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In stock now: Classic 16-17 studio album produced by Kevin Martin in 1994 for first time on vinyl ! Gyatso originally appeared on Kevin Martin's Pathological label in 1994 as a CD and was rereleased, again on CD, in 2008 by Savageland. Praxis, in collaboration with Skin & Speech proudly presents the first vinyl edition of this classic album. The vinyl edition contains 6 tracks and includes the download for the full 13 track album. 16-17 started in 1983 in Basel, Switzerland. They released a number of cassettes, before debuting with their self titled and self released album in 1987. Two years later this was followed up by When All Else Fails, an LP of treated live recordings on Vision, the precursor label to Praxis. By this time 16-17 had already garnered a cult following with their incredibly forceful live performances. Gyatso is a crucial release where the raw power of 16-17’s live appearances clashes with a studio-as-instrument approach, as Kevin Martin and Alex Buess add effects and dub techniques to the band’s recordings. Further collaborations between Martin and Buess include the ICE project which also included Justin Broadrick aka J.K.Flesh of Godflesh, the other half of Techno Animal, as well as Human Distortion, released on Digital Hardcore Recordings in 1998. Buess also took part of the Sprawl project with Peter Brötzmann, William Parker, Michael Wertmüller and Stephan Wittwer which appeared on Trost Records in 1997. This vinyl release of Gyatso comes hot on the heels of two important records that came out in 2020: The album Phantom Limb on Trost, based on band recordings from 1995 and finished in the studio in 2019 by Alex Buess, and most recently the 12” The Pandemic Wargames Remixes on Praxis. The latter was a continuation of collaborations dating back to the pre-Praxis days of the Vision label, continuing with the 1999 release of Mechanophobia on Praxis as well as the more recent Vacuum Theory by Cortex and “Skin Craft” by Alex Buess and Daniel Buess. Praxis is very happy to present this release in collaboration with Skin & Speech, for the first time on vinyl and download!
Brand new album by Dan Hekate as The Wirebug on Praxis. 6 tracks on vinyl and 11 tracks on digital, plus 3 remixes and an audio-visual set! (Vinyl includes download codes!)Factory Food is the first album from the Wirebug aka Dan Hekate for over a decade. Now a feature film director Dan has brought all his expertise in sound design to bear on this full-length album of industrial beats, soundscapes and noise. Intertwining broken rhythms with melancholic melodies, harsh analogue percussion with acoustic instruments, this is a series of tracks that asks the listener to engage or retreat. Factory Food is the first album from the Wirebug aka Dan Hekate for over a decade. Now a feature film director Dan has brought all his expertise in sound design to bear on this full-length album of industrial beats, soundscapes and noise. Intertwining broken rhythms with melancholic melodies, harsh analogue percussion with acoustic instruments, this is a series of tracks that asks the listener to engage or retreat.Including collaborations with Praxis founder Christoph Fringeli, instrumentalists Enrico Gontero on the accordion and Steph Voodoos on acoustic guitar this is a listening experience in of itself. It includes tracks that you would drop to packed breakore dancefloor as well as those that would feel more at home in a noise concert but all the same it is cohesive and true to it’s own nature – a cold, minimal, mechanical beast rumbling across the landscape of our digital age.
A momentous, heavy, noisy and radical release by former 16-17 members Alex and Daniel Buess. This is the first release by their Cortex project which has been going on since 1999. More recently they contributed 'Skin Craft' - RIND & NOL (Praxis 55) to the Praxis label catalogue.A - The Machinic Phylum 7:37 B1 - Usu 3:11B2 - Mutabor 5:10
Bulkrate presents his vinyl debut after some download releases on Dark Winter and Zhark International. Dark and haunting ambience and breaks on five tracks. All copies come with a download code.
LAST COPIES!!Scud & Nomex: Maschinenbau EPMaschinenbau 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.
