Electropolis: Tight Tights, Tight Beats, Loose Definitions of Gender.

Contributor: Goldenring

Above: Sex Life Performs at Electropolis

If you like beautiful, androgynous women and men in bright leotards, sporting gravity-resistant cubist hair cuts, and laying down funky, retro dance beats then you’d have lost your shit over Electropolis. Local musician and new man at Someday Lounge, Tim John O’Brien, organized the event in an effort to showcase the beating heart of electronic music in Portland, without necessarily calling on any big-hype bands. Instead, he choose bands that represented the gamut of what “electronic music” can mean in Portland. A giant red curtain in front of the stage proper lent an atmosphere of pomp and grandiosity to the event, while also relieving the audience of the familiar, ungraceful (continue reading…)