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.
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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