Noface [artist profile]
Noface was a project by Christoph Fringeli from 1993, focussing on hard non-303 acidcore on Praxis. This meant, while picking up and including style elements from the period of 1992/93 of hard acid music, the choice of sounds was a-typical in that none of the then standard Roland (808, 909, 303) machines were used in the production. Instead he used his own set of drum sounds, samples and a Korg MS-20 for the acid lines.
Artists such as Choose, Cyberchrist, Lovecore, Woody McBride, Zekt and many others produced and performed similar types of deviant acid. Some of course used 303s. Others didn’t. But the point was the spirit of pushing these instruments to the extreme. To experiment. To try out new things.
Burnout EP
Christoph produced one record under the artist name of Noface, titled Burnout EP (Praxis 6 – check out the release on the Praxis discography page HERE).
Here’s a SoundCloud player for the release, a vinyl 12″ with 5 tracks:
or you can check it out on YouTube:
Unreleased Material
A number of Noface tracks produced by Christoph Fringeli remain unreleased so far, but at least two of them are to be featured on the elusive Praxis 15 compilation, one of them has been made public via the Praxis SoundCloud:
Remix by Base Force One from 2022
In 2022 we released a remix of the Noface track Hallucinate by Base Force One (another CF pseudonym) in the Praxis Digital Remix Series.
Bandcamp player for Hallucinate Remix by Base Force One:
SoundCloud player for Hallucinate Remix by Base Force One:
The two influences on the name Noface were on the one hand – of course – the idea of the faceless techno producer, on the other hand I loved Walter E. Richartz’s novel Noface – Nimm was du brauchst. A satire on post war Germany, first printed in 1973 (the pictured edition is the 1976 paperback), on identity and recognition and crime – and the advantages of having a non-face…
Links
- Noface artist profile on discogs.com
- Noface: Burnout EP on discogs
