Achim Szepanski

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Achim Szepanski (* 1957 near Karlsruhe ) is a German label owner , musician and writer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Szepanski studied sociology and business education in Frankfurt am Main . In the early 1980s he was briefly a member of the Mainz noise band PD .

In 1991 he founded the techno label Force Inc. Music Works (FIM). The philosophy of the label was essentially shaped by Underground Resistance , which always understood their work as a statement against the music industry dominated by major labels and with their publications also pointed to social grievances. From the beginning, Szepanski positioned FIM as a politically motivated, socially critical and intellectual antipole in the supposedly hedonistic techno scene. So appeared with Alec Empires SuEcide Pt.2 (FIM 029, 1992) and the included piece Hetzjagd (Auf Nazis!) Or the compilation Destroy Deutschland! (FIM 034, 1993) Statements against the racially motivated riots that rose again in the early 1990s, such as in Mölln, Rostock or Hoyerswerda.

In interviews, Szepanski often referred to post-structuralist theories and in particular to the work Mille Plateaux by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari . The label Mille Plateaux , also founded by Szepanski in 1994 , related its name and concept directly to their idea of rhizomatics . This served as a metaphor for a postmodern or poststructuralist model of knowledge organization and description of the world.

After Deleuze's suicide in 1995, Szepanski gave the compilation album In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze with contributions from u. a. Zoviet France , Alec Empire , Cristian Vogel , Christophe Charles , Atom Heart , Gas , Chris & Cosey , Jörg Burger , Steel , Jim O'Rourke , Oval , Mouse on Mars , Ian Pooley , Bleed , Scanner , DJ Spooky , Kerosene and El Turco Loco out.

Szepanski was responsible for the conception of compilation series such as Rauschen , Modulation & Transformation , Clicks + Cuts or Digital Disco . Especially with the Clicks + Cuts series published on Mille Plateaux from 2000 , Szepanski is one of the namesake for the Clicks & Cuts genre of the same name . Szepanski himself regards Clicks & Cuts as a concept and a non-genre. FIM and Mille Plateaux gave birth to numerous other sub-labels such as Communism Records (1992), Riot Beats (1993), Position Chrome (1996), Force Tracks (1998) and Ritornell (1998).

After sales EFA filed for bankruptcy in 2004, Force Inc. had to cease operations due to the loss of income.

From the 1990s he published his first essays on the theory of the machine, psychology and society, Adorno , Foucault , Deleuze and Guattari and on the theory of electronic music . In 2003 he edited the book Soundcultures together with Marcus S. Kleiner , in which central aspects of electronic and digital music were discussed. In 2011, Szepanski's first novel was published in Saal 6 . Since then, Szepanski has been working increasingly in the field of theory and published the two-volume work Kapitalisierung in 2014 and Der Non Marxismus in 2016 by Laika-Verlag. In 2018, an introductory presentation of the economy in the 21st century appeared, in which he examined financial capital in particular. After the G20 summit in Hamburg, Szepanski published a collection of essays on the subject of riot , in which Joshua Clover's foreword was translated into German for the first time. His next work was three related essays on imperialism, state fascization and capital. He is also responsible for the online magazine NON . In autumn 2018 he gave a detailed interview to Autonomie-Magazin .

Works (selection)

  • as ed. with Marcus S. Kleiner: Soundcultures. Edition Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12303-3 .
  • Room 6 - Roman. Rhizomatique, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813227-2-9 .
  • Pole position - novel. Rhizomatique, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813227-0-5 .
  • In love with success - novel. Rhizomatique, Wiesbaden 2012.
  • Money and time. On the structure of finance capitalism - essay. , 2012.
  • Capitalization Vol. I - Marx's Non-Economy . Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-944233-12-3 .
  • Capitalization Vol. II - Non-Economy of Contemporary Capitalism . Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-944233-23-9 .
  • Non-Marxism. Finance, machines, dividuum . Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-944233-69-7 .
  • Ultrablack of Music. Hostile takeover . Spector-Verlag, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-95905-138-5 .
  • Capital and Power in the 21st Century . Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-944233-901 .
  • RIOT - What was going on in Hamburg ?: Theory and practice of collective action . Edited with Karl-Heinz Dellwo and J. Paul Weiler, Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3944233918 .
  • Imperialism, the fascization of the state and the war machines of capital - three essays . Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-944233-92-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Vita Achim Szepanski at edition-mille-plateaux.de, accessed on March 16, 2012
  2. ↑ Simon Reynolds : Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture. Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1999, ISBN 978-0-415-92373-6 , p. 363
  3. ↑ a b But it's really just music . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 25, 2001
  4. ↑ Alec Empire - SuEcide (Pt.2) at discogs.com, accessed on March 26, 2012
  5. ↑ Various - Destroy Germany! at discogs.com, accessed March 26, 2012
  6. ↑ Explore: Glitch at allmusic.com, accessed March 16, 2012
  7. ^ Sebastian Meissner: Achim Szepanski's Mille Plateaux. In: Manuscript of the broadcast - page 9. WDR3, 2014, accessed on October 18, 2017 (German).
  8. ↑ Back to the future . ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: spex , accessed on March 16, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  9. ↑ Marcus S. Kleiner, Achim Szepanski (ed.): Soundcultures. About electronic and digital music. perlentaucher.de, accessed on March 16, 2012
  10. ↑ Non-blog: [1]
  11. ↑ Interview: [2]
personal data
SURNAME Szepanski, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German label owner, musician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH near Karlsruhe