This record was a departure from the hardcore oriented sound of its immediate predecessors, combining noise elements, electro and a strong influence from the ‘Sound of Rome’. Credited at the time to Amilcar dos Santos and Jip, it was a collaboration of Jason Mendonca and Jason Alexander aka DJ Warlock.
This was a substantial release for the label, but interestingly we found it much harder to sell than, say Praxis 11 and 12. Now seen as a classic by many, we hope to make files available in the near future.
Praxis 12
DJ Yubba/DJ Deviant
World’s Fattest Split
1995
1300 copies pressed. (first pressing of 1000 and an identical repress soon after)
DJ Yubba was a at the time secretive project of Jason Mendonca who also produced the other side with DJ Deviant. The record combines gabber, industrial hardcore and a hint of junglism and became an instant hit in the emerging hardcore scene. Planet Core Distribution ordered 300 copies which was considerably more than the usual 50-100 which lead to a second pressing right after the first one. The record has not been re-pressed since.
Various Artists
Paraphysical Cybertronics - Volume One: The Experiments of Bloor Schleppy
Praxis 10CCD
1994
The second CD after Bourbonese Qualk’s Autonomia album on Praxis was the compilation titled Paraphysical Cybertronics Volume One – The Experiments of Bloor Schleppy. This extended the reach of the label to different levels of experimental electronic music. Obviously the idea was to turn it into a series – hence the ‘Volume One’, but – at least so far – this has been the only audio-result to come forth from Bloor Schleppy’s laboratories. He has made consistent appearances in various (print) issues of datacide though.
First pressing on random-coloured vinyl with no label: 1994 – 500 copies. Second pressing on black vinyl with label: ca. 1997 – 500 copies.
DJ Jackal was a multiple name concept, meaning that different producers could use the name, so it became a collective entity and as such an antithesis to the bourgeois cult of the individual artist-genius. Attributions to individual artists treating ‘DJ Jackal’ as an ‘alias’ (for example on discogs) are misplaced and miss the point.
Musically it combined hardcore techno, acidcore and experimental broken beats.
Review in TNT #11 (Paris, December 1994)
Translation: What we hear here is not motivated by the spirit of fame and careerism, nor by the quickly consumed energy of youth. This English music is carried by the firm conviction that a force will win, whatever the deadline. So let’s clean up our ears a little from the glitz, shimmer and bluster that define so much vanity driven productions. The label Explore Toi comes to mind, because of the same determination not to take sound beyond the human orb, which is so vast if you immerse yourself in it passionately and sincerely, and lead the machine along the criss-crossing, confidential paths of being-in-becoming-more-just. In the crackling shadow of this secret music, listen to it as it unfolds, recharging your batteries with this infinite patience, moving, modest and yet so intimate.
I remember about 1800 were pressed of this, but can’t remember exactly which edition was pressed more. I reckon it was the 1997 repress.
All the tracks were written in the last week of 1993 in Simon Crab’s Kennington council flat where he had moved recently from Malt Street. Simon and family were out of town, so I could use the studio – and made 11 tracks in just over a week.
Two of these (previously unreleased ones) will appear on the forthcoming Praxis 15.
Unfortunately I don’t seem to have all the masters of Noface anymore (hopefully they’ll show up…) which is the reason I haven’t made a bandcamp release of this (yet).
Review by Kris Needs in Echoes: “Murderous clang-kick heralds a dark trip into the psychotic cement mixer… convoluted analogue frolics ensue for the next few tracks, including a your-testicles-are-on-the-ceiling-sir routine and much overloaded racket. Definitely hardest label in the UK.”
Review by Warlock in Generator: “… hard music that employs those familiar distorted kicks, yet creates an almost breakbeat feel in its arrangement. Track 2 on the A2 even uses an off beat Reggae stab to confirm this effect in greater detail. The flipside prefers to be more abstract, seasoned slightly with acid and one fast track that would teach the speedfreaks of gabbaland a thing or two. The final cut … sounding Black-doggish but far more disturbing. 9/10”
Bourbonese Qualk: Autonomia (Praxis 5CD) 1993 – 1000 copies
Bourbonese Qualk: Autonomia (Praxis 5) test pressing 2016 – 10 copies
Bourbonese Qualk: Autonomia (Praxis 5) 2×12″ full release 2018 – 500 copies
After the two 12″s (Praxis 2 and Praxis 3) this was the full length album by BoQu on Praxis.
from the Bourbonese Qualk website: This album was mostly a solo project of simon crab with the aid of christoph fringeli of praxis records, recorded after a 2 month tour in the usa and europe. typically bourbonese qualk, this album delivers the opposite to the listeners expectations, breaking the mold set by ‘my government is my soul’ and ‘unpop’, ‘autonomia’ sets out in the completely different direction of harsh electronic ‘no compromise techno’. this album divided qualk’s fan base, created violent debate and polarised press reviews.
