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A fourth revision for 2020 of the SOFT RIOT track "Cinema Eyes", the original version released on the 2013 album FICTION PREDICTION. Originally released November 2020 on the Forbidden Figures Compilation and also released on the compilation album Second Lives out 28 June 2021.

Second Lives

Cinema Eyes (Version IV)

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PREMIERE CDL \\ Soft - Riot - Windows To The Wild [Miseria] (2021)

Artist » Soft - Riot - https://soundcloud.com/softriot

Ep Name » Upperwave Selections Vol. 1

Label » MISERIA - https://soundcloud.com/miseriarecords

Berlin, Germany

Format: Tape + Digital Music

Release date: DECEMBER 01

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Windows To The Wild” was written, recorded, produced and mixed by JJD at Studio Carillon, Glasgow UK — 23-31 May 2021. All instruments and vocals by JJD with extra background vocals by MM Lyle.


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Upperwave Selections Vol. 1

PREMIERE CDL \\ Soft - Riot - Windows To The Wild [Miseria] (2021)

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This digital 3-track single offers three versions of the track “Windows To The Wild” by Soft Riot, which was originally released in December 2021 on the compilation Upperwave Selections Vol. 1 on the Berlin-based label Miseria. This track has taken on an extended life of its own, with Athens-based EBM artist Qual (William Maybelline of Lebanon Hanover) picking up the track to do his own stompy, aggressive rework of the track followed by Glasgow-based dark electronic disco artist Ubre Blanca twisting the track into a propulsive, rhythmic dance number. Rounding out these new mutations of the track, Soft Riot himself has cooked up an alternate version of the track into a new, extended “Sodium Glow Version”. These three versions are gathered on this release as a digital 3-track EP to present to the world while a new album by Soft Riot starts to come together behind the scenes for release in 2023.

Windows To The Wild (Soft Riot's Sodium Glow Version)

A Spade Is Played Again is the first of two digital single releases from the 2023 album No, out 11 August 2023 on Possession Records / Wave Tension Records.

This variation, “A Spade Is Played Again (Breakdown Version)”, is an alternate Soft Riot version of the track, twisting the original far more into grainy post-punk territory. Having put down the guitar for synths since the start of the Soft Riot project, the “axe” is dusted off for this special version, providing shards of metallic noise and dubbed out noise-rock fragments over a propulsive beat.

https://softriot.bandcamp.com/album/a-spade-is-played-again

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE : https://youtu.be/VUn9WBNFwDw

A Spade Is Played Again

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A Spade Is Played Again (Breakdown Version)

Linked Between Two Minds is the second of two digital single releases from the 2023 album No, out 11 August 2023 on Possession Records / Wave Tension Records.

The first track off of No., Linked Between Two Minds propels with a cosmic, space disco epic with some twists and turns referencing telepathic, esoteric themes.

NO. Album
Bandcamp (LISTEN/BUY)> https://softriot.bandcamp.com/album/no

LINKED BETWEEN TWO MINDS Extended Single:
Bandcamp (LISTEN/BUY)> https://softriot.bandcamp.com/album/linked-between-two-minds
Spotify (STREAM) > https://open.spotify.com/album/0QXxgQtoM60g2zpKkbShYL?si=hmk7Tti8TCGBuWiiporRVw

LINKED BETWEEN TWO MINDS Promo Video
https://youtu.be/rlpS-NFdJLw

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Linked Between Two Minds

Jack (Soft Riot) – Radio Buena Vida 20.09.23

Habitacion615 radio show, every Friday on TechnoRoomFm.com , from 19:00 to 20.00h hosted by Hugo Tasis

Track List:
James Bright - Balance-Life on earth recordings
Rari — IFT (Original Mix) [Unreel Records]
The Lunacy Of flowers-Heave A Sigh (Single Version)- 
Anoesis - Callisto -Cyphon Records
 Stoll_Inner-Mountains -From any direction
Marshall Watson & Cole Odin -  Just A Daydream Away (Rocket Ride Mix).Shades of sound
Love and Rockets-Ball of confusion
Ryvage-Basalte_Djedjotronic remix -Portable Peninsula
Soft Riot - When It Comes On Strong- Possession Records
BadWolf, Alexia Malo - B3SO (Original Mix) Phisica
Emesh-Majanaim- Sendero Records

Habitacion615 RadioShow@TechnoRoomFm- Hugo Tasis - 155-

Romania Obscure - Radio Buena Vida 04.07.24

a wee selection of tunes that soundtracked this summer's adventures - weather in Scotland hasn't been the best but managed to get away lots which helped take my mind off things at home. bring on Halloween and winter hibernation now . . .

