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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.