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Scene Report: Live in the Depths 94 Disclaimer: Time is a slippery drunk bastard – reliably unreliable, belligerent, and prone to slipping out the back door when you need it most. What you’re about to read happened in some kind of order...

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Live in the Depths 94 - Atlantis Lounge - Portland, OR

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Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Ballade for a Wolf Moon Album Review Drones are serve chilled on Motion Sickness of Time Travel’s Ballade for a Wolf Moon, a classic drone album from 2014. Between 2013 and 2014, Rachel Evans, recording under the name Motion Sickness of…

I wrote about Motion Sickness of Time Travel's sublime, trance-inducing Ballade for a Wolf Moon for @microgenremusic.bsky.social in honor of tonight's Full Wolf Moon in Cancer.

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The 15 Best Techno Albums of 2025 From an unexpected album from Sandwell District and Voices From the Lake to one of the best from Death In Vegas, here are the 15 best techno albums of 2025. 2025 found techno in an odd state of…

New Article by J. Simpson ( @forestpunk.bsky.social ).
The 15 Best Techno Albums of 2025.

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Top Ambient Albums of 2025 There are more records worth your time than there are hours to absorb them. There are more thoughtful drones and slow-blooming atmospheres than a single nervous system can comfortably process in one…

Top Ambient Albums of 2025

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I Hate Christmas - Ama Yari (2025) - Album Review Album: I Hate Christmas Artist: Ama Yari Release Date: December 21, 2025 Confession: I fucking hate Christmas. It wasn’t always this way. It used to start innocently enough in late October with a…

New Review. I Hate Christmas - Ama Yari.

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Shock Value and Cultural Appropriation in Experimental Music I got a demo a couple of weeks ago. I’ll start with the music; it was, at its heart, hip-hop, so to speak, it was hip-hop beats made with a lot of distorted industrial sounds. It definitely gave the…

New Article by Ramon Mills ( @puxflux.bsky.social / @heterodoxrecords.bsky.social )

Shock Value and Cultural Appropriation in Experimental Music

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Gangster Computer God - Self Titled (2025) - Album Review Album: Gangster Computer God [HTX152] Artist: Gangster Computer God Release Date: November 7, 2025 Gangster Computer God is an appropriate name for Kevin Stevenson Fiske. I don’t know Kevin in any…

Gangster Computer God – Self Titled (2025) – Album Review

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Scene Report: HARDWARE 04 at Process PDX HARDWARE 04 – Enzo, Production Unit Xero, Hypersurface 303, Joel Noct, Blaix, Casual Decay, Greystar Venue: Process PDX – 5040 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR Previous Scene Reports at Process PDX: 7/

Scene Report: HARDWARE 04 at Process PDX

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What is a Groovebox? OK, so let’s actually ask the big question here: What is a groovebox? People throw the term around all the time, but it has a pretty specific origin. The idea really kicked off in the mid-to-late ’90s...

New Article.
"What is a Groovebox?" by Ramon Mills

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The Volcano - Mano Sinistra (2025) - Album Review Written by: Prof. Eww Tues, Nov 11th, 2025 It was a very interesting evening the night I met Mano. We were at Portland’s monthly event “Live in the Depths #92”. I didn’t know at the time that I would…

New Review by Prof. Eww @d_phono_
The Volcano – Mano Sinistra (2025)

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Scene Report: Live in the Depths 92 LIVE IN THE DEPTHS 92: Official Website Venue: Mississippi Pizza & Atlantis Lounge – Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR Disclaimer: Time is a slippery bastard. What you’re about to read happened in some…

New Scene Report. Live in the Depths 92.

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Amber Disc - Joel Noct Brinson (2025) - Album Review Album: Amber Disc Artist: Joel Noct Brinson Release Date: February 27, 2025 Full disclosure, this album made my Top Ambient Albums of Spring 2025 even though it came out in February.

New Review. Amber Disc - Joel Noct Brinson.

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Nhạc Vàng IV: how many wars - Dao Strom (2025) - Album Review Album: Nhạc Vàng IV: how many wars Artist: Dao Strom Release Date: October 17, 2025 It’s another cold and gray Portland Saturday. Days like this make me vulnerable to ambient and experimental sound…

New Review. Nhạc Vàng IV: how many wars – Dao Strom

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#experimentalmusic #ambient #postfolk

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Ambient 4: On Land - Brian Eno (1982) - Album Review Album: Ambient 4: On Land Artist: Brian Eno Release Date: March 1982 Label: Editions EG There’s a stretch of road somewhere, maybe in the rural backwoods of America, maybe along the misty coastlines…

New Review. Ambient 4: On Land – Brian Eno (1982).

