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Praxis News for May 2012 (update)

By admin | Published: May 5, 2012

Praxis News for May 2012
updated 15-05-2012

Trailer for the party June 9th is online now!

Praxis presents a fundraiser for Datacide Twelve and a celebration
of the new record releases by Electric Kettle and Bulkrate in the space of
Subversiv e.V., Brunnenstrasse 7, Berlin-Mitte (U8 Rosenthaler Platz)
We return to Subversiv for an all night party with a massive line-up:
Electric Kettle
Bulkrate
Noize Creator
Zombieflesheater
Goner
H-Kon
Base Force One

NEW RELEASES:

Out now!
PRAXIS 50 – Electric Kettle: News From Berlin
12” EP with full color sleeve designed by the artist & download code!
The new four-tracker by Electric Kettle is his first record in 5 years.
Showing him at the peak of creativity these are superbly crafted tracks
full of detail and depth.
get it here (12″ with download code):

http://praxis.c8.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/4613

or here (either 12″ with download, or only download):

http://praxisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/news-from-berlin-praxis-50

COMING SOON – expected from the pressing plant later this week, official release dates t.b.a.:

DM12004 – V/A: Accretion EP (12″ & digital)
Featuring tearing tracks by Minion, Fiend, Poxxe and Ressurector, plus
scratch samples by Baseck, this is the first compilation with the core
producers of L.A.’s Darkmatter Soundsystem.
Out mid-may, exclusively distributed by Praxis.

PRAXIS 49 – Bulkrate: In the Temple of the Serpent (12″ & digital)
After three digital only releases on Dark Winter and Zhark International
this is Bulkrate’s first vinyl offering. Five tracks of strong atmospheric
occult breakcore that will please the fans of Abelcain and Slutmachine
with a personal take on dark atmospherics and caustic beats.

Events:

NoiseAngriff is a night for new experimental music, noise and breakcore
taking place at Lauschangriff, Rigaerstrasse 103 in Berlin-Friedrichshain
every first and third wednesday of the month.
The first is usually dedicated more to noise and soundscapes, the third
more to different shades of “breakcore”. We also do the praxis record
stall there at each of the events. Next Event:

May 16:
Bart Hard
LFO Demon
Sim On Korfunkle
T3kamin
Christoph Fringeli
http://noiseangriff.wordpress.com
Note that thursday the 17th is a public hoiday, so we might go on longer than usual this wednesday night!

After the complete revamp of the praxis web site (http://praxis.c8.com) the online shop (http://praxis.c8.com/catalog) will be next… watch out for a completely new shop in the next weeks – more details soon!

http://praxis.c8.com
http://datacide.c8.com

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Electric Kettle: News From Berlin (Praxis 50) in stock now!

By admin | Published: April 23, 2012

Praxis 50 – Electric Kettle: News From Berlin 12″ is in stock now and ready to ship.
Official release date is 30-04-2012
Place your order now via our online store or via bandcamp!

All copies come with a download code! (except if you order via bandcamp where you automatically get a download!)

Distributors and shops please get in touch: praxis(at)c8.com

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Metatron: Seduction EP (Praxis 8)

By admin | Published: April 18, 2012

Recorded in the autumn of 1993 and released in March 1994, this was the second release done under the name Metatron. Originally announced as:

“6 tracks based around the same set of sounds & the same speed from hard banging assault to weird experiments in a half tempo groove, to ambience running amok. The elements let loose, the sounds and structures secuding each other – A Sonic High Risk Activity”

Praxis 8 was pressed in two different edtions: Read More »

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First Glimpse at Praxis 49 & 50 and more on SoundCloud!

By admin | Published: April 11, 2012

Just uploaded new material on the Praxis SoundCloud – most importantly one track each from the forthcoming praxis releases by Electric Kettle and Bulkrate!
Plus some older stuff including an unreleased track by Metatron… check it out!
We will know the exact release date of Electric Kettle in the next few days, I expect to get the copies by the end of next week, and probably set the official release date for April 30 or May 7, allowing some time for shipping it out to other distributors. As usual the records will be available as soon as we have them directly from us.

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Metatron: Seduction EP (Praxis 8) released digitally via bandcamp

By admin | Published: April 11, 2012

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2012 – 20 years Praxis – new web site – new records!

