DJ Shortee, Split, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 23 Oct

DJ Shortee is not your average DJ. For a start she's one of the still too few female DJs on the scene, and though she may hail from the glamour of North Hollywood, looking kind of cute and unassuming, her music is down and dirty and she's serious about it – after all, she's a head professor at The Scratch DJ Academy, a school in L.A. founded by Run DMC's Jam Master Jay. Essentially, DJ Shortee's music is hip-hop in the old-skool style, but she can easily swing to d&b or r&b, with riffs, horn hits and soul vocals popping up. The pace of change is fast, whilst the beat remains reassuringly solid; this is simply because DJ Shortee has a great sense of rhythm, evident in her adventurous and playful scratching that brings new rhythmic dimensions to each track. Expect some solid storming stomping sounds from the Split resident DJs, lashings of creative d&b from DJ Shortee, and who knows what else she may pull from her record bag of tricks... expect the unexpected. [Josh Coppersmith-Heaven]