Sub/Version 309 – Grr: The Sign Of The Elders OUT NOW

Record Fair this Saturday – 1. Friedrichshainer Plattenbörse 21.01.2012

We will be present with a stall at the record fair happening at Jugend(widerstands)museum, Rigaer Str. 9-10, 10247 Berlin, happening this saturday from 2-10pm!
Check it out and support your local vinyl dealers!

Praxis Newsletter 23 out now!

It’s been a while, but finally a new 8-page A5 sized newsletter is out on paper!
Just in time for last night’s NoiseAngriff event, it combines news about Praxis and Sub/Version, an critcal look at distribution networks and the old New Urban Noise column/chart!
So far only 100 were made for last night and saturdays Record Fair.
A copy will of course be added to mail orders, if you want more than one, let us know, we’ll print more next week.

NoiseAngriff: A new night for experimental electronics, noise and breakcore starting January 18

January 18 will mark the start of two regular nights for experimental electronic music and breakcore. Every first wednesday of the month will focus on noise, soundscapes and sonic experiments hosted by fgnugn and Crash.01, while every third wednesday will focus on breakcore and noisy experimental dance music hosted by Tekamin and Praxis Records.
Praxis will be present at both events with a stall with a selection of records from their online store. You will be able to listen to and buy records or pick up your orders if you’re in berlin and want to save postage.

The line up for the opening night:
Fobia (Seven Samurai Records)
Zombieflesheater (Hirntrust, Sonic Belligeranza)
Christoph Fringeli (Praxis, Datacide)
Tekamin (a_sound)

Where?
Lauschangriff – Rigaer Str. 103 – 10247 Berlin

When?
Lauschangriff opens at 8pm, music in the basement starts at 9 …. open end!

New Praxis Sticker

The new sticker – A6 format – only the first sign of much more to come in 2012
if you want a bunch to spread in your area – please get in touch: praxis(at)c8.com

Sub/Version 308 – Egon Frinz: The 9 Lives OUT NOW

Listen to the full version here or here, BUY the track in full quality here or here
Check out more tracks by Egon Frinz here.

The Praxis Store at Cagliostro is closing tonight!

After long deliberations we decided to close the “physical” record shop located in bar Cagliostro at Lenbachstrasse 10 in Berlin-Friedrichshain. There are a number of reasons for this. On the one hand sales are extremely low compared to online sales (which have gone up in recent months), and also the shop is acting much less as a meeting point for the scene than we had imagined.

To avoid any false rumours from starting: No, we are not going out of business, nor is Cagliostro for that matter!
We will continue with the mail order through our own online shop as well as discogs, and in fact there will be a lot more activity from the label in the coming year. I simply feel my time is better spent working on the label, Datacide, as well as my own music and writing than in the shop for which there seems to be only limited interest in Berlin.
I would still be interested in taking part in a shop project, but it would have to be a larger endeavour with a bigger group of people involved.

In the meantime regular customers can still come and pick up records, and there will be a regular record stall twice a month starting in January in conjunction with two new monthly nights of noise and breaks! More about this exciting development in another post in the next few days!

To close the shop come and have a drink with me tonight or tomorrow Dec.23 at Cagliostro, Lenbachstr. 10, 10245 Berlin. I will be there from 5pm-9pm, possibly/probably later…
And to encourage everyone to take some weight off us, and make the move easier – there will be a 20% price reduction on all stocks!

Praxis on discogs.com

Most of the readers of this blog will know the site discogs.com which is a user generated online discography and marketplace. Users can also database their collections and add records they are searching to their want lists.
Spending a boring sunday evening at the record shop/bar I decided to make some charts, going through the numbers of releases listed in discogs collections and want lists. Note that these are not the actual numbers of records pressed and/or sold, but merely what discogs users list in their collections. Roughly it seems that about 10-25% of originally pressed records are listed in collections.
The first two lists are compiling the numbers in the collections, the first combining all formats (vinyl, CD, files) in the case of releases which were released in different formats. In the second chart the different formats are split. It’s notable that all titles in this top ten are vinyl releases.
The third list are what people are listing in their want lists….

