DeepChord sees Ultraviolet Music

Rod Modell will commit another album to Soma Records with a double CD release.

Cast your eye over Soma Records’ extensive black catalogue and it’s names like Slam, Percy X (aka Edit Select) and Funk D’Void that will stand out most, however alongside Daft Punk – Soma of course released the Parisian duo’s seminal Homework LP (and three 12″s before that) in 1996 – one of the label’s most intriguing signings is DeepChord. Since the release of DeepChord’s Hash-Bar Loops in 2011, Rod Modell’s most recognised alias has been a recognised fixture of Soma Records discography by committing albums and 12″s to the label every year since, with other records finding their way to Modern Love, London’s fledging Astral Industries imsprint, and of course Modell’s own echospace [detroit].

Soma Records have revealed DeepChord’s next album, and fourth in total for the label, will arrive in CD format across two discs, called Ultraviolet Music. It follows the release of 20 Electrostatic Soundfields, and as a press release explains this album differs in that it’s inspired by 1980s and ’90s experimental and ambient music, Detroit techno, deep house, and Berlin. Followers of DeepChord won’t be surprised to read the album is described as “middle of the night atmospheres, hypnotic repetitions, shortwave static and slowly evolving textures,” and across the 21 tracks in total there’s enough to feed the appetite of both DJ and at-home-listener.

Soma Records will release Ultraviolet Music by DeepChord on November 27.

Tracklisting:

Disc 1

1. Visible Audio
2. Ambrosia
3. CMOS Therapy
4. Gulf Breeze
5. Red Sky
6. Sferic
7. Radio Netherlands
8. Melange
9. Night Transmission
10. Bogota

Disc 2

1. Grundig
2. Ghost Track
3. 12th Space
4. North Sea
5. Hyperborea
6. Where Science Meets The Divine
7. Voice of Guyana
8. A New Consciousness
9. The Infinite Now
10. Mass Digital
11. Radionics

Header image courtesy of Marie Staggat