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About Me

Sonmi451 is Bernard Zwijzen, creating his own blend of minimal, soundscape-laden atmospheric electronics in the city of Hasselt, Belgium.Sonmi451 is a character from David Mitchell's novel "Cloud Altas" who works as a slave-robot in an underground dinerplace, in a society called Nea So Copros in the distant future. It's quite a sympathetic humanoÃ¯d, who's aspiring efforts to become enlightened are brutally oppressed by a totalitarian, consumer-driven regime.If you insist on labeling the music you might say it bears resemblance to the more atmospheric stuff that is released through labels like Mille Plateaux, Scape, Kranky, etc...

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Member Since: 11/18/2006
Band Website: sonmi451.be
Influences: Shuttle358, Chris Herbert, Christopher Bissonnette, Chichei Hatakeyama, Biosphere, Jan Jelinek, Twerk, Tilman Erhorn,...
Record Label: u-cover
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New cd called "Cloud Atlas"

U-Cover released the new Sonmi-451 3''-cd, packaged in a neat DVD-sleeve called "Cloud Atlas". It contains three tracks, all in a very minimal Biosphere- or Pan American-style. At the same time & ...
Posted by sonmi451 on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:44:00 PST

Igloo Magazine review of Vladivostok

Igloo Magazine reviewed the first Sonmi-451-cd, released november 2005. You can read the review here...
Posted by sonmi451 on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:35:00 PST

Gonzo Circus - Mind The Gap

Hi all... Dutch music-magazine Gonzo Circus has licensed one of the tracks on the new cd "A Phosphorous Spot" for their upcoming Mind The Gap-compilation cd. More info soon...!
Posted by sonmi451 on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:40:00 PST