With XLR8R.com being rather Portland-centric these days, we decided it wouldn’t be a proper celebration of good old PDX without a podcast showcasing some of the Northwestern city’s music. So we got ahold of Marriage Records‘ Vice president Jordan Dykstra, who curated this exclusive mix for us. Dykstra, whose resume includes work with Valet, Parenthetical Girls, Atlas Sound, and scores of others, runs the day-to-day activities of Marriage Recs, is a longtime violist and string player, and pretty much lives by the laws of email. He gathered a sampling of some of his label’s finest–from Dirty Projectors to the aforementioned Valet, to his own moniker, Dash!–and turned them into this hour-long mix.

Tracklisting
01 Lucky Dragons “Summer Swans” From Widows (Marriage/States Rights)
02 Adrian Orange “It Ain’t Me” From The Second Marriage Records Compilation
03 Dirty Projectors “Darkened Car” From New Attitude
04 Valet “We Went There” From Naked Acid (Marriage/Kranky)
05 Karl Blau “Put Me Back” From Dance Positive
06 Rob Walmart “Ric Flair Says Chase Success” From Live Near KBOO
07 Lee Gull “Clover Hill (unmastered prerelease)” From Burn’r
08 …worms “An Announcement Please” From S/T 7”
09 White Fang “Green Beanz” From Pure Evil
10 Be Gulls “Hello?” From By The Beach
11 Drakkar Sauna “Stamp Her Out Of My Mind” From Rover
12 Tom Blood “The Sky Position” From The Sky Position
13 Lucky Dragons “Givers” From Dream Island Laughing Language
14 Spencer Kingman “Accounts” From Crosses/Spenking
15 Little Wings “Warming” From Soft Pow’r
16 Dash! “Aisle” From Is Heterogeneous
17 The Watery Graves of Portland and/et Geneviève “Notre Mythologie” From S/T
18 Gæoudjiparl “2004 igen for Henning Christiansen” From VE:02 5”
19 Matt McCormick “It Was A Crushing Defeat” From Very Stereo
20 Privacy “Pining” From Without Mercy
21 White Rainbow “Bells” From BOX
22 Yacht “Now It’s All Over Like the Birds (Version)” From Mega

All tracks released by Marriage Records unless otherwise noted.

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Lastly, a couple choice videos from the label:

Yacht “Summer Song”

Dirty Projectors “I Will Truck”

Lucky Dragons “Morning Ritual”

The Watery Graves “Drakkar Sauna”

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