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Soft Riot for Radio Buena Vida Glasgow (July 2025)

Soft Riot for Radio Buena Vida (July 2025)

5 July 2025

A live, on-air set done for Glasgow’s Radio Buena Vida which coincided with my very own birthday, this mix starts out on the more electronic and minimal end of the spectrum and crosses over into more guitar-based and noisier sounds in the second half.

Soft Riot | 90s Hardcore/Post-Hardcore

90s Hardcore/Post-Hardcore

10 May 2024

A selection of hardcore and post-hardcore tracks from the 80s and 90s that I got into when I was a young one and still hold with me to do this day.

Readymix Cement 002 | Cover Image

Readymix Cement 002

16 August 2020

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.

Heavy Leather Mix : Whitebelt Hardcore and Improvised Waves

Soft Riot Presents: White Belt Hardcore / Improvised Waves

1 March 2018

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.

White Lodge 004 | Dye Your Hair Black and Absorb All "Waves" | The Calculators

White Lodge 004 : Dye Your Hair Black and Absorb All “Waves”

1 May 2010

This particular mix has been sequenced in a loose chronological order, encompassing a time period starting in 1995 and ending sometime in 2000. From 2000 onward the post-punk and synth revival thing sort of exploded and bands hatched and made flight like a cloud of buzzing locusts.

White Lodge 003 | A Soundtrack To Burning Youth | Antioch Arrow

White Lodge 003 : A Soundtrack To Burning Youth

30 April 2010

There was a great thing that happened with the arrival of punk and hardcore in the late 80s and 90s, and this mix is a reflection of my time with that.