Somatik Sound System, founded by Perforated Cerebral Party finds its origins in 2011. Somatik’s first tracks were recorded as cover versions in tribute to John Balance from "Coil" (2004) & Klaus Nomi (2006). 
The idea of this music genre was to make dark and slow techno that will resemble a funeral march. These two so-called requiems have begun bearing in the form of Somatik Techno that flourished some time after both of its founders had a near-death experience: one from a heart attack as a result of a lasting rave lifestyle, while the other spent a week in coma because of a tranquilizers overdose after a bad trip. As a result, Vovapcp & Tsaritsa Logiki aka PCP, the creators of Somatik Techno, had to slow down and their music automatically decelerated together with them. 
More and more artists started to find this music experiment appealing with its heavy and “rusty” groove, dark melodics and rasping bass lines. Being originated in Saint-Petersburg, Somatik Techno started gaining followers across the Russian Federation and in Ukraine, Belarus, Finland and Ireland.
                     
Shortly after the Perforated Cerebral Party and Hertzman met in 2012, the idea to craft a new music label that will reach more people with its idiosyncratic concept emerged. 
Hertzman is a co-founder and a boss of the Somatik Sounds. From the beginning, he along with more than 30 artists from abroad have been popularizing Somatik Techno. He is also one of the biggest adepts of this music genre, constantly producing solo-releases and establishing collaborations. In general, the achievements of the label this is one the merits of Hertzman’s efforts.
Slow and dark minimal ambient, analog electronic music impending to downtempo or psychedelic dub with IDM elements to name a few, but the significant and driving essence for every release of this kind are hypnotic 90 BPM, techno beat and heavy bass tones. The main goal conceptualized by Hertzman is to achieve the best composition’s significance in its semantic origin and qualitative arrangement. Consequently, less and less releases by outsider artists are considered as they have no key tones of Somatik style recognized in their music.      
The creation of the cover’s design is another important aspect in this system of musical magic. The similarity with the chemical elements of the Mendeleev’s periodic table is easily recognized in the production. Currently, the artwork’s design was transformed a little to showcase the deeper theme of the music with the label logo as a trademark accompanying the release. In the last several years, the design reflects people whose faces are hidden by the Somatik Sounds label logo, with the opposing image of each of them conveying a psychedelic meaning for each record.  
Stay tuned and follow our news, whilst fresh concentrate of Somatik Sounds will continue to stir its listeners no matter what.

Animatronix is a Sonic Wizard, exploring the self through sound, trying to make sense of the world and our place in it by spending most of his time tinkering in the studio to produce something that may have a positive effect on others. 
The project is a story of striving for balance, harnessing the depths of spirit through undertones of tribal bass, and the beautiful aspects of existence through emotive melody. 
These polarities exist in harmony through the journey of the music, as it offers a reflection of how these dualistic qualities in ourselves do not have to be opposing, but can form a synergy. 

Releases on Shanti Planti, Universal Tribe Records, Street Ritual, Mystic Sound Records.

For bookings, Remixes, Colabs
Email: animatronix@protonmail.com

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Circus Company is an independent French label, founded in 2000 in Paris.

The official Hybrid SoundCloud page.

Hybrid are Mike & Charlotte Truman who have gained international acclaim for their combination contemporary electronic music with enveloping orchestral scores and soundscapes. Hybrid's first artist album ‘Wide Angle’ in 1999 was considered to be ground breaking in fusing modern production with performances from the Russian Federal Orchestra. They have written a further three artist albums, toured around many of the world’s most iconic music venues and festivals and have remixed artists as diverse as New Order, Radiohead, UNKLE, Alanis Morrisette, Jean Michelle Jarre, Moby, Future Sound Of London and The Orb.

A natural progression from their orchestral heavy albums inevitably led them into film scoring and they have recently composed the soundtrack for Jim Gillespie’s forthcoming thriller Take Down, Sony’s PS4 worldwide #1 Driveclub, Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier and the Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller, Vice. Hybrid have worked extensively throughout the film music industry on many titles including Hercules, The Equalizer, Total Recall and The Fast & Furious franchise.

