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2024 Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016

datacide June 16, 2024July 7, 2024 0 Comments Adverse, Almanac, Critique of the Left, Nomex, Praxis Records, Vision

Almanac for Noise & Politics – Volume Two out now as eBook

The second Almanac – print edition from 2016 – appears as a eBook today. Topics covered in this issue are Nomex – including an appraisal of his life by Jo Burzynska, an interview with John Eden and an extensive discography of his works and his label Adverse. You find two articles for a critique of the left – from the left. A look at far right transversal strategies in Neofolk and Martial Industrial, and a look back on the Vision label 1986-1992.

2024 Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016 Record Reviews

Christoph Fringeli June 14, 2024July 8, 2024 1 Comment Adverse, Almanac, Discography, Noise, Nomex

Nomex & Adverse Discography

Updated version of the Nomex and Adverse Records discography originally from the Almanac for Noise & Politics Volume Two (2016). It includes Nomex’s releases on his own Adverse label, partially based on the now-defunct Adverse website, the Maschinenbau 7″s, the releases on Praxis and other essential noise and concept-core.

2015 2024 Almanac for Noise & Politics 2015

datacide April 9, 2024July 3, 2024 0 Comments Alexis Wolton, Almanac, Christoph Fringeli, Flint Michigan, Linxi, Matthew Hyland, Matthieu Bourel, Neil Transpontine, Strelnikov

Almanac for Noise & Politics – Volume One out now as eBook

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!

2022 Everything Else is Even More RIdiculous - Datacide 1-10

datacide August 11, 2022July 6, 2024 0 Comments datacide_books, Everything Else is Even More Ridiculous, Molehill Publishing

EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS Book Back in Stock!

EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS is a 364-page A4-size tome collecting the complete editions of datacide issues 1-10. It contains introductions by Flint Michigan, Christoph Fringeli, Nemeton, and Dan Hekate. Available again from Molehill Publishing. ISBN 978-3-948332-01-3

2016 Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016

Jo Burzynska May 18, 2021July 6, 2024 2 Comments Adverse, Dead By Dawn, Noise, Nomex, Praxis, Trocante Gramofony E.P.

Nomex: A Life in Full Frequency

When selecting an alias for his artistic persona, Paul Kidd chose the name of the flame resistant material, Nomex. A protective shield suggesting indestructability, it appeared an apt moniker for someone who liked to “keep it cryptic” and push the limits of both his art and in his own life with an intense fervour. For those of us who knew the man behind the name, that this great force has been extinguished is hard to comprehend. However, his music endures.

1988 2016 Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016 Articles

Alex Buess April 24, 2017January 22, 2025 0 Comments Alex Buess, Human Skin Drum, Menschenhauttrommel, Praxis, Vision

Die Menschenhauttrommel (The Human Skin Drum, 1988)

Die Menschenhauttrommel (The Human Skin Drum) was first published in Flash Team Report (Vision 18) and reprinted in the Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016 as a companion piece to the article about the Vision label and to show a connection to the present, namely the release of ‘Skin Craft’ – RIND & NOL, and other works by Alex Buess.

Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016 Articles

Christoph Fringeli January 28, 2017January 8, 2025 2 Comments Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, George Galloway, Lenin, Stalinism, WRP

Anti-Imperialism – Bankruptcy of the Left? (2016 Version)

A critique of the ideology of anti-Imperialism that has led to alliances of far left groups with reactionary nationalist dictatorships and religious movements and has been tainted with anti-Semitism over the decades, often masquerading as ‘anti-Zionism’.