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The 2009 Compilation

We’re now accepting submissions for this year’s compilation CD. So, if you’re a Portland artist, use our online submission form to send us your music for consideration.

The 2008 Compilation

This two-disc collection, a rich – though by no means exhaustive – sampling of our city’s vibrant music community, serves up both rare treats from artists you probably know well and tantalizing bites from names you’ll probably want to get to know a lot better.

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The compilation is available for purchase ($8) at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby. Proceeds from sales of the album go towards funding the festival and the rest of our activities.


DISC 1

01 Au – “Are Animals”

02 Blue Cranes – “S.T.I.L.L.”

03 Meth Teeth – “Unemployment Forever”

04 The Joggers – “Golden Wage”

05 A Weather – “Spiders, Snakes”

06 New Bloods – “Oh, Deadly Nightshade!”

07 Portland Cello Project feat. Heather Broderick – “For Misty”

08 Copacrescent – “Do My Thing”

09 Y La Bamba – “Fasting in San Francisco”

10 Valet – “We Went There”

11 Strength – “Wilderness”

12 Swim Swam Swum – “Not in Your Way”

13 Andy Combs and The Moth – “Let’s Ride”

14 Still Pending – “Drivin’ to California”

15 Yellow Swans – “Velvet Water”

16 Kelli Schaefer – “Lasso the Moon”

17 Nick Caceres – “The Victorian Hoedown”

18 Blitzen Trapper – “Crushing the Wheat”

19 Sandpeople – “The Count”

20 Panther – “Puerto Rican Jukebox (Lips and Ribs Remix)”

DISC 2

01 Devin Phillips – “Frenchmen Street Strut”

02 Bodhi – “Nadine”

03 SubArachnoid Space – “Honorable Mention”

04 Fist Fite – “Grandma Surprise”

05 Braille – “The IV”

06 Eliot Rose – “Brightness and the Blood”

07 Pseudosix – “Apathy & Excess”

08 Horse Feathers – “Road to Ruin”

09 Hey Lover – “She’s the Girl for Me”

10 Dragging an Ox Through Water – “Houses & Homonculi”

11 Southern Belle – “Sunnyside”

12 Pink Martini – “Hey Eugene (Watch Your Back)”

13 YACHT – “Ring the Bell (Premix)”

14 Living Proof feat. Liv Warfield – “Sky High City (Bluebird)”

15 Faux Hoax – “Foxworthy”

16 JonnyX and the Groadies – “Castle/Face”

17 The Woodlands – “Until the Day Dims”

18 Chromatics – “Night Drive”

19 Talkdemonic – “Silvertone”

20 Guidance Counselor – “Pull Over”

Special thanks to CD Forge for manufacturing the CDs, Stumptown Printers for printing the packaging, Emek for the amazing artwork, Gus Elg at Sky Onion for the mastering, and all the artists for donating their wonderful music.

If you have any thoughts, comments or questions, please send the comp committee an e-mail.

The 2007 Compilation

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DISC 1

01 Swim Swam Swum – “Without Your French”

02 Lips and Ribs – “Battle in Nagoya”

03 Modernstate – “SSMF”

04 Menomena – “Wet and Rusting”

05 Syndel – “Lemme Hear It”

06 World Court – “Maps”

07 The Hand That Bleeds – “Shattered Love Trance”

08 The Ocean Floor – “A Simple Adventure”

09 Laura Gibson – “Come by Storm”

10 Mirah and Spectratone International –
“Community”

11 Evolutionary Jass Band – “Phyllis’ Frindge”

12 Old Time Relijun – “The Tightest Cage”

13 Black Elk – “Toss You to the Wolves”

14 Ethan Rose – “Ceiling Song 3 (Excerpt)”

15 Lifesavas – “No Surprise”

16 Alela Diane – “Up North”

17 YACHT – “See a Penny (Pick it Up)”

18 Starfucker – “Rawnald Gregory Erickson the
Second”

19 Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists) – “Culling
of the Fold”

DISC 2

01 Junkface – “ATAMAKATAHIZAASHI”

02 Kristin Hersh – “Blackstone”

03 Sweater! – “Mediterranean”

04 Panther – “How Well Can You Swim?”

05 Ohmega Watts – “4 Days in Geneva”

06 Run On Sentence – “Carrie Pt. II”

07 Exploding Hearts – “(Making) Teenage
Faces”

08 Derby – “If Ever There’s a Reason”

09 The Hugs – “North”

10 Eric John Kaiser – “L’Odyssee”

11 Ferocious Eagle – “Bastards”

12 The Better to See You With – “Garden”

13 Hungry Mob – “To the People”

14 Klezmocracy – “Hava Netze B’machol”

15 Wilding & AED – “Broken Branches”

16 The Robot Ate Me – “Empty Feelings”

17 Alan Singley – “Never Knew”

18 Nice Boys – “Johnny Guitar”

19 31Knots – “Sanctify”

20 White Rainbow – “Mystic Prism”

21 The Shaky Hands – “Soul”

Artwork: Dan Stiles

Mastering: Gus Elg at Sky Onion

The 2006 Compilation

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Disc 1

  1. Blitzen Trapper—On A Dime
  2. The Thermals—Product Placement
  3. Sweater!—Kill It Now
  4. Siren’s Echo—All My
  5. Stephen Malkmus—Mets To Infinity
  6. The Joggers—We’ve Been Talked Down
  7. Toothfairy—Camp Hormones
  8. Menomena—Shirt
  9. Leviethan—This Town That Town
  10. Treva Jackson— Drive
  11. Talkdemonic—Ending The Orange Glow
  12. Vursatyl (of Lifesavas)—Mr. Gusto
  13. The Planet The—Dreams of Your Co-Workers
  14. Tea For Julie—Pollyanna
  15. Tara Jane O’Neil—Bluelight Room
  16. The Shaky Hands—The Sleepless
  17. LKN—Circumstance
  18. Paint and Copter—Manzier
  19. Horse Feathers—Finch on Saturday
  20. Nice Nice—Down, Down, Down Pt. 1

