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Rhythm Nation
by Peter Marks
Co-founder of @canyon-vibration and @occasionvibration
Episodes
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Summer Heat 2026
I recently played both a street party celebrating the New York Knicks Championship as well as a rally for Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders and three future members of congress. While neither recording came out, this mix captures the general spirit of both sets as well as the general optimistic…
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Echo Garden - December 2025 Mix
Echo Garden - December 2025 Mix by Peter Marks
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Echo Garden - November 2025 Mix
On family vacation in Utah a couple weeks ago, I made this soothing and contemplative ambient mix. Reminder that while the holidays are joyous for many, for others it can be a reminder of what they’ve lost over the years. Be kind to people out there and give them the benefit of the doubt :)…
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Echo Garden - October 2025 Mix
Some dark, percussive, sexy heaters for Halloween.
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Echo Garden - September 2025 Mix
Nothing like a federal government shutdown to get you to finish a mix! Just posted a recording of some balearic disco reminiscent of what I’ve been playing all summer on my rooftop (pictured). Comment for a track ID :)
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Echo Garden - August 2025 Mix
While traveling the Greeks Isles with friends this past week, I channeled the ethereal energy by cooking up a mix of ambient / balearic tunes. Hope you can find peace and slow down with it! Feel free to comment for a track ID.
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Peter Marks @ Canyon Vibration 2025
@petermarks on the main stage of @canyonvibration opening for @djdissolve and @aguycalledgerald. Feel free to comment for a track id!
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Echo Garden - July 2025 Mix
For this month’s echo garden mix, I laid down a 100bpm progression of ethereal downtempo cuts building up to a string of balearic ballads. Exactly the kind positive, sunny and steady energy I’ve been soaking in the past month leading up to Canyon Vibration this week!
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Echo Garden - June 2025 Guest Mix - Enyah (live)
DJ Enyah (@b-in-love) live at the Echo Garden takeover Sunday Love at Flash in Washington, DC.
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Echo Garden - May 2025 Mix
Echo Garden - May 2025 Mix by Peter Marks
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Echo Garden - April 2025 Mix
The latest echo garden mix covers a range of downtempo flavors conveying both the optimism of spring and the melancholy of persisting winter. Includes new tracks that came out this year as well as several from 25+ years ago (that sound like they could have been released this year).
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Echo Garden - March 2025 Mix
1,000% positive vibe house heaters. Inspired by seeing my teenage hero @djsashaofficial play a quality warehouse party this weekend, I threw in some late 90s progressive house tracks that got me into this music 20+ years ago. It’s an energy changeup from the chill previous two installments.…
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Echo Garden - January 2025 Mix
I'm starting 2025 with a simple goal: post one @_echogarden DJ mix a month! Similar to the Echo Garden event series, which aims to bring complimentary sounds to DC's public spaces, the Echo Garden mix series aims to bring complimentary sounds to your daily day life. Expect relatively chill...
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Organizing farmworkers with Reyna Lopez (Episode 39)
Reyna Lopez is the Executive director of PCUN, who’s mission is to empower farmworkers and working Latinx families in Oregon by building community, increasing Latinx representation in elections, and policy advocacy on both the national and state levels. On the show, we talk about the balance of...
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Right to Healthcare with Norman Sylvester and Rob Nosse (Episode 38)
This November, Oregon voters get to vote on the Right to Healthcare Amendment to the state constitution, which establishes a state obligation to ensure every Oregon resident has access to cost-effective, clinically appropriate, and affordable health care. Norman Sylvester is a long-time health…
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Health Justice Recovery with Ron Williams (Episode 37)
Two years ago, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize all drug possession with the passage of Measure 110. How is it going? On the show today we have Ron Williams with Health Justice Recovery, a statewide advocacy organization fully focused on implementing Measure 110. Ron is a community...
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Sign o' the times with Andrew Yang (Episode 36)
Andrew Yang is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, non-profit leader, and former 2020 presidential candidate. Yang’s New York Times bestselling book The War on Normal People helped introduce the idea of universal basic income into the political mainstream. He supports Oregon People’s Rebate,...
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The depths of South African house music (Episode 35)
On today's show, I share my own experience of some recent travels I had to South Africa and then playing a mix of South African house music, including some new records I picked up. The week I spent in South Africa exceeded my expectations in almost every respect. It’s more naturally beautiful…
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History of house music with Cee White (Episode 34)
House music is bigger than ever in America, yet the story of its origins are widely unknown outside of the heads who follow the records. We have a member of our organization who saw it unfold first hand. Cee White was coming of age in Chicago in the late 1980s right as house music was taking…
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Vision Of Portland With Vadim Mozyrsky (Episode 33)
In our third interview with candidates for Portland City Council Position #3, we chat with Vadim Mozyrsky about his vision for Portland. Vadim works as an Administrative Law Judge in the field of disability law and has spent his life advocating on behalf of underserved communities with a focus on...
