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BACK IN STOCK! Recorded 1995 at Wollf 281 Studio, Basel, by Manuel Liebeskind Vocals recorded 2018 at Ruminator Audio, San Francisco, by Monte Vallier Mixed, mastered and produced 2018/19 by Alex Buess Edited by Roger Graf Cut at Centraldubs, Bern, by Adi Flück Artwork by Marco Papiro
The Living Tissue was originally released in 2001 on the Hands Productions label as a CD and double vinyl (in a numbered edition of 300). The album was the result of an audio/visual research project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Hands also released an accompanying 60 minute video on VHS tape. Like the Surface (2000) and Other Voices (2001) 12"s, this album was inspired by the Canadian school of acoustic ecology, which studies the relationship between living things and their environment through sound. All sounds were created from location recordings in and around the city of Hamilton, Ontario.Used copy in excellent condition.
Vinyl version of the 2003 Hands box. 5 LPs with one side by each artist, featuring WInterkälte, Klinik, Needle Sharing vs. Squaremeter, Placid, Orphx, Ah Cama-Sotz, Synth-Etik, MS Mono, MS Gentur, 5F_55.Vinyl in near perfect condition. Box in great condition too, just a little bit of shelf wear. Number 219/500.
Vinyl version - 5 x LP box set with artist from Hands 2001, featuring Squaremeter, Ativ, Proyecto Mirage, S.I.N.A., Xabec, Typhoid, Needle Sharing, 5F_55, Mono No Aware, Synth-Etik, all having the space of a full side of a record for 3 tracks by each artist.The vinyl are all in near-perfect condition, the box had a kind of seam split on top, but is still intact.
Edition of 379 handnumbered copies. Comes with a LP-sized cardboard packaging and a 7" sleeve glued to the center of it including a handwritten death certificate on the front cover. The covers have a variety of "medical" objects attached to them (ie. scalpels, forceps, razors, scissors etc.).Used copy. Unfortunately the vinyl is in rather bad condition with various surface marks and small scratches. It plays through with significant surface noise in the more quiet parts. Number 334/379. The "Leichenschauschein" has a different layout than the copy pictured on discogs. It's signed by everybody and dated Ludwigshafen, 10.10.91. It has two marks from glue/tape. Comes with blade. Object is in overall great condition. I can supply a picture.
"Noisezone" is a avantgarde jazz project that came to life in Basel, Switzerland. Trio of musicans: Sebastian Smolyn, harnessing a storm of sounds coming from his E-Trombone, his brother Artur, generating vast range of convulsive, electronic noise attacks and Daniel Buess, empowering both with thrilling rythms of his percussion. Those 3 personalities come together within eXplosive improvisation. Searching musical language of their own, they continue to penetrate broad areas of music itself with each performance bringing them closer to its boundaries. As the performance becomes a musical exploration ritual, everyone who dares joining it will be entirely exposed to its physical and spiritual radiation remaining in your body and soul even long afterwards. (Text: Adrian Mania) Includes download code with additional tracks!credits released April 25, 2025 Noisezone is: Sebastian Smolyn: e-trombone Artur Smolyn: electronics Daniel Buess: drums, electronics all music by Noisezone Digital tracks produced by Artur & Sebastian Smolyn mixed by Artur Smolyn Vinyl produced by Alex Buess All tracks mastered by Alex Buess Cover design by Adrian Mania reworked by BigRogers license
After two extensive tours through Europe and 4 Albums finally released in Europe by the end of the 90s, Oxbow, and their German label Crippled Dick Hot Wax, discussed thoughts on extending the audience for the indie noise rock giants and do something largely popular in the pop world that seemed vastly unusual, however, for a band in the alternative music world: a remix album. Those plans were even publicly stated on Singer Eugene Robinson's own TV show on German Viva TV, yet never realised. But Oxbow had already done a first step to actually make it happen. They handed their long time European sound engineer Manuel Liebeskind and producer and former label mate Alex Buess (with 16-17 on Kevin Martin's pathological label) the full Steve Albini recorded multitracks of their album Serenade in Red. Instead of just remixing an existing song, Liebeskind and Buess, now under the name of PxfXFn5, composed 2 completely new tracks. Using loops and sounds from the original Oxbow recordings, and samples from live recorded cassette tapes, they created something that still is Oxbow - and not. 2 Tracks that transport the heavy blues and noise inspired unique sound of Oxbow into electronic soundscapes and beats. They open a totally different approach to Oxbow music, and to what remix, or re-composition, could mean. In 2024 these tracks have been revisited and remastered by Alex Buess who brought the tracks to the life they deserve. While Oxbow singer Eugene S. Robinson can also be heard with Buess on 16-17's last studio album Phantom limb (Trost records, TR193), he now also is half of electronic Duo Mangene with Manuel Liebeskind, that has recently released their first album '101 Atomic Terms and what they Mean' on fellow label A tree in a Field Records. Oxbow are Eugene S. Robinson - Vocals Niko Wenner - Guitar Dan Adams - Bass Greg Davis - Drums PxfXFn5 are Alex Buess and Manuel Liebeskind credits released February 28, 2025 Original recordings by Steve Albini Mixed by Alex Buess and Manuel Liebeskind at WWolf 281 Mastered by Alex Buess Graphic Design by Karin Blaser and Roger Big Rogers Graf Editors Manuel Liebeskind and Greg Davis
"Official bootleg" of wild live show by NoisePunkJazz veterans 16-17 live at Taktos festival in 1995. Remastered by Alex Buess in 2022 and now released as a collaboration of Skin + Speech and Plattfon Records.
