Bleep

Russian-born techno experimentalist Dasha Rush is knighted into the roster of conceptual innovators at Raster Noton in Chemnitz, East Germany. Following her debut on her own Fullpanda imprint in 2007 and her second album on its more experimental sub label Hunger To Create in 2009, her third full-length once again unfolds her interest in the interdisciplinary aspects of 20th century art. The minimalistic arrangements of ‘Sleepstep’ are spiked with poems (Edgar Poe being the obvious title reference) that within this context of micro sound collages feel more like bed-time stories. The nocturnal concept of the album succeeds in mimicking the erratic nature of dreams, juxtaposing quiet with rumbling, subtle arpeggios with sub-heavy constructions, and infusing fibrous drones with disintegrated threads of long-forgotten memories.