Limited re-press - OUT NOW!. 50 copies are available for general distribution, the other 50 are reserved for the Praxis online shop and bandcamp.Originally released in 1999 in an edition of 500 copies on transparent white vinyl as Praxis 33, Trocante Gramofony E.P. by Nomex is re-pressed in a limited edition of 100 copies on black vinyl from the original plates.Trocante Gramofony opens with the monumental ‘Fire Is The Centre’, followed by two other Nomex masterpieces, ‘Life Destroy’ and ‘No-Step 2000’, as well as three speaker-destroying fragments and locked grooves.It was a departure from Nomex’s releases on his own Adverse label and was naturally quite different from the DJ Scud collaborations on Maschinenbau. In relation to his other solo work, Trocante Gramofony is perhaps less conceptual and more composed.‘Fire Is The Centre’ features vocal snippets recorded at a Dead By Dawn party sometime between 1994-1996. Some of these snippets had been used on the Dead By Dawn record by Shitness & The Jackal, but here they were embedded in a surging wall of noise spread over the first side of the record, complete with crackles, shrieks and ever mounting intensity.The second side opens with ‘Life Destroy’ an intense collage of voice, noise and music and ends with ‘No-Step 2000’.Tracks don’t end in orderly fashion, instead the needle jumps out of the groove or is locked in a loop. The flow gets interrupted in the middle of the side of the record. These elements are again vinyl specific and can’t easily be transported to the digital realm, and this is one reason we decided to make this brilliant record available again in its ideal format, the vinyl 12”.
A small handful of copies back in stock - LAST COPIES!Original label info from 2002, when this excellent record was first released: Hailing from Hamburg, Low Entropy is one of the most exciting young producers of phuturistic breaks and hardcore. A riot of noise and beats in shimmering clear production, Anarcho-Psychotic is aptly named, but nevertheless also features moments of tranquility.Very last copies - perfect opportunity to pick up a mint copy directly from the label!a1 - The Truth (4:55)a2 - The Agony Of Everyday Life (5:13)b1 - Symphony Of Creative Destruction (7:23)b2 - Mental Cleansing (2:45)
Collaboration of ADC and Somatic Responses originally released in 2004. Mint copy from the label archives!Eagerly awaited this is the collaboration of two of the most important groups of innovators of hard electro(nica) : ADC from Rome and Somatic Responses from Wales. Having started around the same time – about a decade ago - their release history has been completely different: ADC's releases are few and far between, while the Somatics have been putting out several dozen records and CD's with many a classic among them. As their paths cross with this powerful record they present themselves as fresh, innovative and deep as ever.A1 - ADCSomatic: SincromathA2 - ADCSomatic: E-OperaB1 - ADCSomatic: SlowsophyB2 - ADC: MTA-100 (SR Rebuild)B3 - ADCSomatic: Thanks
This 4-tracker on Praxis by Rachael Kozak and Christoph Fringeli was recorded in the period of 1999-2001 and shows the other side of the coin of their Sub/Version record, presenting more abstract and psychedelic breaks and noise with influences ranging from Hitchcock sountracks to metal bashing industrial music fused in their own aesthetic of dark breaks. a1 - Vertigo (5:00) a2 - Part Of It (3:12) b1 - New Direction (3:54) b2 - Emphasis (3:31)
BACK IN STOCKAfter nearly running out of this title, we just received some returns from a distributor and have14 copies in stock again. 16-17 return to Praxis with a triple assault of ultrasonic remixes. The Pandemic Wargames Remixes are based on backing tracks originally recorded in 1995 for a follow up to the album Gyatso which eventually materialised earlier in 2020 in the form of the Phantom Limb LP on Trost. After that Alex Buess once more gave three tracks a severe treatment for The Pandemic Wargames Remixes 12″ on Praxis, bringing sound and mix firmly into the 2020s.
