New Article. What We're Listening to This Week - 8.7.26. microgenremusic.com/articles/wha... #numetal #ska #alternativerock #electronicmusic
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SPINES performance from Live in the Depths 75 - 6.6.24 #electronicmusic #portlandoregon #techno #aliendancemusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b-z...
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Scene Report: Synth Library 10th Anniversary at Process – 7.9.26 @baseck.bsky.social microgenremusic.com/articles/sce... #electronicmusic #idm #breakcore #portland
Scene Report: Synth Library 10th Anniversary at Process - 7.9.26
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…
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Amplitude Modulation – V/A – Pinecone Moonshine [PCMS 2026.2] (2026) – Album Review microgenremusic.com/review/ampli... @pineconemoonshine.bsky.social #darkambient #drumandbass #electronicmusic
Amplitude Modulation - V/A - Pinecone Moonshine [PCMS 2026.2] (2026) - Album Review
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…
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New Review. Boards of Canada - Inferno. @boardsofcanada.bsky.social microgenremusic.com/review/board... #ambientmusic #electronicmusic #boardsofcanada
Boards of Canada - Inferno (2026) - Album Review
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…
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This is just a PSA to remind everyone that Micro Genre Music exists to support artists who actually contribute to the community they inhabit - not people who tear it down, exploit it, or move through it leaving damage behind them. Full post here: www.instagram.com/p/DXVJLACgifd/
Thank you @microgenremusic.bsky.social 🙏 "..move between a certain composition and synthesis, expanding their language rather than replacing it." Top Ambient Albums of Winter 2026 - Micro Genre Music microgenremusic.com/articles/top...
Top Ambient Albums of Winter 2026
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…
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Top Ambient Albums of Winter 2026
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…
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New Scene Report by SLTHR ( @slthr.bsky.social ). Live in the Depths 95. microgenremusic.com/articles/sce... @hexwolves.bsky.social @proqxis.bsky.social @spazradio.bsky.social #indsutrialtechno #electronicmusic #portland
Scene Report: Live in the Depths 95
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…
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New Concert Review/Scene Report by J. Simpson ( @forestpunk.bsky.social). Gogol Bordello at Revolution Hall. microgenremusic.com/articles/sce... #gogolbordello #gypsypunk
Gogol Bordello at Revolution Hall Concert Review
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...
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New Scene Report. Modbang PDX - 2.27.26 microgenremusic.com/articles/sce... @puxflux.bsky.social @heterodoxrecords.bsky.social #idm #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic
Scene Report: Modbang PDX 2.27.26
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…
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New Scene Report. Live in the Depths 94 - Atlantis Lounge - Portland, OR microgenremusic.com/articles/sce... #livemusic #electronicmusic #portlandor #idm #breakcore
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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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. microgenremusic.com/genres/ambie... #musicsky #albumreview #albumoftheday
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…
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New Article by J. Simpson ( @forestpunk.bsky.social ). The 15 Best Techno Albums of 2025. microgenremusic.com/genres/techn... @efdemin.bsky.social @1sampre.bsky.social @bassclef.bsky.social #techno #technomusic #bestof2025
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…
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Top Ambient Albums of 2025 @lojammusic.bsky.social @puxflux.bsky.social @heterodoxrecords.bsky.social @k-lc.bsky.social @marineeyes.bsky.social @400lonelythings.bsky.social @absentwarrior.bsky.social @patriciawolf.bsky.social #ambientmusic #darkambient microgenremusic.com/articles/top...
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…
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New Review. I Hate Christmas - Ama Yari. microgenremusic.com/review/i-hat... #merrychristmas #queercore #gothrock
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…
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New Article by Ramon Mills ( @puxflux.bsky.social / @heterodoxrecords.bsky.social ) Shock Value and Cultural Appropriation in Experimental Music microgenremusic.com/articles/sho... #CulturalAppropriation #experimentalmusic #deathinjune
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…
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Gangster Computer God – Self Titled (2025) – Album Review microgenremusic.com/review/gangs... @heterodoxrecords.bsky.social
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…
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Scene Report: HARDWARE 04 at Process PDX microgenremusic.com/articles/sce... @blaix.bsky.social @greystarmusic.bsky.social @hypersurface.bsky.social #electronicmusic #idm #pdx #experimentalmusic
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/
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New Article. "What is a Groovebox?" by Ramon Mills microgenremusic.com/articles/wha... #groovebox #yahama #roland #elektron #octatrack #tr1000 @puxflux.bsky.social
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...
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New Review by Prof. Eww @d_phono_ The Volcano – Mano Sinistra (2025) microgenremusic.com/review/the-v... #ambientmusic #experimental #electronicmusic
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…
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New Scene Report. Live in the Depths 92. microgenremusic.com/articles/sce... #experimental #electronicmusic #portlandoregon
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…
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New Review. Amber Disc - Joel Noct Brinson. microgenremusic.com/review/amber... #darkambient #ambientmusic #experimentalmusic
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.
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New Review. Nhạc Vàng IV: how many wars – Dao Strom microgenremusic.com/review/nhac-... #experimentalmusic #ambient #postfolk @daostrom.bsky.social
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…
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New Review. Ambient 4: On Land – Brian Eno (1982). microgenremusic.com/review/ambie... #ambientmusic #darkambient #brianeno @brianenosdiary.bsky.social
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…
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New Scene Report. EQUALIZER presented by Heterodox Records at NO FUN (10.18.25) microgenremusic.com/articles/sce... @puxflux.bsky.social @heterodoxrecords.bsky.social @occurian.bsky.social #electronicmusic #idm #experimentalmusic #portlandoregon
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…
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New Review. Voodoo - D'Angelo. In loving memory. microgenremusic.com/review/voodo... #neosoul #randb #soulmusic #dangelo
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…
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New Review. Points Of No Return – V/A @beaconsound.bsky.social @patriciawolf.bsky.social @derekhwilson.bsky.social @marcusfischer.bsky.social @amuletsmusic.bsky.social @crystalquartez.bsky.social @hollandandrews.bsky.social microgenremusic.com/review/point... #ambientmusic #electronicmusic
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…
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New Review. Things Falling Apart - Nine Inch Nails. microgenremusic.com/review/thing... #industrialmusic #postindustrial #nineinchnails #trentreznor
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…
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New Album Review. Isis – bagonia (2024). microgenremusic.com/review/isis-... #dub #noisemusic #electronicmusic #industrial
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…
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