1999 (and still available)

Praxis 25 by Potere Occulto, a collaboration of Somatic Responses and Christoph Fringeli released as a double 10" with cover artwork by fringeli/kozak to keep conspiracy experts guessing. One record on black, one on white vinyl - one track each side, multidimensional broken beat, breaks and hardcore.

On Praxis 26 DJ Pure sends you on a harsh and frightening trip on two long tracks. A welcome return and revenge.

Praxis 30/Widerstand LP1 Eiterherd: 1984 vs. 1999. Massive double pack of Þerce breakcore and hardcore mash-up by the man from Widerstand Records (check http://www.widerstand.org) The cover artwork features a large list of web sites to check, from music to politics, from cryptography to security. The soundtrack for the struggle against surveillance and corporate control.

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 mystiÞcations. 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 conþicting 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 Þnally 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.

Trickbeat "Musik ist Ueberfiruessig - The Freemixes". Compilation of remixes of the notorious German sick-noise-comedians, incl. The Jackal and Base Force One remixing the track "Flagburning", plus Melt Banana, Merzbow, Bretzel Goering, Christoph de Babalon, Patric Catani and many others.