Artist » Somatic Responses

hymen records celebrates its 12th year of existence with this fine double cd set which includes 33 tracks by 33 projects. artists who (both well known and new to our followers) spotlight hymen records as things are now. a blend of electronica, breakbeats, dubstep, electro, ambient and much more... enjoy the gush! packaging: deluxe 6panel gatefold-sleeve - photography & design by salt

Industrial Breakcore

a new sign of life from wales - john and paul healy, well-known as somatic responses produced a new fulltime masterpiece of electronic sound wizzardry. almost two years have passed since giauzar and it seems the brothers used their time not only for the explorations of new tonal and atonal scapes, they also went for a re-analysis of their roots.the digital darkness described here is a dry, drawn out universe of distorted chromatic basses, straightened heavy beats and swirling filter pulses, establishing ties from the times when the tb-303 took over technoid music up to the nineties where speed increased and rhythms became dodgier. stylistic classifications were never somatic responses' aim, nevertheless, digital darkness might be rated as one of their most straight-lined works since years - f.e. you never heard s.r. as speedy as they are on the title track or 'reset the world'. their typical ingredients like unique strings usage are still present ('stranded'), the enrichment with some blasts from the past makes digital darkness a mixture which will kick your eardrums in.

Not in the Breakcore style, becasue this is more musical, but it appears to be born as a Breakcore & hardcore superb collection (well, it's a compilation but here it's more like a collection)... Naturally dancefloor and still unformated enough for a good musical feeling. Watch out for the vinyl edition !!!

somatic responses have become a household name in experimental electronic music by reanimating classic electronic music styles with distortion and tempo to create a new futuristic sound. this album, dedicated to the memory of their father john healy, ranges between dark rhythmic downtempo pieces ('b boy 3000), hard-driven broken beats ('shell') and threatening, soundtrackish electro-ambience which evokes the memory of john carpenter as viewed through bullet-shattered glass ('heliuminum'). somatic responses puts you into a swirling bed of synth clouds while producing an album which proves that ruptured hard-drives of broken-beated chaos can still elicit emotions beyond those of a confused tedium. diversified and ingenious is the best way to describe this new album. an album which leaves you breathless.

The dark Breakcore master on his favourite labels ! F**ing Good !

Some may say « the new somatics ». The evolution is there : more abstract, and strechhed than before.The sound is bright and strong. Rythmics are strange and syncopated. A nice homage to JOHN PEEL.

Second venue on Hymen for Somatic Responses. The shape is setteled : Dqrk Files of Downtempo breakcore. progressively harder and harder. That putrs you inna murder mood or something very insane. Darkness Beauty.

The dark Breakcore master on his favourite labels ! F**ing Good !

The Melodious Sopmatics Responses Tunes ! Back to their early stuff !