4x12" boxset version. Comes in hardcase boxset. One of Bristol's foremost electronic labels toasts ten years with a 19-strong family gathering of adventurous, contemporary club music. Livity Sound has evolved considerably since 2011. Originally it was established as a vessel for new tracks from Peverelist, Kowton and Asusu --three Bristol-based artists who found common ground between their distinct styles in pursuit of a reduced, heavyweight strain of soundsystem techno. A run of hand-stamped 12"s and a three-way live show followed, while the Reverse sister label provided a conduit for emergent artists to enter the fray. Early breakthroughs from Hodge, Batu, Bruce and Simo Cell pointed to the broader horizons Livity was heading towards -- an expanding community of like-minded artists creating dancefloor misfits that somehow fit together. First appearing with a compilation of remixes in 2014, Tess Redburn's iconic artwork heralded a fresh new impetus for the label, and the music seemed to become more colorful in kind. While the founding principles of space, bass and fractured rhythms have largely abounded up to the present day, there's been a progressively broader palette of sound employed. Technoid melodic shimmers, earthen percussion and found sounds have become as prominent as sub frequencies and cavernous dub echoes, delivered by a vivid and varied ensemble of producers.
A1 | Azu Tiwaline - Nissa |
A2 | Forest Drive West - Lost Signal |
B1 | Batu (4) - Melts Into Air |
B2 | Two Shell - Big Style |
C1 | Allen Wootton - Sancode |
C2 | DJ Plead - Glebe! |
C3 | Bakongo - Ashy |
D1 | Cando - It's All Relative |
D2 | Facta - FM Gamma |
E1 | Peverelist, Kowton - Exhale |
E2 | Simo Cell - El Gato Loco |
F1 | Hodge (3) - Do What You Need To Do |
F2 | Bruce (40) - Just Getting On With It |
G1 | Kouslin - Racket |
G2 | Jurango - Drolle Prosse |
G3 | Toma Kami - Sixty Frames |
H1 | Ido Plumes - Albeit |
H2 | Surgeons Girl - Grass Labyrinth |