Ladylike helped bring you HOE DOWN with EZ Rowe and Ryan Spencer, AS ABOVE SO BELOW at Briggs and SIDE FX at Deluxx Fluxx. 
We are excited to present you Ladylike’s dreamy selection of songs known and unknown. A journey through spring that picks up the pace as we grow into summer.
Ladylike will be performing this Saturday May 15 at Playground Detroit for the closing of Rachel Pontious’ solo show “Mise en Abmye” from 2-5 pm. 2845 Gratiot Ave

PGS MIX 010 - Ladylike (Good2BeSeen)

PGS-001 Shigeto - "Detroit Part II"
"Detroit Part II" is a new single by Shigeto. "Detroit Part II" is a sonic homecoming four years in the making, a journey through the history of Detroit's rich musical legacy and into the heart of House. 

Following Saginaw's life of performing jazz, it is only fitting that "Detroit Part II" should evolve out of a jazz gig.  "I was putting together a show at the DSO with a live band. The event was at capacity. Marcus (Elliot) couldn't get in. 30 minutes before the show, (Bassist) Josef (Deas) starts texting Marcus, and we have the idea to get Marcus in–by playing with us," Zach Saginaw said. The drop-in of a live saxophonist, unplanned, was a beautiful moment. "Marcus literally breathes life into the song."

The a-side, "Detroit Part II", feels like a neighborhood party or an evening on the front porch. "Detroit Part II" features live, swinging percussion, sultry, dark vocals, a fat Juno bass line and the summertime warmth of a tenor saxophone.

If "Detroit Part II" is an early summertime evening, the b-side's "I94 Mix" sounds like 4 a.m. at an after hours rave. Dubbier, funkier and heavier, the saxophone becomes muted and sampled, with feverish swells boiling to the surface. The bass line becomes hypnotic; shakers guide every movement and beat.

If "Detroit Part II" starts the party, the "I94 Mix" ends it.

PGS-001 B SIDE: SHIGETO "Detroit Part II (I94 Mix)" *preview

PGS-001  A SIDE: SHIGETO "Detroit Part II" *preview

PGS MIX 001
Bill Spencer & Ryan Spencer

The first in PGS' MIX series, 001, is a 4 hour long, genre spanning patio melter from Freakish Pleasures / MITNM resident selectors Bill Spencer & Ryan Spencer. Recorded live from the Freakish Pleasures pre-Movement party Physical Therapy III. May 26th, 2017.

PGS MIX 001 - Bill Spencer & Ryan Spencer

PGS MIX 002
Dave Marroquin

A mix from our dear friend Dave Marroquin, the founder of Vanity Press Records and resident at Raw Juice. Vanity Press will be taking part in the "Friends of the Ghost" market at El Club on the 5th of August in Detroit MI along with 14 local record labels doing great things in the community.

PGS Mix 002 - Dave Marroquin

PGS 002
Spencer & Saginaw - "Real Talk"
track 3 of 3

℗+© Portage Garage Sounds 
Written and Produced by Bill Spencer and Zachary Saginaw 
Mixed by Christopher Koltay and Zachary Saginaw at High Bias Recordings in Detroit, Michigan 
Narration by Walter Williams 
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering

PGS 002 B2 - Spencer & Saginaw - "*b_W (AmbACiD Version)" *preview

PGS 002
Spencer & Saginaw - "Real Talk"
track 2 of 3

℗+© Portage Garage Sounds 
Written and Produced by Bill Spencer and Zachary Saginaw 
Mixed by Christopher Koltay and Zachary Saginaw at High Bias Recordings in Detroit, Michigan 
Narration by Walter Williams 
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering

PGS 002 B1 - Spencer & Saginaw - "Real Talk (INSTRMNTL Mix)" *preview

PGS 002
Spencer & Saginaw - "Real Talk"
track 1 of 3

℗+© Portage Garage Sounds 
Written and Produced by Bill Spencer and Zachary Saginaw 
Mixed by Christopher Koltay and Zachary Saginaw at High Bias Recordings in Detroit, Michigan 
Narration by Walter Williams 
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering

PGS 002 A - Spencer & Saginaw - "Real Talk (Talk Mix)" *preview

PGS MIX 003
Ali Berger

A mix from our dear friend Ali Berger of Trackland Acid Dealerships. His output has been expansive, releasing 12"s, cassettes & CD-Rs across multiple labels since 2012. He is the director of the music program at Takoi and lives in Detroit, MI.

