Artist: S_W_Z_K
Title: Variant & Empires EP
Label: Tresor Records
Format: 12"
Cat.No: TRESOR 257
Release Date: 29/10/12
Style: Techno
Tracklist : 
A. TC4 Variant
B. Second City Of The Empire

	Following the S_W_Z_K debut album, which came out on Tresor Records before the summer, David Brown offers here further insights into the most recent developments of his new departure. Receiving the help of long-time collaborator and friend Richard Davis, the duo continues its dive into the concrete and metallic landscapes found on their eponymous LP effort.

	The Variant & Empires EP however marks somewhat of a slight departure from the obscure experimental investigations previously undertaken. "TC4 Variant" is a roaring number, aiming specially at the dancefloor and taking the duo's energy to its highest point, while "Second City Of The Empire" intimately unveils the deeper side of their enterprise.


A. TC4 Variant

Ivashkevich is a musical esthete and collector of groove sound, DJ.

Together with the promotional team, Norma-sound brought with them such iconic sound engineers as Arapu “RO” (Tzinah Records), Rayo “UA” (Arma17), Fritz Wentink “NL”, Radio Revolution “South Korea”, Caroline Luf. "Germany", Augstin Alvarez "ARG", Autarky "Israel".

Having started his career playing and collecting CDs, he now has a large collection of various genres, most of which date back to the early days of house, acid jazz and break rhythms at the turn of the century (late 20th and early 21st centuries). . . . . ). ).

In his collections he uses various manifestations of electronic music with elements of acoustic instruments based on the vibrations of the general environment.
But the direction of ro-minimalism with elements of intermittent motifs remains relevant.

Participated in the creation of showcases and played DJ sets for “Mutabor”, “Fantomas”, “Squat 3/4”, “RNDM”, “DIS”, “Pine and Linden”, “Aglomerat”, “Live8club”, “PWRHS” and others..

Lately I’ve been holding conceptual parties together with street art artists, whose paintings can be found on the streets of Moscow, Bali and Thailand: 1Murray, Sasha Sokolov “A.С.”

About:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/daniil.ivashkevich/
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Styles: 
Ambient, Psychedelic electronica, Leftfield, Minimal, Breaks, Detroit, Dub.

At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future. 

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit. 

Tresor Records was founded in the same year and began to serve as a platform for exporting the new sounds associated with Tresor all around the world. Emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kick-start dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians. This story is one of friendship and community-building, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit, Birmingham or Edinburgh, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles. 

Tresor Records has been the fertile soil for dozens upon dozens of creative minds, from the very luminaries of the scene who developed electronic music over the last three decades through to contemporary protagonists who are currently defining the sound of the future -  A more than 300 strong catalogue displays an unmistakable identity - the Tresor spirit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.