“For two thirds of an SOS set, we leave ‘Patient Release’ and ‘Best Things In Very value, and also we wanted to add Despite the editing and fine-tuning, the
the original productions alone,” Desyn Short Time’ — see the trio working something more personal, our own trio approached the mixes in the same
reckons. “But what we try to do when we together as a production team. If the material. way as when they play at the club, using
mix is create two to three minutes of first mix is an audio montage of SOS “I knew the guys liked my tracks, it just CDJs and FX. The warmth and human
something new, which is made from working the Ministry club system, made sense putting some of the flavours touch is palpable; you can hear the
merging two or three tracks together. So dropping upfront sonic bombs left, right from one of the guys in SOS on there, physical heft of the three’s intense
a third of our sets tend to be something and centre, then CD2 offers another kind rather than just filling it up with other concentration, and appreciation, as
new that we haven’t prepared. That’s of snapshot, a different perspective of stuff that’s out there.” they become lost in the mix.
part of the excitement of coming to hear the SOS sound.
us, and for us to play — we never know Ranging from the sub-low acid basslines In this respect, despite their adoption of
what’s going to happen. Over the last few and progressive synth sweeps of Omid’s Versatility new technologies, SOS value the old
years we’ve started to learn how to do ‘Can’t Deny The Three’, to the more epic, It shouldn’t really be a surprise that school ways, believe that there should
that, for it not to sound too messy, be in pneumatic motions of his ‘Same As You they’re so versatile. SOS’s last mix album, be some blood, sweat and tears, some
key, that’s kind of the art of SOS, that (Saxophone Reprise Dub)’, it taps into 2008’s ‘Balance 013: SOS’, was an entirely true work and application to the artform
creation. It’s finding the balance another area of the trio’s eclectic tastes. separate prospect, three discs that took of DJing. They’re none too impressed by
between letting the original producer’s While still rooted in dancefloor dynamics, in everything from The Cure’s eerie post the new digital DJing breed whose sets,
tune play and doing a bit of our own it’s more of a multi-layered headphone punk to Lindstrøm’s galactic disco taking they say, isn’t real DJing at all.
creation.” listen, and demonstrates SOS’s art as a more leftfield tack. With each new “A lot of people are mixing off their
music creators as well as selectors. project, they set themselves a challenge computers now, and they don’t need
“CD two is what made the experience of doing something different to before; monitors ’cos they don’t really mix. The
Brand New quite fresh,” Desyn notes. “It was more with the Ministry mix, it was to recreate a computer does the mixing. We’re still
New music is where the second disc of like telling a story. Not typically like a set live SOS DJ set, and capture the recording using CDs to mix, that’s very important
‘Ministry of Sound The Club Present SOS’ you’d hear us play in a club.” in a way they’d never done before. to us,” opines Desyn.
comes in. Largely composed of fresh Omid adds: “We suggested the second CD
creations from Omid 16B, two tracks — idea to Ministry, and luckily they went for
it. They only wanted one CD. We knew
they had the tools, and we thought we
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