The producer SOPHIE has been honoured with a Google Doodle.
The high-profile illustration sits on the home page of the search engine, utilized by hundreds of thousands of individuals across the globe. The honour coincides with what would have been SOPHIE’s thirty eighth birthday, and it options the tune ‘Immaterial’.
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SOPHIE’s household collaborated on the undertaking, and remark on the Google Doodle:
Music and the long run had 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 tremendously influenced by the early work of artists rising at the moment akin 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 bounds of what was attainable, striving to create the shiniest, most metallic snares and the bounciest, bubbliest bass sounds. Transferring into the 2010’s Sophie wished to create one thing new and futuristic sounding, whereas sustaining her vitality and infinite 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 associates started creating concepts for her subsequent period. With it she would introduce a extra performative aspect. Till that time a publicly shy and retiring determine, Sophie emerged from the shadows with the ‘It’s Okay to Cry’ video. With the following ‘Oil of Each Pearl’s Un-Insides’ album and corresponding remix album and stay exhibits, Sophie lets us into her world extra, as we journey by means of house and time on a sonic journey.
SOPHIE, the self-titled follow-up album, although at all times meant 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 associates and collaborators, the album sits someplace between a SOPHIE stay present within the clouds, a large celebration in her recording studio and the sweatiest membership you’ve ever been to hosted by SOPHIE and associates.
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 certain, there may be much more nonetheless to return.
A posthumous SOPHIE album will likely be launched on September twenty seventh.
Associated: It’s Okay To Cry – Remembering SOPHIE
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