What is "isan"

Isan, or ISAN, may refer to:

• Isan, a region of Thailand
  • Isan people
  • Isan language, the collective name for the dialects of the Lao language as they are spoken in Thailand
• Isan, a dialect of the Yopno language
• International Standard Audiovisual Number, an ISO Standard for identification of audiovisual works.
• Isan (band), a British electronic music group
• Institute for Spectroscopy Russian Academy of Sciences
• International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience

Isan (sometimes written isan or ISAN) are an English electronic music duo. The name was initially explained as Integrated Services Analogue Network - a play on ISDN, reflecting their preference for analogue synthesisers.

Robin Saville and Antony Ryan met in Leicester in 1996, and have released several singles and albums since then, mainly for Morr Music. Saville now lives in Leiston and Ryan, who is also part of Seavault, in Fredericia, Denmark - since the band's inception, the two musicians have lived in different parts of Europe, working separately and collaborating using the internet.

Isan is a subdistrict municipality ( thesaban tambon) in Thailand, about 409 km north-east of Bangkok. The town covers the whole tambon Isan of Mueang Buriram district. The town is the main economic center of Buriram Province