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DJ Raichous
Category: Performing
Country: United States
About
Originally hailing from LA, Rachelle DJ Raichous (pronounced “righteous”) was first exposed to DJing in high school through her older brother. Starting out with scratching, she later fell in love with vinyl collecting and spinning when she moved to San Diego for 5 years while attending school, as a biology major, at SDSU. While there, she started an all female DJ radio station called The Bonita Applebum Show that ran for 2 years on Earthbound Radio. DJ Raichous hails as a Muslim female DJ from the West Coast, in which during the day, one might find her in class or working at a record store, Stacks SD. Raichous was also a resident DJ of Table Manners (estb. 2006) and in 2009, she contributed various guest DJ sets including tributes to Mos Def and De La Soul on the world famous Wake Up Show hosted by King Tech.
She’s been fortunate enough to share the stage with influential artists such as J.Rocc (Beat Junkies), DJ Rafik (2007 DMC World Champ), and more recently she opened up for Mos Def at the renowned Apollo Theater in New York along with DJ Kidragon. DJ Raichous describes her music as hip hop, old school, funk, jazz, “turntabilism”, breaks and freestyle.She is currently doing projects with 2 other female DJs in a trio called the RRS Feed spinning live sets on a 4 turntable-3 mixer set up.
