Asusu steps up with Livity Sound’s second offering of 2016 in what has been a relatively quiet year for the label’s release schedule. Peverelist, Kowton and Asusu’s label has pumped out 18 EPs and three compilations of twisted club hybrids since its inception in 2011, spawning a new generation of producers in its wake. The arrival of Kowton’s debut album, Utility, in April ensured Livity Sound has still made a loud musical mark on the calendar, and now Asusu’s first solo outing on the label in over three years affirms its central prominence in the scene it helped incubate.
The Hallucinator/Sendak 12″ will arrive in October.
The Bristol-based Livity Sound member lines up a second record for his newly minted label.
It always felt like there was a need to hear more from Asusu once the Livity Sound machine really got rolling. Peverelist obviously already had a sizable legacy behind him, while Kowton was equally hitting his stride and has since gone on to a multitude of achievements independently of the record label the three artists call home. Now though Craig Stennet is branching out with his own Impasse imprint, which will hopefully provide a more direct conduit into his output and build upon the humble but rock solid foundations of his early Livity singles and previous outings on Immerse and Project Squared.
The Livity Sound member will open his new endeavour for business with a four-track solo EP next month.
Good music and flexibility go hand in hand: They’re the things that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech, the elements that cognitively pushed us to become flexible to new ways of understanding and communicating in the world around us. Flexibility also a damn important quality for a record label. Speaking to NTS Radio last year, Livity Sound co-founder Peverelist emphasized the importance of adaptability in his label, stating: “It’s constantly being refined, we’re still learning, refining our approach and adding new material” he claimed.
Preview the latest installment in the Livity Sound Remix series.
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Times are surely changing in the Livity camp what with the dazzling colours of the artwork on this new release, not to mention the induction of remixes into the label repertoire after a strict policy of only releasing the music of Pev, Asusu and Kowton (Ytivil Dnuos sublabel notwithstanding). Where the strictest curatorial control had been exercised, this invitation to MMM and Pangaea could be seen as throwing open any number of possibilities for the path the label could get nudged down. Of course the trio behind the label have always stipulated there’s no grand scheme at work, and that they release what feels right at the time, but there’s no escaping the cohesive aesthetic which has given Livity Sound such weight in a crowded space.
Pev and Asusu team up for the label’s next release on two screwed-up techno tracks of the Bristol persuasion.
The Bristol trio’s singles so far will be collected on digital and CD formats together with four new tracks.
The next release from Bristol’s Livity Sound triumvirate will come from the lesser spotted Asusu.