David Brown和James Taylor两人因工作的原因在Island Records相遇，一见如故的俩人随后成立了Swayzak.之后的日子里他们共同制作并发行了几十张12英寸的黑胶以及10张数字专辑。

自80年代以来，David Brown和James Taylor一直做着与音乐相关的工作，Brown最开始在唱片公司接电话，停车等诸如此类的杂事，之后又做了一段时间的管理工作。James注意到Brown喜欢音乐，便建议他和自己一起在A&R（artist and repertoire）部门工作。进入A&R部门工作后的Brown和James经常在周四下午下班后一起坐着把寄到唱片公司的所有小样都听了个遍，他们中的一些歌曲很棒，有些却非常乏味。

在很长一段时间里，这对搭档并没有制作音乐，也没有想要发行唱片。“我们没有钱”，James回忆说。当他们开始制作音乐的时候，因为想要在歌曲里加入嘻哈音乐和环境音乐的元素，所以导致进度非常缓慢。于是，两人就在工作室里边研究边制作一些歌曲片段，然后把这些片段制作成长达一小时的歌曲，在这之后，事情开始变的不一样了。

近十年来，Swayzak 一直在使用Ableton Live创作和表演。他们也经常在法国各地做Ableton Live的大师课来分享使用技巧并帮助人们更好的使用电脑来完成Live set. 开始使用软件后，Swayzak表示这使得制作音乐更容易，更规整也更容易被理解。James对此乐在其中：“这很讽刺，因为当我们开始制作音乐的时候，忙着发行唱片、制作，根本不想做Live Set，而现在却恰恰相反，我喜欢Live，因为这很短暂，一旦结束了这一次的Live，它就消失了，每一次都是不一样的。”

2009年他们重新发行了自己在1998年创作的首张专辑<Snowboarding in Argentina>, 专辑受到90年代早期的柏林、底特律、芝加哥和纽约音乐影响。值得一提的是起初这张专辑有两个版本——一个面向美国，另一个面向英国。然而这张专辑却在德国获得了最好的反响，莫名奇妙的从德国传播到了世界各地。在2011年七月，James Taylor宣布将离开Swayzak, 专注于他作为Ableton Live训练员的工作。

James的离开是完全友好的，他们也将这次分别看作自然而然的进步。Brown则继续以Swayzak的名义制作和进行Live表演。

Snowboarding in Argentina Cover

在James离开之后，2012年Brown以S_W_Z_K的名字在Tresor发行了新专辑。这张专辑收到大量好评，包括Marcel Dettmann, Francois K, Luke Slater, Paul Woolford, Norman Nodge, Hemlock, Laurent Garnier, Troy Pierce, Groove, Partysan, Beatport, Raveline, De:Bug, DJ Mag...也十分喜欢这张专辑。之后Swayzak作为David的个人计划，获得了Midland, Craig Richards, Dubfire, Tensnake, Solomun, Mano Le Tough, Laurent Garnier, Mark E, Konrad Black, Tensnake, Jozif, Heidi, My Favourite Robot, Danny Howells, Mixmag, BBC Radio 1, Resident Advisor, Vice Magazine...的支持，并为Resopal, Save You and Cobra Voyage等厂牌制作remix.

S_W_Z_K Cover

2016年秋天，Swayzak举办了关于这个组合的回顾展。展览里不仅有已经发行的作品，还包括未发行和将要在Curle, 3rd Wave, Rawax等等厂牌发行的作品。

在风格细分和DJ Star云集的时代，Swayzak忠于自己的音乐，做一个快乐的格格不入的人并不满足于过去的种种成就。通过持续的发行和remix，不间断的巡演，为丑女贝蒂等等爆火电视剧制作单曲，Swayzak的音乐在传播到世界各个角落的同时依然深深扎根于Underground文化当中。

Swayzak未来的音乐道路会怎样？很难说。但是显而易见的是，他们在这个行业里眼光放的很长远。已离队的James曾说，“我认为音乐，尤其是舞曲，已经开始机械化，有一部分人们发行唱片、制作音乐只是为了得到演出，我不想成为他们的一部分，我认为最重要的是为了自己想要表达的东西才去创作音乐，如果没有想要表达的东西，那么最好不要制造噪音，不要制作一些会后悔的音乐。”

今晚，你将会听到拥有优秀的技术和几十年的经验的Swayzak为大家带来精彩而独到的Live Set, 来自香港和杭州的Jeremy Cheung / Neon8助阵；各位元宵节快乐！点击下方海报，了解演出详情

Brown and Taylor founded Swayzak after meeting on the job at Island Records. They produced dozens of 12-inches and just under ten albums together, most notably 1998's Snowboarding in Argentina. 