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last copies!! Autonomia, first released only on CD in 1993, was mostly a solo project of Simon Crab with the aid of Christoph Fringeli of Praxis, recorded after a 2-month tour in the USA and Europe. Typically Bourbonese Qualk, this album delivers the opposite of the listeners’ expectations, breaking the mold set by the two previous albums, My Government is My Soul and Unpop. Autonomia sets out in a completely different direction of harsh electronic ‘no compromise techno’ and has become a classic in the field, making this vinyl release well overdue! Note that the bandcamp player below features the CD version, not the vinyl mastering (but the same tracks in the same order) <iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R1BD6K3sseg" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2265212892/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e32c14/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://praxisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/autonomia-praxis-5-2">Autonomia (Praxis 5) by Bourbonese Qualk</a></iframe>
Datacide SeventeenReleased in November News & Updates Nemeton: Political NewsChristoph Fringeli: G20 in Hamburg RoundupNeil Transpontine: Lewisham ‘77 – Myth and Anti-Fascist HistoryClive Acid: Dictating Democracy FeaturesJo Burzynska: Memoirs of a Woman of Extreme Pleasures – Cosey Fanni Tutti Book Review and exclusive InterviewHoward Slater: Unparaphraseable Life – Notes on Third CinemaMme Tlank /Clinical Wasteman: Down with Childhood & Adulthood DocumentsBoris Souvarine: Black October (1927)Giovanni Jervis: Psychiatrists and Politics (1967) Book ReviewChristoph Fringeli: Alexander Reid Ross: Against the Fascist Creep ComixSansculotte: Overdosed MusicRecords Reviews by Prole Sector, Nemeton, Christoph Fringeli, Hans-Christian Psaar DJ Charts Visualsa.a.a, dybbuk, Giulia Valenti, lesekill, Matthieu Bourel, Nevre
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Contents: NEWS & UPDATES The Reverend: Education in England - An Update Marc Hekate: Keith Robinson Desert Storm Obituary Matthew Hyland: Notes from Non-Existence - Brexit vs. The Proletariat FEATURES Alexia Elliott: Poisoned Fruit in the Walled GardenThe Alt RIght: A Growing Problem, But Not a New One MH: Armed Competitiveness - The Working Class Gets Called Up to Fight Itself - Notes on a Recruitment Crisis Howard Slater: ‘Comrade Doctor’ On David Cooper and ‘Anti-Psychiatry’ David Cooper: On Mystification (1978) Strelnikov: Siege MentalityMason, Manson, Moynihan - On the fringes of American Nazism BOOK REVIEWS Neil Transpontine: Angry White People: Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right by Hsiao-Hung Pai Howard Slater: Demented Idioms - Schizo Culture, Event & Book Matthew Hyland: Eat Like an Idealist! The Assassin - An Association of Musical Marxists Reader Christoph Fringeli: Undeclared Wars with IsraelJeffrey Herf on East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989 and their role in the Middle East Christoph Fringeli: Far-Left Press Coverage of the 2016 Anti-Semitism Row in the Labour Party and other Leftist Groups COMIX Simon Lejeune: A Breakcore Saga Sansculotte: Overdosed TEXTS DJ Balli: An Addition to the Guinness World Records Mme Tlank, image: Clinical Wasteman: But What of the Ghost? RECORD REVIEWS by Prole Sector, Zombieflesheater, Low Entropy, Controlled Weirdness, Saxenhammer + DJ Charts + Activities Since the Last Issue VISUALS Darkam, dybbuk,Guinea Pigs, Matthieu Bourel, Nevre,Oppositaer
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.
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.
The fifteenth edition of the magazine for noise & politics, released in may 2016 News:Endless War; Infiltration and Agent Provocateurs; Surveillance, Control and Repression (Nemeton)Neo-Nazis, the National Socialist Underground and the State (CF)Why Do Refugees Want To Go To England? (Jeff 23) Features:Clive Acid: Towards a New African FascismMulticulturalism, Immunisation and Rhythm:Interview with Alexej Ulbricht conducted by Jonathan Nassim Mikala Rasmussen, with introduction and additional questions by David CecilHoward Slater: Last Survivors or First MutantsNotes on Surplus PopulationThe Fool: A Deadly MediterraneanTechnical Trials of Modern WarfareHoward Slater: Sincere Genesis – On Félix Guattari and GroupsInterview with Osha NeumannThe Reverend: Marketisation of Mass Education in EnglandA Brief HistoryMatthew Hyland: A Cry Against Help & 13 Protheses on Carelessness of the Self Book reviews:Neil Transpontine: ‘These Days are not to be Missed’ 1990s Rave and Club Culture in Fiction Peter Sedgwick: Psycho Politics – Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and the Future of Mass Psychiatry (CF) Marcel Bois, Kommunisten gegen Hitler und Stalin. Die linke Opposition der KPD in der Weimarer Republik – Eine Gesamtdarstellung (CF) Fiction:Dan Hekate: Pigeon Music:Guoda Diryte: Fluxus and DIY Concerts Record Reviews by Nemeton, Zombieflesheater, CF, Prole Sector and Controlled Weirdness Datacide Activities Since the Last IssueDJ Charts + illustration by Guinea Pigs Comix:Simon Lejeune/Olivier Noel: ObeknaSansculotte: Overdosed Please consider a subscription - only 20 euro for 3 issues (Europe) or 2 issues (rest of the world).
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 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!
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>