PGS MIX 003 - Ali Berger

PGS MIX 004
Mike Medow

A mix from our dear friend Mike Medow, label manager for Sector 7-G recordings and co-host of RAW JUICE.

RAW JUICE and Portage Garage Sounds are heading to NYC for events Friday, 09/08 to Monday, 09/11, including a Detroit takeover of Liberty Hall at Ace Hotel on Monday night.

°RAW JUICE°
friday 8 sept 
10pm - 2am  -  Flattops
12am - 2am  -  Bossa Nova(Dave Marroquin set)
saturday 9 sept 
10:30am - 4pm  -  Queens Comfort Brunch
8pm - 2 am  -   Cafe Erzulie
monday 11 sept
PGS NYC TAKEOVER
with RAW JUICE & OLIVE T
7pm - Late  -  Lincoln Hall at Ace Hotel

PGS MIX 004 - Mike Medow

PGS 003
Black Noi$e
"Time Crisis" EP

Written, Produced and Mixed by Black Noi$e
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete USA

Design by Ben Saginaw x Vinnie Massimino
Records pressed at Archer Record Pressing in Detroit, MI
Jackets printed at VG Kids in Ypsilanti, MI
MMXVII

Time Crisis

PGS 003 A1 - Black Noi$e - "Fight Riff" *preview

PGS 003 B2 - Black Noi$e - "V98.7" *preview

PGS 003 B1 - Black Noi$e - "232" *preview

PGS 003 A2 - Black Noi$e - "Creepy Crawlers" *preview

PGS 004
Pablo R. Ruiz
Bad Hombre
out 05 dec 2017

Pablo R. Ruiz was born in Chile and moved to southwest Detroit in 1999. He played drums in various hardcore punk bands throughout high school. DEMF and raves cultivated an interest in dance music that Pablo brought with him when he moved back to Chile in 2006. He began producing and DJing in underground clubs around Santiago. In 2016 Pablo returned to Detroit, purchased more gear and began producing a new body of work, all recorded straight to tape. This is our selection of the fruits of his labor.

PGS 004 B2 - Pablo R. Ruiz - "El Sueño Capitalista" *preview

PGS 004 A1 - Pablo R. Ruiz - "Bad Hombre" *preview

PGS MIX 005
Olive T

A mix from our dear friend Olive T, of bright and floral house.

Olive T opened for Shigeto Live Ensemble Thursday, May 3, with PGS Residents Ben Saginaw and Vinnie Massimino. 

"Lets Get Weird"
https://soundcloud.com/olivetonic
https://www.djolivet.com/

PLAYLIST, provided by Olive via: http://olivetonic.tumblr.com/post/176755733631/playlist
Unknown Artist - A1 [WLSLTD06]
PC - Spirit Feel
Omar S, Nite Jewel - Confess To U Feat. Nite Jewel (The Three Stooges Of 
Hamtramck Mix)
Pollyn - Sometimes You Just Know (Moodymann Remix)
Peggy Gou - Gou Talk
Wolfram - Automatic Dub (Samo DJ & Alexi3d Remix)
Tell - Starry Night
Son Of Sound, Aroop Roy - New York Iz All I Know (Aroop Roy Remix)
Javonntte 
Circulation - Patterins
Santiago Salazar - Saturated Fear
Urulu - Quadrant Beat
Radio Slave - Bell Clap Dance (TCK Mix)
Ralphi Rosario 
Trippin Aka Dj Octopus - Tentacles Loop 4
Andreas Gehm - It’s You
Norm Talley - Fan Ta Cee
Todd Edwards, Tashi Condelee - Catch My Breath 
Redlight - Gamma Ray
Aaron Carl
Drewsky
Third Side - The Cursed Necklace
Deetron - Untitled
ABSOLUTE. - Not Tonight (Vakkuum Remix)
Alphonse - Better Weather (Abyss Version)
Violet - Abyss
Cygnus - Make The Brain Relax (feat Monica Lockett)

PGS MIX 005 - Olive T

PGS MIX 006
Whodat

A summertime house mix from our dear friend Terri "Whodat" McQueen. Whodat understands the dance floor is spiritual and that music is a vehicle for transcendence. This mix will let your ears travel to Motor City Wine or Detroit's Downtown Synagogue, as she tastefully weaves through timeless house and modern dance music in a journey that will move your feet and your spirit.

