Dasha Rush is a Russian techno artist who sees the genre as a starting place not a destination. She is a respected and well-travelled DJ and live performer, but her work is equally focussed away from the dance floor, and sometimes away from music itself. Her recent album for Raster-Noton, Sleepstep, could be a metaphor for her work: „These 16 pieces are transmissions from that state between sleep and wakefulness,“ said Tony Naylor, a reflection of the in-between zones her music often inhabits.