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Yeah no kidding, actually he's from Chicago but as you said I don't think I've ever heard of him playing outside of Europe. I can't wait for the day we get to see him @ Viva  *hint for the promoters* 
Here's an interesting little story:
It's a common story of African-American musicians. With their talents unappreciated by the American populace, they become self-imposed exiles in Europe. The names we generally associate with this pattern are the masters of jazz: Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, et al. But, sadly, it's something that continues to happen into the 21st century, not with jazz musicians, but with producers of house and techno. Europe has enticed many North American innovators, including a 1.8-metre-tall Chicago techno producer who goes by the name of DJ Rush.
"I could live nowhere else but Germany. Berlin is the place," he says. "The people are more open to basically anything. You have so many possibilities to do different things there, whether you like house, techno, drum'n'bass, hip-hop. Germany is the place to get started. I couldn't say it's like that in England, and I don't know how it is in Australia."
For Rush (christened Isiah Major), Berlin's traditions of artistic experimentation and self-expression are more than an opportunity, they're a necessity. Unlike many of his peers, Major doesn't fit the "faceless" DJ stereotype. He's a showman, an entertainer, who considers his flamboyant personality essential to his craft. Dressed in platform shoes, glitter make-up and draped in metallic clothing, Major cuts a striking figure in a club - or anywhere, for that matter.
"It's just something natural," he says. "The images that you see, that's part of me before I started getting really into the whole DJing thing with all the travelling and everything else. I was always dressing flamboyantly or dressing crazy and weird. But it's more about being an artist; you bring something to the club. You give something to the people. You put on a show. It's not like I'm putting something out there and saying, 'I wanna do this, I wanna be crazy'. This is me every day. Right now, I'm wearing platform shoes and baggy trousers. It's about how I feel."
But the theatrical persona - somehow reminiscent of a cabaret performer - is sadly not well received in his native Chicago. "There's about 100 kids that know about techno," he says of the Windy City. "But I wouldn't say they know the different elements of techno - they only know popular techno. It's no use even trying to bring techno here, they won't get into it. To the people in America, techno is for kids.
"When I come home and go out to clubs I get disappointed, because I see how much the scene has changed. People go out just to either get drunk, or to find somebody to go home with, and no one's out for the music. But when I go back to Europe I see the opposite. I see what we used to have. And then I have people telling me I'm stupid for being in Europe, because I need to be at home educating people in America."
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Dj Rush ?
