This Saturday, we return to the Ming Lounge 𓆣
After the rot of winter, slumbering seeds wake to seek the light. Ready to unfurl, poised to bloom. From the depths of the underground, the whirling hum of the hive grows. Leave hibernation behind, break out of your chrysalis, and buzz with us to leftfield house, techno, bass, breaks, and raw rhythms. Bloom’s fourth year brings the DJ debut of dancefloor stalwart, Cazimi, the return of alumni, RUF_NK and Rob Cole to the fold, and unites Blooms with Dano, don of Portland’s Bloom Room parties. As always, Group Sound queen bees Zach Sera, Sailor D, guthrie, Shy Hulud, DJ BBY LNGZ, and mx.daddy will be presiding over the hive in this two room rave that is not to be missed. Accentuating the sonic offerings, projection artists, Max Myriad and Hasmood, will beguile with visual wizardry. We highly encourage insect-inspired fits, floral flair, and bug behavior... Sprout ur antennae. Lay ur eggs. Nestle into an ear. Shake ur thorax, undulate ur abdomen. Molt ur dead skin. Eat ur husband.
𒌐 BLOOOOM IV THIS SATURDAY❀
Hasmood animoprhs into action as the viz wiz for the Ming's backroom.
• @hasmood •
Hasmood is a first-gen Iraqi American lifeform experimenting with light, code, sensors, and machine dreams. His interactive worlds blur nature and tech, humor and haunt, inviting you to poke around, feel weird, and maybe glitch a little.
Introducing our guest DJs and returning Group Sounders for Bloom - -
Dano @danoinmotion_ has been in and around the club and dance scenes in Portland since 2018, honing his craft in house dance and diving deep into house music. Selecting great house music and fostering spaces for community has been core to their DJ’ng ethos since the start of their journey playing for friends and fellow dancers at dance studios. Alongside Loom, he’s been co-organizing Bloom Room, a monthly, low-cost house music event at Process since May 2025. He also teaches a weekly house dance class at Portland Dance Exchange.
Step into the heart of the sun and let your petals unfurl with Cazimi’s @gardenofgey DJ debut! A dance floor darling taking on the decks, they’ve been exploring textural sounds and hip swaying beats that cast spells and hypnotize.
Returning Group Sounders, Ruf.nk and Rob Cole @iamrobcole , will bookend the night! Expect cerebral minimal techno and eclectic selections.
Slumbering seeds are waking. Are you eager for the sun? Ready to unfurl? Poised to Bloom?
Group Sound is excited to announce our fourth year of Bloom is coming 4.25 🪷
Keep your ears tuned towards the earth as details emerge. Deep below, a hypnotic hum is calling.
Art by @tylerewok
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Introducing our viz wiz for the night!
@casual_decay is one of many aliases of Portland based producer and multi-media artist Jon Nasrallah (they/them). Jon is currently an event promoter and lighting director at Process PDX where they host the HARDWARE concert series and a teaching facilitator at the Portland Synthesizer Library @synthlibraryportland . In September 2025 Casual Decay was a visual artist and musical performer at Osmosis in the Trees.
Let them woo you at LUV this Saturday 💞
2/14
@stateracellars
9pm-3am
RA Link in Bio
Introducing our luvly DJ Duets for Saturday! 💘💘
🥁🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
9:00-10:30 🌕
Laura aka @mx.daddy.laura luvs heating the dance floor to scorching temps, talking about housing policy, and sending surprise cat pics.
Nueva Era (@_zzeeaa_ ) is a multimedia artist and emerging DJ who loves to explore smooth atmospheric soundscapes and groovy beats. Stepping up for her first Group Sound set and ready to uplift your spirits.
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10:30-12:00 🌓
From joyous deep disco to down and dirty house, @zach_sera brings a carefully honed sound and a deep love for community to our dance floors.
Sailor D (@daphniscassis.wav ) another newcomer to Group a sound shall "bear the Penis love me Chain, Aqua Rhapsody in Blue and the Martian Arrow of Thotanny"; here to fight the evils of double standards, false love and the uncultured swines of bigotry. Ask him what that means on the dancefloor over a glass of wine
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12:00-1:30 🌒
Gu3 (@gu3ms ) is a hockey player and a deejay, but he hasn’t seen heated rivalry...yet.
Jared, JB, aka JIB aims to unlock the melodic spaces within our collective soul, to let us fall into soundscapes larger than our thinking minds.
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1:30-3:00 🌚
DJ bby lngz (@suzy.bbylngz ) and Shy Hulud (@tylerewok ) together are...Shy baby 🐥 but not too shy to tear up the late night dance floor and close out the night with a kiss on the forehead.