David Brown and James Taylor, after all, have been in and around the world of music since the '80s, when they met at Island Records. As Brown recounts, "I started out answering the phones, parking cars, stuff like that. I worked for the managing director for a little while and he actually noticed that I liked music, which he seemed to think was quite odd in a record company! He told me I should go and work in the A&R department. I used to listen to all the demo tapes that all the major A&R guys wouldn't listen to. I had to listen to them so actually me and James used to sit there on a Thursday afternoon after work and we'd just listen. You know, some of them were good, but some of them were really pathetic." 

For a long time, the duo didn't even make music together. For a long time after they started messing around, they didn't bother to release it. "We had no money," remembers Taylor, "so it was like, 'OK, let's play in the studio and make some tunes,' and we'd make some hour-long tracks and stuff like that because we could. Everything was much slower when we started because I was much more into hip-hop and ambient stuff. When we said, 'OK, let's try something faster,' suddenly everything jelled." 

Swayzak have been using Ableton Live in the studio and on stage for over 10 years. They have made available an actual live set via the Ableton website and James has been giving frequent Ableton masterclasses all over France with the aim of sharing their acquired knowledge and attempting to rid the world of boring laptop live sets. 

It's an age-old sentiment. It's not the tools that you're using, it's how you manipulate those tools. Swayzak are clearly at a point in their career where they could be using Ableton to make their live set easier, more formulaic, easier to understand. But it's clearly Taylor's foremost passion these days: "It's ironic because when we started I was all about making records, producing, and I didn't want to play live at all and now it's the opposite. I love playing live, and I love the fact that it's ephemeral. Once it's done, it's gone and you were there or you weren't and you carry on to the next one. I mean obviously we record gigs and we put them up for people to listen to on SoundCloud. That's inevitable. But the majority are not recorded. It's so easy to record stuff these days. It's quite nice that things are not recorded sometimes."

2009 saw the re-release of “Snowboarding in Argentina”, Swayzak’s oh so innocent debut album inspired by the Berlin / Detroit / Chicago / New York music of the early
90’s .Originally released in 1998, this album originated in two forms, one for the US market and one for the UK. However it was in Germany that Swayzak found themselves week after week, somehow stumbling upon a scene that was soon to be embraced by the world. In July 2011 James Taylor announced he was to leave the group, moving on to work on wine related projects and focus on his work as an Ableton Live trainer. 

The move was entirely amicable and seen as a natural progression by both with Brown moving forward at the helm of the Swayzak productions and Live shows. 

In 2012 the first release from Brown saw a new one-off side project emerge under the rawer, more stripped-back moniker of S_W_Z_K. The debut LP, released to critical acclaim on Tresor, picked up high praise from fans, to name but a few, such as Marcel Dettmann, Francois K, Luke Slater, Paul Woolford, Norman Nodge, Hemlock, Laurent Garnier, Troy Pierce, Groove, Partysan, Beatport, Raveline, De:Bug, DJ Mag...
More recently saw the return of Swayzak as David’s first solo material under the name surfaced on the likes of 3rd Wave and CONSTRUCT picking up support from
Midland, Craig Richards, Dubfire, Tensnake, Solomun, Mano Le Tough, Laurent Garnier, Mark E, Konrad Black, Tensnake, Jozif, Heidi, My Favourite Robot, Danny Howells, Mixmag, BBC Radio 1, Resident Advisor, Vice Magazine... as well as remixes for various labels such as Resopal, Save You and Cobra Voyage. 

A retrospective of Swayzak works alongside unreleased and new material will launch the project in the autumn of 2016, alongside new material on Curle, 3rd Wave, Rawax and more... 

In these times of micro-genres and rapid rise DJ stars, Swayzak sticks to his guns, happy in his outsider status and not content to hop on to any passing bandwagon. With forthcoming releases and remixes, continued touring and tracks being used in Hollywood movies, hit TV shows like Ugly Betty and South Korean kitchen commercials (?!) the Swayzak sound has crossed the globe and yet still remains deeply underground... 

