Steve Beckett
Steve Beckett (born February 1963 ) is a British label owner . He became known as the co-founder of Warp Records , Warp Music Publishing, Warp Films, Bleep.com and Gift Records.
Life
Steve Beckett, Rob Mitchell and Stephen Havenhand founded the indie band Lay of the Land in Sheffield in 1987 , in which Beckett was the drummer . The band was renamed Aitch a short time later and broke up soon after. With the support of Chakk manager Dave Taylor, they founded the record store in 1987 in the house of FON Studios (the acronym FON originally came from graffiti in Sheffield in the 1940s and stood for “Fear of Nazis” and later “Fuck Off Nazis”) FON Records . Mitchell was largely responsible for the business, while Beckett concentrated mainly on the selection of the plates.
With the support of the musician Rob Gordon, the track With No Name of the Forgemasters project was created in 1989 , of which they pressed 500 copies and sold them with a borrowed car in the vicinity. The second publication, the EP Dextrous from the Nightmares on Wax project , sold over 30,000 times without marketing or promotional measures . The fifth release, LFO by LFO , has sold over 130,000 copies. Warp Records then developed into a style-defining label for British techno and electronica music with releases by musicians such as Aphex Twin , Autechre , Tricky Disco , Black Dog Productions and B12 .
From 1992 Beckett also ran the Gift Records label , which was best known for early releases by the band Pulp .
In 2001 Beckett and Mitchell founded the film production company Warp Films , for whose film productions Beckett served repeatedly as executive producer .
Since Rob Mitchell's death from cancer in 2001, Beckett has operated Warp Records and its subsidiaries alone. Among other things, he dealt with Ken Wilber's work in the field of integral theory . Since then he has gradually withdrawn from label work and advises companies and non-profit organizations on integral theory.
In July 2017 he received the Association of Independent Music's Pioneer Award .
He lives in London with his wife Anna .
Filmography
- Executive Producer
- 1999: Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (music video)
- 2002: My Wrongs # 8245–8249 & 117 (short film)
- 2004: Blood feud - Dead Man's Shoes (Dead Man's Shoes)
- 2005: Rubber Johnny (short film)
- 2009: Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee
- 2009: Warp20 New York (short film)
Web links
- Official website warp.net
- Steve Beckett at Allmusic (English)
- Steve Beckett at Discogs (English)
- Steve Beckett in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Steve Beckett of Warp Records Lecture (Toronto 2007) at the Red Bull Music Academy (video, 91 minutes, English)
- Music Weekly: Warp Records special in theguardian.com (Podcast, 38 minutes, English)
literature
- Rob Young: Warp . Black Dog Publishing Ltd., London 2005, ISBN 1-904772-32-3 (Series: Labels Unlimited )
Individual evidence
- ^ Rob Young: Warp . Black Dog Publishing Ltd., London 2005, p. 31.
- ^ A b Sarah Birke: Label Profile: Warp Records . In: independent.co.uk of November 2, 2007.
- ↑ a b Dave Simpson: Bleep of faith: 20 years of Warp records . In: theguardian.com of April 17, 2009.
- ↑ a b c d Steve Beckett . In: integralcoaching.org.uk, accessed on April 21, 2019.
- ^ Bill Cummings: Steve Beckett, Warp Records founder to receive the AIM 2017 Pioneer Award . In: godisinthetvzine.co.uk of July 6, 2017.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Beckett, Steve |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British label operator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1963 |