See you on Luv day 😘
Xoxo Group Sound
2/14/26 💘
9pm-3am
@stateracellars
Visuals by @casual_decay
Ticket link in the bio
Will you be our Valentine? 👉👈
On February 14th celebrate your LUV in all its forms...for yourself, partners, friends, and the community that brings us together on the dance floor.
Four pairs of back-to-back DJs throughout the night will bring a warm embrace of hot and heavy house, shimmering trance, disco grooves, and unexpected sounds selected to melt your hearts and and move your bodies.
Dress to express: Bold or bashful? Spicy or sweet? Cheeky or charming? Come as you are or as you want to be.
What makes your heart beat? 💗 We want to know...
Xoxo,
Group Sound 💋
P.S. Times are tough. Group Sound strives to create inclusive safer spaces. Queer love, trans love, poly love, ace love, allyship, one love… if you bring Luv, you are welcome. Non-consensual behavior, racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, and any/all forms of hate will NOT be tolerated.
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Saturday, February 14th 💘
9pm to 3am
@stateracellars - 109 SE Salmon St
21+ Tix $15/$ 20 Day of
🔗 Link in the bio
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Visuals by: @casual_decay
B2B ballads by:
GU3 @gu3ms // JIB @_jared.brown_
mx.daddy @mx.daddy.laura // Nueva Era @_zzeeaa_
Zach Sera @zach_sera // Sailor D @daphniscassis.wav
DJ bby lngz @suzy.bbylngz // Shy Hulud @tylerewok
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As always, expect those extra special Group Sound goodies and other surprises :)
Poster by @_zzeeaa_ (Collage) and @tylerewok (Illustrator), and Masks by @gilbruvel
Introducing Void’s visual artists:
• @hasmood •
Hasmood is a first-gen Iraqi American lifeform experimenting with light, code, sensors, and machine dreams. His interactive worlds blur nature and tech, humor and haunt, inviting you to poke around, feel weird, and maybe glitch a little.
• @maxmyriad •
Max Jersak is an artist, educator, sound designer, community organizer, and video synthesist. She performs live visual and sonic improvisation under the moniker @maxmyriad , primarily using hardware musical instruments and visual instruments, with a focus on modular synthesis. Her process draws inspiration from a background studying biochemistry and philosophy of mind, where simple components like molecules and neurons mutually interact or feedback to form the larger complex structures of organism and mind.
• Z •
Here now, Love Thy Beast
Face your fears, past and present.
Gaze into yourself.
-Z
@othr_wrld returns as a guide for our voyage through the Void. For the third year in a row, she’ll be binding the chaos as the night comes to a close. Not to be missed!
othrwrld is a trans performance artist, music producer, DJ, and self proclaimed aural apothecary, using sound and atmosphere to open portals into new utopian possibilities for posthuman club creatures to experience collective immanence and healing. Equally likely to find her sweating behind the decks at a late night warehouse rave enshrouded in fog, or sitting peacefully weaving textures in a dimly lit chillroom, othrwrld sits on the cutting edge of trans futuristic music, channeling ritualistic rhythms from hypnotic ambient techno, trance, bass, breaks, and progressive groove, to slambient mind journeys, soundbaths and deep dubbed out dancefloors.
Enter the Void this Saturday, 10.25. Tickets can be found in the bio.
The Void welcomes trustfall @chelsea_aka_trustfall
For the past 15 years, Chelsea has been a dedicated dancer in the Portland underground. Working for both @holdmusicpdx and @process.pdx as the harm reduction manager, they have a strong connection to a dance floor’s energy. As their journey now unfolds behind the decks, they approach each set as a time for dropping into self and body through acid-laced grooves, nasty basslines, and sassy harmonies. trustfall was born out of many nightfalls into sunrises, belly aching laughs, tears on the dance floor, and overflowing love for their chosen family.
The Void reopens this Saturday, 10.25 at 10pm. Tickets can be found in the bio. Early bird ends this Wednesday.
Gaze inward and discover the expansive VOID within.
What exists in the depths of your being, where light and dark dissolve into nothingness? Step into this nameless space and drift toward new forms of expression as Group Sound enters its fourth year of VOID.
Come as you are, or morph into something entirely new. Costumes encouraged.
Your guides for the night:
DJ BBY LNGZ @suzyq_marie
Guthrie @gu3ms
Zach Sera @zach_sera
With special guests:
othrwld b2b trustfall @othr_wrld@chelsea_aka_trustfall
Poster credit: @brandonbraunofficial
Techno \\ Leftfield // Electro \\ UK Bass
VOID opens 10.25.25
10pm-4am
21+
🎟️🔗 in bio
