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Work on the recording of It's A Lifestyle began in September
1996, in Berlin, during Static Icon's first European tour. The band
started looking for a producer for the single in July, but after
many meetings with various people in the German electro scene,
they finally decided that they would produce the single
themselves. The band opted to use two new tracks as a pre-taster
to the kind of direction they knew they were heading in, instead of
re-releasing a track from Sin Machine. What the listener finds is a
spectrum of electro styles.
The title track is the natural progression from Sin Machine, but a
very different version to the one found on Slave. 'Come To Me'
combines breakbeats with melodic electro, and lyrically, introduces the Slave theme. The reworking
of Institution clearly says goodbye, once and for all to Sin Machine. Static Icon's first
single is a record of a band in-between a stylistic change. It reminds the listener of their debut,
but at the same time, introduces a taste of where the band were heading with their second album SLAVE.

Photo of Static Icon by TINA MOULAS - Berlin 1996

"IT'S A LIFE STYLE" written by ALAN WICKS

MODERN MUSIC/DARK WINGS/MACHINERY RECORDS