SOMABIT

 

 

All pop stories start somewhere. Some start in bars, some in clubs, and some in moshpits. For Somabit, this particular story starts with a brave new world...... Aldous Huxley's book and Raphael Bit Brought together some kind of needs to fill the hole and trying to find the perfect escape, the perfect drug without co-lateral effect and synthesize 'till its minimal expression was to lead to the creation of Somabit since winter of '98.

"It took a while to get the band together and to begin with we didn't know what we were doing, but that's turned out to be our greatest asset," Raphael Bit explains, his melodies every bit as fragile and understated as the one you'll hear on the records. "We didn't want to play other people's songs so we thought we might as well play our own. We knew almost immediately that we were onto something.  As did everyone who heard and fell in love with their music."
Somabit's armory of tunes began as straightforward homage's to their own heroes (James, Robert Smith, Morrisey, Stone Roses) but swiftly blossomed into a sound that was uniquely Somabit.

Their chances of clinching a deal in México however seemed remote, as they found themselves to be musically out of step with a record industry obsessed with plastic pop and Aqua. So Somabit took the initiative and formed their own label, Soma Productions, and set about releasing their own material. In setting up Soma Productions Somabit were doing more than taking matters into their own hands. Raphael remembers the feeling that they were "making a stand that the local industry had failed. We learned loads and, most importantly, it gave us the opportunity to sign to anybody else, should we get an offer."