Rahaan
Record Adjustments

The occasional (but always excellent) Street Edits series returns, this time with a trio of high-grade scalpel works from Chicago re-edit hero Rahaan. As usual, the source material is dusty and obscure, and the reworks revelatory. "City Of Disco" is in many ways typical of Rahaan's work, with carefully cuts and loops being used to create a thumping, house style groove (admittedly one that pays due reverence to the source material). There's more of a celebratory, soulful feel about the impeccable "Strung Out", which turns a little-known disco-soul gem into a huggable dancefloor classic. Best of all, though, is "Brighten You Up", which sits somewhere between later electrofunk and early house; a proto-proto gem, perhaps. Either way, it's a killer.