London-based Soccer 96 is a futuristic duo featuring keyboardist Danalogue (Dan Leavers) and drummer Betamax (Maxwell Hallett), which makes up two-thirds of The Comet Is Coming (with Shabaka Hutchings). They have just released their highly-anticipated fourth full-length album, titled Dopamine, which is inspired by a sci-fi theme in which robots have taken over the world, and humanities attempt to destroy them.

Featuring a heavy dose of mind-melting cosmic grooves through twelve tracks, the record blends together astral synths, and spacey atmospheric tones, with pulsating drum rhythms. The recording also features hypnotic-like vocals on two of the album’s most standout tracks by special guests Nuha Ruby Ra on the title track “Dopamine” and “Sitting On A Satellite” by Salami Rose Joe Louis.

Brilliant from start to finish, this is an incredible concept recording that, with one listen, will have listeners orbiting into the future. Now, I just wish there was a film to go with what would make a perfect soundtrack.

Okay, I’m off to watch the planets go by …

Soccer 96 — ‘Dopamine’
(Moshi Moshi Music)

1. Enter The Vortex
2. Prelude to the Age of Transhumanism
3. Psychic Mechanics
4. Dopamine feat. Nuha Ruby Ra
5. Entanglement
6. Red Skies of the Anthropocene
7. Sitting On A Satellite feat. Salami Rose Joe Louis
8. Use Music To Kill
9. Perfect Dystopia
10. Telepathic DNA
11. Interplanetary Meditations
12. Carry Us Home

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• Cosmic
• ELECTRONIC MUSIC