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:	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."

Artist:	AUTRE NE VEUT
Title:	Anxiety
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SFT 013CD

"Anxiety is the full-length follow up to Autre Ne Veut's 2010 self-titled debut, which was for many the definitive post-millennial Failure Pop statement outside of time and style. Autre Ne Veut rivaled other lovelorn 'missteps' such as Marvin Gaye's Here My Dear and Big Star's Sister Lovers. If you didn't hear the connection, you weren't listening closely enough. Be that as it may, ANV brazenly decided to make it easier for people with his post-canonical return. No longer playing the role of pauper or king, Anxiety is simply his high definition arrival. Born April 20th, 1982 Arthur Ashin is the first of two children and the only son of American ex-patriots living in rural Kenya. He's struggled with minor bouts of depression throughout his life, but a year of intensive psychoanalysis helped Arthur to realize that anxiety was at the crux of his problems. Anxiety is in some sense Ashin closing a chapter on his adolescence through song-form depictions of his own relationship struggles and ecstasies. There are club bangers on Anxiety, for sure; 'Counting' a cybernetic sea shanty tips its hat to Timbaland, and opening track 'Play By Play' rolls out like a slowly evolving top 40 operetta with nods to Dr. Luke and Patti LaBelle in equal measure. But when experienced as a whole, there is an unfolding sense of confession to Anxiety. Like a collection of photographs, each featuring our anti-hero surrounded by lovers, friends, and family and, ultimately, the world, Ashin himself is peripheral to the action. He is always a little too aware of the joke, laughing at the wrong time. The influences on Anxiety range from David Byrne to Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Laurie Anderson and Annie Lennox to Katy Perry and Rihanna. But Arthur's primary influence -- and the influence most evident in his music -- is of karaoke. The solitary person singing along with their favorite song. In karaoke we get to be someone bigger than who we usually are. When we sing karaoke or when we sing in the shower, we get to be gods; gods with bars of soap, gods with plastic cups in our hands."

Artist:	BLANCK MASS
Title:	White Math/Polymorph
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	12"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SFT 014EP

"We're all big Benjamin John Power power fans over at Software Recording Co. His self-titled solo debut for Rock Action floored us. As in the ocean floor - expansive, churning, epic sheets of Vangelian prog-mong. On his fried bananas follow up 12" as Blanck Mass, Mr. Power is in full 'thrusters-on' mode. A raw, unnerving mid-90s virtual analog techno feel propels the two sides - 'White Math' and 'Polymorph' - into an outer limit legacy of UK big room acts Underworld, Orbital, Leftfield, et al. What! Clocking in at over 21 minutes, these two are growers. However, the tracks do impact instantly in the same way that a John Woo neo-Tokyo helicopter flyover might." Includes mp3 download.

Artist:	HECKER & DANIEL LOPATIN, TIM
Title:	Instrumental Tourist
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	2LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	SFT 017LP

"The first chapter of SSTUDIOS (Software Studio Series), a new venture in the Software Recording Co.'s expanding catalog. SSTUDIOS invites artists in the field of electronic music to create collaborative works of quality and vision. With a deliberate focus on source material of a synthetic and mimetic nature, Hecker and Lopatin designed a sound palette from the acoustic resonance of digitally-sourced 'instruments of the world.' The intrepid cowboy sound-voyager was inverted, forging a synthesis with the ecstatic other; digested exotic instrumentation fuel the tepid journeys of a sampler tourist. Instead of leaning heavily on the proverbial Malian time signature's sublime truth, Instrumental Tourist pictures the synthetic veneer of exoticism as pushed air captured by oscillating ribbons. The studio meetings between Hecker and Lopatin were conducted to mimic the tropes and techniques of jazz-based improvisation, with little preparation prior. In an era where electronic production can produce the totalities of symphonic effect, and solo sound composition is easier than ever, the necessity of collaborative work is questioned. Could their own respective artistic pursuits be neatly compiled and encapsulated by the very sound bank paradigm that they've exploited? Why work together at all? Instrumental Tourist finds two artists transcending their respective visions by agreeing to a new language, one which verbalizes their mutual infatuations and apprehensions with the systems they've both built and are buried by." Housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve; hand-numbered edition of 2000; includes download code.

Artist:	TROPA MACACA
Title:	Ectoplasm
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	12"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SFT 018EP

"Software Recording Co. presents Tropa Macaca's fourth release, Ectoplasm. The ambient-noise duo of Andr� Abel and Joana da Concei��o have been going strong from their Portugal home base since 2005, while lunging out into the world with releases via Qbico and Ruby Red. The following to 2009's Sensa��o do Princ�pio on Stiltbreeze, Ectoplasm finds Tropa Macaca creating a quantic fantasy sound not unlike a cybernetically enhanced Taj Mahal Travellers interpreting a lost chapter of One Hundred Years of Solitude. The chemistry of Tropa Macaca imbues every tendril of Ectoplasm - truly mysterious music made for and by adventurous, vibrating people." Hand-numbered edition of 500; includes download code.

