MusicFirst LookSOPHIE – Nothing More To Say EPStream a furiously exciting collision of fluro dance and tectonic NRG for the bright nightShareLink copied ✔️February 22, 2013MusicFirst LookTextKaren OrtonPhotographyLeigh Johnson We don’t get to hear enough euphoric rave pop from London-based producer SOPHIE but it's long been a Dazed favourite and the new EP, Nothing More to Say, is worth the wait. SOPHIE's soundtracked many a feverish night out around London, but the 26-year-old has also played around Europe and North America, including with old friends Light Asylum, who SOPHIE remixed last year. Shannon Funchess has been a fan of their work since she sang with their old band in Berlin, “I really love the sound, SOPHIE possesses a talent and an ear for music beyond their race and years and is in touch soulfully with sound. Very rare." Although SOPHIE has a love for clubs, both going out and Djing in them, their favourite place to hear new music is closer to home. “There’s a newsagents near where I live called Krystals, I can’t believe how much good music they play that I never heard before!” SOPHIE exclaims. “Pop music from like the 70s, 80s and 90s, and kind of fluro dance stuff as well. I like when music kind of falls into your path, rather than having to seek it out.” SOPHIE's talent for spotting a hook goes back to an unusually early age. “I started making music on a computer when I was 11. Mostly it was really bizarre. In one, I slowed an organ sample down into a trip hop kind of beat; in another I sampled Placebo, which somehow went into ‘Born Slippy’; and this friend of my mum’s had a really shrill voice that I thought was hilarious, so mum called her up and I sampled the way she answered the phone.” The kid's swimming pools and bouncy castles on SOPHIE's website are a heady match for the sound - “the grotty plastic colours are kind of how I’d imagine my music would look” - but despite some early web-era vibes and heavy hints of 90s garage, don’t even mention the word nostalgia. “People say my music is nostalgic but it’s not intentional, I’m not a nostalgic person at all!" SOPHIE insists. "I’m interested in what’s happening now, what I’m doing now. I’d like my music to be the antithesis of nostalgia – sensual, an assault on the senses. Nothing that reminds you of the past, just what you’re feeling right now.” Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREFrost Children answer the dA-Zed quizThe 5 best features from PinkPantheress’ new remix albumZimmermannKindred spirits and psychedelic florals: Zimmermann heads to 70s Sydney Moses Ideka is making pagan synth-folk from the heart of south LondonBehind-the-scenes at Oklou and FKA twigs’ new video shootBjörk calls for the release of musician ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli authorities‘Her dumbest album yet’: Are Swifties turning on Taylor Swift?IB Kamara on branching out into musicEnter the K-Bass: How SCR revolutionised Korean club culture‘Comic Con meets underground rap’: Photos from Eastern Margins’ day festWho are H.LLS? Get to know London’s anonymous alt-R&B trioTaylor Swift has lost her grip with The Life of a Showgirl