Noise/Avant-Garde
PRE-SALE of Praxis 60 - Nomex: Paroxism EP. Noise artist and film maker Paul Kidd aka Nomex was behind some iconic experimental releases of the 90s, mainly on his own Adverse label, exploring the nature of physical nature of noise and vinyl, his preferred medium. Several of his records explored and articulated this interaction, such as Adverse 1 (A Moment in Eternity/Language of Dissatisfaction) - a needle playing the label, Desiring E.P.2 (Adverse 3) - a drill used as turntable - and Are You Anything More Than Just A Product of Your Influence? (Adverse 12) - dual parallel groove cut on 16rpm and 78rpm. Other works veer into sound collage and beat destruction, such as The Bruitist Shaper, and Trocante Gramofony E.P. He also experimented with extreme noise frequencies at live gigs, some of which were documented on a series of CDRs on Adverse in 1997 (all of these have now been uploaded to our YouTube channel). Important to mention are also his collaborations with DJ Scud with the two classic 7"s Eurostar/Piling Machine and Total Destruction on the Maschinenbau label, both re-released by Praxis on one 12" in 2018. Ever since his 1999 release Trocante Gramofony EP (Praxis 33), there had been talk about doing a follow up and around 2010-2011 Nomex indeed worked on an album for Praxis, the material for which was finished, but not compiled at the time of his death in 2014. We compiled it as close as possible to what we think his intentions would have been and as to be expected it's a killer noise album!The Plan and the Pledge for the Vinyl The record will be pressed in a limited and numbered edition with a hand stamped label and sleeve as well as a 30x30cm cover graphic/poster inlay and postcard in an edition of 100-150 copies. Finer details of this may yet change/vary as we're figuring out the production cost and details. The image depicts the 30x30cm print insert. Details might slightly vary. A download code for digital tracks will be included.As you may remember we tried to get this project off the ground in 2024 but our fundraising efforts were not successful enough, and pre-sales were extremely poor. The record was pre-mastered but not pressed. We're now giving it another push. The digital album is released in June 2026 with the vinyl to follow soon after. IF THE VINYL IS NOT PRODUCED IN A PHYSICAL FORM BY THE END OF THE YEAR (2026) WE WILL REFUND THE PREORDERS AND ABANDON THE VINYL PROJECT. Help us to get this into production this summer by placing a pre-order or - even better - BECOME A SUPER-SUBSCRIBER! IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are already a SUPER-SUBSCRIBER you will receive one copy of this release as part of your subscription. It's not necessary to place an order, unless you want extra copies! FIND OUT MORE about becoming a Super-Subscriber HERE.
Howard Slater's magazine Break/Flow appeared in two paper editions - and this record. Features System UCS, Christoph de Babalon, Peter Edwards, Eric Random, New Acephale, The Narrator. used copy in VG condition. Some surface marks and light scratches - not the best, but a still a fine playing copy and a great record we haven't had in stock since 2012 (!)
Goner's Yogascum tape now on nice vinyl. Mint copy, still sealed.
Vinyl re-issue of the legendary first Residents album. Copy from collection, only played a few times, but does have a little bit of surface noise and occasional clicks in the more quiet parts. Shrink wrap is still on (a bit loose on the open side), gatefold was never opened.
Noise album by ex-CCCC member on Turgit Animal. Mint
Long deleted collaboration between Karkowski and Rehberg on Tochnit Aleph! Used copy in VG+ Back in stock!
Noise on RRR from 1995, limited to 200 copies.Used copy, a bit of surface noise and some shallow scratches. No jumps, overall still a decent copy. Copy number 4/200
TAP909: Bunker I-III on ZCKR from 2013.Vinyl played a couple of times in the shop but in perfect condition. The sleeve itself is fine, but the thermo-paper print stuck to it is paled out and barely visible
Excellent record with breakcore and experimantal stuff from 2007!
Long awaited release from Nomex. A1 & B3 ends in locked grooves. Back in stock! Last copy!
Second hand VG+. Mostly in excellent condition, but a few clicks and pops in some of the quiet parts. Sleeve has a faint hint at ring wear, but no damage.
Maurizio Bianchi record originally published in 1983, re-issued by Backwards in 2012 in two different versions, one with a limited 7". The one we have in stock is only the LP!
BACK IN STOCK - Another varied EP from Neurotrope by Mono-Amine!
First release on the Aneurysm sub-label Rotten Dot Com, featuring Angel Flo and Ics Xar.
NM copy from shop stocks. Label says FUCKPUNK011, but scratch-in says FUCKPUNK010.
Back in stock! Tzii's label Night on Earth was celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2021 in true style with a double vinyl compilation with silkscreened cover and including a download code (which contains extra tracks!). Artists include: Refrigerator Mothers, Sikhara, Catherine Danger, Thar Mapsal Program, Microloop, Indra Menus, Tzii, Officium, NuR, Johnny haway, Contagious Orgasm, Paul Gremare, Dissonant, Catastrophic Mermaids On Parade, Perchten Scylla, Cham, Venimeuses, Flutwacht featuring Le Fensch Industrial Orchestra, Excess Of Fat, Jealousy Party, Rinus Van Alebeek, Moineau Écarlate, Gamaboy, SS Mylitta, Âme De Boue, Ripit, The Radar Threat, Solar Skeletons, The Masters Musicians Of Hop-Frog artwork/silkscreen by Thomas Perrodin, mastering/cut by Angström Mastering
Brutal Document of two Live Actions performed in Paris 1996 & 1997. Aktion 961123 (the infamous 'Spaghetti-Action') featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Phillips, Helena Greter & Aktion 970223 featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Phillips, Helena Greter, Doris Tomasoni. Edition of 500 copies. Mastered & cut by Rashad at D&M, Berlin. Co-released with Benniffer Editions. One copy back in stock! Not sealed anymore, but only played a couple of times in our store.
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.
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!
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.