Swim ~ artists

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Swim Artists - Artists on the label swim ~ run by Colin Newman & Malka Spigel so far not covered by their own pages.

Contents 1 Akatombo 2 Aurelie 3 Cusp 4 dol-lop 5 Ronnie & Clyde 6 Spigel * Newman * Colin * Malka 7 Symptoms

[edit] Akatombo

Akatombo is Paul Kirk an expatriate Scot living in Hiroshima. Paul used to run the Human Condition label and put out the first single by Idlewild. His debut album features Long Fin Killie bass player Colin Greig.
ALBUM TRACE ELEMENTS (May 2003)

[edit] Aurelie

Aurelie are from "The Centre of England" a track from their debut album was featured in series 2 of BBC 3's IDEAL comedy written by Graham Duff and starring Johnny Vegas.
ALBUM DESDE QUE NACí (July 2003)
Aurelie Myspace

[edit] Cusp

Cusp is one of the alter egos of techno musician/ producer Mark Gage (better known for his Vapourspace project. The Cusp album was originally released on Probe a sub label of Richie Hawtin's Plus 8 label.
ALBUM SPACE & TIME / LIQUIDS & METALS (Oct 1995)
Vapourspace MySpace

[edit] dol-lop

dol-lop is Yoshio Maeda an instrumental hip hop producer from Tokyo who now runs Sound Channel. He made his European DJ debut in Dublin at the age of 19 in support of Immersion's installation.
ALBUM CRYPTIC AUDIO (Sept 1997)

[edit] Ronnie & Clyde

Ronnie & Clyde were breakbeat artists John Ross and Rob Fitzpatrick from London. Rumour has it that their debut 12" allegedly contained a stoned rap from Sly Stone, a later track had a riff that sounded uncannily like a heavy rock band named after a dirigible. Rob is now a music journalist and is married to food writer/ presenter Silvana Franco.
12" Last Hand (Oct 1996)
12" Macroscopic (Sept 1997)
ALBUM IN GLORIOUS BLACK AND BLUE (Sept 1997)

[edit] Spigel * Newman * Colin * Malka

Spigel * Newman * Colin * Malka is a working alias for Malka Spigel & Colin Newman operating outside the framework of their Immersion project. Their only album was recorded Live in the studio after a European tour with Ronnie & Clyde and only released on limited edition CDR. The uncredited "encore" is a cover versio of Wire's Outdoor Miner.
ALBUM LIVE (Nov 1999)

[edit] Symptoms

Symptoms is Copenhagen based Klaus Ammitzbøll brother of Silo's Fred. He has toured with the Danish band Mew as well as Silo and Lobe. Album sleeves have been co-designed with Jonas Bjerre from Mew and his newest (as yet unreleased) work features Mew's Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen. Klaus also releases on his own Symptoms label.
7" Versus/Bund (Oct 1999)
ALBUM SYMPTOMS (Jun 2000)
ALBUM APATHY (Sept 2001)