“Windows To The Wild” Video Premiere on Post-Punk.com
Many thanks to Post-Punk.com and staff writer Alice Teeple for cooking up an article the premiere of the “Windows To The Wild” video — the track from the Upperwave Selections Vol. 1 compilation out 01 December 2021 on Berlin’s Miseria Records.
Ostrofti “Sudden Vision Zones” official release and video premiere
The four 4-track, hour-long album Sudden Vision Zones by Ostrofti is now finally and officially out now, including a mind-warping, sizzling hour-long video assembled by Flustervision (JJD + Georgina Penstkart) to accompany the release.
Steven Jones & Logon Sky feat. Steve Strange “Corrupt State (Soft Riot’s Switch Version)”
Close to a year ago now I was asked by Logan Sky to do a remix for his project Steven Jones & Logan Sky. Logan was the synthesizer player and producer in the last line-up of the Blitz Club-based project Visage, featuring the legendary and dearly departed Steve Strange. The result was this remix that was an honour to work on for their Corrupt State release.
Tral Neu mini-album on Tonal Shifts out now
After over a year in the making, the release date has come for the mini-album on the Tonal Shifts label of Tral Neu, a collaborative, multi-country musical project featuring tracks by groups of musicians in the underground synth/wave scene. On this release is the track “Making The Same Mistake”, a group effort by Soft Riot, Madmoizel and Iv/An.
August BandCamp Sale – 20% Discount
Tomorrow another BandCamp Friday sale springs into action with a little Possession Records summer sale to ice that lovely cake. You can also take advantage of a discount code that gives 20% of your total purchase and is active until midnight at the end of August 15th and applies to everything in the shop.
Out now! The new compilation album Second Lives
The new compilation album Second Lives releases today! Available in digital, Digipak CD and cassette formats. Thanks to Post-Punk.com for premiering the album. Read on for more information and to buy/stream.
Soft Riot talks to Brutal Resonance
Brutal Resonance, an online Swedish-based music magazine focusing on the darker side of music, asked some questions about the upcoming compilation album Second Lives, including asking some stories about the tracks included on the record.
Soft Riot’s Jack Duckworth surges through synth-driven Second Lives
This interview was for the Canadian music newsletter Gut Feeling that talks to artists about how they found their sound. They got in touch to talk about the gear used most for the Soft Riot sound, the economy of size and weight and some other Canadian things.
Second Lives feature on Coldexperiment.com
Ahead of being released at the end of this month, the fantastic Japanese electronic music website Cold Experiment published a nice feature on the upcoming Second Lives record.
Compilation album Second Lives out 28 June 2021
It was around ten years ago now that the Soft Riot wheels started turning into motion. And with that it feels somewhat good to announce the release of a new compilation album, Second Lives, out 28 June 2021 on Possession Records! It’s a limited release out in digital, Digipak CD, Cassette and streaming formats and contains 8 tracks.
Dream Baby Dream: Compilation Volume One
It feels good to announce this release, out next week on May 26th — the first compilation by the Berlin-based Dream Baby Dream label — Dream Baby Dream Compilation Volume One! The compilation features a brand new Soft Riot track entitled “A Spade Is Played Again” and features an incredible list of artists from Berlin and beyond including Phase Fatale, Halv Drøm, Front 313, Operant, Spit Mask, The Horrorist and many more.
An Upcoming Live Stream Performance for Mutant Transmissions Festival II
Soft Riot will be contributing a 4 song studio performance for the upcoming Mutant Transmissions Festival II later this month. The festival is a live stream happening 23-26 April and curated by the Mutant Transmissions Radio show out of Brugge, Belgium. It will feature studio performances and DJ sets from contributors all over the world for fans of the wave, synth, post-punk and generally weirder end of the underground synth spectrum.
FATE Perfume by Seifenhexe
Berlin-based perfume and soap maker Seifenhexe proposed the idea of doing a Soft Riot scented perfume so it seemed definitely like an interesting idea, thus a fun little collaboration was born. Now available to buy online.
Frastuoni Monitor Playlist and Into 2021
The track “Taking Off The Edge” has been included on a very nicely stacked mix by curator Simona Bluette as part of the Monitor Playlist series on the Italian music website, frastuoni.it. The mix features other great tracks from notable players in the modern synth scene, including Boy Harsher, Buzz Kull, Void Vision, Minuit Machine, Martial Canterel and more.