ANDAZ Bhangra and Bollywood Dance Party with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid

Name: ANDAZ Bhangra and Bollywood Dance Party with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid
Start: 2024-09-27T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-09-28T00:00:00-07:00
Location: Show Bar at Revolution Hall

Schedule

Fri Sep 27 2024 at 08:00 pm to Sat Sep 28 2024 at 12:00 am

UTC-07:00

Location

Show Bar at Revolution Hall | Portland, OR

ANDAZ
Portland's Original Bhangra, Bollywood & Desi Bass Dance Party initiated in July of 2002.
Featuring resident DJs
Anjali & The Incredible Kid
Friday, September 27th, 2024
Show Bar
1300 SE Stark St #101
Portland, OR
8pm - 12am
$12 advance $15 day of salehttps://www.etix.com/ticket/p/96055174/dj-anjali-and-the-incredible-kid-portland-show-bar

Anjali and The Incredible Kid first introduced Portland dance floors to the sounds of Bollywood and Bhangra in 2000, but it was not until July of 2002 that they founded a party dedicated exclusively to featuring the sounds of the desi diaspora. ANDAZ was an instant success and many thought the success was a fad. The party started as the Truth Hurts song "Addictive," featuring a prominent sample of the Bollywood song "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai," was making its way up the charts to a peak of #9. This was one year before a Jay-Z remix of Panjabi MC's Bhangra track "Mundian To Bach Ke" reached the US Top 40. This was five years before MIA covered the Bollywood song "Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja," and made use of South Indian soundtrack percussion players to create the dense rhythms of several of the tracks on her Kala album. This was seven years before Slumdog Millionaire won 8 Academy Awards and grossed $140 million dollars at the North American box office, with a soundtrack by the Bollywood composer A.R Rahman that one two Oscars, reached #4 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums twice, once knocking Lady Gaga out of the top spot after a twelve-week run. This was eight years before Bollywood movies were released in mainstream theaters throughout the Portland metro area, including such unlikely places as the Century Clackamas Town Center. This was 21 years before Amazon Prime released a four-part documentary on Punjabi singer AP Dhillon. This was 21 years before Punjabi superstar Diljit Dosanjh performed at Coachella, and 22 years before Diljit's sold-out stadium tour across North America including the largest Punjabi concert ever outside of India, his starring role as Punjabi folk icon Chamkila in a Netflix film, and his appearance on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show. This was 22 years before the Hollywood Theatre began monthly encore screenings of the Tollywood hit RRR.
"Known for fusing heart-quaking electronic with bhangra—a genre with roots in the traditional folk music of the northern Indian state of Punjab—and the soundtracks of Bollywood films, DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid’s dance floor sites are sweaty, glorious chaos." - Portland Mercury 4/18/2020
“Their long-standing Andaz party has become legendary” - Willamette Week 6/5/19
"Whether it’s the Desi-Latino Soundclash: Tropitaal, the Bhangra Bollywood dance party: ANDAZ, or her annual NYE rager, Anjali is the premier Portland dance DJ." - Eleven PDX 4/8/19
"Andaz, the longest-running bhangra and Bollywood dance party in the world (and one of the wildest opportunities to shake your bum in Portland)." - Portland Mercury 7/27/18
DJ ANJALI AND THE INCREDIBLE KID
https://anjaliandthekid.com
DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have spent more than 23 years igniting dance floors with cutting edge music not limited by borders or language. They host the longest-running Bhangra and Bollywood party in the world (ANDAZ est. 2002) and TROPITAAL! A Desi Latino Soundclash, appearing monthly at The Goodfoot. They co-founded the Pacific Northwest's first Global Bass dance party (Atlas 2003-2013), are known for their radio shows: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kush weekly on KBOO.FM, and seven years of Chor Bazaar on XRAY.FM. Few DJs can be said to have changed the sound of their city but that is exactly what DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have accomplished since they first introduced Portland, Oregon nightclub audiences to the many varied sounds of Global Bass at a raucous New Year’s Eve debut in 2000. They are most known for incinerating dance floors with the heavy dance floor artillery of South Asia, but the duo scour the globe for any hard-hitting music that combines local music traditions with window-rattling production.
