SOPHIE has been celebrated with a Google Doodle on what would have been her thirty eighth birthday (September 17). The Google Doodle is accompanied by a brief video soundtracked by ‘Immaterial’ from the late visionary’s sole album, Oil of Each Pearl’s Un-Insides. Test it out under.
Google’s caption for the video reads: “This video Doodle celebrates the birthday of Scottish musician, producer, and DJ Sophie Xeon, who’s remembered for her acclaimed experimental pop and digital music.”
SOPHIE’s household shared the next assertion:
Music and the long run have been at all times on the centre of Sophie’s world. From a really younger age Sophie was taken to music festivals and raves, and it was the digital sounds and futuristic rhythms of primarily underground dance music that actually appealed to her. She was vastly influenced by the early work of artists rising at the moment comparable to Orbital, Moby, the Prodigy, in addition to some extra established acts like Pet Store Boys and Kraftwerk. These formative recollections continued to encourage Sophie all through her life and her personal profession.
As her love of digital music continued to develop into her teenage years, she started to deal with her personal experiments in music making. Particularly drawn to synthesis, Sophie spent a few years honing her expertise; pushing the boundaries of what was doable, striving to create the shiniest, most metallic snares and the bounciest, bubbliest bass sounds. Transferring into the 2010’s Sophie needed to create one thing new and futuristic sounding, whereas sustaining her power and countless sense of enjoyable, one thing severely missing in dance music on the time. These experiments culminated in Sophie’s seminal assortment of singles ‘PRODUCT’.
Whereas touring her personal units, in addition to beginning to produce pop music for different artists, Sophie and pals started creating concepts for her subsequent period. With it she would introduce a extra performative ingredient. Till that time a publicly shy and retiring determine, Sophie emerged from the shadows with the ‘It’s Okay to Cry’ video. With the next ‘Oil of Each Pearl’s Un-Insides’ album and corresponding remix album and dwell reveals, Sophie lets us into her world extra, as we journey via area and time on a sonic journey.
SOPHIE, the self-titled follow-up album, although at all times supposed as a extra accessible, extra ‘pop’ sounding report, undoubtedly maintains Sophie’s uncompromising and infinitely formidable outlook. Made along with her brother and lots of of her closest pals and collaborators, the album sits someplace between a SOPHIE dwell present within the clouds, an enormous social gathering in her recording studio and the sweatiest membership you’ve ever been to hosted by SOPHIE and pals.
The long run has at all times been an enormous a part of Sophie, and we hope Sophie continues to be an enormous a part of the long run. As at all times with Sophie, precisely what comes subsequent and what form it takes stays to be seen. One factor is for positive, there may be much more nonetheless to come back.
Subsequent Friday, a posthumous SOPHIe album will arrive by way of Transgressive and Future Basic. Up to now, it’s been previewed by the singles ‘Exhilarate’ (with Bibi Bourelly), ‘Berlin Nightmare’ (that includes Evita Manji), ‘One Extra Time’ (with Popstar), ‘Cause Why (that includes BC Kingdom and Kim Petras).