@1whodatis
http://futura-artists.com/whodat/
https://www.instagram.com/whodat_detroit/
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/whodat

PGS MIX 006 - WHODAT

PGS 006
Josef Deas
"What She Wants"
EP

A1. It's You and Me
B1. Past Time
B2. What She Wants

"I love you, but you don't seem to care, oh oh, I wonder, why you treat me so bad?" 

“A long time coming,” would be an understatement. “What She Wants” might be Josef Deas’ first release, but make no mistake, Deas has been fully immersed and actively working in the Michigan music scene his entire life. 

“Josef is just one of those vital connectors - everybody whose played jazz in SE Michigan knows him,” says Marcus Elliot 

Deas was born in Mannheim, Germany but grew up in Ann Arbor, MI with friends and musical collaborators Zach Saginaw (Shigeto) and Charles Tillinghast (Charles Trees). His musical education began with his mother, playing him classical music and singing to him. She encouraged him to begin playing the upright bass and he immersed himself in a symphonic orchestral setting. 

In the summer of 1997 Deas was introduced to recording when he was loaned a synthesizer and a four track tape machine by his middle school orchestra director. 

His relationship with Jazz was cultivated by mentor Vincent York, who worked with Deas and Saginaw in their high school years. York helped shape both of them into highly skilled, professional musicians. By the time he exited high school, Deas became one of the most capable and sought after bassists in the state, playing with Michigan greats like Marcus Belgrave, Gary Schunk, Vincent Chandler, Louis Smith, Sean Dobbins and many others. 

This album is a snapshot, a moment in time. The bedroom recording days of Josef Deas, a period unrestrained by doubt and fear, propelled by explosions of creativity, self expression, and raw talent. "I had one microphone, one keyboard, some software Charles gave me, and my mom's computer in 2001" says Deas. 

Recorded between 2001-2006, “I Know It’s You and Me”, “Past Time” and “What She Wants” dance between the timeless styles of boogie, R&B, and pop. “It still outshines most of my work… and it was made when I literally knew a small fraction of what i know now.. it's weird.” Anthems for the universal themes of love and loss, these songs show a maturity of someone older than their years. 

Portage Garage Sounds is proud to present the début release of Josef Deas.

for fans of: funk, boogie, soul, timeless pop, PPU, Galaxy Sound Co.

What She Wants

PRE-ORDER

Josef Deas - "What She Wants" EP (PGS 006) clips

PRE-ORDER HERE: https://portagegaragesounds.bandcamp.com/album/superdisc

OUT: 23 November, MMXVIII (Black Friday)

PGS 007
Todd Osborn
"SuperDisc" EP

Todd Osborn. For many, the name conjures up myths, tall tales told within the world of electronic music. Todd: makes hovercrafts; repairs motorcycles out of his garage; fixes vintage jukeboxes; creates handmade components for espresso machines; flies fighter jets; is a Lego expert, owns a record label with his son that releases music by Aphex Twin, Madlib and Underground Resistance; has a stunning collection of rare whiskeys. True? All of it, of course.

Reviewing a CV of the varied styles and sounds of Todd Osborn is like a museum-grade survey of records from electronic music's ultimate outsider artist. Yet, Todd Osborn has never been outside. From releasing jungle on Rephlex with Tadd Mullinix as Soundmurderer & SK-1 to house and jaking club music as Osborne on Ghostly International, to bright, chiptuned boogie as Superstructure, Todd Osborn has done it all. From there? We haven't yet scratched the surface.

For over 20 years, Todd Osborn has been a permanent fixture in music, touring internationally at music festivals, warehouse raves, gabber parties in fields to giving lectures at Red Bull Music Academy and in turn hosting the most diverse programme on Red Bull Radio. To boot? Todd Osborn opened the best record store in the USA, in Ypsilanti, MI. 
Portage Garage Sounds is thrilled, humbled, to present this three song EP, "SuperDisc."



"Not Too Real"
Quintessential Todd Osborn acid banger. Hyper lush, produced in a beautiful way, melodies that make you fall inward, while moving outward.
If you ask, we're bout ready to jak.

