CHRISTOPH FRINGELI

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Christoph+Fringeli

http://praxis.c8.com/

Christoph Fringeli (Swiss): Turntables and Beyond

Having worked as an artist in music and print media since 1986, Fringeli moved to London in 1991 and started the Praxis label the following year. Fringeli’s agenda of pushing industrial and experimental music to extremes born at this time was intensification of what the burgeoning hardcore techno and rave scene was offering. The dynamic sonic landscape of London in the early 90s helped Fringeli to formulate his own theoretical critique of the culture industry. His theoretical voice became the magazine Datacide and the practical undermining of dance-floor conventions expressed through Datacide was expanded when Fringeli founded the Sub/Version label in 1997. Taken into the present, the sonic assault of brutal beats and bass continues to blaspheme against the conventions of the dance-floor and tear down its rather flimsy boundaries. Since 2009 Fringeli has been is serving up his unique innovative blend of turntable specials at Bar Cagliostro in Berlin-Friedrichshain.