Artist: Swimmer One
Format: Album (CD)
Cat No: BIPH06CD
'A promiscuous synth pop marvel. Swimmer One’s lascivious digital kitchen sink dramas are peculiar, humdrum, universal; less 15 minutes of fame, more 15 minutes of air: and they’re all the more buoyant, and cardinal, for it - Plan B
'Might just be the find of the year. Like a stripped down Scottish Pet Shop Boys without the funny hats or a more melancholy synth-based Pulp, Swimmer One’s brilliance should be shouted from the rooftops.' - The List
Artist: Luxury Car
Format: Album (CD)
Cat No: BIPH06CD
'These are real pop tunes, clearly descended from New Order and the Factory Records ethos, but richer for absorbing other leftfield influences along the way.' - Scotland On Sunday
Swimmer One are Hamish Brown and Andrew Eaton (plus, for live performances, Laura Cameron Lewis). Hamish and Andrew spend most of their time together writing pop music in a tiny attic room on the Scottish coastline. Difficult to categorise, and not fitting into any ‘scene’, their music has been compared to everyone from the Pet Shop Boys and the Associates to the Blue Nile and the Who.
'They give intelligence a good name, are more windswept than worthy and are very, very good' - The Guardian
Luxury Car are brothers Willy and John Robertson, from Perth in Scotland, whose music is a unique brand of electronic pop, full of intelligence, warmth and poetry.
'Perth's racy exponents of delicious, saucy digi-pop.' - Plan B
Biphonic Records is an independent label based in Scotland and established by Hamish Brown and Andrew Eaton, with some help from a group of talented fellow enthusiasts such as the artist Daniel Warren, who has designed all the label's artwork to date, as well as making several short films to accompany releases.
The label's first release was Swimmer One's debut single, We Just Make Music For Ourselves. Within a few days of the first promo being sent out, the song was being championed on daytime BBC Radio One in the UK by Mark Radcliffe, who enthused about it at length on air, comparing it to Pulp, the Blue Nile, and even The Who. The single, which won rave reviews in the music press, went on to win admirers across the world, from Italy and Spain to the USA and Mexico, and has since been included on several compilations.
Encouraged by this success, Biphonic later added Luxury Car to the roster, releasing a single, The Heart of the Matter, and later an album, Annie's Well, followed by Swimmer One's own debut album, The Regional Variations.
Biphonic strongly believe that pop can be art too. We are a small label, but this means that each release and associated artwork, film, poster, flyer is presented with a great deal of love and attention to detail.
Physical distribution is via Cargo and the whole catalogue can be found in iTunes, emusic, virgindigital and other online retailers.
The easiest way to be told about upcoming releases and shows is to be on this. You'll get an email every months which may or may not be mildly entertaining reading. www.biphonic.co.uk or send us a MySpace message.
SHOP
You can buy our records in lots of ways.
Physical
You can order our records from any good record shop. If they don't have it in stock, ask them to order it in for you from our distributor Cargo, which should take one or two days. Most record shops have internet access so can get the information they need to order it in from there.
We are always interested in hearing from other musicians, producers, remixers and film-makers. Send us a message. Please have a listen to the sort of music we release and compare it to your own before getting in touch though.
BIPHONIC ON FILM
Edinburgh artist Daniel Warren has made several films featuring Swimmer One music that have been screened and won awards worldwide. You can watch all of them on YouTube. Daniel also does most of Biphonic's cover art.
Artist: Swimmer One
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Artist: Luxury Car
Artist: Luxury Car
Artist: Swimmer One
Artist: Swimmer One
Swimmer One are Hamish Brown and Andrew Eaton (plus, for live performances, Laura Cameron Lewis). Hamish and Andrew spend most of their time together writing pop music in a tiny attic room on the Scottish coastline. Difficult to categorise, and not fitting into any ‘scene’, their music has been compared to everyone from the Pet Shop Boys and the Associates to the Blue Nile and the Who.
Luxury Car are brothers Willy and John Robertson, from Perth in Scotland, whose music is a unique brand of electronic pop, full of intelligence, warmth and poetry.
