Swampland Studios

La CripTa & De Profundis were two collectives created out of friendship, that were born and grew up fed with passion and love for a certain kind of music.

We were a bunch of people with no experience (or in the best case, almost nothing) in the show bussiness, moved by the need of doing something about the sounds that made our hair stand up and dance and scream; the musical scene in our city was absolutely dead, so someone said “what the fuck?”.

So we just put 50 € each (or was it 100 €?) for promoting a gig in a very small venue, we contacted two bands (Quidam from Barcelona & Deadchovsky from Paris), printed some posters and flyers and took them to the record stores, sent some stuff to the newspapers and run a website, that was the 3rd of September 2005, and we were very very scared.

Two years after that night, we were running a dj session every weekend (we were spinning ourselves, we had NO CLUE how to do it, technically speaking), saving the money for the gigs; Around 30 bands from Poland, Germany, USA, France, UK, etc. had already played in our shows, from small venues (like the first one) to some big ones. And I think we did the whole thing without any aspiration about money, success, recognition or pride…that wasn´t the birth of a massive company or a money-making machine, of course. It was kind of inspiring for us, that was our dream and nobody else´s.

I don´t know…The point is I was watching some clips in youtube from shows we promoted and I found the last one (the last one I was involved, I mean) before being kicked out of the club, because of a massive fine the owner had to pay.

I felt weird when I watched it and…now that I´m thinking about moving somewhere else (well, I´ve been thinking about it for two years) I should be thankful to all the guys that made that thing possible, probably I won´t have the chance to see in a long time, so this post is for all of you without distinction, to everyone that believed in the project those two years.

There I was, on the left, happy to leave the mixing desk, that was the first time I saw that particular model in my life and the whole situation was quite stressful.