Artist:	SLAVA
Title:	Raw Solutions
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	2LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	SFT 024LP

"Raw Solutions is the debut full-length by Slava, exploring the darker, denser corners of Chicago house and footwork in an ever-broadening context. True to his cross-cultural identity, Slava's production doesn't fit neatly into a categorical genre. Rather, it surveys many and, Zelig-like, borrows freely from them. Slava dissects elements of pop, R&B, hip-hop, vogue house, British bass, and ambient and refocuses them in almost sculptural form for the live experience. The development of Raw Solutions was greatly informed by Slava's performance. Often recorded in single takes directly from a Korg Electribe ESX, the album compositions were crafted from bare machine essentials with few audio effects or sound-design. Slava's command of the mix powers Raw Solutions along a more refined and visceral arc than his previous recorded work. The vocal sample has become a signature element in Slava's carefully constructed balance. The thick and sticky sonic material of the samples contrasts the lean tone of mix element. The space surrounding Slava's skeletal programming becomes muscular with foraged sounds. Over the course of Raw Solutions, the samples dissolve into the production, naturalizing the contrasting presence. Raw Solutions rarely drifts though. The mix remains meticulously assembled -- each part perfectly puzzled-pieced. Mercury's penchant for intricate vocal choreography may have left as deep a stamp on Slava's psyche as his charisma." Gatefold sleeve; includes download code; numbered edition of 1000.

Artist:	CO LA
Title:	Moody Coup
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SFT 027LP

"Co La is the primary project of musician and producer Matt Papich, whose explorations of sample-based electronic music have culminated in Moody Coup. The emotional palette of Moody Coup, Papich's second album and first for Software Recording Co., is more complex than its exuberant predecessor Daydream Repeater (NNA Tapes 2011). Where that record's relentlessly bucolic tone drew from the saccharine core of reggae, exotica, and '60s girl groups, the bedrock of Moody Coup is elusive and abstract. The various genre coinages that have been tagged to Co La's music before - new exotica, avant-luxury, furniture music, etc. - fail to accommodate the brainier obsessions behind Moody Coup's genesis. A new brand of alchemy occurs in the album, where cryptic sources are enhanced and embellished to a point of transcendence. This departure is the brilliant process of Co La's unpredictable electronic music."

Artist:	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
Title:	Betrayed in the Octagon
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	SFT 028LP

"2012's Rifts compiled Oneohtrix Point Never's (aka Daniel Lopatin) first three full albums alongside a crop of rare and out-of-print CDR and cassette material in a deluxe, five LP vinyl box set. Following the success of this sold-out one-time release, we are pleased to present all five LPs for sale individually. Each LP includes a digital download code. Betrayed in the Octagon was originally released on cassette by Deception Island in 2007. Subsequently released on LP in an edition of 300 copies by No Fun Productions, March 2009."

Artist:	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
Title:	Russian Mind
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	SFT 030LP

"2012's Rifts compiled Oneohtrix Point Never's (aka Daniel Lopatin) first three full albums alongside a crop of rare and out-of-print CDR and cassette material in a deluxe, five LP vinyl box set. Following the success of this sold-out one-time release, we are pleased to present all five LPs for sale individually. Each LP includes a digital download code. Original Russian Mind LP released in an edition of 500 by No Fun Productions, November 2009."

Artist:	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
Title:	Drawn and Quartered
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	SFT 031LP

"A selection of rarities from 2008-2009. Track one originally released on an OPN/Outer Space split CS (Arbor, 2009). Track two originally released on Ruined Lives CS (Young Tapes, 2008). Track three and four originally released on Transmat Memories CS (Taped Sounds 2008). Track five and six originally released on A Pact Between Strangers CDR (Gneiss Things, 2008). Track seven originally released on Young Beidnahga CDR (Ruralfuane, 2009)." Includes a digital download code.

Artist:	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
Title:	The Fall Into Time
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	SFT 032LP

"A selection of rarities from 2009. Tracks one and six originally released on KGB Nights/Blue Drive CS (Catholic Tapes, 2009). Track two recorded at Issue Project Room, April 21, 2009, originally released on Scenes with Curved Objects CS (Utmarken, 2009). Tracks three and five originally released on Caboladies/Oneohtrix Point Never split CS (NNA Tapes, 2009). Track four aired on Rare Frequency, WZBC 90.3 FM on July 23, 2009, originally released on Scenes with Curved Objects CS (Utmarken, 2009)." Includes a digital download code.

Artist:	SWANSON, PETE
Title:	Punk Authority
Label:	SOFTWARE
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SFT 033LP

"Following the devastating one-two punch of Man with Potential and Pro Style for Type Records, Pete Swanson returns to his deformed warehouse techno sound with Punk Authority. After leaving cornerstone US noise duo Yellow Swans, Swanson made it his mission to pull apart the techno genre by the seams. This four track stomper for Software Recording Co. is by far his most damaged solo offering to date. With a sly nod to Police Academy, 'Punk Authority' launches into a barrage of debauched, regressive noise punctuated by the kind of beats you'd more readily expect to find on an Underground Resistance 12" (And that's as effortlessly engaging as it sounds). Using a deceptively simple synthesizer/tape setup, Swanson siphons his club constructions through a hoarse mix of saturation and overdrive, resulting in something aggressive yet effortlessly foot pushing. Punk Authority might have the kind of surface grit you'd expect to come across on a hand-painted cassette tape, but at its heart is a vomited pulse half-heard through a Stuttgart toilet stall. Swanson has successfully re-tooled a genre to fit his needs, and this Punk Authority is his chance to really crack his bare knuckles." Includes download code; hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies.

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