Spax (rapper)
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Spax (* 1973 in Rheine ; real name Rafael Szulc-Vollmann ) is a German rapper . Spax gained popularity early on as a freestyle specialist on hip-hop jams and is a representative of conscious rap .
Life
Spax grew up in Schüttorf (Grafschaft Bentheim). In 1994 he got to know the freestyle rapper MC Rene during a joint appearance on the VIVA hip-hop show Freestyle . Shortly afterwards, they performed as a team with DJ Mirko Machine . Spax accompanied the then Rene / Mirko team on their tour to Rene's solo debut Renevolution and brought a tape called Flowdiamonds 95 onto the market with him . For private reasons, Rene separated from Spax and Mirko after several years, who from then on performed together. Spax stated that they just parted ways and MC Rene was working on their own songs and a new album, while Spax and Mirko Machine, however, continued to pursue their live performances and shows and did not want to take a break.
In 1994 Spax published his first German song Das Jazzhaus on the first Jazzkantine album. At that time he was together with the breakdancer and rapper Topze as a crew under the name U-Men .
In 1996 Spax received his first record deal with the Hamburg label Motor Music . His first album, Privat (style fetisch) , was released in 1998. Later Spax led workshops for the Goethe-Institut in West Africa, Portugal and New Zealand. The second album Alles Relativ was released in 2000.
In a joint interview with DJ Mirko Machine in 1998, Spax stated that when it comes to rap, in general, he prefers freestyle and wants to create something real instead of reciting texts by heart and presenting his recorded records or songs to a larger audience.
In 2001 Spax recorded the song Blink Blink together with LL Cool J in Berlin for the Def Jam Germany label . In the same year he performed with him at the HipHop Open in Stuttgart.
In 2003 Universal Music released his third album, entitled Angels and Rats .
In the same year Spax wrote something for a theater for the first time. He staged Wedekind's Spring Awakening together with André Bastian at the Landesbühne Hannover . This is followed by a collaboration with the Hanover State Opera . For the production Zeitoper - Aus der Depression , Spax wrote the story, the raps performed in the work and the opera chants.
In 2005, Spax played the play Faker! As musical director with the authors André Bastian and Jörg Schade , students from the Friedrich-List-Gymnasium in Reutlingen and the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Tübingen . developed via rap and superstars, which premiered under the direction of André Bastian at the Reutlingen Theater Die Tonne .
In 2007 Spax played Otto in the play Spring Awakening at the Hanover Theater .
Spax has been working in Hanover on a project with the State Opera since 2007 to re-stage Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio in a modern way. He leads workshops for young people who use their rapeseed to give the classic a new look. He also gives workshops in Hamburg at the HipHop Academy, as well as counter-violence workshops together with the Hanover Young Drama at schools in Hanover. He currently lives in Hanover .
In spring 2011 MC Rene , Spax and FlowinImmO joined forces to form the freestyle combo FIRST (Flowin-Immo-Rene-Spax-Team) and tour Germany as a rapping freestyle team with the band The Silver Delorean .
In autumn 2011 Spax reunited with Dj Mirko Machine as Die Profis . They self-distributed an LP called Times Don't Always Change and went on tour. Musically, the album is strongly based on the duo's early days in the mid-1990s, while the content focuses on hip-hop and rap as well as the social and political situation in Germany. In 2015 Die Profis released their second album Unter dem Radar .
In 2016 Spax and Brisk Fingaz released the EP Private Performance through their own distribution. Your last extensive collaboration (Engel & Ratten) was 13 years ago.
The second EP with Brisk Fingaz , entitled Truth, followed in 2017 . In 2019 they released the album Diamanten & Pechstein .
2012 - Spax made a guest appearance in the 700th episode of Schloss Einstein , a German soap opera for children and young people, in which he played himself.
Spax has been a sponsor of the SOR program - School without Racism - School with Courage at BBS Handel in Hanover since 2013 . In 2020 he will sponsor the IGS Bothfeld.
Since 2014 he has been increasingly involved in the education sector and a. he implemented a literacy project for iChance at the BBS Handel in Hanover, in which he wrote the song Don't write yourself off together with Eko Fresh , Nelson Müller , Laas Unltd. u. a. on.
