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Earlier work

Records made between 2020 and 2023

Records made before Trash Music and The Album Everyone Wants. A mix of experimental noise, ambient instrumentals, lo-fi songwriting, and a 27-song concept record from the NFT era. All available on Bandcamp.

  1. “Doomy and fascinating noise collages where groaning, unsettling melodies emerge from waves of static and hiss.”

    Bandcamp New & Notable · on Born to Be Damned

  2. “Vocals that instantly bring to mind Robert Pollard.”

    Loudness Blog

  3. “A genuinely unique record — meditative, scary, funny, innovative and never self-serious.”

    Loudness Blog · on Trash Music
  1. DJPants.eth Presents: The #NFTBlues album cover

    DJPants.eth Presents: The #NFTBlues

    2021

    A concept record about the ecstatic highs and vacuous lows of the NFT music scene, made in the thick of it.
  2. Hey buddy, can you spare $74k / year? album cover

    Hey buddy, can you spare $74k / year?

    March 2021

    Songs about the modern job and the universal basic income that remains illusive and competes us instead of cooperates us. Written through diary pages, mantras, and lucid dreaming.
  3. It's Natural to Lose Friends album cover

    It’s Natural to Lose Friends

    February 2021

    A chiming collage on the slow drift of life.
  4. You Don't Love Me single cover

    You Don’t Love Me

    January 2021

    A single & a statement made in the psychedelic impressionism ethos.
  5. Born to Be Damned album cover

    Born to Be Damned

    December 2020

    Three versions of the same song. Picked up by Bandcamp’s New & Notable.
  6. A Candle is a Raging Fire! single cover

    A Candle is a Raging Fire!

    October 2020

    The first single released after years of Voice Movement Therapy. Written while traveling in India for Seek Collective, reflecting on life and Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind.” Won 2nd place at West Coast Songwriters’ Bay Area monthly competition.
  7. Soundtracks album cover

    Soundtracks

    May 2020

    Six instrumental compositions, written and recorded originally for Seek Collective as bedding music for documentary films. Available for sync licensing.

  8. Sync licensing & press

    hello@chrisportka.com

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Even earlier: Proto Play — projects from before this name.