Sonic Sum

Best known because the group that initiated the saving profession of underground MC/manufacturer Rob Sonic, Sonic Amount may also be made up of Eric M.O. (manufacturer/bassist), Fred Types (DJ/manufacturer), and Jean Duval (DJ/manufacturer). Meshing live instrumentation with drum sampler-based creation, the foursome composes dark and moody sonicscapes to accept the myriad subject material of frontman Rob Sonic’s unusual and abstract, but literate, rhymes. Although trim for indie imprint Ozone Music, the group’s 2000 debut, The Sanity Annex, premiered to vital acclaim worldwide both in mainstream and unbiased music-oriented press. Ozone also released the 12″ one “Callarama Gala” (2000) and Plaster Guy (2002), an eight-song EP of unreleased materials and remixes. For the group’s second LP, Movies, Rob Sonic originally failed to discover U.S. distribution, and it had been just released in Japan in 2003. Nevertheless, the MC/manufacturer brought the task over to NY indie Definitive Jux, his label house as a single artist, for an effective U.S. launch five years later on.