(en) A culmination of the early Swayzak years , SIA is finally re-issued as it should be. A series of Three 12"s are being manufactured. Ten years on it is deemed as a classic by many for its deep and melancholic house tendencies - it is also inspired by darker detroit / berlin techno edge, with a hint of dub reggae and ambient padisms thrown in ! SIA came out of the melting pot which was 1990s london . The Swayzak roots began in 1994, but did not start its true journey until their self funded release of bueno / fukumachi E.P in 1997 - when Laurent Garnier left a message on our answering machine. In his sophisticated french tones said "beautiful and moody", we were ecstatic - when a Distributor chased us down the street wanting copies, and the top london techno store sold out in days, we knew we were onto something. Yet if it wasn't for a friend pushing us we would probably never have released it ! it was self funded and well worth it . . . The creation of these 12"s was a truly minimal experiment, each mix was hand crafted, culminating in hours of DAT recordings to sift through . . …. Some of the recordings lasted 30 minutes (nowadays deemed genius, but then to quote a journalist "who has the time to listen this ?" ) many were edited down manually. Now with the technology, time and money we have edited and remastered the material, and reissued on Vinyl. In this case BLUE

(de) Einer der ganz grossen Klassiker schlechthin ! Erster Teil von dreien die alle auf 500 Stück limitiert sind!