With vocal samples from Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! this 4-tracker from 1997 bridged the gaps between breakcore and hardcore (including the track ‘We Know’ which at the time would have qualified as speedcore), creating a base for more militant sonic adventures.
An alliance with DJ Pure from Vienna was forged in the mid-90s and found its expression on Praxis with the release of this 12″ and later a retrospective double CD (Praxis 26CD). To make it fit on the 12″ vinyl King Kong had to be cut by half, but both this track and Katharsis on the other side made harsh and disturbing listening.
Reviews
Dave Howell in THE WIRE #190/191 New Year 2000
“There are few records I cherish as much as my copy of PURE’s ‘Analog Terror’ on Drop Bass Network and this one goes back to the same mine, only it digs deeper. ‘Don’t let the dead canaries bother you, natural causes’. ‘Katharsis’ just about sums it up. In the midst of a sonic cataclysm we find ourselves fearing for our lives and reflecting on everything we’ve done. Or maybe it’s just me. I’m a sucker for the dark side” (review by Fishead, quoted in Digitalworldnet catalog 2003).
Praxis 24
Society of Unknowns
written and produced by
Christoph Fringeli and Jason Skeet,
except B3 by Aphasic
1997
pressing of 1000 copies in 1997
Society of Unknowns was a project by Jason Skeet and Christoph Fringeli with 4 out of the 5 tracks being collaborations and the last one by Aphasic. Crucial 1997 release!
Press release sheet by Flint Michigan for Praxis 24
Written and produced by Patric C. (aka E-de-Cologne, Ec8or) under one of his more obscure pseudonyms, Test Tube Kid. With five tracks of Amiga-powered hardcore and noise.
Written and produced in 1997 and released 1999 for the first time, Slaughter Politics collects two solo tracks by Christoph Fringeli and one track each co-written by Nomex (B1) and The Invisible S.P. (B2) respectively.
In a way the follow up to Base Force One’s Welcome to Violence (Praxis 27), this also includes Pirate Utopia, written with the Invisible S.P. aka Mark Angelo Harrison from Spiral Tribe, originally intended for a Stormcore release. Two tracks of ferocious hardcore and two tracks of historic breakcore!
First pressing – 1000 Second pressing (with only the contact info changed, but the same masters used) – 500
Repress 2020 on red vinyl (same stampers used) – 103 numbered copies with download codes.
(From the Praxis Website 1999:) Praxis 21 titled Slaughter Politics – this is a compilation of some material I wrote about 2 years ago that I felt still needed to come out, and since there was an ’empty’ catalogue number this was a good opportunity. The record starts (check the tunes page on c8!) with a 190 bpm hardcore track called Forest Fire that breaks down to heavy halfspeed broken beats, shattering false mystifications. The title refers to the resurgence of nationalism in some aspects of contemorary art and music. While the track isn’t exactly a comment on this I hope it works as an antidote, or at least raises the issue. The following track, Stammheim, refers to the high security prison where the political prisoners of the RAF were held, and where after years of isolation torture and show trials Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan Carl Raspe died. You Must Help Yourself, written with Nomex starts the other side with a different emphasis. Unusual and sleazy breaks catapult us into a conflicting realm of power and autonomy, using a voice sample from Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS. Pirate Utopia, written with the Invisible S.P. and originally supposed to be on Stormcore 7 goes back to the 4/4, but almost as a quote, retaining a strong experimental edge. It’s my favorite collaboration with the ISP (including the tracks – one each on Stormcore 5 and 6, and one side of the Fraktal Paris-Londres record), and I’m happy – as with all these tracks – that the’re finally out! The title Slaughter Politics is from the Interview with ex-urban guerilla and Carlos the Jackal associate Hans Joachim Klein in the “German Issue” of Semiotext(e). It refers to the self-defeating brutality that liberation struggles can succumb, and the paradox that a certain violence remains necessary.
The collaboration of Cunning and Bambule was the first double vinyl to appear on Praxis, ranging from minimal experimental pieces to hard dance tracks.
First pressing 1996 – 1000 copies
Second pressing 2005 – 1000 copies
Somatic Responses exploded on the mid-90s underground scene with releases on Cross Fade Enter Tainment, Drop Bass Network, Shockwave Ltd, Agent Orange, IST, SixSixtySix as well as ‘Post-Organic EP’ on Praxis. This four-tracker encompasses tracks fitting both in hard techno, hardcore and broken beat sets and thanks to the 2005 repress became one of the best selling Praxis titles.
Review by Technohead (Michael Wells) in DJ Magazine (1996)
Praxis 17
Disciples of Belial: Goat of Mendes E.P.
1000 copies pressed.
The follow-up to ‘Songs of Praise’ (Praxis 7) was a 4-track 12″ with the title track inspired by the movie The Devil Rides Out (see trailer below). This was followed by a metal track titled The Infibulation of the Virgin Mary, while the second side returns to more gabber inspired territory. ‘All Terror Invoked by Baal Equananthorn, Seth Mendes’. Another very sought after record.
Cyberchrist was one of the many names used by Martin Damm, aka Biochip C. and The Speed Freak in the 90’s for hard acid and some more experimental broken beats.
We met DJ Deadly Buda from Pittsburgh on the Bourbonese Qualk tour in 1993 and had stayed in touch ever since. Buda came over to play at VFM and Dead By Dawn, and this record was released soon after. Buda went on to run his own label Deadly Systems from Boulder and then Los Angeles and is now running the free magazine The Hard Data.
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Base Force One: Welcome to Violence
Base Force One:
Welcome to Violence
Praxis 27
1500 copies (three runs of 500)
With vocal samples from Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! this 4-tracker from 1997 bridged the gaps between breakcore and hardcore (including the track ‘We Know’ which at the time would have qualified as speedcore), creating a base for more militant sonic adventures.