"Z-Lock"
Todd Osborn walks into a room with Heinrich Meuller. Classic Minimal electro. "Z-Lock" is sparse, yet complete enough to make you feel whole. And ready to move. Time travel to an era where the future was all we could believe in. A land underwater; A space ship to a greater tomorrow.

"Ambget"
"Ambget" is a hypnotizing, downtempo techno track, quite possibly the murkiest song in the Osborn canon. Moving at a sturdy 105bpm, "Ambget" slinks with a hushed demeanor. Sweaty and ominous, "Ambget" feels like walking out of the rave at sunrise in mid-November. Is it no longer cool to compare something to trip hop? Would it be better to liken "Ambget" something newer, like the palette painted by Andy Stott's releases on Modern Love? One of the oldest tracks in Todd Osborn's archive, "Ambget" was recorded in 1997, direct to tape.

credits:

1997-2018
Written, Mixed and Produced by Todd Osborn

Mastered by Todd Mariana at Deep Grooves Mastering
Records Pressed at Archer Record Pressing, Detroit, MI
Design by Ben Saginaw and Vinnie Massimino
MMXVIII

SuperDisc

Todd Osborn - "SuperDisc" EP (PGS 007) previews

We would like to close this year out with a mix from our dear friend LADYMONIX. Originally hailing from Baltimore, she has become a long standing staple of the Detroit music community.

In addition to consistently bringing high energy dance floors to parties around Detroit and abroad, she founded her own record label, Frizner Electric, earlier this year. 

Please enjoy this high vibrational journey through the world of LADYMONIX as we say goodbye to 2018 and get ready to conquer 2019. Go catch her monthly GRACE this Friday, December 28th, at Temple Bar and watch out for more Frizner Electric in the coming year.

PGS MIX 007 - LADYMONIX

PGS MIX 008 brought to you by Max Daley (@max-daley-971682604), Detroit pop-up mercenary, Twitter enigma and purveyor of quality jams. This new mix will take you on a journey like a medium paced hot and humid summer night.

Max is playing this Friday (June 21st) to celebrate the preorder availability of PGS 010 - S Transporter (Izaak S & Ryan S) for a balearic roulette tag team evening with Izaak S, Ryan S, Anya, Andra O, Bill S, Isi & Cruce.

Also look out for "Virgo Knights", a monthly at UFO Factory with Cruce Gramatico. Self described as "Like watching a newborn learn to walk, a marriage and fusion of styles and genres."

PGS MIX 008 - MAX DALEY

ORDER: portagegaragesounds.bandcamp.com/album/s-…nsporter

OUT: 19 July, MMXIX

S Transporter is Izaak S and Ryan Spencer, a pan-American duo of exact origins unknown. With roots jetsetting to and from Detroit & San Francisco, the project is somewhere around 4 years old, though no one remembers exactly when it started. Conceptualized between DJ gigs & throwing raves, the songs were initially demoed in Ryan's bedroom and forgotten about, until Ryan played them at his weekly, Monday Is The New Monday (co-founded with PGS' Ben & Zach). Immediately, the songs burst with new life into their ears, with requests to hear more. In a tale every creative can relate to, Ryan, simply, didn't know if they were good. We found them extraordinary. 

What followed were several months of phone calls, Facetimes, iMessages, and group texts, edits & additional recording sessions, in Ryan's apartment in Southwest Detroit, Izaak's in SF, and the Portage Garage in Hamtramck. The songs showcase a sound more influenced by the genre-collisions featured at MITNM, from krautrock, boogie, trance, to acid and house, in a way other PGS releases have hinted at, but never fully expressed. 

S Transporter is the name of the EP, the project, and all four songs. A maximalist sound with a minimalist presentation, naming the songs - so many years after their inception - would, perhaps, take away from the feeling that struck all three of us the first time we heard them on a club-grade sound system. 

Izaak S is a San Francisco resident and DJ from the Loveshadow dance collective. 

Ryan Spencer is a Detroit resident, DJ, co-founder of Monday Is The New Monday, and is a member of Freakish Pleasures. 

"S Transporter 1" 
Uptempo, backspin-laden electro/acid with a winding 303 bassline that reveals itself slowly over the pulsing breakbeat backbone. Immersive, haunting and enchanting. 

"S Transporter 2" 
Downtempo electro. Slap bass. Heavy boogie. Sensual vocals reminiscent of early Chris N Cosey carry you through this industrial funk heater. Heavy synth lines and rhythmic grooving guitar that is club-ready for dance floors of all kinds. 

