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| Launched in 1993 with Malka Spigel's first solo album Rosh Ballata, swim run by Malka and her partner Colin Newman (that Wire bloke) , has ploughed a furrow as the premier "Post Everything" label. Combining the best in genuinely innovative electronica, genre-crunching outrock and sheer sonic invention with strong melodic content the label cultivates the deeply cool while retaining a surprising accessibility. | |||||
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| Check '97's Water Communication, 2000's Swim Team #1 or 2002's swim team #2 for intros to the label. |
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| githead |
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Swim's
latest storm - Githead are - Malka Spigel, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner)
& Colin Newman. "unusually accessible, even funky" -
"astonishingly good, both angular & polished”. Debut album in 2005. Minialbum Headgit |
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| toucaen |
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| 2004 debut
album from this Manchester son. "post-Aphex beat beauty" "an
electronic romp through a territory influenced as much by John Adams's
patternings as by Bjorkish Matmos textures". Album Once Somebody's Baby Boy |
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| aurelie |
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2003
debut from this duo from the "centre of England" "Quiet intropection has rarely been so panoramic or expansive", "fuzzy, melancholy, spacious, warm", "music beyond genre boundaries, from a time that wasn't a time" Album Desde Que Nací |
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| akatombo |
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| Akatombo (Paul
Thomsen Kirk - A Scot living & working in Japan) is the Japanese
name for a very beautiful species of dragonfly. "Finding the heart of
the urban drone & making it sing" Album Trace Elements |
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| silo | |||||
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"always swim's coolest name to
drop". A "rock band
in a computer" real instrumentation honed to the sharpest of points
with
bit accurate digital manipulation, kicks ass. New album in the
works.
Albums Instar, Alloy 7"Templates/ Stage of Development, K2/ Prime Movers (boss remix) |
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| symptoms | |||||
| Latest
Danish find. Mashes up guitars, beats,
homemade samples and digital mosh into a lo-fi meisterwork.
Albums Symptoms, Apathy 7"Versus/ Bund |
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| Malka Spigel | |||||
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Ex Minimal Compact bassplayer,
half of Immersion
&
Swim
"The chanteuse for the Post Everything generation" Albums Rosh Ballata, My Pet Fish, LIVE minialbum Hide |
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| Immersion | |||||
| The Swim
home team under the "Low Impact"
aesthetic.
12's remixes I,II, & III, 2nd Immersion |
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| Colin Newman | |||||
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Ex -Wire man, half of Immersion
& Swim
albums Bastard 12" Voice, LIVE |
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| Ronnie & Clyde | |||||
| "Post-junglist
modernists"
"The Breakbeat escape pod". Loved by everyone from Melody Maker to URB. Album In Glorious Black & Blue 12's Last Hand, Macroscopic |
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| Lobe | |||||
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Soundtracks the decompression
chamber. Peerless
in sheer beauty.
Albums Lobe Hibernation 12" Placebo |
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| g-man | |||||
| Minimal
Funketeer and ex-LFO man Gez Varley,
always rocks the floor
Albums kushti & kushti vinyl 12's "g-man, g-man II, g-man IV (on g) |
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| dol-lop | |||||
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Japanese breakbeat wizz and one
half of Metrojuice,
Yoshio Maeda.
Album Cryptic Audio |
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| cusp | |||||
| Vapourspace
Mark Gage's alter ego.
Album Space & Time, Liquids & Metals |
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| Pablo's Eye | |||||
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Belgian Multimedia team.
Album All She Wants grows Blue 12" & CD mini Prepare For The Others To Folllow |
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| Oracle | |||||
| Minimal
Compact offshoot
Album Tree 12" remixes |
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| Legion of Green Men | |||||
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"Canada's finest" the duo of
Lex & Ru
(also known as INCARNATE).
Album Floating In Shallow Water |
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| Spigel.Newman.Colin.Malka. | |||||
| The Swim
home team's live incarnation
Album LIVE |
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