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SOFT RIOT / Fiction Prediction / LP/CD/Cassette/Digital

SOFT RIOT Fiction Prediction coverFiction Prediction is a collection of songs selected for a first official LP release, these tracks being a confident advancement in the unique and engaging “Soft Riot” sound developed on prior releases. Drawing inspiration from synthesizer-based film soundtracks of yesteryear, drones, early EBM, minimal synth, a dose of psychedelic synthpop and a heavy dose of throbbing appregiated rhythms, Soft Riot is a science-fiction heavy soundscape that narrates the listener through today’s fractured, excessive landscape with hints of black humour.

Soft Riot, coming from a more punk rock pedigree, often places more focus than the norm on his lyrical content, bringing in detailed pictures and sometimes even linear narrative storylines to subjects such as modern living, technology, surveillance, environment, overpopulation, enlightenment, life elsewhere, forewarning about catastrophic events, vain people in gyms, and not having enough time. The influences come less from other musical artists but more so from written fiction and film —a future predicted by fiction.

Release date: 25 June 2013 on Other Voices Records (Europe/World) and Volar Records (US/Canada). Available in LP/CD/Cassette and Digital format. All physical formats to come with a digital download code.

TRACKLISTING
Another Drone In Your Head
There Just Isn’t Enough time
Cinema Eyes
Terminal Love Song
Some Abstract Terror
The Commuters
Write Yourself Into The Void
A Spinning Wheel
You’ve Got To Use It
Your Own Private Underworld

SOFT RIOT / No Longer Stranger/ Vinyl LP/Digital

SOFT RIOT "No Longer Stranger" Re-issue CoverNo Longer Stranger, originally released in January 2011 on the Panospria label, has been picked up by the US label Volar and pressed onto vinyl with two additional tracks. This isn’t late night club music but sounds of dimly lit rooms and dark street corners. Conceptualized a few years back after late nights under an influence, Soft Riot came to be as a musical creation of JJD (Jack Duckworth) of the London, England based psych electronic post-punk outfit Savage Furs.

Tracing a trajectory from his former home of Vancouver BC, the tracks from No Longer Stranger were built in pieces over months and months in his new English home and then completed in a few feverish weeks after a large stroke of inspiration. Themes from science fiction, isolation, fantasy, romance and psychedelia run throughout the course of this collection of “space ballads”. Drawing inspiration from synthesizer-based film soundtracks of yesteryear, drones, minimal wave electronics past and present and a heavy dose of throbbing appregiated rhythms, the tracks of No Longer Stranger are minimal pulsing pop songs coming from the distance with whispering voices weaving throughout.

The closing track “Electrolux” is originally written and recorded by the early 90s Dischord Records post-hardcore band Hoover, is re-imagined as a filmic electronic piece.

Available worldwide from all major digital outlets including Itunes, Amazon, Emusic, Spotify. Vinyl LP available from Volar Records here as well as select distributors worldwide. Shipping February 2013.

TRACKLISTING
Holding Cash In Fields Of Ash
Your Secret Light Shines At Night
Your Strange New Career
I Wanna Lay Down NXT 2 U
A Simulation
You’re Not From Around Here
Tragic Magic
Electrolux **

ALL TRACKS WRITTEN BY JACK DUCKWORTH (JJD)/SOFT RIOT EXCEPT ** WRITTEN BY HOOVER (©1993)

SOFT RIOT / Hyperbolic Masses / Cassette/Digital

This is limited to 75 copies available May 2012. A snapshot of the Soft Riot in 2012, incorporating material from Another Drone In Your Head as well as currently unreleased material.

TRACKLISTING
Another Drone In Your Head
There Just Isn’t Enough Time
You Can’t Please Everyone
Write Yourself Into The Void
Some Abstract Terror
You’ve Got To Use It
Do Less
How Can You See Them?

More information at www.softriot.com/hm/. Purchase in the STORE section.

SOFT RIOT / Another Drone In Your Head / EP

Soft Riot’s “Another Drone In Your Head” released on Tundra Dubs in February 2012. Three original tracks plus remixes by Funerals, Chris Flatline, ?AIMON, Babe Rainbow and William Winslow-Hansen. Catalogue #TND032.

TRACKLISTING
Another Drone In Your Head
You Can’t Please Everyone
Do Less
Variations on “Another Drone In Your Head” by Mild Peril
You Can’t Please Everyone (?AIMON Remix)
You Can’t Please Everyone (William Winslow Hansen’s Von Trapp Zombie Mix)
You Can’t Please Everyone (Babe Rainbow Refix)
Do Less (FUNERALS Remix)

Soft Riot is JJD: Voice, synthesizers (Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Dave Smith), samplers (Akai), programming, found sounds. All tracks written and recorded Summer-Fall 2011 at Studio 10 in London, England by Soft Riot (Jack Duckworth). Remix arrangements in tracks 4-8 by the artists credited above. Lyrics and vocal melody in “You Can’t Please Everyone” originally used in another track of the same name written by JJD and William Winslow-Hansen in 2005. Tracks 1-3 mastered by Josh Stevenson at Otic Sound. Artwork by JJD.

Another Drone In Your Head by softriot

SOFT RIOT / Soft Riot/ Demo CD

SOFT RIOTThis recording is a collection of first recordings done in 2006. Sounds instigated from late nights under an influence, early primal electronics, dub, psychedelics, maybe a little “rock” here and there — bringing musical tones under a sharp focus. Fractured ballads and soundspaces leaking black fluids into the back of your skull. Small sounds from absolute silence / low pulses / whispers from under the bed / blasts of noise / faint melodies of love, hope, and paranoia. Released 2006.

TRACKLISTING
A Simulation
I Wanna Lay Down NXT 2 U
Soft Riot
You’ve Been A Seeker For Long Enough

ALL TRACKS WRITTEN BY JACK DUCKWORTH (JJD)/SOFT RIOT

SOFT RIOT / The Music of Other People

A playlist of remixes and covers of songs written by others.

The Music of Other People by softriot
TRACKLISTING
N?I KABAT “Seeds of Time” (Soft Riot’s Shatter Version) 2012 / Original 2012
LEBANON HANOVER “Die World” (Soft Riot’s Ice Cave Version) 2012 / Original 2011
“The Holy Intruder” from the SNES/Squaresoft video game The Secret Of Mana 2012 / Original 1993
BABE RAINBOW “Set Loose” (Soft Riot’s Manhunter Version) 2012 / Original 2010