Praxis records in discogs collections:
(1) formats combined
1. Somatic Responses: Post Organic EP (Praxis 18)
2. Hecate: The Magick Of Female Ejaculation (Praxis 35 + Praxis 35CD)
3. Slaughter Politics (Praxis 21)
4. Base Force One: Welcome To Violence (Praxis 27)
5. Hecate: Hate Cats (Praxis 32)
6. ADCSomatic: Teatrodellopera EP (Praxis 41)
7. Hecate: Ascension Chamber (Praxis 40 + Praxis 40CD)
8. Low Entropy: Anarcho-Psychotic (Praxis 36)
9. Kovert: Shock Effect (Praxis 34)
10. Heist: Dystrophic (Praxis 11)

(2) formats separated
1. Somatic Responses: Post Organic EP (Praxis 18)
2. Slaughter Politics (Praxis 21)
3. Hecate: The Magick Of Female Ejaculation (Praxis 35)
4. Base Force One: Welcome To Violence (Praxis 27)
5. Hecate: Hate Cats (Praxis 32)
6. ADCSomatic: Teatrodellopera EP (Praxis 41)
7. Low Entropy: Anarcho-Psychotic (Praxis 36)
8. Kovert: Shock Effect (Praxis 34)
9. Heist: Dystrophic (Praxis 11)
10. Noface: Burnout (Praxis 6)

Most wanted:
1. Disciples of Belial: Songs of Praise (Praxis 7)
2. Disciples of Belial: Goat of Mendes (Praxis 17)
3. V/A: Dead By Dawn (Praxis 23)
4. Heist: Dystrophic (Praxis 11)
5. Somatic Responses (Praxis 18)
6. Lorenz Attractor (Praxis 13)
7. Metatron: Speed & Politics (Praxis 4)
8. DJ Jackal: Drumtrax Vol. 1 (Praxis 9)
8. Cunning vs. Bambule (Praxis 19)
10. Metatron: Seduction (Praxis 8 )

you can check out the praxis page at discogs here

15 Years Widerstand Party in Graz & Praxis 30 Digital Release!

Hot on the heels of other classic Praxis releases being made available in digital format comes Eiterherd’s massive album 1984 Vs. 1999 (Vision Vs. Reality) originally released on vinyl in 1999!
Available through the Praxis shop over at bandcamp, as well as junodownload from Monday, December 5th!

The album was of course a co-release of Praxis and Eiterherd’s label Widerstand which he started 15 years ago.
This birthday is celebrated with a party in Graz on December 16;

Dark, Sick, Music.

Kovert (Critical Noise, Praxis / UK)
Christoph Fringeli (Praxis / CH)
Karl Marx Stadt (Lux Nigra, Sozialistischer Plattenbau / DE)
Alex Dee (Phantomnoise, Widerstand / DE)
Opcion aka Ab-Hinc (Widerstand / Graz)
Shiver Electronics (Widerstand / Wien)
Eiterherd (Widerstand / Graz)
Postcore (Widerstand / Pöllauberg)
Plan (Silent Revolution / Wien)
VJ: Naritia (neverscared.org / Graz)
Projections: OchoReSotto (Graz)

JOLT-Swiss Australian Sonic Festival Basel 2011

CORTEX and Christoph Fringeli will play at this weeks JOLT festival in Basel, Switzerland:

CONCERTS at GARE DU NORD

Gare Du Nord: Schwarzwaldallee 200, CH-4058 Basel.

DONNERSTAG (THURSDAY) 10.NOVEMBER

20.00 The BOLT Ensemble play James Hullick
20.50 Jonas Kocher / Gaudenz Badrutt
22.00 Herpes Ö Deluxe
23.00 Sean Baxter / Adam Simmons
24.00 carthage

FREITAG (FRIDAY) 11.NOVEMBER

CO-PRODUCTION WITH IGNM BASEL

20.00 Philip Brophy
20.50 Ensemble Phoenix Basel / James Hullick / Sean Baxter play James Hullick and Alex Buess / Thomas Peter
21.45 Nicolas Field
23.00 CORTEX (Daniel Buess & Alex Buess) / Damian Bennett / Stelarc
24.00 Antoine Chessex / Valerio Tricoli
00.45 Roy and the Devil’s Motorcycle / Papiro

SAMSTAG (SATURDAY) 12.NOVEMBER

CO-PRODUCTION WITH RESTAURANT HIRSCHENECK

21.00 Buggatronic

21.20 Francisco Meirino

22.15 Oren Ambarchi

23.00 DJ La Bombe / Ferocious41

00.30 iconAclass aka MC dälek

01.30 Christoph Fringeli