"S Transporter 3" 
A fast paced, percussion forward adventure with balaphone melodies and bending synth pads. Spoken words guide the journey, arriving at a movement inducing Juno ascension that dances into a calm end. 

"S Transporter 4" 
Encompassing the seemingly disjointed, individualistic styles of S Transporter 1-3, ‘4’ combines elements of the entire release into one final gesture. ‘4’ could be Byrne/Eno ("Regiment"), but it's something else - the product of decades of dance music history, distilled by two musicians & DJs into one song 

2015-2019 
Written, Mixed and Produced by Izaak S & Ryan Spencer 
Vocals by Anya

Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering 
Recorded at Izaak's apartment in San Francisco, Ryan's apartment in Southwest Detroit and the Portage Garage 
Records Pressed at Archer Record Pressing, Detroit, MI 
Design by Sweet Will 
MMXIX

S Transporter

Pre-Order

S Transporter - "S Transporter" (PGS 010) previews

ORDER: https://portagegaragesounds.bandcamp.com/album/s-transporter

OUT: 19 July, MMXIX

S Transporter is Izaak S and Ryan Spencer, a pan-American duo of exact origins unknown. With roots jetsetting to and from Detroit & San Francisco, the project is somewhere around 4 years old, though no one remembers exactly when it started. Conceptualized between DJ gigs & throwing raves, the songs were initially demoed in Ryan's bedroom and forgotten about, until Ryan played them at his weekly, Monday Is The New Monday (co-founded with PGS' Ben & Zach). Immediately, the songs burst with new life into their ears, with requests to hear more. In a tale every creative can relate to, Ryan, simply, didn't know if they were good. We found them extraordinary. 

What followed were several months of phone calls, Facetimes, iMessages, and group texts, edits & additional recording sessions, in Ryan's apartment in Southwest Detroit, Izaak's in SF, and the Portage Garage in Hamtramck. The songs showcase a sound more influenced by the genre-collisions featured at MITNM, from krautrock, boogie, trance, to acid and house, in a way other PGS releases have hinted at, but never fully expressed. 

S Transporter is the name of the EP, the project, and all four songs. A maximalist sound with a minimalist presentation, naming the songs - so many years after their inception - would, perhaps, take away from the feeling that struck all three of us the first time we heard them on a club-grade sound system. 

Izaak S is a San Francisco resident and DJ from the Loveshadow dance collective. 

Ryan Spencer is a Detroit resident, DJ, co-founder of Monday Is The New Monday, and is a member of Freakish Pleasures. 

"S Transporter 1" 
Uptempo, backspin-laden electro/acid with a winding 303 bassline that reveals itself slowly over the pulsing breakbeat backbone. Immersive, haunting and enchanting. 

2015-2019 
Written, Mixed and Produced by Izaak S & Ryan Spencer 
Vocals by Anya 

Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering 
Recorded at Izaak's apartment in San Francisco, Ryan's apartment in Southwest Detroit and the Portage Garage 
Records Pressed at Archer Record Pressing, Detroit, MI 
Design by Sweet Will 
MMXVIX

S Transporter - "S Transporter 1"

ORDER: https://portagegaragesounds.bandcamp.com/album/hyperbolic-space

OUT:  30 October, MMXIX

PGS 011 comes to us from Gustav Brovold, an essential player in Detroit's latest wave of underground electronic music. His début EP, "Hyperbolic Space" is the first release solely dedicated to the local legend, with influences ranging from 90s UK rave, apocalyptic techno, and bright, post-Drexciyan electro. Since the late-aughts, Brovold has been a fixture of Detroit's dance community; first as a member of Randy Chabot's Deastro project, and then a pillar of the after-hours scene through raves with the ADULT Contemporary collective, all the while sprinkling in rare, must-see all-hardware-based live shows around the city. Moments of brilliance have boiled over the surface globally, with appearances on Don't Be Afraid as Radio Brovold in 2015, the Detroit Electronic Quarterly's "DEQ Vol. 7" in 2016, and on the punishing opener of PGS 009's with "Temple of the Circuit" earlier this year.

