In episode 10 of The Molehill Report – the video newsletter/magazine of our Noise & Politics YouTube channel – Christoph Fringeli looks back at the early days of Praxis Records, the label he started in 1992 in London. He traces the mutations of the label as well as the environment it launched and continues to launch its musical interventions.
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Event post: Sound System Culture presents As It Sounds Conference & Festival, Bethanien Berlin April 18-21, 2024, with workshops, discussions, talks, performances, exhibitions and DJ sets at Kunsthaus Bethanien in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
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The Molehill Report #9 – November 2022: We present excerpts of an interview with Nihil Fist, the master of relentless political speedcore, and we’re happy to announce the new release in the Praxis digital remix series, a rework of Noface’s Hallucinate by Base Force One.
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The Almanac was originally released around nine years ago as an A6-sized pocket book with the title ‘Almanac for Noise & Politics 2015’. It combines classic and key texts from Datacide and Praxis and serves both as an introduction and as a practical vademecum. Now also as a DRM-free pdf eBook!
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Sansculotte are a collective working in graphics, multimedia and animation who are closely involved with the development of breakcore in Berlin and made many contributions to Praxis and Datacide. This interview was conducted by Christoph Fringeli and linxi in Summer 2022. Excerpts were featured in The Molehill Report #8 in August 2022 and the full version was uploaded to the Noise & Politics YouTube channel 15-03-2023.
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Transcript of The Molehill Report #8 from August 2022: We present excerpts of an interview with sansculotte, a collective working in Berlin with graphic-design, programming, animation, music and av-media.
The book EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS which collects issues 1-10 of Datacide is back from the printers and available again.
Mark Angelo Harrison speaking on Spiral Tribe and Free Parties History at Datacide Conference 2013 in Berlin. A historical overview over the early festivals, the Battle of the Beanfield, Foundation of the Spiral Tribe Sound System, Castlemorton, the famous court case, and further adventures in Berlin and at Teknival. Questions asked by Christoph Fringeli
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July 2022: We do a recap of our re:focus events since the (re-)launch in December 2021 and short video impression of each artist who played since then.
Also we present the limited re-press of Pure’s Praxis 26. An episode of the Molehill Report mainly consisting of visual impressions of the previous re:focus nights.
June 2022: A short critical obituary of Peter Lamborn Wilson, aka Hakim Bey.
The anarchist author of “Temporary Autonomous Zone” and many other books died on May 22, 2022 in his house in NY state. An influential figure on the free party networks, more as a creator of buzzwords than as a theoretician. We zoom back to the shortcomings of his concepts.