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 Flint Michigan’s ‘Post-Media Operators’, Neil Transpontine’s ‘A Loop Da Loop Era – Towards an (Anti-) History of Rave’, Christoph Fringeli’s ‘Radical Intersections’ and Alexis Wolton’s ‘Vinyl Meltdown’ – all important texts from the Praxis/Datacide cluster, augmented with a take on the ‘Unfinished History of the Italian Autonomia’ titled ‘Plague in this Town’ by Matthew Hyland, and ‘Just Say NON – Nazism, Narcissism and Boyd Rice’ by whomakesthenazis. There’s also a short story by Dan Hekate and an interview with Christoph Fringeli on Praxis + more. Art by Matthieu Bourel, linxi, sansculotte, Tóng Zhi
The second Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016 (original release date May 28, 2016) is made up of a total of five sections that go into depth on some topics previously examined in datacide. Some of the texts have been previously published, some are new and exclusive or translations.
The first section compiles material about and by Nomex, noise artist and film maker, including a discography of his label Adverse.
The second section consists of two critiques of the Left from a communist point of view, one targeting the knee-jerk anti-Imperialism still prevalent in many sections of the Left, the other is an excerpt from a critique of anarchism by Luther Blissett.
The third section is concerned with our ongoing investigations and denouncements of far Right infiltration in popular culture. We see this as an integral part of antifascist activity. Featured here is the article From Subculture to Hegemony – Transversal Strategies of the New Right in Neofolk and Martial Industrial
Part 4 consists of an appraisal of the Vision label which CF ran out of Basel, Switzerland in 1986-1992. The main text is an edited English translation of a contribution to the book Heute und danach by Lurker Grand and André P. Tschan, which appeared in 2012. As it is 30 years ago now that the first Vision appeared it makes sense to document this pre-history of Praxis, which was founded in 1992 after Vision was disbanded.
To illustrate this further and make a connection to the present we reprint Die Menschenhauttrommel (the human skin drum) by Alex Buess from the Vision zine Flash Team Report (Vision 18) from 1988.
The final part of this almanac is a catalogue of our exclusive titles, back issues of datacide and available books.
also a spring Noise & Politics catalog for Praxis/Datacide etc.