Dasha Rush

Dasha Rush is a Russian-born, French national, based in Berlin, who is an artist that spendsher time traveling around the globe while working on a wide variety of electronic music and artprojects. She has released music on labels such as Sonic Groove and Raster Noton, and hasalso collaborated with others. Additionally, some of her work has been released on her ownlabels, Fullpanda Records (2005) and the experimental sub-label Hunger to Create (2004).She began her musical career at a young age in Moscow, where she was one of the firstfemale DJs/producers in Eastern Europe. After moving to France in 1996, she gainedinternational recognition in the early 2000s and developed as an electronic music composer,producer, and DJ, experimenting with various forms of art by collaborating with dancers andpainters.Rush views genres as starting points rather than destinations and explores rare electronicexperimentation that draws from the roots of underground music from the early 20th century.Her album on Raster-Noton, (2015), could be a metaphor for her musical work: "These 16pieces are transmissions from that state between sleep and wakefulness," said Tony Naylor, areflection of the in- between zones her music often inhabits. Dubby but intense, brutal buttender, foggy yet clear—Sleepstep was a wonderful mass of contradictions. Not being onething or the other is vitally important to Rush, which goes hand-in-hand with her strongindependent streak.She pushes the boundaries of contemporary music to the limit and encouragesexperimentation with various musical and non-musical forms, creating thoughtfulcompositions in multidisciplinary projects. Her audiovisual work, inspired by scientificsubjects, includes projects like "Antarctic Takt" (2014), "Aurora Cerebralis" (2019), and "DarkHearts of Space" (2015). In her multidisciplinary show "Les Territoires Ephemeres" (2018), shecombines different artistic disciplines such as Japanese butoh, theatre, poetry, and digitalmusic and visuals.In conclusion, Dasha Rush is a live performer, electronic music composer, sound artist, andtechno DJ whose work extends beyond the dance floor and sometimes beyond music itself.In her strange and twisted world, the machines are the protagonists of a neo-romanticism,weaved with human dreams.Discover more: www.dashrush.org