Browse by Label: SOFTWARE

Artist:	FORD & LOPATIN
Title:	Channel Pressure
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SFT 001LP

"The production duo's debut full-length album is a highly focused study in the effects of consumer electronics that touches on sensual bangers and hyper-spherical anthems prime for the dance floor. The record was engineered by another childhood pal, Al Carlson, and mixed by Prefuse 73 who states: 'Mixing these ideas that span from high school notebooks into a present sonic territory is F+L's right on conceptual evolution.' There's a fantastical, futuristic narrative arc running hard throughout the album. As a result, Channel Pressure functions somewhat as a concept album, following a loosely knit epic involving a teenage anti-hero (Joey Rogers), violent robo-jocks, and a record industry run by a super computer."

Artist:	FORD & LOPATIN
Title:	Emergency Room
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	PIC. DISC
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SFT 002LP

"A few new developments for electronic production duo Games. The pair comprised of Oneohtrix Point Never's Daniel Lopatin and Tiger City's Joel Ford are no longer calling themselves Games -- instead, they now go by the very Italo disco-sounding Ford & Lopatin. First order of business for F&L: running a new offshoot of Brooklyn label Mexican Summer, appropriately titled Software." -- Cribbing from Pitchfork.
"To precede the release of Channel Pressure, Ford & Lopatin will be releasing an Emergency Room 12", which features the album track 'Emergency Room' along with a remix by Gavin Russom and a dub mix by The Bug. The limited 12" (1200 copies) will have four variations of x-ray artwork. A beautiful, essential and strictly limited piece."

Artist:	AIRBIRD
Title:	City Vs. Mountains
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SFT 003EP

"Airbird is the solo project from Joel Ford, bassist of Tigercity and one half of Ford & Lopatin. After a split-cassette release with Megafortress on The Curatorial Club, Ford releases Airbird's first single, City Vs. Mountains on his own label Software. In lead track 'City Vs. Mountains,' cicadas buzz as Airbird exits Babylon on his boogie road trip quest back to nature. Ford notorious for funk, packs a whole arsenal of West Coast style groove for the trip. The track is definitely a road dogger with lots of beats and bass plus a remarkable clarity in the vocals that distinguishes him from the contemporary murk pack. After a night of heavy driving, 'Rotating Cloud' marks the day's return with sparse, delicate high register melodies and pulses which gradually give way to a midi locked safari of wildlife house. And yes the zookeeper is a Al Carlson, Software's engineer & mix guy you thought -- but he also packs a gnarly Alphabet City avant RIPPP when he wants to, and on multiple saxes. Airbird arrives!" Hand-numbered limited edition of 500 copies.

Artist:	AIRBIRD
Title:	Trust
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	12"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SFT 004EP

"Software Recording Co. introduces Airbird's Trust EP. Residing in Asheville, North Carolina via New York City, Airbird is the solo project of Joel Ford, one half of Ford & Lopatin. Trust is a five song EP featuring a patchwork of Ford's influences. Oblique rhythm schemes, computer-funk, and oceanic pop drift song play off of one another to create a unique look at the contemporary e-music scene. Obsessed with the dichotomy of big city culture versus the solitude of the American wilderness, Ford vacillates between studio life and the appalachian outdoors. His City vs Mountains 12" was a literal reference, a theme that continues on Trust in the form bisected and jagged elements interlaced with organic motifs. And although the EP feels eclectic, there is a glowing, somber core that fuses his techno pop into something distinctly personal. Edition of 500."

Artist:	HARMONIZER
Title:	World Complete
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	12"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SFT 005EP

"Harmonizer, or as lovingly referred to as HARMO around these parts is the Vermont duo of Toby Aronson and Greg Davis, whose previous effort, their self-titled debut on Aronson's own stellar NNA Tapes label was the definitive 5th world statement, and solidified them as sensais in the koan of new drone worship shared by the likes of fellow melodic noisers Caboladies and OPN. In fact Greg Davis (Kranky, Carpark) is zone veteran shredder whose explorations into pastoral electronics have been well documented throughout his mythical Autumn Records catalog. World Complete, Harmonizer's followup to S/T, is a brain boggler through the storied terrain that Jon Hassell once charted, vectorized through sub bass, magic eye loops and some fusion gomf moves that are decidedly more On The Corner than Aka-Darbari-Java...but do you need to be convinced? The band named themselves after the most dramatic stompbox of the late 20th century. Band burns, this EP burns. Sayonara." Hand-numbered limited edition of 500 copies.

Artist:	MEGAFORTRESS
Title:	Megafortress
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	12"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SFT 006EP

"Megafortress is New York musician Bill Gillim. The project was conceived as a series of fictional field recordings, and has transformed into a collection of gorgeous vocal meditations. His debut self-titled release for Software Recording Co., Megafortress is a lucid and open effort combining homebrewed and studio recording elements into a dynamic cloud cover, using only sparsely layered and processed voice, sampled bells, and touches of synthesizer. At times, it feels like Gillim is concocting a new strain of (secular) devotional music; a contemplative, nascent music. Bill's obfuscated lyrics hint at a resonant, universal sphere where identity is formed but never hardens. Considering how simple and unadorned Gillim's setup is, the envisage is a testament to how powerful this music is. Megafortress begins with 'My Favorite Girl,' on which Gillim's veiled falsetto is propelled forward through a hall of delays, accented by simple but completely unpredictable moments of synth vamp, while 'Green Child' is the definitive exit music for the vocal segment of the EP, a contemporary dirge that wouldn't feel out of place if installed at the emotional/architectural nodes of Fallingwater, year 2012." Numbered edition of 500 copies; includes download code.

