Valentino Khan brings the bass to The Midway on Friday

The "Deep Down Low" producer plays San Francisco on Friday, Nov. 13, a 10 p.m. start in a 1,700-capacity room.

Friday night at The Midway, the bass is going to be doing most of the talking. Valentino Khan plays The Midway on Friday, Nov. 13, a 10 p.m. start in a room that holds 1,700. Tickets are through Tixr.

If you only know one Valentino Khan track, it is probably "Deep Down Low." Released in August 2015, it became an international hit: Wikipedia's entry notes it was named Sirius XM Electric Area's No. 1 song of 2015 and topped Billboard's Twitter Emerging Artists chart. Plenty of producers have one big tune. What makes Khan worth the night is what sits around it.

The Los Angeles-based producer came up making hip-hop beats before he moved into dance music, and the résumé still shows it. His credits include work for 2 Chainz, B.o.B, Dizzee Rascal, Iggy Azalea and T.I., and a production credit on Major Lazer's "Bubble Butt" with Bruno Mars and Tyga. His debut EP, *In Khan We Trust*, came out in 2014 on Skrillex's OWSLA label, and he has since released on Mad Decent with the *House Party* EP, along with singles like "Pump," "Novocaine" with Kayzo and "Gold" with Sean Paul. Insomniac's artist page is a good starting point if you want to go deeper before Friday.

A hip-hop producer's ear and a festival DJ's sense of timing, in a room that holds 1,700.

That background is why his sets tend to work in a room like this one. A producer who learned on rap records knows how to make a drop hit with weight rather than just volume, and in a space the size of The Midway, that is something you feel in your chest more than hear.

The timing on the tour is tidy. Khan's fall run has already taken in Las Vegas on Halloween and Philadelphia on Nov. 6, and the night after San Francisco he heads down to Los Angeles. From there the dates stretch through Seattle on Nov. 28, Nashville on Dec. 4 and San Diego on Dec. 5. San Francisco lands on a Friday in the middle of it, which is about as good a slot as a city can ask for.

The Midway holds 1,700, which is the right size for exactly this kind of night: a headliner with a following, a crowd that came to move, and a start time late enough that nobody is pretending to go home early. A 10 p.m. listed start means the room will fill late, so plan on a long night and pace yourself accordingly.

Practical notes: Tixr is the ticketer, and the room's size means late walk-ups on a Friday are a gamble. Get there with time to settle in before the set kicks off, and bring earplugs if you plan to stand near the speakers.

If you have spent any part of the last decade at a festival, you have probably danced to something Valentino Khan made, whether you knew his name or not. Friday is a chance to hear it from the source, loud, in a room built for it.

Sources: Valentino Khan (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Valentino Khan (Insomniac) (insomniac.com); Valentino Khan at The Midway (JamBase) (jambase.com)