Following a live show at Detroit's Donovan's Pub in late 2018, Zach (Shigeto) came to the obvious realization–this music is the reason why we started PGS, and needed to release the music to a wider audience. Brovold handed PGS a flash drive with hours of completed music, a gold mine in bits and bites. "Hyperbolic Space" represents a cohesive sampling of the mountain of tracks from Brovold's vaults, propelling PGS into the next decade.  Play it in your car, or at unauthorized raves, and dance to the airwaves of Radio Brovold.

"Oakland Ave"
The vibes of forgotten 90s raves: UK techno made with digital synths, resampled as a low-bitrate soundtrack for the night time level of a PlayStation racing game. Building, dancing hi-hats, slow building chord stabs, dubby techno feels. A triumphant finish, 1st place in fifth gear. (*If you play this at 45rpm, you can Jit).

"CMND"
Tastefully dynamic, a 4am second wind of undulating big room house & electro. The slow build, the rise – mixable on the dance floor, and for home listening, a forewarning to the B side–

"Prometheus"
Murderous. In an era of safe, ready-made, and (often) generic dance music made for dance floors regardless of time, era, or location, Prometheus packs a wallop. Electro from the depths of Dante's Inferno, the terror inducing intro bleeds into beats reminiscent of distorted hits of Ghetto Tech played on Detroit drive time radio through a broken speaker.
*Compliments Brovold's "Temple of the Circuit" from PGS 009 :-)
 
"SMC2"
Closing "Hyperbolic Space" is the bright-but-sinister electro of "SMC2", with wobbly, alternating dry/wet basslines. With influence from the decades of dark dance music behind it, "SMC2" is a nod to where we are in 2019: post-Dopplereffekt, with allusions to the early productions of Kode9 and The Spaceape.

 

PGS 011
MMXIX
Written + Produced by Gustav Brovold
Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering
Art + Design by Ben Saginaw + Vinnie Massimino
Records Pressed at Archer Record Pressing, Detroit, MI

Hyperbolic Space

Order

Gustav Brovold - "Hyperbolic Space" (PGS 011) previews

PGS 011 comes to us from Gustav Brovold, an essential player in Detroit's latest wave of underground electronic music. His début EP, "Hyperbolic Space" is the first release solely dedicated to the local legend, with influences ranging from 90s UK rave, apocalyptic techno, and bright, post-Drexciyan electro. Since the late-aughts, Brovold has been a fixture of Detroit's dance community; first as a member of Randy Chabot's Deastro project, and then a pillar of the after-hours scene through raves with the ADULT Contemporary collective, all the while sprinkling in rare, must-see all-hardware-based live shows around the city. Moments of brilliance have boiled over the surface globally, with appearances on Don't Be Afraid as Radio Brovold in 2015, the Detroit Electronic Quarterly's "DEQ Vol. 7" in 2016, and on the punishing opener of PGS 009's with "Temple of the Circuit" earlier this year.

Following a live show at Detroit's Donovan's Pub in late 2018, Zach (Shigeto) came to the obvious realization–this music is the reason why we started PGS, and needed to release the music to a wider audience. Brovold handed PGS a flash drive with hours of completed music, a gold mine in bits and bites. "Hyperbolic Space" represents a cohesive sampling of the mountain of tracks from Brovold's vaults, propelling PGS into the next decade. Play it in your car, or at unauthorized raves, and dance to the airwaves of Radio Brovold.

"Prometheus"
Murderous. In an era of safe, ready-made, and (often) generic dance music made for dance floors regardless of time, era, or location, Prometheus packs a wallop. Electro from the depths of Dante's Inferno, the terror inducing intro bleeds into beats reminiscent of distorted hits of Ghetto Tech played on Detroit drive time radio through a broken speaker.
*Compliments Brovold's "Temple of the Circuit" from PGS 009 :-)

PGS 011
MMXIX
Written + Produced by Gustav Brovold
Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering
Art + Design by Ben Saginaw + Vinnie Massimino

Gustav Brovold - "Prometheus"

PGS MIX 009 comes to us from our dear friend Pablo R. Ruiz (@prruiz) – 1 hour of synth-pop, techno, and house, recorded live in SW Detroit w/ 2 Technics SL 1200s and a mixer, onto tape, and mastered by Trackland Acid Dealerships' Ali Berger (@aliberger).

This mix features new music from Pablo, coming next year.

