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Next up on Lifestyle we celebrate our past year of releases, and give a sneaky look into the future of the label; it’s the Lifestyle Annual 2018!
This Annual marks an important moment in the life of the label; for the past couple of months we've had our heads down, thinking about what's important to us here at HQ and how to revise our look a bit. This has resulted in a fresh approach to our brand and a more refined visual style moving forward into 2019, we are very excited about it and can't wait to show you what's in store!
We’ve knocked our heads together and picked out 16 choice cuts of prime Lifestyle material from the past year, tunes that have stood out to each of us as the finest our label had to offer in 2018. We tried to keep it reasonably varied, but didn’t do so well, so expect a heavy concentration of that deep dark tech inside, as well as a splattering of other distinct sounds.
While we have got some of the Lifestyle ‘anthem’ tunes in there, we’ve also been careful to include some for the real heads, tunes that some might have missed first time round, that we reckon deserve excavating and rinsing out.
As if this wasn’t enough, we’ve also thrown in 10 brand-new tracks, featuring some very close connections! A lot of these tracks are from new voices we’ve just started listening to in the scene, and to make it extra personal, four of the ten tracks come from the team here at the label! Mandie, Jamie, Jono & Mersen (+ Ken) dug in and came out with some tracks of their own for the release, including the first ever release for Combine with ‘Retrograde’, a super-vibey deep liquid banger. This exclusively personal touch is the cream on the cake of this release, which itself crowns what was the best year for our label yet.
We hope you enjoy this release as much as we enjoyed putting it together. We’re deeply indebted to all the artists we’ve worked with over the past year and beyond, without them making the tunes, and you lot buying the tunes, this label would be nothing, so we’re forever grateful for all your support in 2018, and hope we do you proud this year. We’ve got some big plans in the pipeline that we can’t wait to let you all know about, so make sure to stay connected and informed! From all us here at the team a massive thank you & infinite bigups, here’s to another huge year.
Tracklist:
1. Klinical - Africa
2. Objectiv - Vermin ft. MC XL
3. Volatile Cycle & Vowel - Disperse
4. Revaux ft. Charli Brix - Colours
5. Thematic - Prime Time
6. Bredren - Aversive
7. Skantia - Balance
8. Neve - Micron
9. Volatile Cycle & Mean Teeth - Floater
10. Black Barrel - Don't Stop
11. Revaux - Frostbite (Ill Truth Remix)
12. Audiomission - Evolve
13. Nami & Kapha - Praxis
14. P&K - Dancing Swing
15. Creatures & Vowel - Manaslu
16. DOt. - Hoisin
17. AJ Mutated - Playbit
18. OaT - Deadlines
19. missledz - Pistachios
20. Smeerlapp & Borkerbros - Thrill
21. Retrakt - All My Life
22. Creatures - Anomaly
23. Combine - Retrograde
24. Kalm - Immediacy
25. JNB - Dystopian Funk
26. Anapa - Damager
- Genre
- Drum & Bass