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Scene Report: EQUALIZER presented by Heterodox Records at NO FUN (10.18.25) Event: EQUALIZER presented by Heterodox Records Date: 10.18.25 Venue: NO FUN – 1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR Disclaimer: Time is a slippery bastard. What you’re about to read happened in some…

New Scene Report. EQUALIZER presented by Heterodox Records at NO FUN (10.18.25)

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Voodoo - D’Angelo (2000) - Album Review Album: Voodoo Artist: D’Angelo Release Date: January 25, 2000 It’s the year 2000. The hangover of Y2K was in the air and for all the hype the year 2000 had in our minds in the 90s leading up to the…

New Review. Voodoo - D'Angelo.

In loving memory.

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#neosoul #randb #soulmusic #dangelo

Points Of No Return - V/A || Beacon Sound (2020) - Album Review Album: Points Of No Return Artist: Various Artists Release Date: August 7, 2020 There’s nothing quite like discovering a two hour long, 22-track quasi-ambient compilation album released by a local…

New Review. Points Of No Return – V/A

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Things Falling Apart - Nine Inch Nails (2000) - Album Review Album: Things Fall Apart Artist: Nine Inch Nails Release Date: November 21, 2000 Ah yes, Things Falling Apart – one of the worst reviewed Nine Inch Nails releases of all time. Incidentally…

New Review. Things Falling Apart - Nine Inch Nails.

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#industrialmusic #postindustrial #nineinchnails #trentreznor

Isis - bagonia (2024) - Album Review Album: Isis Artist: bagonia Release Date: November 30, 2024 Full disclosure, I’m not the best person to review this album for any of its technical aspects, because there’s a lot going on here…

New Album Review. Isis – bagonia (2024).

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#dub #noisemusic #electronicmusic #industrial

Scene Report: Live in the Depths 91 LIVE IN THE DEPTHS 91: Official Website Venue: Mississippi Pizza & Atlantis Lounge – Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR Disclaimer: Time is a slippery bastard. What you’re about to read happened in some…

New Scene Report. Live in the Depths 91.

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RECESSED DRAUGHTING - Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (2024) - Album Review Album: RECESSED DRAUGHTING Artist: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Release Date: June 25, 2024 It feels almost rude to use the phrase “old world” when describing something like this, but maybe I just don’t…

RECESSED DRAUGHTING – Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (2024) – Album Review

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FEELING BODY - Nyokabi Kariũki (2023) - Album Review Album: FEELING BODY Artist: Nyokabi Kariũki Release Date: March 3, 2023 Composed during the throes of extended illness, the album carries an unexpected restorative quality. I truly believe that we all...

FEELING BODY – Nyokabi Kariũki (2023) – Album Review

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#ambientmusic #darkambient #healing #minimalistambient

Neptunian Blue - Ahya Simone (2025) - Album Review Album: Neptunian Blue Artist: Ahya Simone Release Date: January 8, 2025 We haven’t heard anything else by Ahya Simone, but judging by the album I’ve just heard, I know that she has a distinct vision…

New Review. Neptunian Blue – Ahya Simone (2025)

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Harmony / Balance - Ibukun Sunday (2024) - Album Review Album: Harmony / Balance Artist: Ibukun Sunday Release Date: September 20, 2024 One of the enduring qualities of ambient music is its ability to remain timeless; you can always dust off an ambient…

New Review. Harmony / Balance – Ibukun Sunday (2024).

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10 Albums to Check out this Week - Micro Genre Music

New Article by J. Simpson ( @forestpunk.bsky.social).
10 Albums to Check Out This Week.

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Ambient Dairies Vol. 1 - Production Unit Xero (2025) - Album Review Album: Ambient Dairies Vol. 1 [HTX147] Artist: Production Unit Xero Release Date: September 5, 2025 Longform ambient compositions. How did I take you for granted? Okay, so to be fair, I think a lot of...

New Review. Ambient Dairies Vol. 1 – Production Unit Xero.

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Top Ambient Albums of 2025 - Summer Edition As I said in my Top Ambient Albums of 2025 – Winter Edition & Spring Edition rundown, (and I will continue to say this) music lists with “Top” in their title should always be taken with a grain of…

Top Ambient Albums of 2025 – Summer Edition

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Scene Report: EQUALIZER presented by Heterodox Records at NO FUN (7.26.25) Event: EQUALIZER presented by Heterodox Records Venue: NO FUN – 1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR Mark the date – July 26, 2025. The official hangover day of the Portland music scene.

New Scene Report. EQUALIZER presented by Heterodox Records at NO FUN w/ Devil's Dill.

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Scene Report: HARDWARE at Process PDX Event: HARDWARE Venue: Process PDX – 5040 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR HARDWARE first took shape in the dim, tangled heart of Northeast Portland. What began as a small collaborative session of local...

Scene Report: HARDWARE at Process PDX

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