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From the Background to the Foreground

Aleatoric celebrates “anti-dance electronic music.”The Return of

A little over a year ago, the ultra-modern club Apotheke, which was oddly located above the trendy Peruvian restaurant Andina and entirely focused on exceedingly experimental music, closed for business. To the disappointment of weird music lovers across Portland, a bar that provides as its soundtrack anything from the din of chirping crickets to epic […]

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Rhythm of the Night

The Mercury‘s Dance Party Field Test

We spill a lot of ink on these pages devoted to music, but with bands coming and going through town it’s sometimes easy to forget the resident nights of DJ-ed entertainment that actually get you through the week time and time again. And while it used to be a joke that “Portland doesn’t dance,” the […]

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