Balli: “Bolognoise ain’t a Sauce for Spagheti but Bologna’s Soundscape” Polaris International: Documents and Interventions TechNET insert: - Noise and Politics – Technet Mix - No More WordS - Listener as Operator - The Intensifier - No Stars Here - Techno: Psycho-Social Tumult - Dead By Dawn – Explorations inside the Night - Psycho-Social Tumult (Remix) Dan Hekate: Kiss me, cut me, hurt me, love me Howard Slater: Useless Ease John Eden: The Dog’s Bollocks – Vagina Dentata Organ and the Valls Brothers (interview) Neil Transpontine: Spannered – Bert Random Interview LFO Demon: When Hell is full the Dead will Dance on you iPhone (Review of Simon Reynold’s “Retromania” Christoph Fringeli: “Fight for Freedom” – The Legend of the “other” Germany (extended book review) Nemeton: “West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California” (book review) Datacide: Press reviews terra audio: 2023: A Spor remembers ‘Reclaim the Streets’ John Eden: Christopher Partridge: Dub in Babylon (book review) terra audio: Jeff Mills: Violet Extremist terra audio: Keeping the Door of the Cosmos open – on Sun Ra’s Arkestra directed by Marshall Allen Record Reviews The Lives and Times of Bloor Schleppy (12) Comic by Sansculotte
Pure: Bodyhammer 2xCD
In the course of the last few months a substantial section of the work released by Peter Votava under different names in the 1990's, before his releases on Mego, Staalplaat and d0c, has been made available again on CD, most notably the retro compilation of classic ironic rave act Ilsa Gold (with Christopher Just, on Mego) and the deep electro-techno soundscapes of Current 909 (on d0c/Atmosfear). A completely different aspect is presented by this double CD compilation of his hardcore material, released as Pure (or DJ Pure, Information:Overload, Violent Shit, PL and Slab), now available from Praxis as a double CD (Praxis 26CD). Collecting the material previously issued by Praxis itself, Loop, Drop Bass Network, as well as compilation tracks from Tigerbeat6, Biomechanic and a support compilation for the EKH, Vienna's only squat named after Ernst Kirchweger, a communist murdered by the Nazis, all from between 1994-2001. Almost like a history of hardcore of the'90s from dark acid to harsh noise. Not only was most of the material released on limited edition vinyl, and now unavailable, all the hits, collaborations and rarities are here, including previously unreleased tracks: CD1 starting off with the deceptively titled CD-ROM section (not for easy listening) - it's the audio track of a data CD - but soon delving into the hammering beats of Information:Overload, shifting into the satanic abyss of “Anoint me with the Black Sperm of Beleth" by Slab, before exercising “Analogue Terror" from the Drop Bass Network EP of the same title, already showing the variety of approaches even within the industrial hardcore realm. This is further illustrated by the various collaborations with other activists and hardcore experimenters of the time. Not only is the near-legendary “Violent Shit" EP featured, there are three more, previously unreleased tracks from this collaboration with Ec8or (at the time a Patric C. solo project), as well as the devastating “Killer Bees on Acid" produced with the late Liza N'Eliaz. CD2 opens with another cult item: “Speeed" by Pure vs. GTI, originally released as a one-sided limited 12" on Loop, before continuing the journey in carefully chosen order through material defying the borders of “industrial" and “hardcore". The bulk of the material was recorded and released between 1994 and 1999 - it appears that Pure decided after his massive “King Kong/Katharsis" on Praxis that he had said what he needed to say in this musical format. This double CD (on which “King Kong" is featured in its full 15 minute glory) is testimony to the insistence, depth and violence as well as the heterogenity of his artistic vision.
Cosmics Vol.1
Solo drumtracks by Knut Remond, then drummer of 16-17 (and former member of Voice Crack and UnknownmiX) from 1991. Tribal industrial house dub, the four tracks on the debut EP, simply titled "Vol. 1", were more inspired by the Mohawk insurrection in Quebec the previous year (where Remond was present) than by Manchester, and closer to African Head Charge than the usual House sound.
Adjust: Your Bad Luck
adjust, aka J$, aka the low res labelhead delivers four bangers from detroit.still carrying along in the techno vein as the kero 12 inch,this record sees low res once again return to its detroit techno roots.hard industrial techno is the only to describe it.while it may venture into electro or hardcore territory,maybe even idm, leaving some confused,this is just proper music done detroit style.ass.we like ass.this record has ass shake to it..shake your ass! why aren't you shaking your ass?
Datacide Eighteen
OUT NOW! ISBN 978-3-948332-18-1 Features include: Christoph Fringeli: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Germany 1919 Ross Wolfe: Marxism Contra Justice - A Critique of Egalitarian Ideology Joke Lanz: Ghosts & Handbags - A short Travel Report from the Japanese Underworld Matthew Hyland:Masterless Mouths poems by Howard Slater fiction by Dan Hekate news roundup by Nemeton record reviews by Low Entropy, Saxenhammer, Prole Sector, Controlled Weirdness, Christoph Fringeli book reviews: Neil Transpontine: A Fascist Tulpa in the White House? - Right-wing ‘Meme Magic’ and the Rise of Trump Frankenstein, or the 8-Bit Prometheus - Micro-literature, hyper-mashup, Sonic Belligeranza records 17th anniversary by Riccardo Balli Dale Street: Lions Led by Jackals – Stalinism in the International Brigade, by Christoph Fringeli Christoph Fringeli: No borders, no fatherland! France – What’s New for the Left? Activities since last issue Lives and Times of Bloor Schleppy graphics and illustrations by dybbuk, lesekill, Darkam, Sansculotte
Riccardo Balli: Sbrang Gabba Gang
BACK IN STOCK! Now also available for wholesale for shops! Movements that dig velocity. Movements that worship war. Movements that have been accused of being fascist. Sbrang Gabba Gang is the sound of two cultural movements violently crashing into each other at breakneck speed. What happens when the Italian futurist avant-garde clashes with gabber, a belligerent strain of hardcore techno and the Netherland's first proper youth culture? Sbrang Gabba Gang will introduce you to the strange custom of forming human pyramids at gabber raves, futurist after-shave cocktails and Pietro Cannata, the man who took a hammer to the toes of Michelangelo's David. In Sbrang Gabba Gang, Riccardo Balli explores the parallels of gabber and futurist ideas by way of personal accounts, literary mash-up of Futurist manifestos and a storyline that follows the vandalistic shenanigans of a posse of gabber-futurists consisting of Dominator Marinetti, Luigi "Holy Noise" Russolo, Luciano "Thunderdome" Folgore and Giacomo Balla/Balli. These ideas further come to life in a series of anaglyphic images to be explored with special magenta-green 3D glasses attached to each volume.
Les Neiges Noires de Laponie: Zero Absolu EP
Great new release on Plasma Vortex Frequency with broken-idm-post-flash-breakcore tracks by Les Neiges Noires de Laponie. 2024. 200 copies on splatter vinyl. <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=438876806/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e32c14/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://plasmavortexfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/pvf09-zero-absolu-ep">PVF09 - Zero Absolu EP by Les Neiges Noires De Laponie</a></iframe>