SOFT RIOT

Fiction Prediction Digital Version Available Now

SOFT RIOT — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:17:58 +0000

Ahead of it’s official release date toward the end of this month, the new album Fiction Prediction is now available digitally in full on various online retailers including iTunes, eMusic and a number of more. The digital release contains the 10-track album, extended mixes of two tracks as well as two filmic pieces available on the cassette version of the album. A lot of music otherwise. Thanks for your support.

A more thorough list of providers: iTunes, eMusic, 7Digital, Gracenote, MusicLoad, Vervelife, Bloom.fm and many more.

iTunes – Music – Fiction Prediction by Soft Riothttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/fiction-prediction/id660096627Preview and download Fiction Prediction on iTunes. See ratings and read customer reviews.

Tour Dates for July

SOFT RIOT — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:18:34 +0000

The SOFT RIOT / NŐi KÁBAT tour is almost booked. Venue details to be announced soon but here’s the itinerary as it stands now. If any music lovers or promoters out there think they can help us with any of the still open/available dates get in touch with either *protected email* or *protected email*. Thanks.

Thursday, 11 July 2013 : LONDON
Friday, 12 July 2013 : PARIS
Saturday, 13 July 2013 : ANTWERP
Sunday, 14 July 2013 : UTRECHT
Monday, 15 July 2013 : Date Available
Tuesday, 16 July 2013 : AACHEN
Wednesday, 17 July 2013 : Date Available
Thursday, 18 July 2013 : BERLIN
Friday, 19 July 2013 : PRAGUE
Saturday, 20 July 2013 : VIENNA
Sunday, 21 July 2013 : Date Available
Monday, 22 July 2013 : Date Available
Tuesday, 23 July 2013 : BUDAPEST
Wednesday, 24 July 2013 : SWITZERLAND @ COLD KINGS
Thursday, 25 July 2013 : SWITZERLAND @ COLD KINGS
Friday, 26 July 2013 : FREIBURG
Saturday, 27 July 2013 : COLOGNE

“Your Own Private Underworld” Single Out Now

SOFT RIOT — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:32:32 +0000

With the new album FICTION PREDICTION finally being released next month, Other Voices Records and Volar Records are offering this very budget-savvy (only €2!) digital download of one of the album tracks, “Your Own Private Underworld” as a single with an additional track called “You’ve Been A Seeker For Long Enough”.

This additional track is exclusive to this download and is actually an older track from back in the slow-moving early days of Soft Riot; from 2006! This version is a re-arranged and re-recorded version that was done up in the studio in March 2013.

You can listen to the single below or on the Other Voices‘ BandCamp page.

You can read some press on this release here, courtesy of the synth-music website Invisible Guy:

Spotlight [SP. ED]: A New Life / Soft Riot! | INVISIBLE GUYhttp://invisibleguy.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/spotlight-sp-ed-a-new-life-soft-riot/As you listen to Soft Riot, which is a moniker for this UK-based producer, who goes by the name of JJD (Jack Duckworth) – there’s an instant appeal to your own monotonic glory.

Note: The excerpt above has been corrected to state “UK-based” as I was incorrectly referred to as Russian. I’m not Russian but would love to go there some day. =)

FICTION PREDICTION is out late June 2013 on Other Voices and Volar Records in LP, CD, Cassette and Digital format. Each format has a slightly different track listing!

“Cinema Eyes” Promo Video

SOFT RIOT — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:35:48 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJREieB_rBk

A new promo video for the track “Cinema Eyes” is now online. This track is on the upcoming Fiction Prediction album on Other Voices/Volar as well as the And You Will Find Them In The Basement compilation on Desire Records. What wonders one can come up with on no budget and a lot of time spent editing.

Interview with Ghettoblaster Magazine

SOFT RIOT — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:01:55 +0000

A new interview with Soft Riot with the US magazine Ghettoblaster Magazine is now up online. The interview covers the upcoming album “Fiction Prediction” as well a number of other subjects. Thanks to Tim Anderl for this one.

