Twenty-three months and two record deals later, Soulstice has become one of San Francisco's first electronic bands to attract the bigwigs of the music industry. It's possible that we weren't too far from the truth. My friend turned to me and whispered, "These kids are scaring me-they're too good." Admitting to neurotic mixtures of awe and jealousy, we knew that this group-whatever the hell its name was-would someday be famous. The groove was on, and despite its hip clubber hesitance to enjoy live music, the crowd was feeling it.Īfter all, this was not the riff-ridden acid jazz that then plagued San Francisco here was a live electronic band playing something genuinely new, something that didn't sound like Dave Brubeck with a lobotomy and a bitchen' pair of flared corduroys.
A small white girl in a huge fur hat belted out a bittersweet love song with the might and beauty of a gospel singer, while two club kids on keyboards and another on the turntables blended house, ambient and funk into buttery, Motown-on-ecstasy soul.
Three years ago, at half past two in the morning, I found myself in the basement of a Mission Street warehouse, completely mesmerized by the sight and sound before me. What was once Soulstice's dream has now become its job Potential Pop Stars: Soulstice has become one of San Francisco's first electronic bands to attract the bigwigs of the music industry.
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