Artist:	GIFFONI, CARLOS
Title:	Evidence
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SFT 007EP

"Carlos Giffoni is a Venezuelan electronic musician residing in the New York City area for the past ten plus years. It's here where Giffoni established himself not only as a jammer but as a curator of contemporary out music as label head and festival director for No Fun Productions. Giffoni uses modular synthesizers, custom-built instruments, and various modes of analog and digital synthesis to compose electronic music pieces for physical formats. He is also well-versed and respected in the international improvisational circuit. Giffoni's recent work focuses on live analog synthesizer pieces in line with early cosmic electronic and techno music, while maintaining the harsher edge of his previous noise works. A perpetual believer in 'no rules' jam creation in the face of stringent genrefication, Giffoni's No Fun Acid project puts this belief into practice on Evidence, a two track 12" for Software Recording Company. Evidence stylistically reintegrates lessons learned with a newfound and brazen songcraft that few would expect from the tenured noise artist. The synergy of Giffoni's monotone vocals with acid leads and pulsescapes suggests something strangely erotic that was hinted at on the Adult Life and Severance records. The killer surprise on Evidence is Laurel Halo's manually mechanized piano and synth riffage on the title track. A refreshing look at experimental synth craft that is closer in nature to the explorations of EBM and industrial without relying on typical cold/masculine tropes, and couldn't be farther away from the overly placating and demonstrative kosmische tendencies of late. Times change, disintegration is imminent, and here is the Evidence." Limited edition + high quality virgin vinyl + download code.

Artist:	SLAVA
Title:	Soft Control
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	12"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SFT 008EP

"Slava (b. Slava Balasanov) is a recording and visual artist currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Moscow, he spent his formative years in Chicago where he co-founded Moment Sound Recordings. His music has been released on labels such as Mathematics Recordings, Future Times, !K7 and Coral Records Internazionale. Software Recording Co. is proud to present the Soft Control EP, which finds Slava in an exploratory mode whose common thread is techno energy adroitly concealed within a stark matrix of interloping, chrome-dipped footwork themes. Slava's mutated future take on glossy Todd Edwards/Akufen-style uptown club motifs hits home with us. A pointedly darker left turn with more cruise and ooze, Soft Control meditates on the phrases [I Had] and [I've Got Feelings Too], in a style that we lovingly refer to at Software HQ as 'club anthema.' Not to mention the curveball track 'Swan' that morphs layered, perforated harp into weird contemplation tunnels. Self-hypnotize." Limited edition. High-quality virgin vinyl. Includes download code.

Artist:	NAPOLIAN
Title:	Rejoice
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	12"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SFT 009EP

"Software Recording Co. is proud to introduce Napolian, 19-year-old producer and chief visionary behind LA-based production crew Renaissance Music Group. His debut release, Rejoice, is stately, direct, and stylistically interwoven. Rejoice runs the gamut of computer funk, ambient, and trance, but always retains a hard, synthetic R&B core. The same way Napoleon III urged porcelain designers to reflect the historic images of the day as opposed to generic landscapes and classical nudes, our Napolian's commanding dionysia of electronic music histories are dream-coated in digital resins and fabricated in the manner of a visionary metal worker. What's immediately evident in Napolian's craft are the anthemic leads that tear across the conductor rod of 21st century hardware-based production. Napolian's cyclonic smack of disparate yet logical influences sets him apart from the contemporary sidechain scene. The Harold Faltermeyer/Dr. Dre continuum on Rejoice's 'False Memories' or the wormhole connecting Marcus Miller to Alice DeeJay on 'Rejoice' represent a couple of the Napolian's unprecedented stargates. The songs of Rejoice aren't fleeting screen grabs, rather riffs hard-ripped by hand on time-tested, Ikutaro Kakehashi-approved gear. It made us cry and it shook our skulls." Numbered limited edition of 500; includes download code.

Artist:	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
Title:	Replica
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	SFT 010CD

"Replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from TV ad compilations. These sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed 'ghost vocals' which serve as narration for Lopatin's signature amorphous, ambient passages. Lopatin's Juno-60 is still prominent, but Returnal's placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terrains via Lopatin's use of samplers, analog filtering, tape-op, piano, plate reverb and sub-bass. The result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic terrain."

Artist:	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
Title:	Replica
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SFT 010LP

LP version, repressed; with the best ASCII backcover art of the year. "Replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from TV ad compilations. These sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed 'ghost vocals' which serve as narration for Lopatin's signature amorphous, ambient passages. Lopatin's Juno-60 is still prominent, but Returnal's placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terrains via Lopatin's use of samplers, analog filtering, tape-op, piano, plate reverb and sub-bass. The result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic terrain."

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