Win Tickets: Pictureplane, Teengirl Fantasy @ Holocene | Arty, Expansive Dance Music With 90s Influence
January 5, 2011 — PDXPIPELINEWe are giving away a pair of tickets to the Pictureplane, Teengirl Fantasy dance party at Holocene on Friday night. To win, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winner will be drawn on Friday.
Related events at Holocene:
- January 6: Nucular Aminals, Psychic Feline @ Holocene | Portland Rock
- January 8: ATLAS Global Dance Party with Resident DJs Anjali * E3 * The Incredible Kid
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From our sponsors at Holocene:
Holocene presents…
Pictureplane with dance accompaniment by Kathleen Keogh & Noelle Stiles
Teengirl Fantasy | DJ Hot Air Balloon | Sex Life DJs
Friday, January 7
Holocene | SE Morrison, PDX, 97214
9pm | $7.00 advance
TICKETS: Brown Paper Tickets
www.holocene.org/calendar
Arty, expansive dance music with a healthy dose of 90s influence.
24-year-old weirdo performance artist Travis Egedy, a.k.a. Pictureplane, obsesses over the cosmos, 90s house music, collective consciousness, and mind-altering chemicals you've never heard of. Much like his interests, Pictureplane's music is strange and boundless and totally righteous. Egedy has cut his teeth on raging tours with HEALTH, a collab with Beirut's Zach Condon and killer remixes for Crystal Castles, HEALTH, and Thieves Like Us. Grimy synths, broken beats, and bucolic vocals collide somewhere between early 90s house music and the gnarly soundscapes of Black Dice to forge a sound that's wholly unique and endlessly exciting. It's exceedlingly rare to find dance music that transcends the cold and robotic, but Pictureplane does just that. The music feels at once personal and cosmically expansive.
Pitchfork writes of Teengirl Fantasy: “Teengirl fall in line with a current crop of very sharp twentysomething dudes who can't help but mess with the pop, R&B, and dance music they grew up with. People like UK dubstep-soul guru James Blake, Keith Sweat-adoring no-fi crooner How to Dress Well, and fellow Oberlin pair Blondes are all filtering searing musical memories through their defraction lenses. It's not just that they don't have the means to replicate the top-notch production of their beat-based idols– they don't want to. It's not a knee-jerk response against yesteryear's hits as much as an open-minded exploration of those songs' more spaced-out possibilities. “I definitely think it's cool to go back and put the past together in any way that I want,” [Logan] Takahashi [of Teengirl fantasy] told me. Teengirl Fantasy's particular strategy for making non-club kids move picks and chooses bits of funked Chicago house, island-breeze Balearic beats, and sultry soul ÃÆ'Â la Sade.”
For tonight's performance, Pictureplane is joined by a troupe of some of Portland's most talented modern dancers, featuring members of Wooly Mammoth Comes to Dinner and GDP! Kathleen Keogh, Noelle Stiles, Sarah Johnson, Lena Kassof, and Alicia McDaid will all be performing!
January 5, 2011 at 16:08
i’m psyched to see Teengirl Fantasy drop anything that permeates the sound waves with Sade-sque like soul.
January 5, 2011 at 20:56
I still haven’t made it to holoscene, this would be a great show to take in.
January 5, 2011 at 22:04
I need a beat and its here and Friday works for me.
January 6, 2011 at 09:33
Love Holocene and would love to dance the night away!
January 6, 2011 at 11:25
My girlfriend put Pictureplane on a mix for me & I would love to surprise her with an awesome dance night.
January 6, 2011 at 14:10
I’ve had this bad boy marked on my calendar for the last 3 months as the best show of the season.
January 6, 2011 at 14:44
Bribing new friends with tix to anything at Holocene would up my cool potential being a new kid in town. Plus, I love Teengirl Fantasy!
January 6, 2011 at 15:13
I haven’t been able to see Pictureplane or Teenage Fantasy but Noelle Stiles is a great dancer, was lucky enough to see her during PICA’s TBA Festival, although my boyfriend missed out. Would like to take him and loosen him up enough to dance with me :)
January 6, 2011 at 16:36
I just moved to Portland and I wanna go dance and make friends!
January 6, 2011 at 16:49
been on a haiku kick lately, so if you don’t mind…
got the winter blues
and what better remedy
than to dance them off
January 6, 2011 at 16:53
The last Picture Plane show at Holocene was one of the most memorable shows of 2010. Might as well start 2011 off right.
January 6, 2011 at 18:54
Back in the hometown for a night, would love to return to the holocene for a dance party, thank you very much
January 6, 2011 at 19:43
I want to go just because the Holocene is always hoppin.
January 6, 2011 at 22:10
Teenage girls are all the rage these days… Katy Perry’s new album is called Teenage Dream (and the title track is super good!), and then there’s the new Beach House album Teen Dream. Is it cute or creepy? Either way, pretty sure Teengirl Fantasy will be awesome live.
January 7, 2011 at 09:23
i want to take some bad boy on a date with me