DJ Rahaan coming down under

People Must Jam presents Chi-town Shakedown... featuring for the first time EVER in Australia, DJ Rahaan, live and direct from Chicago

Saturday November 15th, upstairs at Flinders Hotel (63 Flinders St, Darlinghurst), 9pm til late

Rahaan is currently the windy city's hottest DJ throwing down funk, soul, rare disco, early house, italo and everything in between; following on from Chi-town house legends such as Ron Hardy, Farley Jackmaster Funk and the Hot Mix 5. In addition to putting on underground basement parties on the southside of Chicago. Rahaan has toured the world over - playing at big nights in the UK, Europe and Japan. Rahaan has also released killer edits on labels such as Kat Music and Jisco.

He will be playing his debut Oz set for a minimum of 3 hrs, expect underground house, funk, disco and all points in between, mixed with a level of skill and energy which is second to none.

Playing alongside Rahaan and creating an oasis of light and sound to pop, shake and jam will be Pete Dot (Monkey Tennis), James Weirick (Paradise Lost) and Matt Trousdale (Loud Minority).

Someone bring him over here!

Saturday 29/11/08 - Melbourne

Ha ha due to a wack music scene here.

what were the 'foreseen' circumstances?

last time i went to gumboot was to see theo play.
he's a bit passe now....
ya can only copy Ron Hardy fer so long ya know

Placing the blame on someone, especially someone who hadn't even posted on this thread until yesterday, is just wrong. It's not like Websta had gone out of his way and personally contacted Rahaan warning him against coming to nz.

The real fact here is that deep house, whether we like it or not, doesn't do shit in nz. With the exception of a small group of people here and their close circle of friends, people going to clubs don't understand or like proper deep house, and someone like Rahaan would frankly be a waste of time & money. And I don't know about anyone else, but I'd personally be embarrassed if he came and saw what kind of support a gig like that would receive.

nah it wouldn't have gone off - you can't promote a quality DJ that plays styles little understood here and get a decent crowd and still cover costs - I would wager

are you saying we don't have "music" crowds here or that the Ozzies are more cultured than us?? ( walking to fridge now to crack a VB(( only to get a taste for it))) Or are we not ready for a dj's dj?? at any rate hes not coming . so who really cares.( nobody apparently)

ummm.....have you been living outside of NZ for the last 5 years or something?

The Aussies aere no better, its just that their much bigger population makes it easier to fill up a 500 capacity nightclub.

True. However for every 10 quality jocks that visit Aus (Melb/Sydney - jocks like Moodyman/Luciano not the swedish cock mafia) maybe 0.5 or possible 1 of these jocks include an Auckland or Wellington leg on the tour. Such disparity does not equally reflect population difference...

True. However for every 10 quality jocks that visit Aus (Melb/Sydney - jocks like Moodyman/Luciano not the swedish cock mafia) maybe 0.5 or possible 1 of these jocks include an Auckland or Wellington leg on the tour. Such disparity does not equally reflect population difference...

On the contrary, the Aussies are much better. .

The real fact here is that deep house, whether we like it or not, doesn't do shit in nz. With the exception of a small group of people here and their close circle of friends, people going to clubs don't understand or like proper deep house.quote]

This is not good.

Saturday night, you go out [you play records] and you're just a soundtrack to people's drug taking....I mean: you get people that go to nightclubs and just stand around: what the fuck are they there for? Or they'll come up [to you] and want to hear records that they've got: "Can you play that one, 'cos I know it?" And it's just like, "Why are you even here?"

Are there exceptions to the rule?

Both: Japan.

Japan's always the first answer when you ask that question! What is it about playing there that's so special?

DT: For us, it's amazing. We're really fortunate to be able to go and play there. We have a really great friend, Hagi, who's taken us all round Japan: from Yellow [in Tokyo] to the tiniest spots and it's all almost universally good: good sound, good people. If you're in the room where the music is, if you're in that part of the club, it's all about the sound and the dance. There's no standing around: people participate. And if you're playing there's this "call and response" thing going on, which is really nice.

So it's the original disco formula: amazing sound systems and everyone dancing?

CM: Yeah, but it's not based on drugs. It's based on music. And that's unique.

DT: There's attention to detail at every turn, which has so many benefits: people don't go home deaf; you can hear things properly; it's comfortable for people to DJ. I mean, take the lighting guys: [If you're playing] in a club in Japan the lighting guy will be in tune—he won't be off powdering his nose [laughs]—he'll be listening to what's coming out of the speakers and reacting [to it]. Little things like that make such a big difference; it accentuates the highs and lows of what's randomly happening.