Jana Rush, DJ Strawberry, Traxman, spliffany evans

A night of all heavy hitters in the house music scene, featuring juke, ghettotech, footwork and more.

Chicago born and raised, Jana Rush started DJing at the tender age of ten and started producing just three years later. She is influenced by Robert Armani, Lester Fitzpatrick, Cajmere, DJ Milton and DJ Deeon, the latter of whom she released with on Dance Mania in 1996 as “DJ Deeon Presents The Youngest Female DJ”.

Berlin-via-Istanbul producer, DJ and researcher DJ Strawberry has carved a distinctive path, drawing considerable inspiration from Japanese footwork minimalism. His style has continuously evolved over the years, bringing together unique reappropriations of footwork with ambient, jazz, and club elements. His versatile discography featured in acclaimed labels including Juke Bounce Werk, Yuku, outlines, Appendix.files, Defrostatica, Kool Switch Works.

Ghetto House and Juke legend Traxman has a long history in the Chicago House scene with releases on record labels such as Dancemania, Ghettophiles, BTB and Moveltraxx and hits like ‘Get Down Lil Momma’, ‘Let’s Get Diz Party Crackin’ and his already legendary ‘Pacman Juke’ track. He is part of the Geto DJz and Ghetto Teknitianz cliques.

spliffany evans is an eclectic chicago-born open format DJ who incorporates black dance music from across the african diaspora in their soundscape, from chicago juke to amapiano.