The Damned - Smash It Up Part 1
Ford Chastain - No Way
Darksoft - Somewhere Nowhere 
Hoops - Rules
Hole - Awful
Maud Anyways - Love Affair
The Cardigans - Rise And Shine
White Poppy - Broken
Drew Citron - 17
The Passions - The Swimmer
The Go-Gos - How Much More
Tacocat - Crimson Wave 
Yo La Tengo - Cast A Shadow
The B-52s - Roam
Voice Of The Beehive - I Say Nothing
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night
Johnny Moped - Darling, Let's Have Another Baby
The Boys - Weekend 
The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl
Brad Laner - Ate Daze

Summer Holiday Soundtrack Mixtape (dreampop, indie, alternative, punk, jangle-pop)

Soft Riot - Radio Buena Vida 05.12.24

Ripped In Glasgow: Glasgow Film Festival Special w/ Chris Kumar - Radio Buena Vida 19.02.25

Soft Riot - Radio Buena Vida 04.07.25

Invisible Logic (3/8/25)

Drama Emperor - Awake (Soft Riot Remix )

SOFT RIOT "CHIN UP"
Release date : 27 April 2020
Digital / CD / Cassette
(This playlist is a selection of tracks from the album)

UP UNTIL THE RELEASE DATE OF 27 APRIL 2020 YOU CAN BUY THE DIGITAL VERSION OF THIS ALBUM FOR ONLY £1.00 at https://softriot.bandcamp.com/album/chin-up

Chin Up is the eighth album by Soft Riot and a unique one in the Glasgow-based Canadian artist's catalogue. Written mostly at the same time along with the material pressed onto his latest album, When Push Comes To Shove (Possession Records, Nov 2019) — it’s a very different sound, tying in more on a different trajectory of the artist’s output that includes 2014’s soundtrack styled album Some More Terror or even Soft Riot’s initial release, 2011’s No Longer Stranger.

Chin Up contains 11 tracks of what might be loosely described as “ambient synth pop” with a running time of almost an hour. It is in a way a mirror release to When Push Comes To Shove as both records share the same approach to composition, sound design and production techniques but with different results. When Push Comes To Shove, being a milepost in Soft Riot’s main timeline of experimental, auteur synth pop, provides the extrovert side of JJD’s artistic output — an active listen that sounds suitable in a club or other energetic environment. Chin Up is a reflective mirror to these qualities; being the darker introvert counterpart, in a more sporadic, alternative timeline — a passive listen more suitable for the depths of the night after the everything has closed, alone in your apartment.

It’s a very personal release, written in the late night hours as an escape from the trappings of things like culture, scenes, political calamity, information overload, existential dread and the confines of what is considered synthesizer pop music. Its genesis is rooted in a feeling of endless grey malaise, especially in the record’s long and labyrinthine feel — but then taking that initial idea and expanding its colour. There’s a fine balance that’s carefully engineered throughout the record; a balance between creeping dead, melancholy and a sense of finding a moment to rest and internal resolve.

The result is a record full of large cavernous spaces where all of the instruments are placed with careful distance in that space. It’s synth pop shifted into new bearings, where styles of ambience, drone and soundtrack-influenced ideas make themselves the foremost presence.

"It's a chance to rest, reflect and to let my mind wander into spaces devoid of people. To me it’s a very emotional record, although in way that only some people will get."

Much like Chin Up’s partner album, When Push Comes To Shove, Soft Riot carries on his concept of déjà vu, inserting purposefully places music and lyrical objects with the tracks that have been used before.

Further vocal contributions come from Croatian synthpop artist Iv/An (Tonn Recordings) as well as Adam Usi, from Augsburg DE (Young & Cold Records).

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