Hard to describe how this feels… I’ve been on the edge of tears since it was announced
I love that they’re giving her a real album rollout with singles & physical releases, she is still a pop star after all
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Cool to see this is finally happening but I’m a little disappointed with the final mixdown compared to the many others that have floated around online the past few years…
In particular this one:
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What is so special about SOPHIE?
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She used the Monomachine quiet a bit on her first release so there are a lot of overlapping fans in this community such as myself. I actually discovered Elektron though her work, not vice versa. She passed away unexpectedly early 2021 & the coming album is what was left from her next album that was mostly finished according to her family. There are many places online you can read more about her & artists shes influenced if you’re interested
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There are a number of threads about SOPHIE here.
https://www.elektronauts.com/search?context=topic&context_id=216018&q=Sophie%20&skip_context=true
You might want to check the one about sound design, maybe.
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oh wow, this is a brilliant surprise, I had literally no idea there was more music!
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I love Sophie so much. She has many great unreleased songs, a bunch of pop bangers like this albums’s single. I wonder if this album will have any songs i don’t know. Either way, I’m stoked. I really hope they put Kitty Kat on this.
I gotta tell you all how FREAKED I was when I got a YouTube notification from a new post on the SOPHIE YouTube channel. And there was NO information on who posted it or what. I actually questioned whether I got it wrong that they had passed away. Finally someone left a comment that this was done by their friends and family, but I really thought I was in the Twilight Zone for a second.
I’m so happy that this is going to be released; like the memorial/funeral the SOPHIE community needs and SOPHIE deserves
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She was a producer/artist that had a very niche sound and cultivated a ton of adoring fans in a lot of communities partially because of her personal life and significant rise in the pop music industry with an untimely death. But most importantly, Sophie does go hard.
She used the monomachine a lot in her earlier productions and the cat figured out some really metallic, bubbly, fm sounds and used the sound characteristics of the MnM to find and characterize their unique sound.
I’ve seen that fans of hers are forking out $2-$3k on a MnM as their first electronic instrument, to each is own. 
I think she switched to FM8 and Serum for her later stuff.
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she definitely would make a more assertive sound for the final release
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A good faith question or someone who’s “just asking questions”?
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I aim fairly new to this forum and had never heard of her before visiting Elektronauts. She gets lots of admiration here and I wanted to know why that is.
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SOPHIE and all the PC Music friends occupied a very special time in my early twenties and have heavily impacted my musical taste, chaos and joy and hyper energy, the true dadaists of the modern music age
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Because people love her music? Idk, it’s a bit of an odd question. I think she’s one of the all-time great producers but I’m not gonna try to put that into words. The music speaks for itself.
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I’ll put it differently. Her music does nothing for me personally. Since everybody speaks so highly of her on this forum, I figured there must be more to it. It got my answer from a few in this thread, that it is ‘the sound’ she created with some elektron boxes that was never heard before. And that she has been an influence to many…
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I have to say I agree. What I like about her music is more about sound design than actual tracks. Strangely enough.
A couple months ago, I was playing a set at a local club. I don’t really do pop music at all, but I did have this track that was playful in a vaguely IDM sorta way. A young trans kid who occasionally works as a bartender there ran up to say how much she loved the track and said it reminded her of SOPHIE. I didn’t personally hear a strong connection, but if someone likes your track, no sense in arguing with them
That got me to thinking about SOPHIE again.
When I first joined Elektronauts, I had no idea who she was either, but the folks who like her, REALLY like her, so I checked out some music. The first song I heard had me thinking “This is just way too pop for me, but the programming/arranging sure is cool.” From there, I would occasionally check out some stuff that the algorithm would send my way and got more impressed each time. For me, it’s her mix of very high level sound design and arranging mixed with such playfulness and an anything goes attitude. I can’t think of anything trickier than trying to be so ‘avant’ yet so pop at the same time. It’s very difficult to pull off. You have to be fearless and she was certainly that.
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I’m pretty sure the reason they asked this was likely due to previously heated and polarized conversations about SOPHIE’s work on this forum prior to her death. There have been a few threads that have concluded pretty stupidly devolving into really nonconstructive critisims of both SOPHIE & the other forum members. I don’t think @thermionic was trying to be prickly to @Joostosan
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On a lighter note is “Product” the Monomachine album?