Gatefold 2LP finally available* Dasha Rush fully explores her latent ambient side with 'Sleepstep', her debut suite of tech-nocturnes for Raster Noton. It's quite a departure from her sleek, signature club sound, largely leaving the big kicks at home and heading towards dark, brooding scapes and skeletal rhythms perfused with her own vocals and icy-fingered melodies. The ambient/sound design aspect is a constant throughout Dasha's oeuvre, whether in the drone elements or expansive club track intros like LADA's 'Indust' or in her work for Fullpanda sub-label, Hunger To Create. But 'Sleepstep' is clearly her most expansive ambient statement to date, drawing a glistening web of connections between Cosey Fanni Tutti's poetic, avant explorations, Biosphere's radiant atmospheres, and the creepy, wipe-clean textures of certain Coil and CoH moments. It's substantial, too, weighing in at 16 tracks in 72 minutes, all adding up to a bit of a must-have for lovers of stark nEuropean ambient techno. Recommended!
A1 Dance With Edgar Poe A2 Scratching Your Surface (Revisited) A3 Time Whispers And Albert B1 Sail Away To Her B2 Life Time Poem B3 Lucy In The Sky, Lost Diamonds B4 Outer Space C1 Abandoned Beauties And Beasts C2 Antares D1 One Hundred Hearts D2 Micro Universe
