Sophie Sirota releases ’50:50 Pure Trance’ Youth remix single
Violist Sophie Sirota released the Youth remix single “50:50 Pure Trance” on 9 July 2026 via Coastal Electronauts, from the album “Pressure Drop Remixed”.
British violist, singer and composer Sophie Sirota released “50:50 Pure Trance – The Endless Carousel of Lust and Suffering Dub (Youth Remix)” on 9 July 2026 through Coastal Electronauts. The single is a nine-minute rework by Youth, the Killing Joke bassist and producer Martin Glover, and previews the remix album “Pressure Drop Remixed”, due on 10 September 2026. It streams on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Bandcamp.
Inside Sophie Sirota’s ’50:50 Pure Trance’
The single reworks the opening track of Sirota’s 2025 debut album “Pressure Drop”, a set built almost entirely from electric viola, effects pedals and voice. Youth stretches that source material into a long-form dub, and a video for the rework, directed by @diz_qo, accompanies the release.
“Pressure Drop Remixed” collects reworks of the debut by musicians Sirota has worked with, including two versions from Youth, plus 4Hero, Shape Navigator and 3Head. Sirota describes the process as hands-off: “I left each remix to their discretion and deliberately gave no direction or input.” The ten-track album closes with a second Youth reading, “50:50 Pure Ambient – The Savage Orient of the Heart Dub”. Both the single and the album are available through Bandcamp.
About Sophie Sirota
Sophie Sirota is a classically trained violist, singer and composer who began as a session violist while at music college. She has worked as a session player, live performer, arranger and composer with Paul Weller, Kim Deal, Tindersticks, Beth Orton, Ed Harcourt, 4-Hero, D’Influence, Gabrielle and Robert Kirby.
Sirota turned to her own electronic material in 2023 after performing at a monthly electronic music meet-up run by Coastal Electronauts in Whitstable, Kent. That series prompted her to build new pieces for electric viola, pedals and voice, an approach that produced the 2025 debut “Pressure Drop”. The album drew notice from the print press, with Record Collector calling it “a bold blend of ambient soundscapes and a fine example of innovative artistic imagination”. “Pressure Drop Remixed” and its lead single “50:50 Pure Trance” extend that debut into collaborative territory, opening Sirota’s viola-based material to a range of electronic producers.
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