Release date 7 May 2007
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PRESS RELEASE

Formed initially as a one off for the label’s 10th birthday bash in April 2004, Githead quickly established a life and voice of its own. Its “all star” line up –comprised of Wire ’s Colin Newman , Robin Rimbaud ( Scanner ) + Malka ... [more]

Release date 30 April 2007

Your chance to be an (art) git!

The syllabic combinations to be derived from GITHEAD’s latest opus ART POP are many and various (ART HEAD, POP HEAD, POP GIT, GIT POP etc.) and perhaps each could have made a distinctive t-shirt logo and maybe they will, another day but ... [more]

Release date 5 October 2005

Your chance to be a git!

PostEverything is making available again, in limited quantities, the official Githead t-shirt. Not only is this fashionably black shirt tastefully emblazoned with the band's trademark “GIT -” logo, in CMYK yellow and RGB red, BUT it's also the band’s official stage wear, as elegantly modelled ... [more]

Release date 27 June 2005
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The appearance of Githead and the release of their debut EP Headgit in 2004 surprised many, not only with the unlikely "front line" of Wire’s Colin Newman (Gtr. Vox), Minimal Compact’s Malka Spigel (Bass, Vox) & Scanner’s Robin Rimbaud (Gtr.) but also with the cyclic, ... [more]

Release date 1 November 2004
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Githead are
Malka Spigel , Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) & Colin Newman . Find out more about the band at www.githead.com

Githead are very new, yet in their short existence have managed to craft a style which is both original yet accessible. Combining ... [more]

Release date 4 October 2004
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Nearly 3 years after his Swim debut "Lecci On The Grande Jatte" on the Swim Team #2 label sampler Manchester’s Dave Scattergood has finally delivered his widescreen debut album "He Was Once Somebody’s Baby Boy". At once a narrative and a soundtrack the album’s trajectory arcs through an ... [more]

Release date 21 July 2003
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In autumn of 2001 two males, living almost precisely at the centre of England, decided upon the name aurelie to denote their collaboration. The word itself is a common girl's name on the continent and was chosen purely for its phonetic beauty rather than any inherent meaning. Their ... [more]

Release date 12 May 2003
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It's been a while since we put any new CD releases out @ swim, Colin has been pretty busy with Wire and so we've been saving up some little gems to trickle out through 2003/4. The first one is this.

AKATOMBO "Trace Elements" (CD) Wm 24

In common with ... [more]

Release date 21 October 2002
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While the newest release from swim may not sound like 'yer average swim release (ie no electrickery and no one from WIRE plays on it or produces it!) Rhodes are nevertheless steeped in classic swim attitude/style.

Discovered as a demo on Ian Camfield 's, XFM Rock Show the ... [more]

Release date 5 November 2001
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NOVEMBER 5TH and the second in swim's numbered "team" series will be delivered to the waiting world's door. With 19 tracks (of which only 3 have been previously released) and featuring 5 new artists this album can justifiably claim to offer the best of the future of swim as well ... [more]

Release date 17 September 2001
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The 2nd Album release by Denmark's Klaus Ammitzbøll (brother of Silo's Fred) AKA Symptoms takes the listener on a deeper more introverted journey than his highly acclaimed debut "symptoms" yet retains that attractive mix of 'one guitar, one PC' lo-fi and a breathtaking harmonic skill.

Klaus is exploring here music ... [more]

Release date 12 April 2001
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Alloy - the OED tells us it's a new kind of metal. Hence the title of Danish trio Silo's rather wonderful second album, the follow-up to Instar (1998). So don't start thinking this is a nu-metal LP - Silo are about low-slung, cyclical grooves - real headnod shit - a ... [more]

Release date 19 March 2001
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As an appetiser for Silo's awesome '01 release Alloy, swim proudly present the third in it's occasional 7" series, this one "classic" styled after those swim twelves of yore. The a side is the albums deeply moody 3rd cut while the flip provides label boss Colin Newman with an opportunity ... [more]

Release date 10 June 2000
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ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE FROM JUNE 2000

I'm 23 years old, male, and Symptoms is my debut album. It is a solo project, all songs are written and performed by me alone. It is bedroom music, that is, I've composed and recorded everything on my desktop PC. My studio setup ... [more]

Release date 20 January 2000
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Swim, the label established by Colin Newman (of the currently reformed Wire) and Malka Spigel back in 1993, releases this low-price sampler CD of recent and forthcoming delights in May 2000.

A chance to dip into Swim's warm and fertile waters, Swim Team #1 melts the boundaries of atmospheric, ... [more]

Release date 10 November 1999
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Colin & Malka's European gigs in Autumn '98 were the first time the pair had toured together since 1988's 'It Seems' tour. Although no recordings were made of the actual gigs it was felt that this 'live set' versions represented such a stylistic departure from the recorded versions of the ... [more]

Release date 10 October 1999
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The second offering on '99's deeply cool medium of the seven inch from swim is the first vinyl symptoms , (the name describes both the project and the musical content) the work of yet another Copenhagen based artist Klaus Ammitzboel.

Release date 9 September 1999
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BACKGROUND
Immersion's 1994 debut Oscillating while mostly ignored in the UK was a great success in the rest of Europe (aided no doubt by the belief that the mystery shrouded duo hailed from Germany). The only UK review, in the Wire, described it as "acid trax ... [more]

Release date 10 June 1999
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Swim & Post Contemporary Proudly present a transglobal collaboration on the new Legion of Green Men album. Floating In Shallow Water is the long awaited second full length from 'Canada's finest' the enigmatic duo of Lex & Ru (also known as INCARNATE).

THE ALBUM
Floating In Shallow Water exhibits the ... [more]

Release date 17 May 1999
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Anybody who still thinks electronic music is "cold" or "souless" should listen to lobe. For this is music with a rare warmth and humanity. Lush textures combine with constantly evolving rythms and heart breaking melodies. Unique. GRAHAM DUFF, satirist and broadcaster, Brighton.

I can heartily reccommend lobe as - subliminal; ... [more]