Portland was being invaded by overt fascists, seemingly under police protection. This undercurrent was slithering beneath the songs below. Sonic waves as a shelter and cocoon of resistance.  A bit heavy in the krautrock (mind these guys are all leftist anarchists), a bit heavy in general, lots of Portland experimenters, Jamaica, NYC, Nashville, Italy, and France represent. Joy is the sound of intransigence.

HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE:

PLAYLIST:

• Negativland “Escape from Noise” [Escape from Noise]
• Negativland “Discernment” [True False]
• George Russell & His Orchestra “Chromatic Universe” [Jazz In The Space Age]
• Teen Machine “Teen-Machine Rap” [Soul Jazz Records Presents BOOMBOX 3: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-83]
• Harmonia “Veterano” [Musik von Harmonia]
• The Heptones “I Shall Be Released” [Sea Of Love]
• Magma “Zombies (Ghost Dance)” [Trilogy]
• Motion Sickness of Time Travel “Disappear” [Love Songs]
• E.M.A.K. “Filmmusik” [Soul Jazz Records Presents DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1972-83]
• Dolphin Midwives “Bird Circle I” [Orchid Milk]
• Greg Segal w/ Jerry King “Prestidigitator” [Visible]
• Dame “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” [Once Bitten, Twice Shy]
• Delroy Wilson “Riding for a Fall” [Best of Studio 1 Songs We Love]
• Holger Czukay “Ode To Perfume” [On The Way To The Peak Of Normal]
• Ennio Morricone “The trio – Il triello” [The good, the bad and the ugly]
• Michael Bonaventure “Morphodelic” [Tenebris Ratione Organi]
• John Zorn “Beyond the Infinite” [Filmworks XXV]
• All Them Witches “Diamond” [ATW]
• Tangerine Dream “No Man’s Land” [Hyperborea (Re-Recorded / Remastered Versions)]
• Roedelius “Geradewohl” [Selbstportrait III – Reise durch Arcadien]