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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 (the Wire man), 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.

Swim's homepage http://www.swimhq.com

Contact swim - PO POX 3459, LONDON SW19 6ES, UK

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(Biography Last updated 17 November 2000)



Latest 20 releases by swim~ – Browse all 56 releases by swim~

Art Popby Githead

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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]


Art Git t-shirtby Githead

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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]


Git-shirtby Githead

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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]


Profileby Githead

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]


HeadGitby Githead

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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]


Once Somebody's Baby Boyby Toucaen

He was Once Somebody's Baby Boy

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]


desde que nacíby aurelie

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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]


Trace Elementsby Akatombo

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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]


War Day/ The Newby Rhodes

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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]


swim team #2by various artists [swim~ ]

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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]


Apathyby Symptoms

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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]


Alloyby Silo

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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]


K2 / Prime Movers (Boss Remix)by Silo

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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]


Symptomsby Symptoms

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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]


Swim Team # 1by various artists [swim~ ]

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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]


LIVEby Spigel * Newman * Colin * Malka

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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]


Versus / Bundby Symptoms

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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.


Low Impactby Immersion

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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]


Floating in Shallow Waterby Legion of Green Men

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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]


Hibernationby Lobe

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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]


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SWIM~ vinyl sale - titles from £1!!

2 April 2008

We've reduced the price on a large amount of Swim~ vinyl. We are literally giving it away with prices starting as low as £1.00!!

Here's whats on offer...

7 inches...

Rhodes - War Day / New
Silo - K2 / Prime Movers (Boss mix)
Symptoms - Versus / Bund
Silo - Templates / Stage Of Development

12" / 10" inches...

Immersion - Remixes Of Oracle
Resolution - The Ghostwriter
Various - Remixes ... [read full article]


AKATOMBO film on show in ATHENS, Greece..

30 November 2007

A video from AKATOMBO`s recently completed "Unconfirmed Reports" audio/visual project , namely "SSRI", has been chosen to be screened in Athens, Greece @ Video Art - Start From Zero Festival as part of the nationwide travelling Festival Miden International Film Festival. The Athens screening of "SSRI" will be at the Alekton Artspace on Dec. 9th @ 8pm. Admission is FREE. For more Film Festival details please go to; www.festivalmiden.gr


Aurelie Live @ the Artober Festival Launch 13/10/07

10 October 2007

AURELIE BEGINS THE EVENING AT 7PM

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Aurelie website//Artober website//swim ~


Akatombo film on show in BRISTOL

10 October 2007

AKATOMBO`s "the Sand Collector", taken from the recently completed audio/visual project entitled, "Unconfirmed Reports", has been shortlisted for screening as part of the experimental short film competition Radical Reels: Five Minutes of Mayhem! , the first event of The Compass of Resistance International Film Festival, Bristol, 2007. It will be shown to an audience including 3 judges with expertise in the field of experimental film and is eligible to win one of the Radical Reels ... [read full article]


AURELIE - live in Leicester - 18.09.07

9 September 2007

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Links: Aurelie on posteverything || swim on posteverything


AKATOMBO film on show in SWITZERLAND, 8th & 9th of September

29 August 2007

A screening of AKATOMBO`s, "SSRI", will take place in LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, on the 8th & 9th of September. The same programme of 19 short experimental/music/surreal films will be shown several times on each day of the Oblo Underground Short Film Festival @ the aptly named Oblo Cinema. (The 19 films made it through to the finals from over 3,000 entrants.................).

Please check here for more details, etc; http://www.oblo.ch

Please look out for even more film ... [read full article]


Aurelie - Live 19/08/07

13 August 2007

The latest incarnation of Aurelie will be making a rare live appearance in Leicester on the 19th August at the Knighton Lane Artists group (click poster for more details)

The expanded Aurelie retain one member from the band that made ‘desde que nací’ for swim ~ back in 2003. The other member is now part of Actionforce who also have a gig next week at the Good Ship in Kilburn on 15th August.


Malka Image in BBC's Britain in Pictures

11 August 2007

One of Malka Spigel's images (of Centrepoint) has been included in the BBC's Britian In Pictures series curated by top TV photographer Tom Ang.

The imagage is drawn from the pool uploaded at her enormously popular flickr page which she maintains under her visual artist name Maya Newman.


XXL Art Git Shirt

10 August 2007

Those of you lucky enough to be subscribers to the Githead newsletter will already know of the mis-filed XXL Art Git shirt that we found at Posteverything HQ. If you are here searching for it, unfortunately it's already gone! Sorry about that but an order was received within 5 minutes of the newsletter going out! These t-shirts are now officially out of stock in XXL size (although other sizes remain available).

If you are feeling peeved ... [read full article]


COLIN NEWMAN & MALKA SPIGEL radio show -JULY 24th

23 July 2007

swim~ and Githead 's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel continue with their, now syndicated*, monthly radio broadcasts on Tel Aviv student radio network Campus Radio (106 FM & via the internet) in a show on Tuesday 24 July at 8.00 pm local time [ 6.00 pm GMT (London time) as far as we can work out]. Press the PLAY ... [read full article]


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