From The Horse’s Mouth: Jack Duckworth (Soft Riot) on Fiction Prediction | Ghettoblaster Magazinehttp://ghettoblastermagazine.com/2013/from-the-horses-mouth-jack-duckworth-soft-riot-on-fiction-prediction/To say that Jack Duckworth is a prolific post-punk powerhouse is an incredible understatement. For nearly two decades, he’s been a catalyst in the punk scene with a resume that…

“Your Own Private Underworld” Digital Single

SOFT RIOT — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:41:21 +0000

Preceding the official release of FICTION PREDICTION, now set for early June, Other Voices and Volar will be offering this digital single of the album track “Your Own Private Underworld” in early May with the exclusive B-Side “You’ve Been A Seeker For Long Enough”. More information to come along with the exact release date. The cover art is below:

In The Papers In Spring 2013

SOFT RIOT — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:16:18 +0000

Here’s some recent press, mostly regarding the recently re-released No Longer Stranger LP:

And more to come. A video for the track “Cinema Eyes”, on both the upcoming album Fiction Prediction and the Desire Records compilation And You Will Find Them In The Basement, will be up very soon.

Press inquiries for Soft Riot and Fiction Prediction in Europe is handled by Dense PR.

Soft Vault : The Connection

SOFT RIOT — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:19:33 +0000

Well, here’s an old one. Old enough that I hadn’t heard it for over a decade and over time the memory of the track had morphed it into something quite different in my mind. “The Connection” was an outtake from the recording sessions of Radio Berlin‘s first album, Sibling. The album was recorded in the spring and summer of 1999 with this particular track being saved for a split 7″ with Sweden’s Kid Commando on the then fledgeling Radio One label out Australia, who were responsible for records by Black Cat #13 (pre-Death From Above 1979) and Roland S. Howard‘s vinyl release of Teenage Snuff Film.

After that record was pressed I likely got a number of personal copies of it but then I found myself without a copy, having given them all to friends who had requested them — it was a bit of a hard one to find in the stores back in Canada. There was no MP3 recording of this anywhere and the only reference I had of it for years was a few mixes on a DAT tape for which I wasn’t really bothered to peruse the graveyards and classifieds posts of antiquated equipment where studios would be selling their old, clunky and battered DAT machines in favour of new digital technologies or sought after classic analogue equipment.

In recent years I’ve been more involved with Discogs, at first to correct some incorrect information on old releases but it was also a good place to buy some rare or missing pieces of vinyl. This is where after 10 years I nabbed a copy of that split 7″. Upon first listen after all that time I’m actually surprised at how fast the tempo was, mainly as I don’t think I would be writing a song in that style at that sort of speed these days. I prefer things with more slower-paced stomp nowadays where this is more on a Devo Whip It! sort of tempo. Chris’s bass line when the track kicks in invokes a similar gallop of the bass playing of Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris a la “Run To The Hills”… Anyway, here’s the preview and download link for your listening (dis)pleasure.

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There are some cracks and pops on this track as it was ripped off my newly acquired vinyl copy.

The insert inside the 7″ single.

Synthematic 12: A New Mix From Burning Flame

SOFT RIOT — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:27:26 +0000

A new track called “Cinema Eyes” has been put into the the new Synthematic 12 playlist curated by Burning Flame magazine. You can listen to this below in the embedded player.

Synthematic 012 by Burningflame on Mixcloud

“No Longer Stranger” Full Album Stream + Purchase Links for Vinyl and Digital

SOFT RIOT — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:22:22 +0000

A full stream of the No Longer Stranger LP is now available to listen to above or on SoundCloud for a limited time. Both vinyl and digital formats are now available through the following links:

VINYL available through the Volar website.

DIGITAL available through Itunes, Amazon, Emusic and Spotify.