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DJ Rani since 2000. 
Based in Portland, Ore. 
Global Bass with a flair for Bhangra, Filmi, Giddha, Reggaeton, Dancehall, Dembow & Desi Bass.  Host of TROPITAAL! (est. 2013), ANDAZ (est. 2002) & FILMISTAN (2008-2015.) Former co-host of CHOR BAZAAR radio (XRAY.fm) & Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kush radio(KBOO.fm) & ATLAS (2003-2013.) 

Anjali has appeared at Sasquatch! Music Festival, Decibel, What The Festival?!, MusicfestNW, Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration, Beloved, Matatu (Oakland), Photosynthesis, Soul’d Out, Indian Summer Festival (Vancouver, B.C.), Kaleidoscope and Vancouver Queer Film Festival (to name a few.) She has also guested at the legendary Basement Bhangra (NYC) numerous times as well as Non Stop Bhangra (SF), iBomba (NYC) & Bhangrateque (Chicago.)

Sponsored by Regional Arts and Culture Council, Future Prairie Radio is a podcast examining the future of art, design, and culture through the eyes of marginalized artists. We go beyond AI, robotics, and new currencies to learn about process and art making across media. We're using art practice as a lens to investigate the humanist and ethical values that intersect with contemporary life and technology.

Step into the lush and heart wrenching sounds of Edzi'u. A Tahltan and Tlingit artist, based in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, Edzi’u is an innovative songwriter and composer who paints stories of the past, present and future with textures, elders stories and words, and her ethereal voice. Her debut album, Kime Ani, features three generations of her grandmothers voices, as well as audio of future generations. Feature track, "What Does Nation Mean?" asks the listener to examine their hearts, mind, and place amidst colonial so called Canada. Being rich in culture, full of passion and spirit, the power behind their use of sound goes deep within the listener, inspiring them to be bold and genuine, while living fully within their hearts. Edzi'u has a style and sound like no other, a quiet icon in the landscape of Indigenous music on Turtle Island. Their music and sound installations have been featured on CBC Radio Reclaimed, Talking Stick festival, shown in Tkaronto’s film festival imagineNATIVE 2018 as well as 2019, while debuting internationally in 2019 at the Document Film Festival in Glasgow, Scotland.

After I have sex with a guy, I’ll rip their heads off

I'm not a toy, good thing you never asked.
Baby don't go so fast, you never know

Semi-electronic, semi-instrumental duo based out of Portland, OR and Tucson, AZ.  We are Forrest Brennan (computadora; vocals) and Tom Knauer (bass).  Check out our "Numb Whiskey" EP (cover art by Evan Moore), a remastered, re-visioned go of our 2013 full-length album.  Enjoy, and please share!

For more work by Forrest, check out forrestbrennan.com.

Any feedback or questions?  Send to frowbottom@gmail.com.

Lost Lander is a band of musicians from Portland, OR.

Beginning with incorporating Asian Drum and Bass, Reggaeton, and Meren-Rap songs into his late ’90s house party sets, The Incredible Kid built his reputation igniting Portland, Oregon dance floors with the incendiary urban sounds of international dance music. In late 2000 The Kid introduced DJ Anjali to the dancing masses and the two spearheaded the Bhangra and Bollywood scene in Portland through their Andaz night founded in July of 2002; the longest-running party of its kind in the world. Alongside fellow DJ E3, the two initiated the Global Bass scene in Portland when they founded the club night Atlas in November of 2003 which had a legendary nine-year run. In 2013 Anjali and The Kid introduced their newest party: Tropitaal a Desi Latino Soundclash. Since January of 2006 The Incredible Kid and DJ Anjali have hosted Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kush, a cult radio show on KBOO, Portland’s long-running community radio station, and have been weekly hosts of Chor Bazaar on Portland’s XRAY.FM since its inception. Other projects have included Bend It Like Bhangra, Bollywood Horror, Booty Call, Dusty, Rocket Rickshaw, Resist Sonic Monoculture, Filmistan and Ghetturista.

The Incredible Kid has supported artists as diverse as Bomba Estereo, Digable Planets, Balkan Beat Box, Major Lazer, Skrillex, A Tribe Called Red, DJ Spooky, Tigerstyle, Boban i Marco Markovic Orkestar, Delhi 2 Dublin, Sleigh Bells, Glitch Mob, State of Bengal, MSTRKRFT, Karsh Kale, DJ Rekha, CeU, Antibalas, Dengue Fever, Blockhead, Soulico, Uproot Andy, Rupa & the April Fishes, Gold Panda, DJ Marcelinho Da Lua, Saini Surinder, Washed Out, Toy Selectah, Pink Martini, Quantic, Opiuo, Bonobo, Extra Golden, Maga Bo, Poirier, Plastician, Flying Lotus, Ming & FS, Joro-Boro, Kultur Shock, Ghostland Observatory, J-Boogie, Rafi eL and Nickodemus from Turntables on the Hudson.

In 2017 and 2016 DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid won "Best DJ" in Willamette Week's annual reader's poll.

“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

Mel Guérison is an award-winning composer, producer and performer living in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, CA. 

Listen at www.melguerisonmusic.com

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