It is hard to imagine the landscape of contemporary Bristolian electronic music - hell, contemporary British electronic music - without either Peverelist or his Livity Sound label. Coming through with his first full-length on the imprint, the nine tracks of Tessellations are a fine demonstration of the one born Tom Ford’s winning combination of focus and finesse. ‘Burning Sea’ and ‘Plateau’ bookend the album with freeform synth ambiences that take clear cues from Eno. The tracks between these are versatile club cuts that take Livity’s typically quirky approach to house and techno to interesting places - the stumbling almost-half-time of ‘Further Inland’, for instance, or ‘Slice of Life’s halcyon rave nostalgia.

Surgeon’s Girl’s debut EP continues the sonic renovation of Livity Sound in fine style. The stone-cold, soundsystem pressure that long defined Peverelist’s label is still present, but Surgeon’s Girl submerges it below a foam of glistening, pitch-bend synth notes. Taking cues from the likes of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith or Buchla pioneer Suzanne Ciani, she has struck on a potent combination of soaring leads and loosely-tacked percussion. A Violet Sleep will add rays of light to a DJ set or transport your mind at home.

The 3 x 2 EP is a collection of percussion-led club innovations which find a sweet spot between both the bass-heavy soundsystem techno style of its label (Livity Sound) and the UK Funky flexes of the lead artist (Bakongo aka Roska). One finds plenty of bassweight heft and shimmering synth sounds in these tracks - see how a cut like ‘Grainy’ is helmed by its wobbling, dubstep-indebted low-end. However, the polyrhythmic whirl of the beats here means that 3 x 2 not only nestles in alongside the UK Funky and funky house productions of old Roska releases, but also looks outwards to a variety of club sounds going off around the world - Batida, hard drum and gqom to name but three.

Australian DJ Jarred Beeler aka DJ Plead refines his sound by distilling the combined influences of UK Funky and jungle — as well as countless other stimuli — into effervescently percussive tracks loaded with primal yet modern grooves. The title track itches at the edges of techno with its synth stabs and pads, livened with hi-bpm bongo hits, while ‘Rough Text’ etches out a suspenseful rhythm caught between dancehall and Brazilian carnival music. ‘Ess’ later sketches out a similar focus on non-European modes, recalling a manic kuduro dance beat. Later we find ‘Espresso’ more than earning its name with its hyper energetic, restless drum workout.

Snake Dance EP is another Wootton release of stripped back minimal techno, where each lightly reverberated snare hit is given full, dubby space to snap, where each textural bass slide or chord strike feels like a monumental event. Wootton pulls off seminal, clacking grooves on the austere ‘Ender’ and ‘Revin’, always surprising the listener with a neatly off-centre beat.