To learn more about the Crisis in Chile:
Amnistía Internacional - Chile's "Crisis en Chile - violaciones a los derechos humanos en el contexto de las protestas" ⇢ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr8Vmhk9Jmw
Democracy Now's Chile coverage ⇢ https://www.democracynow.org/topics/chile

"Bad Hombre" EP

PGS MIX 009 - Pablo R. Ruiz

Pablo R. Ruiz returns for his sophomore release for Portage Garage Sounds with an evolution of his distinctive blend of sonic brilliance, first witnessed on 2017’s “Bad Hombre.”

"Estados Criminales” features 5 tracks, playful yet sinister, like the chaotic energy of a carnival ride falling off its hinges. Pre-order now at Bandcamp & receive this track (ENERGY SUCKER) immediately, EP out 13 March 2020 😸


PGS 012
Pablo R. Ruiz
"Estados Criminales"
EP

Written and Produced by Pablo R. Ruiz
Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering, NYC
Pressed at Archer Record Pressing, Detroit
Art Direction by Pablo R. Ruiz
Design and Graphix by Ben Saginaw and Vinnie Massimino

©℗ 2020 Portage Garage Sounds

Estados Criminales

Pablo R. Ruiz - "Energy Sucker"

PRE-ORDER: https://portagegaragesounds.bandcamp.com/album/estados-criminales

OUT: 13 MARCH, MMXX

Pablo R. Ruiz returns for his sophomore release for Portage Garage Sounds with an evolution of his distinctive blend of sonic brilliance, first witnessed on 2017’s “Bad Hombre.”

"Estados Criminales” features 5 tracks, playful yet sinister, like the chaotic energy of a carnival ride falling off its hinges.

90 second previews of "Pasta Base", "You Talk Too Much", "Aferrado", "Energy Sucker", "Señor Cottonmouth"

PGS 012
Pablo R. Ruiz
"Estados Criminales"
EP

Written and Produced by Pablo R. Ruiz
Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering, NYC
Pressed at Archer Record Pressing, Detroit
Art Direction by Pablo R. Ruiz
Design and Graphix by Ben Saginaw and Vinnie Massimino
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Pablo R. Ruiz - "Estados Criminales" previews (PGS 012)

2Lanes is part of the latest resurgence in Detroit's techno underground whose infamy is built via amorphous live appearances / DJ sets, collaborations with contemporaries like AceMo and John F.M., and a steady, hilarious and blunt presence on Twitter. PGS is proud to present 2lane’s 2nd piece of wax, the AA side "Baby's Born To Fish'' / "Impish Desires'', out 25 September MMXX.

"Impish Desires"
Have you ever felt like you didn't belong at the rave? Felt out of place? Like we are all puppets under the control of the puppet master? Impish Desires addresses feelings many club goers have, but, maybe don't talk about. Sinister and frustrated music, that's ready 2 jak and slaps the subs. Six minutes and 48 seconds of angry, alienated body music. The cherry on top is a flute solo by Ji Hoon to send you deeper into the rabbit hole.

PGS 013
2Lanes

"Baby's Born To Fish..." featuring Kesswa, John F.M., Ian Fink & Shigeto
"Impish Desires" featuring Ji Hoon

Mixed by Jo Rad Silver
Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering, NYC
Pressed at Archer Record Pressing, Detroit

Art Direction by 2Lanes
Design by Ben Saginaw

Baby's Born To Fish... Impish Desires

2Lanes - "Impish Desires" (feat. Ji Hoon)

Portage Garage Sounds

"Fight Hate/ Promote Love, Fight Racism/ Promote Unity, Fight Bigotry/ Promote Music"

Portage Garage Sounds (PGS) is record label based in Hamtramck, MI, founded in early 2017 by brothers Benjamin and Zachary Saginaw. PGS is a self-actualization of a years-in-the-making goal.

"Our passion, our parties and our fun unintentionally transformed into something greater–meaningful work."

Years ago, Ben started curating shows in their native Ann Arbor; Zach moved to Brooklyn and started touring the world over as Shigeto. As time went on, Ben moved to Detroit, and Zach joined him. Living together, their momentum increased; live shows and DJ nights developed with friends, and a community emerged around them. PGS is an evolution, a step forward.

Portage Garage Sounds strives to become more than a record label: a facilitator, an arts incubator, and an opportunity. For now, PGS is building community–through ears, and into hearts, with sound.

PORTAGE GARAGE SOUNDS

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