Morr Music writes: "Isan, that's Robin Saville and Anthony Ryan, who met
in sunny circumstances in Leicester/Uk. The term ISAN stands for "integrated
services analogue network", and beside other reasons it reveals their interest
in using dodgy old keyboards to make dodgy old noise. But with their new 6 track
mlp on Morr Music even the listeners who are new to the Isan network will soon
reckognize that the definition of dodgy old noise and analogue synth-sounds becomes
a completely new dimension. Isan's music is a kind of ambivalent thing: simple
but pure, noisy but clear, strange but true, to mention only a few. The past of
this band was couloured with a bunch of 7"'s, several wide spread contributions,
various lp's (for example cat.no.003 on morr music ...) and so on. Due to the
constant quality of Isan's work it's not a surprise that they soon got an invitation
doing a John Peel radio show and an overwhelming feedback from the music press.
The NME e.g. compared Isan a bit to plone and Isan don't really complain about
that. They mention being influenced by artists like Brian Eno, Stereolab, Autechre,
My Bloody Valentine... - being involved into the Isan sound network you'll drop
the name Isan equal to their influences to your very best (girl-)friend and/or
you'll find yourself whistling their beautiful melodies on several sunny circumstances
as well. Another important merit of isan is maybe to completely calm you down
because every piece of Robin's and Anthony's music creates an amazing feeling
of being "distant" to every unnecesary thought, so just sit back, relax
and let yourself go. The intention of Isan to ignore common 4tothefloor dance-patterns
doesn't prevent you from finding yourself on a ship of it's own rhythmic; sometimes
it steams and rolls and later on it just seems to slide over a sea of melodies
and all around you things just disappear and fade away."