The year's coming to a close now and we here at Soma are only just catching up with this social networking malarkey, and now that we've finally gotten ourselves a Blogger account we're going to exploit it to the max. Well, truth be told we'll probably have a great time sitting here updating it for all of about 2 days then we'll forget about it. But, in the off-chance that our short attention spans don't delude us and we remember to come on here at fairly regular intervals and update you with what's happening with the label, you should check back for updates every now and then.

So a lot has happened for the label throughout this year and November was a good month for everything being summed up. First of all we released the annual Soma Compilation CD which rounds up the best of this year's releases from Soma. With remixes from Robert Hood, Adam Beyer, Orlando Voorn, Onionz and Mark Broom and plenty of new original work to salivate over it's worth checking out. You can grab a copy of it here.

The Black Dog were last week awarded album of the year from DJ Mag with their outstanding Radio Scarecrow album. 2008 has been a huge year for the guys on Soma with the release of the new album, some beasting remixes coming their way, gigs all over the world including one of the best sets Sonar festival has ever seen, and various side projects that the act take part in. A huge congratulations must go out to the act. If you've not heard Radio Scarecrow yet check it out at the Soma shop.

Also in other shop news, we've currently got a massive Christmas sale on all our back catalogue mp3 downloads so scoot on over there for any classics that you've not got your mitts on yet.

A couple of new things to look forward to in the Soma calendar - two, that's right TWO, new offshoot record labels. First of all Slam have just launched Paragraph, a new experimental label specifically for Slam releases. The first release City Destroyer is out now and doing some serious damage. This will be followed at the start of '09 by Hot Knives, which more than lives up to its title. The second new label is Somabeta, a new sublabel of Soma's tailored specifically for new and emerging talent that's currently floating our boat. The first 12" will be out in January and will be a split 12" between Audiofillia and Jean Ramesse & Let's Go Outside. Shortly afterwards there'll be a Somabeta compilation album comes out to let you sample exactly what the new label is going to be all about.

That's about it for now but we'll be back on sometime in the next week or so to tickle you with more.