Their heavyweight combination of soaring orchestration and cutting edge production has kept them in demand amongst a growing number of film makers which will shortly include a complete music preparation and score for John Stephenson's Interlude In Prague. Hybrid have recently completed their highly anticipated 5th studio album, Light Of The Fearless. Due for release on the 27th of July 2018.

Hybrid Merchandise shop now online with embroidered hoodies, t-shirts, embossed mugs and logo enriched toilet rolls. www.hybridshop.co.uk

For press and direct contact, please email contact@killcitymusic.com

Moscow based group of musicians. 
Projects: Babakaband, Anton Ripatti, Femmenoire

Diego Stocco is an inventor of unusual musical instruments, music sound designer and composer.
One of his most recognizable instruments is the Experibass, a mutated double bass for which he invented a playing technique called “Sticcato”, creating an intense combination of tonal and percussive timbres. With this instrument, he was invited to be a featured soloist on the soundtrack of "Sherlock Holmes" scored by Oscar®-winning composer Hans Zimmer, the video games "Assassin's Creed" and "Darktide" with BAFTA-winning composer Jesper Kyd and as a composer and performer of his piece “Thunderous” for the film "Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire”. As a composer, he produced the music for the video game "The Conduit” and the film "Chernobyl Diaries”, where he experimented with more strange instruments and sonic approaches. 
The music and sound design elements from his Sonic Artifact label, specialized in horror, thriller, western and sci-fi genres, is distributed worldwide by BMG Production Music and have been placed on dozens of film trailers, films and TV shows.

As one of the Principal Sound Designers, Diego created numerous iconic sounds for the core libraries of Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, Trilian, Bob Moog Tribute Library and the flagship synth Omnisphere. His approach to listening and psychoacoustic microphone techniques allowed him to discover musically playable sounds in a variety of common objects, such as light bulbs, a clothes drying rack, a leather hat, and a number of odd instruments created by combining pieces of furniture and parts of appliances with traditional instruments. One of his most extreme sampling session was the Burning Piano, a piano sampled while it was on fire. He later created his own Sonic Extension for Omnisphere called Twisted Trees, where he built original sculptural instruments inspired by forest trees and the random motion of elements of nature.

Diego explored the sound of nature and trees with a series of musical videos, starting from Music from Sand, Music from a Tree, and Music from Nature. In these works, a lighter, playful and more abstract approach to sound appears, where he let the unconventional sounds inspire the composition. He also built instruments that can be seen as imaginative little places, like the Magical Butterfly Valley and the Miniature Forest Piano, where the listener is invited to listen to the instruments as if they were played by butterflies and birds.

Diego also created a unique approach to Convolution processing with his “Rhythmic Convolutions” sets, where he takes sounds produced by a variety of objects, materials and interactions to create original Impulse Responses that transfer both their rhythmic and spectral profile to drums, synths and any instrument with fast attacks. Occasionally Diego teaches workshops and masterclass where he shares his imaginative approach with other musicians and sound designers.

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Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and former scientist who has carved out a unique space in music and visual art.

He holds a PhD in computational biology at the same time as being the first contemporary electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musicians to produce in Dolby Atmos.

Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, online media, music videos and live events.  Anchored throughout is his emotive approach, connecting how ideas and forms feel, in a manner accessible to us all. 
 
As an artist synonymous with the evolution of club culture, Cooper honed his craft as a DJ with a 10 year residency at legendary Midlands techno event Firefly where he formed a foundational relationship with Architecture Social Club, with whom he still collaborates on extravagant immersive installations.

"I want to encourage the acceptance of electronic music as an art form like any other. Bringing electronic music and abstract audio-visual projects into concert halls, museums and galleries is liberating - the art world opens up doors to communicate in ways that aren’t possible elsewhere."
  
Pivoting from computational biology to electronic music might not seem like the most natural career transition, but for Cooper the commonalities are obvious:
 
"In both fields, you're in a sense, free. Free from the limits of living systems, free from the limits of corporeal sound. The only constraints are in your mind."

www.maxcooper.net 

Contacts:
Management: James Palmer-Bullock, The Wild Seeds - james@thewildseeds.com 
Label: Anthony Faulkner, Mesh – anthony@thewildseeds.com 
PR: Neil Bainbridge, Neighbourhood PR - neil@nbhd-group.com 
Radio: Matthew Maxey, Enganche - matthew@enganche.co.uk

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