Sorem Sound System - Sorem Sound System

artist: Sorem Sound System
album: Sorem Sound System
tags: trip-hop, downtempo, experimental
feel it

A Piece of Dismind / Beautiful Spirit / Denon / Feeling It / Screaming Black (Heike Duh Vocal Mix) / Screaming Black / Short Touch / Staendchen (remix) / Symbol 49 / The Day Where

One of the most elusive bands in the history of the trip-hop underground, Sorem Sound System have no official record as I know of, this being a bootleg made up of every song that has circulated in the last few years over the Internet (minus two other songs that are only sampled on tripofagia, nowhere else to be found). It looks like the band has broken up a long time ago - which is sad. Initially a grunge rock band apparently, Sorem Sound System have suddenly grown a fascination for trip-hop and for the classy downtempo and nu-jazz of the likes of St. Germain and Peace Orchestra (Screaming Black is actually just a St. Germain song with vocals on top, but both the Tricky-esque rapper and the female vocalist Heike Duh do a pretty good job at it). However, some of these tracks are rougher than that - The Day Where or Short Touch are up there with the best things in dark experimental trip-hop this turn of the century. Not to mention the masterpiece that is Beautiful Spirit. If they were still around, Sorem Sound System would have come to making at least one great album.