Further down the rabbit hole: linktr.ee/slthr
Latest release: SLTHR EP, December 2nd 2022 heterodox-records.bandcamp.com

digital artist, experimental musician, radio program maker, big city noise pixie,  located in the bay area CA-USA

Women Take Back the Noise
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SoundCloud:
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2 live radio shows weekly on DFM RTV INT (Amsterdam NL)
http://dfm.nu
uBradio salon / sundays 5-7pm US Pacific
radio troUBle / tuesdays 9pm-Midnight US Pacific

Across decades, Porest (aka Mark Gergis) has issued a trail of confounding agitprop sound art, post-globalized hate-pop, diabolical radio dramas and carefully rearranged realities. Porest’s blatant embezzlement of human syntax and cultural misunderstanding broadcasts vital mixed messages across all fields. Live performances integrate Porest’s music, performance and sound into a grand total sum that can’t be unseen. Ongoing collaborations have included: Negativland (USA) Alan Bishop / Sun City Girls (USA), and Aavikko (Finland), among others.

 Porest’s Modern Journal of Popular Savagery LP was released by Nashazphone (Cairo) in 2016, followed by an appearance at TUSK festival (UK) and a European tour. In 2017, Porest’s Optimized! – The Parallel Broadcasts was issued as a split LP alongside London’s People Like Us on the Discrepant label (UK), followed by performances in Cairo, and at the Beirut and Beyond festival in Lebanon (curated by Egypt’s Maurice Louca). 2017’s album Flimsy Tomb was released by Sucata Tapes (UK) on cassette, celebrated with a performance at Café OTO, London. Past releases can be found on the Seeland, Resipiscent and Abduction labels. 

 London-based Mark Gergis was born in California, where he begat the Porest project. Mark was co-founder of the long-running experimental Bay Area music and performance collective Mono Pause, as well as its offshoot Neung Phak; performing inspired renditions of southeast Asian folk and pop music. Since 2003, with the Sublime Frequencies label, and more recently, with his own record label Sham Palace, Mark has shared decades of research and scores of archived international music, film footage and sound recordings acquired during extensive travels in the Middle East and South East Asia. 

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I have no fuckin' idea how to describe this monster...how about brazen, sample-driven, manic, pissed-off, over-the-top, brilliant?  – BLASTITUDE

Porest creates subversively comedic and extremely leftist audio collages on as current and confrontational a tip as creatively possible. …Venomous…uninhibitedly outspoken sound-bite masterpieces. Porest lodges a well-aimed spit-wad into the eye of capitalist America. You can’t argue with the truth.  – Kevin Hainey, EXCLAIM!

All I know is the way Mark Gergis cuts and pastes signifiers of our global predicament into songs that are funny, baffling, catchy, reverent, subversive, absurd, and logical is a knack that has a few parallels (Negativland, Eugene Chadbourne, Gergis’ brethren Sun City GIrls) but no real peers. …The Porest POV is so intact it’s blinding – and I’ll be staring at this sun for a while.  – Marc Masters, 200 WORDS

Moira Scar is post-punk freak-deathrock trio of LuLu Gamma Ray (synthesizers, vocals), Aimee S (drums) and Roxy Monoxide (guitar, vocals, sax) from Oakland Ca.  

founded by Roxy Monoxide and LuLu Gamma Ray in 2009, Moira Scar started as a duo, releasing two albums (Excerpts from the Holy Scumbrella, 2009, self released; Slink To Intensity, 2010, self released) and touring the states multiple times.   In 2012 Moira Scar became a trio (Ryan Bonus Beast), releasing Scarred For Life (Resipiscent Records), and touring the states.   2014 brought a different third member (Mikey Mayhem) into the Scar-ship, producing the album Psychoid (Cochan Records) and another national tour.   Roxy and LuLu then went into V.E.X. mode, recording three albums as V.E.X. (Voltage Empath Xanaxax, also known as Ventriloquest Ectoplasmold Xanaxax) and touring Europe, Mexico City and parts of the U.S.   Now back as Moira Scar, Roxy and LuLu are joined by Aimee, creating a huge lush sound and an epic new album (Wound World Part 1, Near Dark Records) with tours coming, Moira Scar is stirring up their most potent witches cauldron of spells yet.

RESIPISCENT unburies music too long interred by the insipid business of music as mere entertainment. Resipiscent understands music as a hand-crafted labor, non-repeating, innovation in sound, releases that won’t let go. Our packages purposefully defy a mass-culture jewel-cased mindset where file-sharing has only underscored uniformity. Resipiscent means a return to one's senses following a brutal experience. 
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