Telepathe / These Are Powers / Teengirl Fantasy / Soft Circle @ Market Hotel

This was such awesome fun. We came in as Soft Circle was playing - whose live shows I rather enjoy. It seems like he mixed it up a little bit, but maybe I was just being more attentive to his tech process. He (Hisham Bharoocha) puts on a good trance, alone in layers of loops that he builds up upon. It is remarkable. Next up was Teengirl Fantasy, two Oberlin dudes. I liked it a lot, it was dirty, heavy dance. They had colored projections, layers and layers (theme here?) of patterns. And a great performance persona, like a stare but without eye contact. A few words too on the space - it is a huge triangular ballroom in an old Domenican speakeasy in Bushwick, atop an amazing grocery store (Mr. Kiwi) where I went between sets to get cold tea, and there is this heavy throb from above. All-ages and crazy fun. These Are Powers was nuts. Building up into wild hard dancing. They are a Chicago/ Brooklyn act. I don't even know how to describe them. I just looked on their myspace (visual/ healing & easy listening/ backbeat : but that wasn't what I was even looking for) and they are playing a show in Olympia next month at a place called the Northern?? Check it o u t. I love Telepathe, but it was wierd as there were dudes with huge video cameras filming them that had way bright spotlights on them that they kept pointing out to the crowd and it was a little confrontational. I had to step back for a minute. But I came back at the end and danced w/ buddies. Funn times.