Artist	Song
E-Rock	Living, Breathing, Etc
from Conscious (2004)
Copy	Afro Oven
from Mobius Beard (2006)
Thanksgiving	Growing Up
from The Marriage Records Compilation: Is Orange Birds (2005)
Blue Giant	Gone for Good (feat. Corin Tucker)
from Blue Giant (2010)
Eux Autres	Le Project Citron
from A House Full of Friends (2005)
Benoit Pioulard	Idyll
from Temper (2008)
Loch Lomond	The Mountain
from When We Were Mountains (2003)
The Standard	Even Numbers
from Wire Post to Wire (2004)
White Hinterland	Begin Again
from Kairos (2010)
Climber	Hornes
from Climber (2004)
Ohmega Watts	That Sound (Featuring Lightheaded, The Procussions & Noelle)
from The Find (2005)
White Rainbow	Mystic Prism
from Prism of Eternal Now (2007)
Nudge	Standing On Hot Sidewalk
from Cached (2005)
Super XX Man	There'll Be Diamonds
from Vol. XII: There'll Be Diamonds (2008)
Quarterflash	Harden My Heart
from Quarterflash (1981)
Ramona Falls	Russia
from Intuit (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
The Harvey Girls	Smile Like Gwynplaine
from I've Been Watching A Lot of Horror Movies Lately (2010)
Portland Cello Project	Tallymarks (Feat. Thao)
from The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (2009)
Sarah Dougher	Moving
from Day One (2007)
Parenthetical Girls	A Song for Ellie Greenwich
from Entanglements (2008)
The Badger King	Water Quiet, Water Dark
from The Badger King Break Up - EP (2003)
The Watery Graves	Lying In a Seaway
from The Sea and Skies Above - EP (2003)
Nurses	Technicolor
from Apple's Acre (2009)
Chris Botti	Drive Time
from The Very Best of Chris Botti (2002)
Lackthereof	Fake Empire
from Your Anchor (2008)

Comment:

In a place where doing your own thing is a way of life, fame is a relative concept. For every Portland son who’s made it big — think trumpeter Chris Botti and the smooth contemporary jazz of “Drive Time” — there’s a group for whom success means the ability to, say, gather an “indie cello orchestra” and collaborate with local heroes for your own brand of wistful alterna-pop, à la the Portland Cello Project and “Tallymarks (feat. Thao).” So, where Quarterflash found chart success in the early ’80s with the Top 10 smash “Harden My Heart,” here in the 21st century Ohmega Watts is crafting super-tight, homegrown hip-hop on “That Sound (featuring Lightheaded, The Procussions & Noelle)”

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