Cela ne faisait pas si longtemps, aprés tout, j’écoutais la musique enchantreresse de Bourbonese Qualk, allongé sur la moquette pourpre et or de ma cambre a coucher. ah!, que d’heures et de souvenirs, passés à contempler mon plafond en nacre jaune striée de vieinelures bleutées et orange. Et puis, ensuite, par un beau matin de début d’automne, je me fis péter le créne. cela surprend tout la meme de passer du folklo-ethno-acoustique a la techno hardcore. c’est la suprise que vous réserve ‘autonomia’: des bpm assasins rythment une sarabande satureé á la limit du supportable. La puissance et la violence sont exergue au fil du beat (ça c’est du langage jeune!) et l’on regrette presque la pauvreté des structures mélodiques et rythmiques. de fait ça a failli autre un bon skeud, que dis-je un excellent skeud! ce ne sera qu’un bon disque, en attendant de voir. toutefois, je vous conseille quelques titres parmi les meilleurs, ceux qui servent de fond sonore tandis que je refrais la déco de ma chambre (le plafond en nacre est tombé en morceau et la moquette a tourné couleur chaisse des grands jours):logic bomb, qual , knee-jerk reaction, otaku et le bizzarre de 50 years of acid. dar es balat
Metatron for me marked a huge step from Scaremonger which appeared only less than a year earlier. Speed and Politics absorbed the rapid changes of what hardcore techno was at the time and sythesized and extended the possibilities of radical dancefloor music. “Men Who Hate the Law” was a pounding affirmation of juvenile delinquency – or as Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (Le Grand Jeu) put it: “First phase of the revolt – Metaphysical agony: Negate everything and feel nothing but the abyss”. But of course this would only be the first phase: A preparation for the “invisible insurrection of a million minds”.
In “State of Emergency” The Intensifier struck with searing acid, “The Art of Disappearence” a deviant vision of hardcore gave some space to broken elements, colliding inspirations from Baudrillard and the Situationist Constant (“New Urbanist”) pointing to… “The Future”…
Review and charts from ECHOES magazine 27 November 1993 by Kris Needs in his NEEDS MUSTS column, in this issue subtitled ‘Kris Needs recommends spitting, squitting and spurting’ (!)
He also reviewed other smashing tracks in this issue like the Sulphurex EP and Difficult Child on Magnetic North (funny enough assuming Difficult Child being a pseudonym of Dave Clarke)
This EP, released in spring 1993, reflects how quickly the new sound was accellerating and getting more noisy and harder.
Another four-tracker of which different tracks were played by different DJ’s. “Qual” which at the time seemed ultra hard still has a cheeky irritating edge.
There are free mp3 downloads available from the bourbonese qualk site.
Label info from 1993: Qual is the german word for pain. Mixed immediately after returning from their US-tour, this EP boosts your endorphine levels to the max, capturing the power as well as the subtleties of their current set. Noisy fast hardtrance pushing the hardcore sound into the nineties! 4 tracks.
‘…brutal, wired and shrieking with extraterrestrial passion. Varying degrees of intensity ranging from crazed cyber-stomping to the subtler ‘Jaws’-style sensory raid’ (Kris Needs, Echoes) ‘From the shoals of falling stars of trance to the mail train to Frankfurt’ (MixMag)
Qualk went on tour through the States at the time where our fascination with orange camo was triggered by some duck hunting jackets we bought in Pittsburgh, PA. The hardcore techno scene at the time was almost de rigueur to wear urban camo and the fluorescent duck jackets seemed an ironic comment or reversal.
In the same city I also bought a pair of MK2’s in a shop called Steel City DJ supply. I still own them and they still work perfectly.
The tour took us through 17 gigs in 5 weeks over 12’000 miles.
Here’s a picture taken on the tour which shows Simon Crab and me wearing that jacket!
Praxis 2 Bourbonese Qualk Kneejerk Reaction EP 1992
Praxis 2 – Bourbonese Qualk – Knee-Jerk Reaction EP on Soundcloud
Recorded in the summer 1992, this was actually the first Praxis record to be “officially” released. This happened in the last week of November, one week before Scaremonger was released. This was more a decision of the distributor, S.R.D., who thought it would be better to launch the label with the release of a more well known act.
Both releases had been on white label for a few months.
In the case of Praxis 2 the white label and the finished release are actually two different cuts. The reason for this is that the B2 track was jumping on some turntables, so I decided to recut it, which was done by Simon at The Exchange.
This release and the next as well as the following album Autonomia (Praxis 5) represent the relatively short “techno” period of Bourbonese Qualk. Qualk was at that point Simon Crab solo and I guess infected a bit by my enthusiasm for the new noisy techno styles.
N.I.R. Studio was the squat in Malt Street where in a short street which was squatted in its entirety Simon and his family had two small houses, one of which they lived in, the other served as rehearsal space and studio. Soon the ground floor became Praxis HQ.
You can find a blog post by Transpontine about this corner here.
Original label info (1993) This is their first ever 12″ single after going strong in the european electronic underground for a long time with countless multimedia live performances all over western and eastern europe, and more recently the united states. 4 brilliant tracks, slightly acidic with a definite hardcore/industrial feel, and a trancy slow chillout track at the end. take control now!
‘acidic stomping and heavy dance music for the headstrong. search again.’ (Technohead in DJ) ‘…predominantly monochrome acid trance – but like if Hannibal Lecter had got hold of a 303…’ (Echoes) #…success etched in every groove. It explodes into life in a ruthlessly efficient manner proving that B.Q. are true masters of a beast of a machine. Totally wired up to the forces of fury… unyielding, eclectic and bursting with tension … this band is still thrusting forwards, carving a niche with one fuckin’ metallic head opener of a 12″ blade. World domination beckons.’ (Chris B. in Music from the Empty Quarter, march ’93)
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Lorenz Attractor: Strange Attractor EP
Praxis 13
Lorenz Attractor: Strange Attractor EP
1000 copies pressed.
This record was a departure from the hardcore oriented sound of its immediate predecessors, combining noise elements, electro and a strong influence from the ‘Sound of Rome’. Credited at the time to Amilcar dos Santos and Jip, it was a collaboration of Jason Mendonca and Jason Alexander aka DJ Warlock.
This was a substantial release for the label, but interestingly we found it much harder to sell than, say Praxis 11 and 12. Now seen as a classic by many, we hope to make files available in the near future.
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