Is that the way forward for Swayzak, then? It's hard to say. It's obvious, however, that they've been in the business a bit too long to make plans anyway. When I once again ask about future plans, Taylor tells me that "I think with the music, particularly dance music, it's become such a machine where people release stuff just to be seen, to get gigs and da-da-da. I don't want to really be a part of it like that and I think it's really important to only really release stuff when you've got something to say. Sometimes it's good not to say anything. It's better to shut up than to say something that you would regret. You realize that, OK, you don't have to make noise all the time. Sometimes you say more by saying nothing."

LINKS

http://music.163.com/#/artist?id=75330

http://music.163.com/#/artist?id=688911

Jeremy Cheung

Jeremy从2006年开始了他的DJ生涯，2008香港的先锋DJ冠军，在很短的时间内，Jeremy曾与Darren Emerson, Dubfire, Christian Smith, Umek, Four Tet, Peggy Gou等等一些世界上最知名的DJ和制作人合作。Jeremy Cheung尝试跳舞音乐的各种风格，在近10年的世界性演出中凭借声音多元化的特别感悟，成为当今香港和亚洲俱乐部和音乐节演出中最多亮相并炙手可热的新晋才俊。

他所倡导的音乐品质与演出指向深深影响其职掌的俱乐部OMA，不但使OMA成为香港最著名的跳舞俱乐部，更被媒体评为东南亚最佳俱乐部排名前5。除了香港，他也曾在上海，北京，成都，广州，深圳，澳门，南韓，马尼拉，吉隆坡，新加坡，曼谷，河內，胡志明市，巴里岛和蒙古等许多城市演出。

Jeremy发行了兩张EP- The Butcher与Above the Line 並在Typhoon 8 Records上发行。Jeremy 也是在香港官方场地里DJ set演出最长的纪录保持者，总共是13小时。

Jeremy Cheung Long Set 

Champion of the 2008 Pioneer Hong Kong DJ Quest, Jeremy started his DJ career in 2006. 

Beginning to learn the art of DJ-ing at 16, in his DJ sets one will find a nice blend of different genres ranging from House, Deep house, Tech-House, Techno, Minimal, Indie Dance/NU Disco and more. Having a lifelong love for a wide spectrum of music, Jeremy delivers a rocking DJ set every time with his impressive knowledge of tunes of all sorts. For a young DJ, Jeremy surely knows a lot about the styles of music, the labels, the re-mixers and the producers who creates these tunes. Going beyond the music he plays, Jeremy strives to surpass the art of mixing. Reviews from the clubbing scenes often mention his tight solid mixing, awesome selection and sequencing of his tunes. For those who have gone to see Jeremy’s spin before, they know that he is a DJ who knows the stuff well beyond many counterparts for a long long time! 

Jeremy has performed with some world class DJs/ producers, they are Dubfire, Darren Emerson, Umek, Four Tet, Christian Smith, Peggy Gou, just to name a few.

He holds residencies for top Underground clubs in Hong Kong which includes Oma, Social Room and AfterDarkAndBeyond. Besides Hong Kong, he had also performed in many other top clubs around the region. 

The list includes: 

Glow (Bangkok)

Jenja (Bali)

Faust (Seoul)

Kyo, Cato (Singapore)

Kyo, Under9 (Kuala Lumpur)

Savage (Hanoi)

The Observatory (Ho Chi Minh City)

Time (Manila)

Elevator, Celia, Arkham (Shanghai)

Lantern (Beijing)

.TAG, Here we go, Taiga (Chengdu)

Echobay (Chongqing)

Pacha, Kempek Bar (Macau)

Loopy (Hangzhou) 

and many more!

Jeremy has 2 releases from Hong Kong’s local dance label Typhoon8 Records.

The Butcher EP (collaborated with Fresh Funky S) - released in October 2016

Driller (released under Above the Line EP) - released in February 2018

He is also the record holder of longest DJ Set played at an official venue in Hong Kong, total of 13 hours.

LINK

https://soundcloud.com/djjeremycheung

Neon8

为loopy而生的名媛DJ，暂时只想为loopy暖好每一场迪！