Sumsonic

Sumsonic

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Sumsonic was formed in November 1999 by the four partners with the acquisition of the Studio premises in Battersea, London.
Underground, Deep Progressive House was the core formula for Studio projects with all original material being written and produced by Sumsonic artists.

Sumsonic artists addressed alternative music styles for various projects and have produced Deep House, Tech House, New School Breaks & Downtempo tracks for compilations and multimedia.
Sub-Labels Mechanism Records and Formerly Known were launched in 2001 and 2003, respectively.

Label is now Defunct
Sublabels:
Formerly Known As, Mechanism Records, Ronster Records
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Releases:
SS 001 Motion Blue In Motion (12") 2000
SS002 Sleepfreaks Get Down (12") 2000
SS 003 Sleepfreaks Transport (12") 2000
SS 004 Paul Rogers Rhythm Import / Spaces ◄ (2 versions) 2000
SS 005 Sleepfreaks Fusion / P.H.B. (12") 2001
SS 006 Darko Rotor / Search (12") 2001
SS007 Seconds Out Twisted Logic / Vanishing Point (12") 2001
SS008 Sleepfreaks Crash / Distant Mellow (12") 2001
SS 009 Gainer Moral Dilema (12") 2001
SS010 Sleepfreaks Chemical Shift ◄ (2 versions) 2001
SS 010R Sleepfreaks Chemical Shift (12") 2001
SS 011 Paul Rogers Switch / Lazy Monday (12") 2002
SS 012 Darko Code Of The Toad (12") 2002
SS013 Bala The Stand (12") 2002
SS 014 Paul Rogers Krafty (12") 2002
SS 014R Paul Rogers Krafty (Remixes) (12") 2003
SS 015 Absolut & Blade Pain ◄ (2 versions) 2002
SS 016 ODD Don't Look At Me (12") 2003
SS016R ODD Don't Look At Me (12") 2003
SS017 Paul Rogers & Pete Bones Tampa Blues (12") 2003
SS 018 Darko When I Return (12") 2003
SS 018R Darko When I Return (Paul Rogers Remixes) (12") 2003
SS019 Substructure Readers Waves Pt. 1 (12") 2003
SS 020 Sleepfreaks Light Jockey / Strobe Donkey ◄ (2 versions) 2004
SS 021 Invisible Inc. Stars (12") 2004
SS 021R Invisible Inc. Stars (Remixes) (12") 2004
SS 021RR Invisible Inc. Stars (Remixes Part Two) (12") 2004
SS022 Bakony Scamp House Come Save Me (12") 2003
SS 023 Darko Quid A Balloon (12") 2004
SS024 Bakony Scamp Dangerous Inside EP (12", EP) 2004
SS 024R Bakony Scamp Dangerous Inside EP (Disc 2) (12", EP) 2004
SS025 Gainer & Rogers* Future Nature ◄ (2 versions) 2005
SS 026 Darko & Julez Wednesday AM (12") 2005
SS 027 Paul Rogers Three's A Crowd (12") 2005
SS 028 Darko & Loveski Acidic (12") 2005
SS029 Pashka Feat. Ijeoma Island Breeze ◄ (2 versions) 2005
SS 030 Bakony Scamp Dirty Noisy (12") 2005
SSR 001 Two Tera Twangs Bass Maestro / Starjump (12") 2000
USC0001 Various Directional (CD, Comp, Mixed) 2002
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Review by Unterhimmel Feb 22, 2011 (edited about 1 year ago)
I don't know why boris.bunnik deleted his review but i know that he was right. Sumsonic was, no, it is one of the best progressive house labels out there. They constantly progressed their sound. The first releases contain monotone, dark, tribal-ish, and even psy-ish tracks. With ODD's "Don't Look At Me" things become brighter. Now the sound is more individual, uplifting, trancier, more complex. These releases mark the pinnacle of the label's history. The last seven releases are more on the housier side of things, sometimes even electro-fied.
Musically, the history of the label sums up the rest of the progressive house scene. Maybe it is no coincidence that the label stopped at the end of 2005, because afterwards more and more progressive labels started to produce dull and uninspired electro house. Maybe the sumsonic crew didn't want to jump on the bandwagon.
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Review by boris.bunnik Sep 09, 2007 (edited about 1 year ago)
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