about the swim label
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For Colin Newman and wife Malka Spigel the decision to set up their own label was taken after
they'd moved from Brussels to London in 1992. Both had past involvement in the music industry, Colin with
Mute recording artists Wire
and Malka as part of Israeli/Dutch group Minimal Compact. Colin had been working with sequencers since 1987, when he'd
discovered Steinberg's Pro24 software, and the pair had built up their own studio over the years. Using money gained
from the move to London,they invested in a new mixing desk and some soundproofing, and developed a home studio which would
allow them to produce music of masterable quality.
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"When we came to Britain we'd already thought up the name Swim, and the idea was to be a production company,"
explains Colin. "We evolved into a record company partly because Daniel Miller at Mute reckoned it would be a good idea.
I'd asked him if he'd be interested in us working as a production company, and he said we'd make much less money
that way, that we'd do much better if we took the step of becoming a record company."
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As Malka points out, for musicians used to being signed to a label, taking that step necessitates a change of attitude.
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