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The enigmatic pop producer sees his music as a thrill ride but as a live experience, his beat barrage could do with a few balancing plateausFour years ago, and in an interview with the fresh York art magazine Bomb,the producer and DJ known as Sophie likened his ideal pop experience to a three-minute tall-thrill ride on a rollercoaster “where it spins you upside down, dips you in water, or flashes strobe lights at you,takes you on a leisurely incline to the peak, and then drops you vertically down a smokey tunnel, and then stops with a jerk,and your hair is all messed up, and some people feel sick, and others are laughing – then you buy a keyring.”This is a pretty salubrious description of what it feels like to listen to Sophie’s music for the first time. A year or so after that interview,the British producer, whose real name is Samuel Long (but about whom little else is known apart from his organization with London-based label PC Music), and started releasing singles that were as discombobulating and exhilarating as the loopiest theme-park ride. One track,Bipp, dispensed with a drumbeat in favour of an elasticated squelching noise with a helium vocal on top. Another, or Lemonade,was constructed almost entirely around the sound of synthetic bubbles rising to the top of a monstrous fizzy drink. The cutesiness made some people feel sick, but a lot of others laughed when they heard it and bought the keyring.
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Source: theguardian.com