Force Inc. Music Works

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Force Inc. Music Works
Logo of the label
Logo of the label
Active years 1991 until today
founder Achim Szepanski
Seat Frankfurt am Main
Website https://force-inc.org/
Label code LC 06001
Sub-label Communism Records, Contrastate Records, Disco Inc., Force Inc. Limited, Force Inc. UK, Force Inc. US, Force Lab, Force Tracks, Intense Recordings, Molecular Funk Guerilla, Position Chrome, Riot Beats
distribution EFA
Genre (s) Techno , minimal techno , electronica

Force Inc. Music Works (often just called Force Inc. or FIM ) was a German record label in the field of electronic music . Force Inc. has produced numerous style-defining publications by artists such as Alec Empire , DJ Tonka and Ian Pooley (T'N'I, Space Cube), Hanin Elias , Biochip C. , Wolfgang Voigt (Love Inc., Mike Ink, Strass), Ultrahigh , Dr. Walker , Cristian Vogel , Subsonic 808 , Porter Ricks , DJ Rush , Welt In Sch towards , Rob Acid , Mathias Schaffhäuser , Akufen and Vladislav Delay . By the time the label was discontinued in 2004, over 200 albums, singles and EPs had been released.

history

Force Inc. Music Works was founded in September 1991 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt am Main. The label philosophy 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 out social grievances. From the beginning, Szepanski positioned the label 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 Achim Szepanski in 1994 , related its name and the concept directly to their idea of rhizomatics . Szepanski's approach and thus also the demarcation of Force Inc. from the rest of the techno scene were also repeatedly criticized as "elitist" and "too academic".

The label's release policy was strongly geared towards musical innovations. Some of the first German publications in areas such as jungle , hardcore techno , breakcore , IDM or Clicks & Cuts appeared on Force Inc. or its sublabels.

In 1993 the first part of the compilation series Rauschen appeared , of which a total of 15 episodes had appeared up to the year 2000.

The hundredth release FIM 100 was released as a triple vinyl compilation with tracks by selected Force Inc. artists in 1996.

Between 2000 and 2003 the company expanded in North America and Southern Europe and entered into a cooperation with the Spanish company RSM. After sales EFA filed for bankruptcy in 2004, Force Inc. had to cease operations due to the lost income. At the end of the same year, Szepanski founded Disco Inc., a new Force Inc. sub-label in Berlin, on which only a few publications have appeared and which no longer achieved the significance of Force Inc.

After the founder Achim Szepanski got the rights back to the name, there are again publications and an updated website.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Reynolds : Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture . Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1999, ISBN 978-0-415-92373-6 , p. 363
  2. ↑ a b c But it's actually just music. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 25, 2001
  3. ↑ Alec Empire - SuEcide (Pt.2) . discogs.com, accessed July 4, 2010
  4. ↑ Various - Destroy Germany! discogs.com, accessed July 4, 2010
  5. ↑ Mille Plateaux label portrait ( Memento of May 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on April 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ Back to everyday life. Sound politicization around blue-black . future-nonstop.org, accessed July 4, 2010
  7. ^ Force Inc. In: Frontpage , 09/1994, accessed July 4, 2010
  8. ↑ Force Inc. Music Works on course for expansion . mediabiz.de, accessed on July 4, 2010
  9. ↑ Back to the future . ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: spex.de , accessed on April 11, 2019.
  10. ^ Disco Inc. discogs.com, accessed July 4, 2010
  11. ↑ Siegfried: Mille Plateaux Night in Frankfurt. In: Siegfried Kärcher. February 10, 2020, accessed on February 11, 2020 (German).