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Soul Mining: Music, Themes & Works

Soul Mining is the debut studio album by the English post-punk and synth-pop band the The. Matt Johnson, the lead singer and songwriter behind the The, began recording the album in New York City, after a bidding war between major record labels resulted in the group signing a recording contract with CBS Records. The initial recording sessions were aborted…

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Soul Mining topic overview

The analysis highlights Music, Themes and Works as prominent areas in the source structure around Soul Mining.

Related topics: 65
Source areas: 8
Connected nodes: 73
Extracted relationships: 184
Concept neighborhoods: 20
Bridge connections: 73

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Background and initial New York recording sessions · 17 topics

Critical reception · 14 topics

Overview · 11 topics

Recording · 11 topics

Composition and themes · 7 topics

Artwork · 3 topics

Release and promotion · 1 topics

Track listing · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Genres: Pop · post-punk · synth-pop
Labels: Some Bizzare · Epic
Length: 41:42
Producers: Paul Hardiman · Matt Johnson
Recorded: 1982–1983
Released: 21 October 1983

Suggested research paths

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Less obvious directions

Release and promotion

Box set

Track listing

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Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Background and initial New York recording sessions

Composition and themes

Recording

Artwork

Andrew Andy Dog Johnson
Fela Kuti
The Face The Face (magazine)

Release and promotion

Box set

Critical reception

NME
Sounds Sounds (magazine)
Record Mirror
Kurt Loder
Rolling Stone
Cashbox Cashbox (magazine)
Uncut Uncut (magazine)
Peter Paphides
Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre
Alexis Petridis
The Guardian
PopMatters
Mojo Mojo (magazine)
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Track listing

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Advanced semantic analysis

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How Soul Mining connects Entity context

The extracted context around Soul Mining shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Soul Mining → B-sides, Canadian, CD, Day, Early, Europe, Fruit, Giant, Heart, However, In, In Australia, It, Johnson, Johnson's, June, Mixed Emotions, New Zealand, October, Perfect Another extracted example is Soul Mining → As, Cashbox, Dave Henderson, Don Watson, Holland, However, Ignore, In, In Melody Maker Steve, In Record Mirror Jim, It, Johnson, Johnson's, Kurt Loder, Loder, LP, Matt Johnson, More, NME, Reid. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Soul Mining

Top relations

related to Release and promotion · 29

Soul Mining → B-sides, Canadian, CD, Day, Early, Europe, Fruit, Giant, Heart, However, In, In Australia, It, Johnson, Johnson's, June, Mixed Emotions, New Zealand, October, Perfect

related to Critical reception · 28

Soul Mining → As, Cashbox, Dave Henderson, Don Watson, Holland, However, Ignore, In, In Melody Maker Steve, In Record Mirror Jim, It, Johnson, Johnson's, Kurt Loder, Loder, LP, Matt Johnson, More, NME, Reid

related to Artwork · 25

Soul Mining → African, Andrew, Andy, Andy Dog, Andy's, As, CD, Day, Electronic Sound Johnson, Fela Kuti, Fiona Skinner, Graphic, In, Johnson, Johnson's, Matt Johnson, Matt Johnson's, Skinner's, Soul Mining's, The

related to Composition and themes · 23

Soul Mining → All, Although Johnson, Braithwaite House, CBS, De Woolf, Despair, Finsbury, Fiona Skinner, Giant, Having, He, Highbury, I've Been Waiting, In, Johnson, Johnson's, London, My Life, Portastudio, The

related to Recording · 21

Soul Mining → Advision, Although, Christmas Eve, February, Following, Garden, Hardiman, Hardiman's, Johansen's, Johnson, London, New York, Paul Hardiman, Perfect, Sarm, Shoreditch, Stevo, The, Thorne's, UK

related to Legacy and accolades · 15

Soul Mining → Albums, August, Hear Before You Die, In, It, Johnson's, Melody Maker, Mojo, NME, November, PopMatters, Record Mirror, Reviewing, Sounds, The Guardian

related to CD · 14

Soul Mining → All, CD, Day, Giant, I've Been Waitin, Matt Johnson, My Life, Perfect, The, The Sinking Feeling, The Twilight Hour, This Is, Tomorrow, Uncertain Smile

related to UK and Europe cassette · 11

Soul Mining → All, Day, Giant, I've Been Waitin, My Life, Side, The Sinking Feeling, The Twilight Hour, This Is, Tomorrow, Uncertain Smile

Studios · 4

Soul Mining → Advision (London), Mediasound (New York City), SARM (London), The Garden (London)

Genres · 3

Soul Mining → Pop, post-punk, synth-pop

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Important terminology

johnson album soul mining new johnson's record york one perfect release version uk matt london 1983 released uncertain smile day

Soul Mining relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 184 structured relationships around Soul Mining. Examples in this analysis include Soul Mining → Genres → Pop and Soul Mining → Genres → post-punk. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Soul Mining	Genres	Pop	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Genres	post-punk	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Genres	synth-pop	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Labels	Some Bizzare	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Labels	Epic	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Length	41:42	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Producers	Paul Hardiman	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Producers	Matt Johnson	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Recorded	1982–1983	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Released	21 October 1983	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Studios	Mediasound (New York City)	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Studios	The Garden (London)	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Studios	Advision (London)	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	Studios	SARM (London)	1.00	infobox
Soul Mining	is a	debut studio album by the English post-punk and synth-pop band the The	0.90	text
Soul Mining	is a	post-punk and synth-pop album with influences of the early 1980s New York club scene	0.90	text
Soul Mining	is a	brilliant and very idiosyncratic album	0.90	text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Soul Mining bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Soul, Johnson's and Album. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Soul Mining
- Soul
- Johnson's
- Album
- Synth-pop
- Post-punk
- Released
- Perfect
- Record
- Johnson
- Day
- New
- Release
soul mining
- Soul
- Johnson's
- Album
- Synth-pop
- Post-punk
- Perfect
- Released
- Day
- Record
- Release
- Smile
- Uncertain
matt johnson
- New
- Matt
- York
- London
- Record
- Early
- Recording
- Thorne
- Song
- Soul
- Original
- Track
new york city
- New
- York
- Record
- London
- Smile
- Uncertain
- Recording
- Stevo
- Johnson
- Thorne
- Perfect
- Two
recording contract
- London
- York
- First
- Release
- Smile
- Uncertain
- Perfect
- Record
- Synth-pop
- Although
- Early
- Singles
this is the day
- Smile
- Uncertain
- I've
- Released
- Version
- Perfect
- One
- Singles
- Also
- Mining
- Included
- Track
london records
- Two
- York
- Recording
- Stevo
- Smile
- Uncertain
- New
- Post-punk
- Singles
- Day
- Song
- Track
new york dolls
- New
- York
- Record
- London
- Smile
- Uncertain
- Recording
- Stevo
- Johnson
- Thorne
- Perfect
- Two

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Soul Mining, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Soul Mining with Background and initial New York recording sessions. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Soul Mining — Background and initial New York recording sessions · splits 56 ⟂ 18

Soul Mining — Critical reception · splits 59 ⟂ 15

Soul Mining — Overview · splits 62 ⟂ 12

Soul Mining — Recording · splits 62 ⟂ 12

Soul Mining — Composition and themes · splits 66 ⟂ 8

Soul Mining — Artwork · splits 70 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Soul Mining

Nodes74

Edges73

Triples184

Avg. degree1.97

Density0.027027

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Soul Mining to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Music, Themes & Works, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Soul Mining · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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