DJ Rahaan @ Melting Pot, Glasgow, 6 Sept

Marking only his second appearance in Glasgow, Chicago’s legendary, über-talented DJ Rahaan started out playing house parties alongside The Chuck Brothers in the late eighties, before moving to Wisconsin in 1990. Spending the next six years collecting rather than DJing records, he returned to Chicago in ’96, where he rejoined the Chucks and also hooked up with Ken Torry (aka Afrodesia) to play The Spot. Soon after he began notching up guest spots at nights like Sisterz Of Vision and Soul In The Hole before gaining a residency at Chicago’s Budda Longe in 2000. A year later, his first productions efforts were released on Fourplay Records and he began posting up mixes on the Deep House Page and Bring The Heat websites, which helped his talents get noticed across the globe, leading to bookings in Belgium, Spain, Japan, Ireland and the UK. More recently his re-edits have turned up on the Jisco Music and Kat labels.