Noise musician, turntablist and performance artist, occasional datacide author and old friend Joke Lanz turned 60 this month and is featured in the May issue (Nr. 495) of The Wire: www.thewire.co.uk/issues/495

For those who haven't read or watched it yet, there is also our extensive interview on the datacide web site and channel from 2023: https://datacide-magazine.com/joke-lanz-sudden-infant-interview/

re:focus #27 is taking place this week on MAY 1st! https://praxis-records.net/refocus-27-01-05-2025/

SPECIAL Opening times this weekend: After the usual Friday afternoon, we will also be open for a short time window on Saturday April 26 from 2-4pm!

The complete content of Break/Flow 2 is now online at the Datacide site. Burnt Money Weekend, the closing text of Break/Flow 2, is an experiment in theoretical fiction that attempts to summarise some of the themes that preceded it: namely voluntary servitude as it coincides with sado-masochism. This latter is rendered as a metaphor for capitalist social relations, their criticism and transformation. Check it out here: https://datacide-magazine.com/burnt-money-weekend/

Updated flyer.

Due to the public holiday today, the shop in Berlin will be CLOSED, but will be OPEN instead TOMORROW SATURDAY, April 19!
OPENING TIMES: 4-7pm.
ADDRESS: Weidenweg 45, corner of Weidenweg/Eckertstrasse, 10249 Berlin-Friedrichshain
See you there and then!

This speculative text from Break/Flow 2 discusses notions of the unconscious as a dialectical dynamic to be embraced rather than as a forbidden zone to be feared. This latter, propagated in part by Freud, leads to a self-censorship that curtails the auto-theorisation that ensues from creative and political engagement. Music eventually comes to figure as that which frees-us-up.

https://datacide-magazine.com/abreaction-notes-on-the-unconscious-and-music/

re:focus #26 will take place April 3rd, 2025 with guests Alpha Zen Taurï, Need4Corn, marzanna:>Calling + CF. Alpha Zen Taurï will play a special concert as a duo 9-10pm, so come early! Do not miss :-) https://praxis-records.net/refocus-26-03-04-2025/

New artist profile added to the Praxis website: Noface - a pseudonym of Christoph Fringeli for hard a-typical acid tinged hardcore techno from 1993. One 12": Burnout EP (Praxis 6), a few tracks on compilations and a recent remix by Base Force One: https://praxis-records.net/noface-artist-profile/

Memero live at re:focus 2025 - https://youtube.com/shorts/JtpGb_OcJ04?si=FsPfJW77sIWpYOgz One minute on video from Memero's hour set at the re:focus #25 in March 2025. Check it out. Full audio also on the channel!

Uploads of Break/Flow 2 continue with an investigation into Marcel Proust and music: https://datacide-magazine.com/a-silver-knife-striking-a-wall-of-glass/ Well worth reading (like the rest of it!)

Now online: Howard Slater's incisive investigations about Factory Records, Joy Division, Martin Hannett, A Certain Ratio, Royal Family & The Poor, Tony Wilson, the Situationist influence, the 'subversion of the product - and more:
https://datacide-magazine.com/graveyard-ballroom/
Originally from Break/Flow 2, 1999.

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We continue uploading the content of the second issue of Howard Slater's Break/Flow magazine from 1999 with further explorations into the writings of Kafka. "Outside the Castle / Inside the Unconscious". On Franz Kafka's The Castle. And Psychoanalysis. https://datacide-magazine.com/outside-the-castle-inside-the-unconscious/

Hekate party in London April 5, 2025 feat. Dan Hekate, Kovert, Luke Hekate, Warlock, and many more! Check https://praxis-records.net/hekate-sound-system-presents-collision/ for flyer, more infos and party trailer!

Brand new on the site is this 1999 piece from Break/Flow 2 about Kafka, one of the major pieces of this issue which we are finally making available again on the web. https://datacide-magazine.com/i-may-perhaps-be-permitted-to-say/

Lineup for re:focus #25 – March 6, 2025

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Memero
Psychic Defence
Zombieflesheater
and hosts linxi + CF

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Our regular night exploring experimental electronic sounds and harsh breaks and beats is back after a few months with its 24th instalment, as always at Lauschangriff in Rigaer Str. 103 in Berlin-Friedrichshain every first Thursday of the month.

Now from 8pm-1am+. Come early!

https://praxis-records.net/refocus-25-06-03-2025/

The Praxis Shop is open to the public again once a week from 4-7pm every Friday. Still a bit of a WIP I probably won't have the sound set up for the next week or two, but you're welcome to come by to browse, pick up your order, bring stuff or just for a chat. https://praxis-records.net/praxis-shop-in-2025/

Another older article we reposted the other day, this time a double book review by Stewart Home from Datacide 8 (2002). Esther Leslie on Walter Benjamin (Overpowering Conformism) contrasts sharply with Kirby Olson’s take on Comedy After Postmodernism. https://datacide-magazine.com/was-marx-a-postmodernist/

We're happy to announce the posting of the entirety of the second print edition of Howard Slater's BREAK/FLOW from 1999 over the next few weeks on the Datacide site. Here's the introduction - counter/induction: LIBREVILLE https://datacide-magazine.com/libreville/