Disc 2

  1. Rocketship—Our New Track
  2. Blue Skies for Black Hearts—Here Comes the Rain
  3. Junior Private Detective—Aftermath
  4. The Kingdom—Higher
  5. Hello Damascus—Randy
  6. Laura Gibson—Hands in Pockets
  7. Colin Meloy—Barbara Allen
  8. Electric Ill—Nurban Gowns
  9. Viva Voce—From the Devil Himself
  10. Ms. Su’ad—Sweat the Design
  11. The Blow—Babay (Eat a Critter, Feel It’s Wrath)
  12. Copy—Closet Face
  13. Chevron—Cylvia Poggili
  14. Small Sails—Aftershocks + Afterthoughts
  15. We Quit—We Looked Around
  16. Jackie-O Motherfucker—Hey! Mr. Sky
  17. Cool Nuts—More Than Music
  18. Swimmers—Hot Pocket
  19. Mach Fourth Marching Band—Space Hole

Artwork: Mike King

The 2005 Compilation

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Disc 1


  1. “Rollercoaster” – Sleater-Kinney

  2. “I’m So Low” – The Minders*

  3. “While We Have The Sun (4-track home)” – Mirah*

  4. “Pile of Gold” – The Blow*

  5. “Uh-Oh” – Nice Nice

  6. “To Destruction” – Dolorean

  7. “Radio Radio” – Swords

  8. “Clawz” – Please Step Out of the Vehicle*

  9. “Second Sickness” – Desert City Soundtrack

  10. “Evil Falls” – Holy Sons*

  11. “Windows & Walls” – Modern State

  12. “Daydreams With Daffodils (Stepperz Remix)” – YACHT*

  13. “Lovin’ Machine” – Glass Candy

  14. “No Sound” – 31 Knots

  15. “Just Expect” – Copy*

  16. “Why’d You Have to Die?” – Toothfairy*

  17. “Descender” – Point Line Plane

  18. “These Trees Are For Resting” – Alan Singley

  19. “Mountaintops in Caves” – Talkdemonic

  20. “Chemical Reaction” – Spooky Dance Band

Disc 2

  1. “Alive With Pleasure” – Viva Voce
  2. “It’s Over” – The Gossip*
  3. “God and Country (live)” – The Thermals*
  4. “A Plague Upon the White House” – Blues Goblins*
  5. “Sista Social Theme Song” – Menomena*
  6. “Gore Appeal” – Die Monitr Batss
  7. “To An Angel on No Condition” – Lkn
  8. “The Untold Story” – Myg feat. Mikah 9, Sleep*
  9. “Hi-Fi” – M. Ward
  10. “Emma” – Sexton Blake
  11. “Smallest Man” – Sunset Valley*
  12. “Move your Body” – The Snuggle Ups*
  13. “Freilechs Von Der Chuppe” – Shicky Gnarowitz and the Transparent Wings of Joy*
  14. “Laughing Gasping” – Wet Confetti*
  15. “What We’ll Admit” – Jessica Jones
  16. “I Am the Only Master of the Ten-Key” – Binary Dolls
  17. “Cardboard Box” – Point Juncture, WA
  18. “A Gilded Age” – Norfolk & Western
  19. “Homebody” – Cajun Gems
  20. “All of These Things” – The Helio Sequence*
  21. “From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) (Demo)” – The Decemberists*

Artwork: Tyler Stout

The 2004 Compilation

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Disc 1

  1. The Thermals — How We Know
  2. YACHT — I Love A Computer
  3. Binary Dolls — El Paso
  4. The Helio Sequence — Don’t Look Away
  5. Libretto (featuring Lifesavas) — Volume
  6. talkdemonic — mutiny sunshine
  7. Lack Thereof — Let U Down As Good As I Did
  8. Loch Lomond — Sourire
  9. The Joggers — No Dice
  10. Sarah Dougher — Oh My Glory
  11. Jeremy Wilson — Angel in a Box
  12. Pseudosix — Run Rebel
  13. M. Ward — Vincent O’Brien
  14. Tea For Julie — Hello
  15. Viva Voce — Red D-Lish
  16. Corrina Repp — Lost at Sea
  17. The Sensualists — You Are Love
  18. The Decemberists — Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect

Disc 2


  1. The Shins — Turn a Square

  2. The Planet The — Toledo Vader

  3. Davies vs. Dresch — My Friend is My Hairstylist

  4. Alarmist — Bikini Apocalypse

  5. Blitzen Trapper — Pink Padded Slippers

  6. Per Se — Adelaide

  7. Orange & Allred — Milk Slippers

  8. Quasi — 23 & 24

  9. Tara Jane O’Neil — Famous Yellow Belly

  10. Swords — Immigracion

  11. e*rock — living, breathing, etc.

  12. Wow & Flutter — Voice of Reason

  13. Wet Confetti — Apple Disaster

  14. Kind of Like Spitting — In the Red

  15. System and Station — The Art of Letting Go

  16. Sunset Valley — Mr. Extreme Jeans

  17. Lifesavas — Skeletons

Artist: Guy Burwell

If you have any thoughts, comments or questions, please send the comp committee an e-mail.

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