Book II : Chapter XLIX - Soft Riot "No." Record Release Party

<p>JJD of Soft Riot and I hunker down for a trans-Atlantic, conversational Odyssey in 2 parts. The Canadian ex-pat began his career in the Punk sphere, playing in indie darling band Radio Berlin. after leaving for the UK, he began to stir up new anarchy with the New Wave and Industrial informed sounds of Soft Riot. This is part one of a 2 part journey into the world of JJD.</p><p><a href="https://softriot" rel="nofollow">https://softriot</a>.com</p><p><br></p><p>Soft Riot, consisting solely of JJD, was a founding member of Canadian first-wave post-punk revivalists <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/404898-Radio-Berlin" rel="nofollow">Radio Berlin</a> (1998-2005) and <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/96198-A-Luna-Red" rel="nofollow">A Luna Red</a> (Gold Standard Labs, 1999-2003), with Soft Riot surfacing as a solo act in the early 2010s in London, England. Soft Riot has toured Europe numerous times, from Rennes, France all the way east to Moscow, Russia with selected performances in North America. and stages have been shared with peers such as Keluar, Linea Aspera, She Past Away, Section 25, Selofan, Drab Majesty, Lebanon Hanover, Noi Kabátand Robert Görl of Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. Soft Riot is currently based out of Glasgow, Scotland — a city that JJD has now called home since 2016.</p><p>With origins from the mid-nineties in the vibrant art-punk/hardcore dominating the West Coast American/Canadian underground at the time (the first EP, <a href="https://softriot.com/release/no-longer-stranger/" rel="nofollow"><em>No Longer Stranger</em></a>, is the name of a track by hardcore band Universal Order of Armageddon), JJD followed a trajectory through to the revival of synth-based post-punk music just over a decade or so ago, which spawned a number of highly successful Canadian artists out of that scene.</p><p>Soft Riot’s sound is an amalgamation of JJD’s personal experience with music, containing elements of synthesiser-based film soundtracks, romantic italo-style flourishes, throbbing arpeggiat