Album: Renegade Science Vol. 2 Artist: V/A Label: 254 Science and Research Release Date: August 21, 2026 There’s one irrefutable truth in this life that eventually comes for everybody: getting older.

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Venue: Process PDX Date: July 9th, 2026 This is a bit of delayed scene report, but what can you do about a spiritually heavy summer? Not a lot. I thought about scrapping it altogether…

Album: Amplitude Modulation Artist: V/A Release Date: May 29, 2026 Label: Pinecone Moonshine It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of Pincecone Moonshine here at Micro Genre Music. We’ve covered a…

Album: Inferno Artist: Boards of Canada Release Date: May 29, 2026 Label: Warp Records After listening to this album, one question kept circling my skull: where’s the growth? A lot of us grew up on…

Winter 2026 never settled into anything recognizable, but at least we got a fresh batch of wonderful Ambient albums to listen to. What stood out just as much as the music itself, was the range of…

Winter 2026 never settled into anything recognizable, but at least we got a fresh batch of wonderful Ambient albums to listen to. What stood out just as much as the music itself, was the range of…

Consider listening along at https://www.spaz.org/radio/archives/ Portland’s Most Unwanted 2026-03-06. Timestamps included. All the children of the night are lulled in by the distant sounds of Live in…

Gogol Bordello just get better with age, which they proved beyond a shadow of a doubt on Monday night, reducing Revolution Hall to a quivering, sweating mass over and over and over again. I have never...

Show: Modbang PDX – 2.27.26 Venue: The Midnight PDX + The Sïx Everyone seems to be in good spirits tonight (unaware that the leaders of the Board of Peace are bombing the fuck out of Iran) – it’s the…

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...

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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/

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...

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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...

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…

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…

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...

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…

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.

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...

Album: Terrains Artist: PUX/NNDL Label: Heterodox Records Release Date: June 13, 2025 In my mind, I’m always searching for September. That time of year where everything starts to die and anything not…

Album: PALM WINE Artist: YATTA Label: INITIATION Release Date: October 25, 2024 Maybe the world ended in 2024 and we just didn’t know it. I feel like PALM WINE is the evidence of this event.

Album: BL-001 Artist: AshTreJinkins Label: Buried Light Recordings Release Date: April 6, 2025 AshTreJinkins makes music. That was the extent of my knowledge of this human before listening to this…

LIVE IN THE DEPTHS 88: Official Website Venue: Mississippi Pizza & Atlantis Lounge – Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR One of my favorite things to do at Live in the Depths is get settled in like an hour…

Show: Modbang PDX — 1 Year Anniversary Party Venue: The Midnight PDX + The Sïx The folks who run Modbang shows say it’s, “No laptops. No DJs. Just machines, wires, and pure voltage.

LIVE IN THE DEPTHS 87: Official Website Venue: Mississippi Pizza & Atlantis Lounge – Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR Whatever craziness is happening at these shows, it’s never just the music or the…

From the satiny smooth hyperpop of Addison Rae’s Addison to the raw, menacing techno of Death In Vegas, here are 11 albums worth checking out this Friday, June 6.