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Eye of the Tiger with Jamie McLeod-Skinner (Episode 32)
Oregon's Kurt Schrader has taken the most money from the fossil fuel and pharmaceutical industries as almost any Democrat in congress. Jamie McLeod-Skinner is challenging him in the primary in Oregon's 5th District on May 16th. From repairing schools in war torn countries to developing climate...
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Oregon People’s Rebate with Antonio Gisbert (Episode 31)
The Oregon People’s Rebate is an initiative petition qualifying for the November 2022 election that will rebate about $750 to every Oregonian, every year. This would mean putting about $3,000 in the pockets of a family of four and is projected to significantly address childhood poverty if it...
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Texture of Portland with Rene Gonzalez (Episode 30)
Rene Gonzalez is a Portland based lawyer, small business owner, and youth soccer organizer who’s deep roots in Oregon have motivated him to stand up for change at this critical juncture. He’s running against our last guest, Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, for her seat on the Portland City Council....
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“What’s Going On” with Jo Ann Hardesty (Episode 29)
Portland, Oregon will never be the same after the events of the past two years. To City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, that’s a good thing in some ways. In our wide-ranging conversation that touched on music venues, police budgets and homelessness, Commissioner Hardesty outlined a vision for a…
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30 years of rave community with Manoj Mathew (Episode 28)
Manoj Mathew (@dj_manoj_pdx) is a Portland-based electronic music promoter and DJ who has been throwing raves in Portland since 1991. Manoj and I have been in touch a lot lately as we’re planning a Rhythm Nation event together on November 20th at his venue Epicenter. As we’ve been talking through...
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Re-opening schools with Michelle DePass (Episode 27)
Michelle DePass is the current chair of the Portland school board who is currently focused on the unenviable task of re-opening public schools during the onset of the delta variant. It’s an incredibly tough job given that she has to weigh our constantly changing scientific understanding of delta...
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Leading by example with Megan Andricos (Episode 26)
Megan Andricos, also known as DJ Sappho, is a queer event producer and musical artist based out of Portland, Oregon. She’s a founding member of Rhythm Nation and has been a huge inspiration for me. She’s inspired me musically through our studio collaborations and from her blowing my mind many…
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Collective moments with Deena Barnwell (Episode 25)
Deena Barnwell is a DJ and stalwart purveyor of great music in the ever-changing Portland music scene. She worked at local community radio station KBOO 90.7 as the station’s Urban Music Director from 1998-2018. On the show, we talk about what brought her to hip hop, what's she's learned as a…
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Courageous conversations with Eric Ward (Episode 24)
Eric Ward (@BulldogShadow) is the Executive Director of the Western States Center, a social change organization that works to strengthen inclusive democracy. He’s also a former member of the band Sublime and has firsthand experience with racism and violence in the 1980’s LA punk scene. On the…
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Healing through storytelling with Sara Kenigsberg (Episode 23)
Sara Kenigsberg was the supervising producer on both the Biden-Harris campaign and the Bernie Sanders campaign for president. Before that she helped start up a video team at MoveOn in June 2016 and was an early producer at both NowThis and HuffPost. She continues to work as a producer and digital...
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Green New Deal Party (Episode 22)
On Earth Day 2021, Rhythm Nation held a Green New Deal Party with a panel of climate experts and musical performances from @maarquii, @cay-horiuchi and Cee White (in that order) This is a recording of the entire event that was livestreamed from Holocene. The Green New Deal is both a specific…
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DJs For Climate Action with Eli Soul Clap (Episode 21)
Eli Goldstein is one half of the DJ and production duo @soulclap, which has built an international reputation for their dance music over the past 20 years. Throughout his music career, Eli has played key roles on music activism projects, including DJs for Climate Action and more recently “Rave…
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Rhythm Nation Mixtape Vol. 1 (Episode 20)
The 20th episode of Rhythm Nation drops today! This 60 minute party mix weaves together the best jams selected by my podcast guests so far along with jams that have been getting me through these strange last 12 months. Rhythm Nation has been a really gratifying project for me during these strange...
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Medicare For All Rave (Episode 19)
On February 20th, Rhythm Nation hosted a “Medicare for All Rave” at Holocene featuring a panel of Medicare for All leaders from across the state to discuss the current strategy to make Oregon the first state to implement a single-payer system. Following that was live musical performances streamed...
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Inauguration Celebration (Episode 18)
On January 20th, we celebrated the end of the Trump era, the end of the majority leader McConnell era and the passing of Oregon's landmark ballot measures by chatting with the leaders who made them happen. We talked about the importance of staying involved and how to do so, then celebrated with a...
