Future

Soma Sonic

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 2000)
• Original Release Date: March 21, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sonic Images
• ASIN: B00004S57N
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #30,965 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. First Wave

2. Twenty Past Midnight

3. Crazy Moon

4. Blue Skies

5. Falling

6. Future

7. Road To Nowhere

8. Bound

9. Relapse

10. Backslide

11. Metro

12. In The Blink Of An Eye

13. Backslide (Remix)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

In Soma Sonic we find the elusive potential of a group that mixes seamlessly through the various genres of their electronic domain. Instilled with creative and technical dexterity, Dominic and Francois Paterson combine cavernous layers of music to offer a powerful dose of deep listening. With hauntingly seductive tracks, Future picks up on the electronic currents forged by Portishead and Massive Attack. But by scratching beneath the surface of their ambient trip-hop appeal, the group further fashions downtempo cadences and melodies that weave through a futuristic urban soundscape. The effect is refined by the tranquilized vocals, droning guitars, and brassy synth tones. Displaying its sonic diversity, the concluding portion of the album advances into snared drum & bass, electro new wave, and a symphonic trance selection wrought with the tension of an Orbital track. After brushes with major-label courtship, the duo released this first-rate, self-produced album through independent channels, including Amazon.com's Advantage program. But after receiving repeated accolades through these unconventional networks, it didn't take long for the music industry to notice the siblings' dynamic talent. And so they have arrived after securing major-label support. To glimpse the prospect of what's to come from these electronic purveyors, follow the elemental progressions of their Future album. --Lucas Hilbert

Product Description

Down-tempo electronic trip-hop. Slow, funky beats over lush string soundscapes and enhanced by female vocals. Bristol- styled British trip-hop. For those who like Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky etc.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Times Exists To Fool Me and Our Lives Are Just a Game, January 18, 2004

By	TastyBabySyndrome "T(to the)B(to the)S" ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I'm not really sure how to describe sonic layers of beauty and do them justice when they walk off-the-beaten path of what one is accustomed to, so I'll try it another way. When I'm sitting in my house all alone, finding the turmoil of the day a little too much or the depression of the day-to-day existence too vivid to struggle out from under, I oftentimes want to forget it and pretend the day away. I simply want some form of escapism to take it all away, some mental form of Calgon to make life seem right again, and that's normally when I turn to music.

Its honestly times like those that made me a music addict and have extended my collection because I know that it can give me what I want legally. With it I can set a mood that allows my mind to wander, and I oftentimes find myself utilizing that function and turning my mind onto something electronic to specifically fit that notion I'm catering. Experiences don't have to be spontaneous, after all, but can instead be tailor-made from the cloth of different stimuli and that's the therapeutic gospel a third of my compact disc collection preaches. Depending on the moment and what I'm feeling, I've adopted many types of music to induce a setting. Electronica, synthpop, ballads; they all join together on the crusade that helps me feel above all the weights in a sometimes dreary world. And that feeling, that wanderlust that allows you to travel a lot farther than the confines of your own back yard, is one of the reasons I like Soma Sonic.

While trip-hop as a whole is a wide range of selections and all of Soma Sonic doesn't have the same effect on me, one song on the album is actually pretty bewitching when my minds demands it. I initially picked up the album because of it, too, noting that I could set "Fallen" on repeat, let the sounds wrap around me like a audio shroud, and that it would allow me to zone my cares away. The voice inside the music is calm and soothing and enticingly female, and the beat moves enough to not be too fast and not be too slow but to set a mood that's just right. I can simply set with my feet up, a drink in my hand and the volume at an optimal level, and that song alone carries me away because it hits on the way I feel and yet it makes things sound all-too-surreal.

Besides that song, there are some other pieces that complete it as a work and that I return to time and again. "Road to Nowhere" is one of those, with the beat that reminds me of desert storms for some reason, and "Bound" is another because I like a lot of the musical layering and, of course, the vocals. "Relapse" is a song that grew on me after a while, with it blending into the blur of the sounds and fitting some of my moods pretty well, and a lot of other songs took up that mantle as well. And then there's the beauty in "Backslide," the oddity in the beat composing "In the Blink of an Eye," and the list goes on and on.

Because of some of the composition of the album, this is actually one of my favorites and is one I try to push on everyone I run across. To put it another way and to give it credit for its impact, this would be one of the first discs I'd replace if all of my music were to suddenly vanish and I was forced to start from ground level. I absolutely fell in love with the way its layered, the substance within its songs, and the way the music simply allows me to feel. If you've never found an album that allows you to enjoy electronic sounds and a voice that soothes you like a ghost floating through your headphones at night, then it's a taste that I'd recommend for you to try out. You simply need a place you can sit, calm at your heels and something warming you from the insides, and it - especially the vocalist Katalin Kiss - will provide the rest of the experience.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smooth, flowing and seamless, August 26, 1999

By A Customer

For those who need to unwind after a hectic day, surrender your imagination to the images evoked by Future. A flowing blend of rhythm, voice and tone links the tracks giving a seamless, connected feel to the CD. "First Wave" has a smooth melody line, providing a baroque counterpointing of rhythms and melody. "Future" blends voice, strings and electronics providing a feeling of the artists' existential yearning for the future. "Road to Nowhere" brings forth images of a barren prairie with tumbleweeds blowing by. "Relapse" with its background voices and mechanical rhythms gives one a sense of the complexity of modern life. The fast-paced, not-quite-audible voices suggest a million voices converging on the internet. Overall, fantastic background music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool and mello, November 17, 2000

By	sas (Indianapolis) - See all my reviews

For fans of electronic, ambient or trip-hop music, this is a must have! Absolutely one of my all-time favorite chill-out CDs. Every track here is provocative and nearly flawless(especially "Crazy Moon" and "Falling"). This is music to get lost in late at night or on a lazy Sunday morning. If you're new to this kind of music, I'd be hard-pressed to recommend a better album to buy than this. This CD will take you places, I guarantee.