Praxis 59 / Skin & Speech 001Artist: 16-17Title: Gyatso vinyl release 22 February 2021. Originally released in 1994 on Pathological, Kevin Martin’s label who also produced the record. CD only.2008 re-released on Savageland, also on CD. Remastered by Alex Buess in 2020Vinyl cut by Shane the Cutter at Finyltweek. Gyatso is the 1994 album by […]
Praxis 58 16-17 The Pandemic Wargames Remixes 12″ – 24-08-2020 The Pandemic Wargames Remixes by 16-17 Release date: 24-08-2020 16-17 return to Praxis with a triple assault of ultrasonic remixes. The Pandemic Wargames Remixes are based on backing tracks originally recorded in 1995 for a follow up to the album Gyatso which eventually materialised earlier […]
Praxis 55 Ales Buess & Daniel Buess “Skin Craft” – RIND & NOL MLP – 2016 "Skin Craft" – RIND & NOL (Praxis 55) by Alex Buess & Daniel Buess Two powerful compositions by Alex Buess and Daniel Buess, rearranged by Cortex. RIND is a work using three large self-built cow skin frame drums, 1 […]
Praxis 48 Cortex Vacuum Theory 12″ – 2011 Vacuum Theory (Praxis 48) by Cortex A momentous, heavy, noisy and radical release by former 16-17 members Alex Buess and Daniel Buess. CORTEX appeared in 1998 out of Alex and Daniel Buess musical collaborations. They were both musicians of the legendary free-noise-core combo 16-17 and also worked […]
Praxis 31 16-17 Mechanophobia 12″ – 1999 Mechanophobia (Praxis 31) by 16-17 700 copies. 16-17 started in 1983 in Basel, Switzerland as a three-piece “industrial punk jazz” outfit with Alex Buess, Markus Kneubühler and Knut Remond. They released a number of cassettes, before debuting with their self titled album in 1987. Two years later this […]
After reading somewhere in a short review that Cortex were “newcomers to the scene” I compiled the currently available titles of either Alex Buess or Daniel Buess on the frontpage of the Praxis online shop. Granted the new Praxis release is the first under the Cortex name (although the project exists since 1998), but especially […]
Out today, for the first time on vinyl: Gyatso, the classic 1994 album by 16-17. Originally on Pathological on CD and co-produced by Kevin Martin. 6-track vinyl version with download code for the full album now on Praxis. plus extra trax until tomorrow! https://praxisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gyatso-praxis-59-s-s001
16-17: Gyatso (Liner Notes by Jason Pettigrew, 2008)
Jason Pettigrew’s liner notes which provide interesting additional information about the album Gyatso by 16-17 were originally published in the booklet for the 2008 CD rerelease on Savage Land. We republish them here in view of the forthcoming first vinyl release of the album next month. GYATSO NOTES Breaking boundaries? For over two decades, Swiss […]