Read Dave Segal's profile of its orchestrator, Sam Melancon:

Sam Melancon's West Seattle home office affords him a spectacular vista—a long view of downtown's skyline, the Cascades, and Mount Baker, all cast in a particularly romantic glow during a recent Spring evening's orange-pink sunset. Based in the High Point neighborhood, Melancon runs the edgy underground micro-indie label Debacle and its namesake festival from comfy middle-class surroundings at odds with experimental/noise's natural habitat of gritty urban squalor. To those endeavors, too, he applies a long view toward fostering a thriving scene, what he calls a "slow-burn" approach.

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