Sophie is Sophie Long, Scottish-born and Los Angeles-based musician, producer and DJ who’s musical choices have her on a path for electro-dance pop stardom as purveyor of overtly natural sounding synthetics.

In macro, she plays god –crafting and molding every sound in her sonic rolodex from scratch, using an Electron Monomachine and Logic to virtually house her extensive creations.

When I approach a Sophie song I find myself perplexed in the complexities of it all; the sounds are almost always referential, playing with and growing off of the lyrical content. The track “Lemonade” comes to mind, who's bubbling riffs and slurps lead into a thundering chorus that sounds the way a cold, refreshing lemonade tastes - sound becoming liquid by process of virtual citrus reamer. The uncanny valley, a synthetic sound becoming placeholder for something real, is fundamental to Sophie’s signature sound, one that feels like being in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory and finding out that the snozzberries do in fact taste like snozzberries or in this case lemonade.

But why go to such lengths to create sounds that already exist, that could just as easily be sampled from life?