In addition to hosting their own club nights, Anjali and The Kid regularly perform at festivals. They have appeared at Sasquatch! Music Festival, Decibel, What The Festival?!, MusicfestNW, Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration, Beloved, Matatu (Oakland), Photosynthesis, Soul’d Out, Portland International Film Festival, Indian Summer Festival (Vancouver, B.C.), Kaleidoscope and Vancouver Queer Film Festival to name a few. They have guested at the legendary Basement Bhangra (NYC) numerous times as well as Non Stop Bhangra (SF), iBomba (NYC) and Bhangrateque (Chicago.)
After making a name for themselves in their hometown’s raucous house party circuit, DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid introduced the Portland, Oregon nightclub scene to the sounds of Bhangra, Bollywood and Global Bass on New Year’s Eve 2000. A series of residencies followed, beginning with a night at the legendary Blackbird, and the duo began hosting their ANDAZ dance parties in July of 2002. The party’s focus on hardcore Panjabi Bhangra and the latest electronic confections from the Bollywood film industry continue to pack the dance floor after 16 years. While ANDAZ was still in the bloom of youth, Anjali and The Kid founded the revolutionary dance night ATLAS (with co-host/DJ E3) at Holocene in November of 2003 to introduce Portland to Global Bass sounds such as: Balkan Beats, Reggaeton, Funk Carioca, 3Ball Guarachero, Digital Cumbia, Urban Desi, French and Arabic Hip-Hop, Rai N B, Reggada, Dembow, Dubstep, Kuduro, Merengue Urbano and a host of other local and diasporic future musics.
They have supported artists as diverse as A Tribe Called Red, Bomba Estéreo, Tigerstyle, Major Lazer, Skrillex, Flying Lotus, Saini Surinder, Digable Planets, Delhi 2 Dublin, Sleigh Bells, Glitch Mob, Dengue Fever, Blockhead, Uproot Andy, Ming & FS, Hindi Zahra, Toy Selectah, Quantic, Opiuo, Sub Swara, Bonobo, Plastician, Bobby Friction, Kiran Ahluwalia, Gold Panda, Maga Bo, Poirier, Kultur Shock, Ghostland Observatory, Heems, State of Bengal, Karsh Kale, DJ Rekha, DJ Spooky, CeU, Antibalas, & Nickodemus.
“After 18 years as a duo, DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid are a Portland institution. It’s difficult to think of a local dance night with a more lovingly crafted mix of Bollywood, urban desi and Indian dance pop.” - Willamette Week 9/19/18
“the legendary DJ Anjali” - Portland Mercury 1/24/18
"One of Portland's most revered record-spinning duos" - The Portland Mercury 12/31/17
“The West Coast’s king and queen of bhangra/global bass/Bollywood dance parties, DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid.” - The Portland Mercury 8/17/16
“For more than 15 years, DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid have been an inimitable force in the Portland dance scene.” - The Portland Mercury 6/22/16
“Anjali and The Incredible Kid, Portland’s resident top Bollywood and bhangra deejays.” - The Portland Tribune 3/12/15
“DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid have been Portland’s leading world music DJs since the turn of the millennium.” - Willamette Week 12/31/14
“Portland’s finest purveyors of Bollywood, bhangra and global bass music.” - Vortex Music Magazine 10/12/14
“Known for bringing cutting-edge music to virgin ears, they are guaranteed to throw you a good time” - Eleven PDX Magazine December 2013
“Maybe the Portland area’s most well-known deejays.” - The Portland Tribune 1/26/12
“People were talking about all weekend: DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid–playing every, SINGLE day (the only performers to do so), the Portland duo was the must-not-miss Bollywood/bhangra dance party makers of the weekend.” (Sasquatch! Festival 2011) - Oregon Music News 5/31/11
“Celebrate our local heroes as they hold down the biggest rock fest in the Northwest” (Sasquatch! Festival 2011) - The Portland Mercury 5/26/11
“DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid sets are one of Portland’s great recurring dance parties.” - Willamette Week 12/16/09
“Portland’s favorite boy/girl DJ pair” - The Oregonian 6/19/09
“The pair have been keeping Portland dancing for so long in various incarnations, imagining the local music scene without their bhangra and Bollywood rhythms is unthinkable. ” - The Oregonian 5/26/06
“The DJs responsible for making “bhangra” and “Asian garage” somewhat household words outside Portland’s Desi community” - The Portland Mercury 1/8/04
Anjali and The Incredible Kid won Best DJ in Willamette Week's Best of Portland 2016 and 2017 Readers' Poll.