The brother of late visionary producer SOPHIE shares plans for posthumous releases, telling Billboard that 'there is a lot of music in the vaults.'
“There is a lot of music in the vaults, absolutely,” says SOPHIE’S brother, Ben Long. “There are literally hundreds of tracks.”The material ranges from rough sketches to nearly complete songs that were in the mixing stage at the time of the producer’s death. Which of those songs will see the light of day is an ongoing discussion between SOPHIE’s family — Long, his two sisters and their parents — and SOPHIE’s labels, Australia’s Future Classic and the United Kingdom’s Transgressive Records.
Whatever does come out, says Long, will involve him. He says all of SOPHIE’s unreleased music is in his possession: “I don’t know what anyone else could do, really, because they don’t have access to it.” He also was a key member of the producer’s inner circle, having served first as a tour manager and live engineer, then as mixing engineer on recorded projects. Long worked on SOPHIE’s 2018 album,, as well as an unreleased follow-up album that Long says just needs finishing touches.
“The idea SOPHIE and I discussed many times was to do one abstract experimental album and then a pop record — this was going to be the pop one — and to keep going on that cycle for years,” he says. “I don’t want to be like, ‘We’re going to put everything out,’ because sometimes SOPHIE didn’t want it to or it wasn’t finished.
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