Production Unit Xero – Combat Decker’s Handbook (React:21)
Production Unit Xero’s first for Portland’s Reactionary is a perfect pleasure – it is exquisite and it leaves you wanting more. What more could you want? So much of electronic … Continue reading
Noyouyesme – Talanus 3: Legends Of Yosuga (HTX102) album review
Fire up your Spelljammer modules! Break out your Cyberpunk supplements – Portland’s Noyouyesme returns with 5 tracks of sci-fi electronics for building worlds or escaping this one. When you think … Continue reading
enereph/Production Unit Xero – Premoniss | Bukimi no Tani Genshō [HTX099] album review
Seattle’s enereph and Portland’s Production Unit Xero explore modern classic, ambient, and streamlined beats for this evocatively poetic split for Heterodox Records! Recalling a time when I was quite young, … Continue reading
SoCal Gothic & The NEW American Dream: Hxxs – Valley Fever album review
With Valley Fever, Bakersfield, CA’s Hxxs dream of a new world, conjuring it into being with beat-ific communions and synthetic sanctified calls to arms. If America is the land where … Continue reading
See Matmos Perform Live With Their Washing Machine At Holocene; 12.7.16
A lot of cutting edge electronic music is confined to the studio space. From beastly, behemoth modular rigs to full-size synths that weigh as much as a Sherman Tank, and … Continue reading
Every Night Is Saturday Night: Deafheaven, The Blood Royale, and Diesto; Northwest Hest Fest Day 3 Review
“Fuck it, let’s party – it’s Saturday Night! Oh, who am I kidding; every night is Saturday night. We’re gonna need beer, whiskey, weed, coke… let’s do this!” Tim Corken … Continue reading
EMS & Jeph Nor – Live At Volt Divers
Two mainstays of the Portland synth underground – EMS & Jeph Nor – explore the limits of modular synthesis on Live At Volt Divers, recorded on a freakishly nice Saturday … Continue reading
Eternal Tapestry – Wild Strawberries (Thrill Jockey)
Portland’s Eternal Tapestry blend the pastoral and the technological, on their first ever double-LP, for psych juggernauts Thrill Jockey. For their newest, sprawling soundwork for Chicago’s Thrill Jockey, Eternal Tapestry … Continue reading
Ghetto Hexes – Bury My Heart//At Wounded Knee
Artist: Ghetto Hexes. Personnel: Gavin, Max Label: self-released (bandcamp) Release Date: 12.7.13 File Under: electro-soul//ghetto witchcraft It is easy to get lost in an infinite sea of possibilities. It’s like … Continue reading
Best Available & Ond Ton – Split
Label: Opal Tapes Release Date: 10.12 RIYL: Ekoplekz, Actress, Pole, Atom TM, echoes, delays, Berlin, hardware, software, Tapes, good things. Here’s a true gem from the recent live electronic undergound. … Continue reading
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