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.
May 2022: We continue our discussions with Controlled Weirdness, this time about late 80s and early 90s New York City, topic of his article in datacide fourteen ‘Journeys in the Naked City – Adventures in New York Before the Rain’.
Our regular night re:focus is back every first Thursday of the month at Lauschangriff, Berlin.
The new datacide web site is online now.
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The Molehill Report in April 2022: We’re back from the first major event this year, the 25th Anniversary of Hekate Sound System and brought back some nice footage. A new T-Shirt available: The Future is Cancelled. Design by Tóng Zhì. We’d like to hear from you what you would like to see on our Noise & Politics channel.
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March 2022: The Praxis YouTube channel is merging with Datacide to become Noise & Politics. The reprint of Datacide 11 is back from the printers, the repress of Praxis 26 about to arrive from the pressing plant, we talk to Peter Votava aka Pure, about some techno history in Vienna and Berlin, and his projects from Current 909 to Ilsa Gold.
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The February 2022 edition of “The Molehill Report,” hosted by Christoph Fringeli, covers Praxis Records, Datacide Magazine, and related projects. Highlights include a new digital release by Cortex, an interview with DJ Controlled Weirdness (Neil Keating) discussing 1980s London club and warehouse parties, and the announcement of Hekate Soundsystem’s 25th anniversary in Lyon. Fringeli emphasizes the mix of news, reviews, and interviews related to their music and cultural endeavors.
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THE MOLEHILL REPORT, a monthly video newsletter by Praxis Records and Datacide, explores the realms of experimental electronic music, cultural subversion, and political discourse. This first episode from January 2022 features Christoph Fringeli, delving into Praxis’ history and presenting Riccardo Balli’s book ‘Sbrang Gabba Gang’, a fusion of Futurism and Gabber culture.
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In our series of documents on revolutionary history – for the first time in English: A critique of anti-Imperialism from Berlin 1967 based on the Situationist International’s ‘Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries’ which first appeared in Internationale Situationniste #10 in March 1966. With an introduction by Christoph Fringeli.
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Check out these lists of the most read articles on the Datacide website in 2023 and the most watched videos on our Noise & Politics YouTube channel and find out what topics, articles and videos other readers and viewers found most interesting.
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The text of a spoken word performance by Joke Lanz (of Sudden Infant fame), originally performed at a Datacide event in 2018 in Berlin, explores autobiographical impressions combined with poetry and sound.
Here you’ll find the full text, with embedded video of the performance and an exclusive collage by Joke Lanz.
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