A - Strumpet

What a fantastic Halloween surprise!

Music by Psypath Records.

Audio Track 2 Street Violence Symphony Glitches - Orieliel Watcher

16AJ - One4One

Massage your mind !!!!!

Who Is Jack - PMD028C

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.

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missledz - Pistachios

Lavance - Totem EP

Artists: Lavance (feat. Scepticz & Klinical)
Catalogue Number: COUNTERPOINT015
Release Date: 29/04/2019

Counterpoint (since 2013) is a Drum & Bass label and collective from Porto, Portugal. Our focus on the deep sound has led us to develop an introspective and intimate approach to the sound of Drum & Bass, and all 160+ BPM Bass Music.

Last August, we mentioned Laurens Vanbrabant (Lavance) as “one of the most serious contenders for breakthrough artist of the year”. His single – Suspect/Glaucus through Counter X Culture (CXC) was a huge success, and proved our predictions correct. He now returns to the label as the first artist to graduate from our up & coming release series – CXC - to our official main output.

His array of styles, flexible creative mind, and relentless work ethic is in full display throughout his new Totem EP. Travelling through styles, while ignoring conventions, he worked through the past year to deliver four tracks which display the full range of his sound. And this hasn’t been a one-man job, as the EP features collaborations with two artist who have been delivering some great music in the last couple of months – Scepticz and Klinical.

Totem has all the ingredients to be one of our standout releases of the year, having all being inflicting damage on dancefloors worldwide.

Lavance - Continuum

Welcome to the deeper and darker side of the EP, as the sinister ambiance of the intro paints a very clear picture for the upcoming relentless dark and moody vibes of the track. Ready to resonate on any surface, the whole progression transmits an atmosphere of mystery and intrigue, which are mixed in a dark energy pool to build an involving shamanic rhythm.

Totem EP

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Lavance - Continuum

SIXT013 // Surface - Almost 

℗&© 2019 Sixteen Step Records

Kaiten / Almost

Surface - Almost

Out now via:
• Dispatch Store - bit.ly/DISLTD070W
• Bandcamp - bit.ly/DISLTD070BC
• All other stores - https://fanlink.to/DISLTD070

An oscilloscope is a laboratory instrument commonly used to display and analyse the waveform of electronic signals. In effect, the device draws a graph of the instantaneous signal voltage as a function of time.

For this EP, Brain set out to explore the idea of the physicality of sound, and how comparisons can be drawn with the nature of sound and the wider natural world. Just like the frequency vibrations in a piece of music, every person has a different resonance of life - creating the noise of society with everyone fighting for their space in the frequency spectrum of the world.

The thing that glues us together in this timeline, you can see the waveforms in every expression of life and nature. So the oscilloscope represent that introspected way of thinking, remembering that we are energy and movement at the same time, trying to find direction in our lives crafted by the scientists of our "reality"...

Resonance

Available here

Brain & Plus 57 - Resonance (CLIP) - DISLTD070 - OUT NOW

We proudly present the "Emergence" LP.
An exploration of fresh emerging talent via a host of talented artists from around the Globe. 

The LP contains multiple styles and sounds exploring lots of Sub-Genres within the DnB Spectrum all of which are available now for Free Download via Hypeddit. 

@missledz

Shouts to all the artists for getting behind this one, really happy to put their music out there as part of this release, was a big project for us and a lot of love and time has gone in but finally we got it done and out, please do enjoy and show these lot some love, each are worthy of keeping an eye on and should defo be names to stick on your radar for the future !!

Big ups to the headz & supporters, 
Happy 2020 
xx

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missledz - Clockenspiel [Free Download]

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Surgence - Isolate VIP [inHBT005]

Ant TC1 along with Hidden Agenda founded Dispatch Recordings back in 2001, Ant originally helped out with the management side of the label before finding his feet within the realms of production; which was a natural progression for him having DJ’d on pirate radio and in clubs from the age of 14 (since 1992).  His first release alongside frequent production partner Stress Level appeared on Dispatch after almost 3 years of hard work getting their collective sound where they felt it needed to be before even thinking about turning on a DAT recorder.  After their first release hit the stores they quickly picked up a wealth of DJ support across their early material and went on to release for a who’s who list of established Drum & Bass record labels including the likes of Renegade, CIA, Advanced, Critical Records Integral, Liquid V, Commercial Suicide, Good Looking Records, Bingo Beats and Samurai Music.

By demand remix work started to feature heavily within their output and the duo went on to remix for the likes of Hidden Agenda, Chris SU, Artificial Intelligence, Kabuki, Total Science, Optical & Ryme Time (Jagged Edge), Atlantic Connection, Tactile & DJ Marky.  Branching out and working with other producers such as Survival, DLR & Philth has only furthered experience Ant’s skills at the controls over the years, Ant has also released his own solo material more recently on top of remixing for the likes of Lomax on Integral Records.  In 2014 Ant realised a lifetime ambition, securing his first ever release for the legendary Metalheadz label “Hungry For Atmosphere” alongside Mako, DLR & Villem with further releases for the label and counting going into 2024.

Ant’s production output has featured on a mass of compilations and mix CD’s compiled by the likes of Shy FX, LTJ Bukem, Total Science, AI, Spectrasoul, Klute and Brian G.  Additionally his work has featured very heavily within the radio shows of Friction, Grooverider, Fabio, Goldie, Bailey & Rene LaVice on their respective BBC Radio 1 slots over the years as well as BBC 1Xtra where Ant once hosted his own one-off 4 hour show, he has since additionally made 2 guest DJ appearances for DJ Friction on his Radio 1 show.  His DJ’ing work has seen him play all over the globe from Adelaide to Los Angeles, from Hong Kong to Sarajevo, Vancouver to Bangkok and last but by no means least regularly UK and EU wide. Additionally for the most part of the decade beyond 2010 Ant also worked as the Artist Manager for both Outlook and Dimensions Festival in Croatia, leading up the booking process, budgets and travel aspects for the festival.

Fast forward through to 2024; Ant is now responsible for the lead label management roles of both Metalheadz & Dispatch Recordings and is based in Thailand, with a purpose built studio room recently finished the plan (alongside managing a mass of planned record label releases) is to get back to focusing on writing music more consistently than he ever has previously.

Brain & Plus 57 - Resonance (CLIP) - DISLTD070 - OUT NOW

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