The German-Turkish network awarded Spax 2017 for the integration project "I have a dream".
For the book Philosophy of HipHop by Jürgen Manemann, Spax provided some text contributions in 2018. Since 2017 he has been working closely with the Research Institute for Philosophy Hanover for joint lectures and events.
In 2018, the Prison Break gaming project received the ProVisio Prize from the Stiftung-Kulturregion, to which Spax contributed the title song. He also wrote the song Heimat with Nelson Müller .
In 2019 he supports the reggae group Banda Senderos with their album production Oase by participating in the work on several song texts.
In 2020, the 1st prize for the "70 Years of the Basic Law" special prize from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture went to the IGS Badenstedt with the project Hurdle Human Dignity - GFZ Basic Law. Together with the rapper Spax, parts of the Basic Law were creatively set to music and a music video was produced.
Discography
Albums
- 1998 private (style fetish)
- 2000 Everything relative
- 2003 Angels & Rats
- 2005 Schattenkrieger (All City Allstars feat. Spax)
- 2011 Under the Radar (as Die Profis with DJ Mirko Machine)
- 2015 Times don't always change you (as Die Pros with DJ Mirko Machine)
- 2018 archive
- 2019 Diamanten & Pechstein (together with Brisk Fingaz)
EPs
- 1996 Bianca Loves Cars & Spax
- 2016 private performance (with Brisk Fingaz)
- 2017 Truth (with Brisk Fingaz)
Singles
- 1997 With body and soul
- 1998 will / pop protection
- 1998 I'm coming
- 1999 Discomehl feat. MB1000
- 1999 24/365 (full program)
- 2000 optics feat. Massive tones
- 2000 B-Boyizm
- 2000 You have the style
- 2001 Outsidaz feat. Double Pact
- 2001 Blink Blink LL Cool J & SPAX
- 2001 Remixes feat. DJ Brisk Fingaz
- 2002 Banzai! (official song for the manga magazine of the same name , included in the 4th issue)
- 2002 Spacerangers with original sound
- 2003 Diary
- 2003 How it all began / Rocky III
- 2004 Who? / Ohh!
- 2014 Heart Blood Music (7 Inch)
- 2014 Regret (7 Inch with MC Rene & Flowin Immo as FIRST)
- 2014 Patina (7 Inch as Die Profis with DJ Mirko Machine)
- 2016 Dreams (7 Inch)
reception
For his massive and open criticism of racist and sexist rap lyrics, he is openly dissed by many rappers . The Süddeutsche Zeitung described him in 2015 as a hip-hop "artist from the second row, [who] perhaps sold fewer records, but shaped the scene all the more and more sustainably in the 90s".
Others
Spax is a promoter of breakdance . Although he is not a b-boy himself, he has always made his popularity available and is a regular presenter of various Battle of the Year events and preliminary rounds.
Web links
- Official website
- Spax at Discogs (English)
- Spax at laut.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ dragz.de Katharina (Dragz Journalism). Dragz's website; Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- ↑ dragz.de Katharina (Dragz Journalism). Dragz's website; Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- ^ Youth drama in a new guise. In: Deutsche Welle . September 23, 2003, accessed January 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Faker! UA. Reutlingen Theater Die Tonne, March 16, 2006, accessed on January 20, 2019 .
- ↑ flowinimmo.info Immo Wischusen (aka FlowinImmo, rapper). FlowinImmo website; Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- ↑ Florian Triesch: Critique of the album on HVV.demag; Retrieved March 29, 2012
- ↑ schloss-einstein-erfurt.de Information on the 700th episode of Schloss Einstein on the official homepage of the series; Retrieved March 29, 2012
- ↑ Society Prize 2017: An Event of Humanity . dtn-network.de. April 8, 2017. Accessed March 10, 2020.
- ↑ Six Lower Saxony schools honored for projects on peace, democracy and tolerance - Minister of Culture Tonne awards student peace prize, civil courage prize and special prize 70 years of the Basic Law . mk.niedersachsen.de. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
- ↑ Matthias Huber: "A German Rap Story": Böhmermann's fat basses . In: sueddeutsche.de . May 29, 2015, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 16, 2016]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spax |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Szulc, Rafael (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rapper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheine |