Party rock is in the house tonight
Published 12:52 am Sunday, April 13, 2014
- Serena Davidson / Submitted photoDJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid
Dojo in downtown Bend is a place to go if you want to dance.
And this weekend, Dojo will provide two very different dancing experiences.
Tonight brings the return of DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid, two Portland-based party-rockers who have done as much or more to imbue that town with global dance beats than anyone. Anjali and the Kid are the duo behind the Rose City’s long-running Andaz dance night, featuring Punjabi bhangra music and electronic sounds from the Bollywood film industry, as well as Atlas, a night dedicated to global bass music such as urban desi, dembow, Balkan beats, funk carioca, reggaeton and more. Needless to say, this is fun, unfamiliar-to-most-of-us stuff.
On the other end of the spectrum is Saturday’s program, which features San Francisco DJ Dave Paul playing the very familiar hits of Prince and Michael Jackson all night long. This dude has been doing The Prince and Michael Experience for 11 years, and he’s taken it to 33 cities. That’s crazy! Anyway, he describes it thusly: “DJ Dave Paul mixes album cuts, remixes, rare tracks and hits from the two artists as well as songs by such ancillary acts as Sheila E., The Jackson 5, The Time and Janet Jackson.”
DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid; 10 tonight; $3.
The Prince and Michael Experience; 10 p.m. Saturday; $5, $7 couples, free if you wear a theme-inspired costume.
Dojo, 852 N.W. Brooks St., Bend; www.dojobend.com.
— Ben Salmon