Slaughter Politics (Praxis 21RP)

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!

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.

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

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 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!

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.

A very varied 4-tracker by Amboss - with energetic tracks ranging from hard-as-nails hardcore drum'n'bass to razor sharp breakcore to a massive industrial dubstep and a hard techno track to round it off!  Excellent follow-up to his releases on Mindbender and Sub/Version, not to be missed! VINYL SOLD OUT <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3411861937/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e32c14/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://praxisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vision-praxis-53-2">Vision (Praxis 53) by Amboss</a></iframe>

Side one with 2 wonderful noisescapes by Bambule, side 2 with remixes of 2 different Bambule tracks by Photon Emissions aka Somatic Responses.  Mint copy from the label archives.

Mint copy of Praxis 27 by Christoph Fringeli, original pressing From the label archives!

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>

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.

dj promo of Praxis 3 limited to 250 copies! MINT from the label vaults! I know you can get this cheaper elsewhere, but by buying it from us you support new releases from the origianl label!

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.

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

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)

PRESALE! - extended till mid-August.    Darkam - The Reader T-Shirt (Molehill T-Shirt 1)   We’re very happy to announce the release of a brand new beautiful t-shirt designed by the one and only Darkam.    Print is full colour on black shirts. The motif is ca. A3 size on front. No back print. Comes with a postcard with the same motif with different background.   As the warmer seasons are slowly approaching, we will release a collection of different shirt designs by different artists. These are artist-creations, rather than label-merchandise and come with a printed postcard and/or other additional material.   Made in small batches I recommend to pre-order to make sure your size is available.   Pre-orders for the Darkam shirt are taken now at the Praxis Shop and Praxis Bandcamp.      Sizes available: S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL both in "straight cut" ("men") or "curvy" ("ladies") High quality digital print on black 100% cotton shirts. wash at (up to) 40°C.

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Scaled down edition! Same contents and layout, but in A5 instead of A4 format

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

Datacide Eleven release date: February 2011. 64 pages. Original printing is sold out, to buy this issue please go HERE to obtain the 2022 reprint! Datacide events, page 3 Nemeton: Political news, page 4 Features Christoph Fringeli: Hedonism and Revolution: The Barricade and the Dancefloor, page 6 Stewart Home: Dope smuggling, LSD manufacture, organized crime & the law in 1960s London, page 8 John Eden: Shaking the Foundations: Reggae soundsystem meets ‘Big Ben British values’ downtown, page 12 Alexis Wolton: Tortugan tower blocks? Pirate signals from the margins, page 16 Neil Transpontine: Dance before the police come, page 21 Christoph Fringeli: From Subculture to Hegemony: Transversal Strategies of the New Right in Neofolk and Industrial, page 24 Christoph Fringeli: Appendix to “From Subculture to Hegemony”: Metapolitical Strategies of the Nouvelle Droite, page 26 Christoph Fringeli: Appendix to “From Subculture to Hegemony”: Ernst Jünger’s “Waldgang”, page 27 Nemeton: From Conspiracy Theories to Attempted Assassinations: The American Radical Right and the Rise of the Tea Party Movement, page 28 R. C.: How to start with the subject. Notes on Burroughs and the ‘combination of all forms of struggle’, page 37 Fiction Riccardo Balli: Sonic Fictions, page 40 Dan Hekate: Digital Disease, page 45 Howard Slater: Infra-Noir. 23 Untitled Poems, page 46 Matthew Fuller: Office Work, page 48 Record Reviews, page 52 Matthew Fuller and Steve Goodman: Beat Blasted Planet. An interview with Steve Goodman on ‘Sonic Warfare’, page 58 Terra Audio: “Free Parties”, page 60 Gorki Plubakter: “This is the end… the official ending”, page 61 The Lives and TImes of Bloor Schleppy (11), page 62 Charts, page 63 With 64 pages, this is the biggest issue of datacide yet!

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).  

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.

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

Datacide Nine appeared in spring 2006. This first reprint of an earlier issue features the complete text of the original edition, but has been newly laid out and arranged. The original editorial (opposite page) is followed by the main features, while the scene reports were moved to the back of the issue. We’re happy to have this long deleted issue back in print; it features some of the most read articles on the datacide web site that are still relevant and of interest today. The original editorial reflects the particular historical situation in which the issue originally appeared: The repression against Teknivals as well as the particular (wider) political situations, while technological developments and economic problems are covered in passing. Out of the ensuing crisis of the already completely marginalized counter culture developed the desire to start something new, and we announced that Datacide Ten would be the last issue. This has of course not been the case. Instead, we felt re-invigorated enough after the 2008 issue of Datacide Ten and the accompanying conference to keep going, and the last few years have seen a consolidation of our release schedule and an expansion in size and content.October 12, 2013 saw the release of the new issue, number Thirteen, and yet again it is the biggest issue so far. There was an event with talks, concerts and party in Berlin on that day. We were present at the Anarchist Bookfair in London on October 19. The next day we did a small launch event in London. Datacide was presented for the first time in the U.S. with a soliparty on November 15 and a conference on November 17. Datacide tabled at the Los Angeles Eastside Zine Market on December 8, and the Art Book Fair from January 30-February 3, 2014. Rather than trying to increase the frequency of Datacide, we would like to complement it with additional books and pamphlets.Please consider taking out a subscription to help us achieve these aims! PRICE INCLUDES WORLDWIDE SHIPPING! IN STOCK NOW! table of contentsfeatures page 4.......Howard Slater: Lotta Continua - Roots Music and the Politics of Production page 8.......Matthew Hyland: Say Fear is a Man’s Best Friend - You Add it up, it Brings You Down page 10.....Christoph Fringeli: Anti-Imperialism - Bankruptcy of the Left? page 12....(Anonymous): You Must Help Yourself - Neo-Liberal Geographies and Worker Insurgency in Osaka page 16.....Christoph Fringeli: The Brain of Ulrike Meinhofbook reviews page 18.....Stewart Home: The Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Bildungsroman page 19.....Christoph Fringeli: Michael Steffen: Geschichten vom Trüffelschwein page 20.....Christoph Fringeli: Breggin/Cohen: Your Drug May Be Your Problemmusic page 22.....Interview with John Balance of Coil from 1986 page 27.....Christoph Fringeli: Anti-Semitism from Beyond the Grave - Muslimgauze’s Jihad fiction page 28.....Secessionist Outernational to Ourganisation - 1st May in December page 30.....Matthew Fuller: Interview with a Photocopier page 31.....The Wirebug: The End page 32.....Record Reviews page 38.....Scene Reports from Berlin, Israel, Los Angeles, Italy, Brazil page 39.....Terry Ordo and accomplices: Tek it Up - Report from Czech Tek 2005 page 42.....The Lives and Times of Bloor Schleppy (9) page 43.....DJ Charts