Since late 2010 their Livity Sound label has released a series of vital 12″s by Tom Ford (Peverelist), Joe Cowton (Kowton) and Craig Stennett (Asusu) Low-key, hand-stamped white labels, with tracks cut loud for optimal sound system use, they contain some of the most exciting and visceral UK dance music of recent years - placing Pev’s exquisitely balanced rhythm science alongside Kowton’s grime-infused techno and Asusu’s atmospheric, percussive club tracks. Livity Sound’s music to date has emerged from that dialogue between Pev, Kowton and Asusu. Imagining techno as futuristic sound system music, it’s rooted by dazzling rhythmic interplay and dread sub-bass pressure that floods from speaker stacks to shake your organs and rattle your nervous system. Those core traits are expressed repeatedly throughout the music on the Livity Sound CD: from the shuddering thrum of Kowton’s anthemic ‘More Games’ and the frosty subs of Asusu’s ‘Rendering’, to the disorienting whirlwinds of synth and percussion that drive Pev’s extraordinary ‘Aztec Chant’ and ‘Livity’. The compilation’s brand new tracks, meanwhile, are all collaborative efforts. Pev & Kowton’s ‘End Point’ and ‘Vapours’ imbue Kowton’s drum machine crunch with hallucinogenic synth shimmer, while the distorted siren whine of Pev & Asusu’s ‘Surge’ makes it the most caustic Livity Sound release to date. Occupying the territory at which all three members’ distinct approaches interact, Livity Sound plots a thrilling co-ordinate in the ongoing dialogue between UK dance music and sound system culture.