In a very arbitrary, seemingly art-school-dropout exercise from last month, I attempted to create a “spirit GIF” for each of the producers in Seattle’s experimental dance collective, MOTOR. The space race you see above is the graphic I made for Mood Organ, whose music I still maintain sounds like cruising in a sports car on the moon.

Timm Mason, the Seattle man behind this interstellar brand of electro he dubs “missile bunker disco,” just released his debut EP on the MOTOR label, Outer Heaven,​ a 12″ EP that gurgles, squelches and rattles like a UFO full of abducted Berlin warehouse ravers. Put your tinted shades on, set your phasers to stun, and listen below:

Seattle is a great music city for chugging metal, scrappy weirdo punk, left-field hip hop, and of course, indie pop, but until now it hasn’t claimed dance as one of its championed musical outputs. I’m happy MOTOR is out there showing a city that supposedly “doesn’t dance” how to do exactly that through its freaky, noisy parties at Kremwerk. Check out the next MOTOR night this Thursday, which features UK DJ Vessel, the noise/techno of Nashville’s Container, Seattle’s own Patternmaster, and Crypts’ Nick Bartolleti.