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 upstart and the L.I.E.S regular present their first collaboration on the reverse Livity sublabel.
On an afternoon in Peckham, Joe Cowton discusses the motivations behind his new album and the inner workings of Livity Sound with Oli Warwick.
The London-based newcomer is the latest unknown signing to the Livity Sound sublabel.
Livity Sound will release Utility by Kowton in April.
Omar McCutcheon will release his first 12″ of 2016 on the Bristol label at the end of the month.
The first solo material from Pev in two years rounds out another busy year for the label.
The label unveil plans for a Dnuos Ytivil compilation and a new 12″ featuring remixes of Hodge and Bruce tracks.
Dnuos Ytivil serves as a perfect name for Livity Sound’s sister imprint – it’s disorienting enough to make you stumble over the words, while also triggering some immediate, if unconscious association to the heavyweight Bristolian label. Dnous Ytivil releases share their purpose with the label’s name: Both re-enforcing the larger Livity mandate of creating tense oscillations between build up and thundering release, while also swinging the spotlight to leftfield names that don’t share the current stardom of Pev, Kowton & company.
The two-track single is his first solo release on the label since 2012’s More Games.
The Livity Sound sublabel returns with the debut release from the young Parisian artist.
It feels like 2015 is the start of a new chapter for Livity Sound. Following that initial rip-roaring salvo of releases from Pev, Kowton and Asusu, last year was given over to the equally worthwhile remix series. Great though it was, not to mention stuffed to the brim with finely curated artists from outside of the Bristolian bubble, the Livity release schedule of 2014 felt like a pause while we waited for more of the original material to emerge. With an almost clinical level of organization the new year begins with the first of what promises to be a fresh salvo of material from the Livity camp, and it’s Pev and Kowton at the reins for two collaborative cuts that should satisfy anyone with a predilection for good electronic music. If that sounds like something of a critical cop out then so be it, but there is an interesting universality that lurks in these two new offerings.
The label’s co-founders will issue a new two track 12″ next month – preview it here.
The Livity Sound member will open his new endeavour for business with a four-track solo EP next month.
As the Livity Sound sublabel continues its mission to draw in external producers that share in the particular vision of Pev, Kowton and Asusu, so they turn to a completely fresh proposition in the shape of Bruce. While he may be a young producer, his approach feels like a logical continuation of the path laid out by Alex Coulton, Batu and Hodge in furthering the distinct message Livity Sound is conveying. Weight of production and a soundsystem sensibility have always been key to the labels, and from the outset Bruce has those prerequisites in spades. On the increasingly fragmented dirt road between techno and dubstep both of the tracks on Just Getting Started draw on the energy of both camps as they impart the addictive, show-stopping fireworks that make a Livity track stand out in the heat of a loaded dance.
Almost a year’s worth of remixes of the UK trio’s material will receive a CD and digital release in November.
Tessela and Ilian Tapes pair Stenny & Andrea will remix Peverlist and Kowton bringing the label’s stack of remix 12″s to six.
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.
Hodge steps up for a masterclass in contemporary UK sounds with a mix featuring a barrage of forthcoming material.