Swim ~
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Swim ~ is a record label started in 1993 by Colin Newman of Wire and his life & working partner Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact.
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[edit] Overview
The first releases on the label were of their own projects conceived in swim studio - these included Oracle with ex Minimal Compact singer Samy Birnbach and immersion as well as their own solo albums. Early releases set a standard of a mix of styles which the label has always encompassed. Releases through the nineties included g-man (minimal techno from LFO's Gez Varley), electro, synth pop-ambience from Lobe (latterly much favoured by the Pet Shop Boys having remixed their 2006 single "Fundamental" and been featured on their Back to Mine compilation) and muscular post-post rock from Silo. Their most notable releases in this decade have been by Githead a project which features the Newmans and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) alongside Minimal Compact drummer Max Franken.
The label is closely associated with PostEverything Mail Order
[edit] swim ~ artists
- ABC--- Akatombo // Aurelie // Beatkitten // Bumpy // Colin Newman // Cusp
- DEF--- Dictaphone // dol-lop // Frederik Ammitzbøll
- GHI--- G-man // Githead // Host // Immersion // Incarnate
- JKL--- Legion Of Green Men // Lobe
- MNO--- Malka Spigel // Oracle
- PQR--- Pablo's Eye // Plastic Venus // Resolution // Rhodes // Ronnie & Clyde
- STU--- S Gears // Silo // Spigel * Newman * Colin * Malka // Symptoms // Toucaen // Trawl