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Georgia on my mind with Drake Hunt (Episode 17)
Drake Hunt is a college activist and a rising leader of the Sunrise Movement, the nation’s leading youth activism organization centered around climate justice. On the episode, we talk about the Drake's upbringing in Georgia, the upcoming Senate runoff and Sunrise Movement's youth organizing…
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Designing Bernie with Tyler Evans (Episode 16)
Tyler Evans was the lead designer of the Bernie 2020 campaign and continues to play that role in the Friends of Bernie Sanders PAC. On the show we talk about how much of the work he’s produced for Bernie has been directly inspired by album art. We also dive through an eclectic playlist of mostly...
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Activism and parenting with Teffannie J. Hale (Episode 15)
Teffannie J. Hale is a strategic leader for the underserved and underrepresented. She’s the CEO of The Community And Parents (CAP) Projects, which examines and leads conversations and initiatives to eradicate implicit biases in underserved at-risk schools with predominantly African American...
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Finding your place with Shasti Conrad (Episode 14)
Shasti Conrad is a versatile strategist and thought leader with a broad range of political, policy and operations experience within government at all levels. On the show she tells several amazing stories about music that inspired her journey as an adopted kid growing up in rural Oregon, as a...
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An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels with Josh MacPhee (Episode 13)
Throughout history and across the globe, music has been used as a tool for activism. Josh MacPhe is a designer, artist, archivist and author of a wonderful book called An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, chronicling the vinyl produced by leftist organizations in America, South America,...
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Believe in better with Senator Nina Turner (Episode 12)
Senator Nina Turner came into the national spotlight as one of the leading faces of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns, where she was a national surrogate and co-chair. She's established herself as a national leader in her own right through media appearances, her podcast Hello Somebody and...
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Abolish Silicon Valley with Wendy Liu (Episode 11)
The tech industry is perhaps the most polarizing aspect of American capitalism. It’s changed the world many times over, but the impacts of that change are grossly unequal. In her book Abolish Silicon Valley, former believer turned critic Wendy Liu challenges the myths of the tech industry, and...
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Drug treatment and decriminalization with Anthony Johnson (Episode 10)
Oregon ranks nearly last of all states in access to basic drug addiction treatment. Measure 110 is an ambitious drug treatment and rehabilitation program that would be the first decriminalization initiative passed in America. I talk with longtime criminal justice law reform advocate Anthony...
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Psilocybin Therapy with Sam Chapman (Episode 9)
Oregon has a mental health crisis that has only worsened with the pandemic. There are very few new options in the pipeline to treat depression, anxiety, addiction and other mental health challenges. Oregon Measure 109 directly addresses this challenge by establishing a regulated Psilocybin…
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Universal Preschool with Sahar Muranovic (Episode 8)
Universal Preschool For All (Measure 26-214) provides free preschool to all 3 and 4 years olds in in Multnomah County with an income tax on the top 5% of earners while providing quality paying jobs to educators. I chat with one of the brains behind the program, Sahar Muranovic, about the details…
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Fuck this, let's organize with Peter Marks (episode 7)
They're not gonna do our town like this. We can't sit back and let Portland be the punching bag of the GOP. Not with vitally important measures on our ballots that can transform the way our community is policed, our kids are educated and the balance of corporate power in our state government.…
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Movements require dance parties with Misty Rebik (Episode 6)
Misty Rebik is a lifelong organizer who led the Bernie Sanders campaign to a popular vote victory in this year’s Iowa caucus. She is now Executive Director of the Friends of Bernie Sanders PAC, the organization tasked with continuing the momentum of Bernie’s movement. We talk about her history of...
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A Sikh’s journey to progressive politics with Shabd Singh (Episode 5)
Shabd Singh is a political organizer as well as the host and producer of The One, a podcast exploring Sikh history, philosophy and culture. Prior to this episode I really didn’t know much about Sikhism other than that they’re known for showing up and supporting fights for justice. On the show, I...
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The revolution will be live[streamed] with Mia Fermindoza (Episode 4)
Mia Fermindoza is a media director with a passion for producing political content that stops your scroll. She'd come from producing original live shows for social platforms at NowThis before joining the Bernie 2020 campaign to lead and support its video operation. On this episode, we talk about...
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Rethinking the role of police with Anne Marks (Episode 2)
Anne Marks is the Executive Director of Youth Alive, an Oakland-based non-profit that believes that urban youth have the capacity to stop the violence plaguing our communities. We talk about what it means to be an ally and discuss her recent op ed in The Guardian about the role of police before...
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Co-founder of @canyon-vibration and @occasionvibration
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