“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
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
Relatively early Swarm Intelligence 12" on Instruments of Discipline from 2017 back in stock!
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.
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 STOCK! Collaboration of Abelcain and Alexandra von Bolz'n, previously only released in an obscure digital edition in 2015 receives a deserved and welcome vinyl edition by Abundanz! Double vinyl on 45!Great album of harsh Abelcain beats with Alexandra on vocals creating a unique atmospheric overlap of breakcore and grindcore and other forms of experimental electronic music. Label info: Abelcain’s musical genius goes into symbiosis with the primal and archetypal voice & lyric art of Alexandra von Bolz’n. Creating a highly complex amalgam, oscillating between stunning breakcore, grindcore, noise, dark ambient and experimental electronics. The whole album breathes the Abelcainesque spirit of the occult and hermetic influences, both in sound and visual art. Highly refined audio design and massive soundscapes raising his unique style to a new level. Paired with Alexandra von Bolzn's sublime lyrics and vocals of pure presence, pushing the limits of the human voice through the full frequency spectrum; deep, poetic and haunting.
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
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”.
A1 Fire At Work: Re-EditA2 Pure: Accumulate DepreciationB1 Oreinoi: PhanesB2 Inner8: AnhedoniaB3 Vchutemas: Ouranos
first release on Hijos de Puta!
The new GRMMSK! collaboration release of Minor, Totes Format, Sozialistischer Plattenbau, Hafenschlamm, canopyweekends, False Move Recs
Swarm Intelligence continues to push techno into unchartered territories with a bold new self-titled EP and label that launches in early 2022. This new EP explores emergent technology and dystopian themes. Autonomous weaponry is hinted at in the title of the first two tracks before the resultant human resilience of 'The Glory Is You,' and finally AI's awakening and gaining of sentience on 'Edge of Chaos'. Opener 'Lethality' is an intense and arresting weapon. Slamming kicks and frosty synths create a wall of impenetrable techno sound that will strike fear into any dance floor. 'Slaughterbot' is just as punishing and dark. Mangled vocals are locked in a prison of caustic synths and tortured drums as a post-apocalyptic meltdown plays out all around. There is subtle drum funk to 'The Glory Is You' that lifts you above the drama. Lithe kicks bring a sense of energy as haunting sequences, bright stabs and fizzing synths weave their way in and out of the mix. The brain-frying 'Edge of Chaos' closes down with monstrous effects, laser-like synths firing across the track and seriously weighty and distorted drums powering things along. Swarm Intelligence is the sound of an unknown techno future made brilliantly real. Originally released April 4, 2022
Swarm Intelligence’s unique take on industrial techno is back, with the second instalment on his self-titled label, coming this November. Fiercely intense, dramatic and cutting-edge, Swarm Intelligence’s distinctive take on techno has garnered him a solid following amongst the true underground of the scene. Following on from the widely supported launch of his label, SWRM002 is a striking next step – a testament to the quiet confidence of a skilled artist unafraid to eschew norms and carve his own path. This second EP continues to draw inspiration from dystopian themes of new and imagined technologies and their resulting societal impact. ‘Critical Signal’ was produced during the global pandemic, and iteratively refined over the following years. Grinding basses and tense atmospherics sit atop a thunderous four-to-the-floor. Its message to humanity is as relevant now as it was then – “you are resilient, you will prevail”. In ‘Mass Disinformation’ a visceral, bleak and unsettling sonic landscape punctuated by a slamming groove is an apt metaphor for the psychological warfare being unleashed on the world today. Opening the B-side, the uplifting glory of ‘Digital Immortality’ lifts the tone of the release. Here, Swarm’s signature...Originally released November 20, 2023