By admin | Published: March 20, 2012

In the summer of 1992, in a squat in North Peckham, just off the Old Kent Road, Praxis was born and at the end of November this year it will be 20 years since the first two records were released, Praxis 1 by Scaremonger, and Praxis 2 by Bourbonese Qualk.

Now, in the spring of 2012 in Berlin we just received the test pressings of Praxis 50 by Electric Kettle (more info + audio will be up soon!) and have many more new projects in the pipeline.

And our new website – under the old URL http://praxis.c8.com – is online now and will gradually fill in the blanks about the history and keep you up to date about current and future projects and events!

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Against Petrification (Praxis Newsletter 12, 1997)

By admin | Published: March 20, 2012

AGAINST PETRIFICATION.

With the collapse of the old world order in WWI not only the social and political order changed but also music: The Futurists declared the noise of the machines, the noise of the cities to be music, the urban young dancing the Charleston. Ever since then the cutting edge of sound, both conceptually as well as for the body, shunned by the cultural establishment, but expressing the desires of the new generations, has defined itself in terms of noise and repetitive beats. The emerging consumer capitalism has in the years after WWII tried to recuperate these movements, repackage them for the ‘POP’ market, but new mutations generate themselves faster, outmanoeuvering the administrators of Control. But we’re not talking about escape velocity here – with the increased availability of technology that makes it easier than ever to create, produce and distribute independent material, new networks and mechanisms have started to operate in the last decade. We called it techno. But even the phuturistic rigidity of techno was not immune against the counter-strategies of the system. We need new strategies of underground resistance, the beats have to be broken, the noises twisted, desires reinvented, the phuture manifesting itself in the present, breaking the rules of the past.

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Break the Circle (Praxis Newsletter 7, 1995)

By admin | Published: March 20, 2012

BREAK THE CIRCLE.

Things have come full circle – after just under a decade. Like it’s supposed to be, isn’t it – the second half of a decade dawns and the new style emerges slowly, to gain momentum until the end of the decade, then to be commercialised, but at the same time spawning new underground pockets in other territories. Ca. 1995 there is bound to be conservatism on a large scale and little guerrilla groups in the underground laboratories preparing for the next upheaval. The domination of House and the return of Electro are signs of a wrapping up, not a mere conservatism, but also a return to a pre-Trance authenticity that may be tainted by nostalgia. It doesn’t seem possible to return to this almost aggressive negation of content and opening up of interpretation by the minds and bodies of the dancer, a – then – new freedom. This is the 90′s and let’s be frank, there is nothing but trouble. While House is originally coming from black & gay ghettos and truly hedonistic, the wrapping up often is done by straight whiteboy producers, who don’t have the funk. It can only become interesting in these domains if there is a transgression of the borders of the genre, as styles these genres are for mummies. Read More »

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In Search of the True Electricity (and more from Praxis Newsletter 3, 1994)

By admin | Published: March 20, 2012

IN SEARCH OF THE TRUE ELECTRICITY.

HARD/SOFT
We didn’t say ‘hard music is good’ and ‘soft music is bad’; this is not the problem. The question is with what intention, motivation, attitude this music is made. Techno is about innovation as much as about intensity. If something is underground or overground isn’t necessarily determined by the amount of records sold, than how far it is driven by market forces themselves. Our polemic response to the trance- and ambient hypes (in nl1&2) wasn’t directed against repetitive electronics that may induce some sort of trance, nor against electronic music without the dance beats, but mainly against the mechanism how labels (such as ‘Trance’ etc) get created that serve one purpose above all: to reach the white middle class kids who have the money to spend on CD’s and expensive clubs. How the corporations pick things up, how the media is their sales agent (or do you think it just ‘happens’ that magazines have those ads next to the features and interviews?). What happens next is that it becomes obvious that money is being made, and so many bedroom artists are jumping on the bandwagon, desperate to suck corporate dick and the result is shiny tack, still pretentious but without substance. What about some fake string sounds straight out of the presets, for that uplifting feeling? Why this is supposed to be ‘intelligent’ is a total mystery to me, coupled with the claim that more hardcore, ‘working class’ styles are supposed to be primitive and stupid. Read More »

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Number One for Breakcore on Discogs

By datacide | Published: February 28, 2012


PRAXISRECORDS on discogs which is a dublicate of the praxis online store is the shop with by far the most breakcore releases available on the discogs.com marketplace.

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