For this all-vinyl gig expect to hear vintage Bollywood and Kollywood, Panjabi folk, Cha cha cha, Boogaloo, Salsa, Sitar Rock, International Funk, Jazz, Soul, Mod & any number of obscurities from their international record collections.
Hey Love
920 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214
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🌹 Chai & Roses Party 🌹
A Sunday Tea Dance for QTBIPOC & Allies
Sunday Sept. 28th
7-11PM (21+ only)
Holocene 1001 SE Morrison St. Portland, Ore.
$15 at the Door
$18.87 Adv (Advance ticket buyers will have priority entry (skip the line) til 11PM.)
DJs 🌹
Anjali
Lapaushi
Drag & Performances🌹
Blossom Drearie @blossom_drearie
Hibiscus Lust @hibiscuslust
Chiffon Chérie @chiffon.cherie
Pop ups 🌹
Chaiwallah Pdx @chaiwallah_pdx
Flowers for Palestine @flowers4palestinepdx
Jungle Candy Henna @junglecandytattoos
🌹 co hosted with Pdx Queer Asians @pdxqueerasians
We are the culmination of thousands of years of Queer Ancestral strength.
See you on our liberation dance floor.
🌹Bring extra $$ to support local pop ups & our resident Drag Artists & Performers
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~ MEHFIL ~ Fundraiser for Delhi Libraries w/ DJ Anjali and Anand Vaidya
Saturday, October 4, 5–8 pm at New Expressive Works
Join us for an all-ages evening to raise funds for a free library organization in Delhi, learn about struggles for freedom and rights in India, and dance dance dance with DJ Anjali!
Celebrate and hear about Portland-based anthropologist Anand Vaidya’s new book, Future of the Forest, about law and landless forest dwellers’ struggles for rights in India.
Get on the dance floor as DJ Anjali leads a lesson on Garba, a Gujarati folk dance.
Sip on chai from Chaiwallah PDX and enjoy snacks and drinks.
All proceeds go to supporting a free library organization in India that continues to create vibrant spaces of community-owned and shared knowledge. These spaces support people in developing a collective analysis of how class, caste, gender, and other forms of oppression divide people from one another and maintain a hierarchy of those who have and those who don’t have access to books and knowledge. The organization provides tens of thousands of books to children and adults across India.
If you’re unable to make it in person but still want to support, you can still donate by purchasing a ticket or two.
TROPITAAL! A Desi-Latine Soundclash
Saturday, October 11th, 2025
(We celebrated our 12th anniversary of this monthly party in May.)
Featuring hosts and resident DJsAnjali and The Incredible Kid
GOODFOOT
2845 SE Stark St.
Portland, Oregon
9PM – 2AM
21+
$13 advance & at the door
Take the sultry vibe of the Latin American Tropics, combine with the rhythm of India (“Taal”) and stir into TROPITAAL! A Desi Latine Soundclash where the hottest club sounds from India and Latin America go head to head in an all-night dance-off of epic proportions. Resident DJs Anjali & The Incredible Kid combine their deep passions and deep crates from across the spectrum of Latin, Caribbean & South Asian vibes. Expect to hear a mix of Bhangra, Dembow, Future Filmi, Reggaeton, Baile Funk, Panjabi Rap, Trap & Drill, Moombahton, Electro Cumbia, Tribal Guarachero, Dancehall, Bollywood, Desi Bass & Global Bass party classics.
“Portland electronic music luminary DJ Anjali”
Willamette Week 8/27/24
“One of Portland’s favorite dance nights is making its return. Hosted by stalwart DJs Anjali and the Incredible Kid, Tropitaal mixes club music from India and South America—everything from urban desi to trap and reggaeton.” Willamette Week 8/11/2021
“For seven years now, DJ Anjali & The Kid have been commandeering the Tropitaal Desi-Latino Soundclash to the delight of knowing Portland audiences.” Portland Mercury 5/16/2020
“DJ Anjali & The Kid have been a staple of Portland, Oregon’s club scene for almost two decades, creating spaces for DJs and dancers to enjoy an international mélange of music ranging from bhangra to reggaeton.” Remezcla 12/26/18
Bollywood Horror XXIII
Halloween Costume Dance Party
Featuring your hosts and DJs
Anjali and The Incredible Kid
Saturday, October 25th, 2025
9PM-1AM
$15
21+ only w/ proper ID
Polaris Hall
635 N Killingsworth Ct.
Portland, OR
The longest-running Bollywood Halloween party in the world is a Portland original, a wild dance party celebrating twenty-three years of raucous costumed merriment hosted by DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid. Only the wickedest beats from the subcontinent: cower at the thundering dhols, shiver at the piercing wails of Bollywood divas. Expect to hear Desi Bass, Darkwave & Goth classics as well. Costumes encouraged but not required.
DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have spent more than two decades igniting dance floors with cutting edge music not limited by national borders or language. 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.
“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 4/18/20
“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
“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
KABHI KHUSHI KABHIE KUSH est. 2006
Tune into The Incredible Kid’s weekly radio show which every Tuesday night at 10PM (Pacific Standard) until Midnight.
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kush airs on KBOO.FM worldwide & 90.7FM Portland.
Anjali and The Kid present International classics & unknown pop gems from their vintage vinyl & CD collections. With a focus on retro Bollywood and the Afro Latino diaspora, you can also expect to hear Panjabi folk, Qawwali and South Asian filmi (like Lollywood, Tollywood & Kollywood.)
After 7 years we retired (details here.)
Archives can be found at XRAY.FM.
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Anjali teaches weekly at The Viscount Dance Studio (since 2013.)
September schedule:
Bollywood (Filmi Item Girl) Tuesdays 5:15-6:30PM.
Bhangra & Giddha (Panjabi Folk Dance) Thursdays 6:30-7:30PM
In addition to her studio classes, Anjali is also available for private lessons and shaadi choreography.
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Photos by Celina Flores