______ Production Unit Xero (PUX) is a Oregon-based musician, illustrator, promoter, and label head Ramon Mills. Harnessing chaos energy, PUX conjures frenetic and fragmented breakcore and glistening IDM, complex structures shot through with emotional resonance. The touchpoints are disparate but unified – as PUX, Mills might fearlessly push 200-bpm breaks on one release and then without flinching drift with outer-cosmos introspection on the next, somewhere amongst Bola, AFX, and DJ Scud.

His latest release, Nexus Points, sees Mills at his most atmospheric and evocative, the album a refined collection of dense, dark, and occasionally transcendent compositions. Making music since the early 2000s, Mills has released ten albums through his own Heterodox Records and a clutch of other imprints like Component, Coma, and Ende Records. His most recent is as tonally immersive and meditative as precision-detailed antimatter, elucidating his fascination with the existential, the occult, and science fiction.

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The album marks a Nexus Point of its own, the inception of Mirror Zone’s new sublabel Optic Portal which will be a parallel platform interweaving threads of experimental music, audiovisual projects, and live performance environments - collaborating with visual artists Desilence.

https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/into-the-optic-portal