Profound sounds from Soma World featuring Falle

Envoking worlds of melancholic bliss

Falle

Soma World arrive on the wonderful boutique label Adventures In Paradise with something quite special, including a set of outrageously good Ray Mang remixes.

Josh Ludlow and Tom Green first started playing music together as teenage rockers, before reconnecting 15 years later “over a love of reverb and late-night driving” to form Soma World. Providing the exquisite vocals on this record is Guinean artist, Falle. A well-known singer and percussionist in his native country, Falle now calls the UK home having moved there in 2018, and has since worked with producers including Congo Natty, Ghost Culture, Sir Was and Johan Hugo.

Providing exceptional remixes here is one of our huge favourites, Ray Mang, the UK-based Balearic disco master whose records we've been in love with since we first started collecting in the mid '90s. He's released under various guises over the years on innumerable labels including Nuphonic, Naked, Claremont 56, Eskimo, DFA, and is showing no sign of letting up, continuing, as he does, to supply a seemingly constant stream of outstanding underground music.

The package contains six versions in total, with original and extended versions alongside Ray Mang's vocal, instrumental, extended and radio mixes. The original gently evolves over infectious guitar chords and a driving Afro rhythm, its delicate instrumentation leaving space for the emotive lead vocal to permeate, before breaking down with dub delays and heavy reverb to add to haze to the atmosphere. The lead synth hook is used sparingly to lift the track, and the thoughtful arrangement ebbs and flows blissfully. This is eyes-closed that music transports us to the last days of summer, warm, sun-kissed and tinged with a subtle air of melancholy.

Ray Mang's versions remain faithful to the original piece, making the most of the music, albeit carefully re-blended, re-balanced and arranged to allow room for his deft use of effects. His versions morph into a trance-inducing, psychedelic hybrid – turning an already excellent track into something that launches far, far out of this world.

Soma World 'Want This' is out July 10 on Adventures In Paradise. You can listen and buy it here