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SOPHIE ” Pop producer SOPHIE'S music leaves no room for translation. Immediate, ecstatic and hyper-cel- ebratory of the pleasure of music, SOPHIE’s sounds relish music as a bodily pleasure, and in the tradition of Oscar Wilde cum Warhol, continues to shatter antiquated distinctions between sur- ‘face and depth, existence and essence, popular and niche. With its latex and pop-rocks aesthetics, the almost overly present sound of SOPHIE tapped into what Walter Benjamin once described as being. "filled with the presence of the now? in their contemporancity. SOPHIE’ work effortlessly strolls through a territory where the natural is artifical, music is advertising, and identities are ‘multiple. Challenging the traditional construct that still dominates popular music: where a musi-

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