Soft Riot for Radio Buena Vida (December 2024)
Another session back at Glasgow’s Radio Buena Vida this December 2024 with an all vinyl mix of new additions from record fairs, trades with other bands and more.
Ambient Zone
A selection of late-night, astral trance favourites, recommendations with inclusion of select Soft Riot and Ostrofti tracks — long soothing drones, abstract sub-dued minimalism, and vast open cosmic spaces for those quiet hours. Ambient, synth, found and treated sounds.
Electro-Funk Jams
A selection of electro-funk favourites, a genre that gets a lot of listens at home and in the studio and maybe even some inspiration for the music of Soft Riot. Rubbery basslines, locking grooves, staccato synth bursts and generally a fun, uplifting listen.
Soft Riot for Radio Buena Vida (April 2023)
A new mix for Glasgow’s community station Radio Buena Vida, including tracks a mix of new wave, post-punk and electronic tracks by artists old and new such as Bleached Heat, The Serfs, Zeroset, Iv/An and more.
BlueBoutique x Soft Riot Selections
A selection of tracks created for this mix playlist for Glasgow-based nite-life promoter Blue Boutique as part of their series of curated playlists. Check it out!
Ready Mix Cement 003
After a bit of a break Readymix Cement is back with a third instalment; the first as we go into the autumn of 2020.
Readymix Cement 002
With the recent passing of Unwound bassist Vern Rumsey, this mix starts with a more unique post-hardcore introduction of that band’s track “Corpse Pose” from their seminal album Repetition (1996). This is the second installment of Readymix Cement.
Readymix Cement 001
This is the first of a series of curated mixes as Possession Records, featuring an array of favourite tracks by new and old artists in the postpunk, synth, minimal, darkwave and other eclectic genres.
Winter Waves & Cryptic Caves IV : Soundtracks Of The Mind
This is the final of three new instalments of the series of mixes done over the winter entitled “Winter Waves & Cryptic Caves”; this one being the most dynamic of the set, having more of a focus on favourite pieces from film soundtracks.
Winter Waves & Cryptic Caves II : Synthetic Worlds
This mix, Synthetic Worlds, is a selection of more synthesiser-based pieces from classic artists from years gone as well as newer tracks by current artists, including friends and peers I know expanding in that universe of sound, creating new worlds to travel in and out of.
Soft Riot Presents: White Belt Hardcore / Improvised Waves
A double-sided cassette mix done for London’s Heavy Leather Productions: side one being some key influences and side two being a curated playlist of electronic and post-punk oddities.
Repartiseraren meets Soft Riot
Swedish online music mag Repartiseraren got in touch to ask if they could compile a 2 hour mixtape retrospective of Soft Riot material into an online mix.
The Soft Riot Playlist on DEF
A Soft Riot curated playlist aired on Doncaster Electronic Foundation featuring some selected personal electronic tracks from artists old and new.
Der Hammer : DJ JJD Selections 02
A second mix of tracks for the Sheffield night Der Hammer.
Der Hammer : DJ JJD Selections 01
This mix is selection of tracks I’ve been playing at Der Hammer containing tracks by new and classic synthesizer artists.
A Colder Consciousness #82
Soft Riot goes into the Resonance FM studio with A Colder Consciousness, discussing music, playing tracks and then discussing those, resulting in this mix.
White Lodge 007 : Canadian Tuxedo, Part 2
This is part two of a two-part mix makes up a 2-hour retrospective of Canadian synth, new wave, electronics and post-punk music with some select pop and space-rock tunes. From obscure, underground gems to select radio hits and everything in between that came out between 1978-1986.
Soft Riot on TXTBK’s CHVRCH XV BRXK3N 7ANGvAG3 Radio | Part 1
Part 1 of a 3-hour SOFT RIOT-curated playlist ion TXTBK’s CHVRCH XV BRXK3N 7ANGvAG3 Radio
White Lodge 005 : Synth or Swim
A representative slice out of the pool of synth-saturated, future-thinking music that I love, namely between the years of 1978 to 1985.