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All pop stories start somewhere. Some start in bars, some in clubs, some in moshpits. For Somabit, this particular story starts with a brave new world...... Aldous Huxley's book and Raphael Bit Brought together some kind of needs to fill the hole and trying to find the perfect escape, the perfect drug without co-lateral effect and synthesize 'till it's minimal expression was to lead to the creation of Somabit since winter of '98.

"It took a while to get the band together and to begin with we didn't know what we were doing, but that's turned out to be our greatest asset," Raphael Bit explains, his melodies every bit as fragile and understated as the one you'll hear on the records. "We didn't want to play other people's songs so we thought we might as well play our own. We knew almost immediately that we were onto something." As did everyone who heard and fell in love with their music.
Somabit's armoury of tunes began as straightforward homages to their own heroes (James, Robert Smith, Morrisey, Stone Roses) but swiftly blossomed into a sound that was uniquely Somabit.

Their chances of clinching a deal in México however seemed remote, as they found themselves to be musically out of step with a record industry obsessed with plastic pop and Aqua. So Somabit took the initiative and formed their own label, Soma Productions, and set about releasing their own material. In setting up Soma Productions Somabit were doing more than taking matters into their own hands. Raphael remembers the feeling that they were "making a stand that the local industry had failed. We learned loads and, most importantly, it gave us the opportunity to sign to anybody else, should we get an offer."

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Todas las historias pop empiezan en alguna parte, algunas en bares, clubes, otras en antros underground; Para Somabit esta particular historia comienza a mediados del ‘98 con la necesidad de encontrar el escape ideal, la droga perfecta sin efectos colaterales y sintetizarlo como en una formula a su mínima expresión; Lo que nos llevó a la creación de Somabit.

Se llevó un rato mantener unida la banda con algo en lo cual no sabíamos lo que estábamos haciendo, pero esto resultó ser nuestro gran suceso. Raphael Bit explica, “No quisimos tocar canciones de otros y pensamos que bien podríamos tocar las nuestras. Supimos de inmediato que estábamos sobre algo”, al igual que cada uno de los que escucharon y se enamoraron con su música; Sus melodías, en cada fragmento tan frágil y minimizado como la que escucharás en las grabaciones.

Somabit armado de tonos comenzó como homenajes directos a sus propios héroes (James, Robert Smith, Morrisey, Stone Roses…) pero evolucionó rápidamente en un sonido que era únicamente Somabit.

Sus posibilidades de afianzar un contratrato en México de cualquier manera parecían remotas encontrándose a si mismos musicalmente fuera de tiempo con una industria obsesionada con pop plástico, volátil y covers de los 80's. Así fue que Somabit tomó la iniciativa y formó su propio sello: Soma Productions. Somabit hizo más que poner el asunto en sus propias manos; Raphael recuerda tener la sensación que "hacían un parte aguas cuando la industria local había fallado". "Aprendimos mucho y, lo más importantemente, nos dio la oportunidad de firmar a quien fuera con una buena propuesta."