Raster-Noton keeps on pushing its stylistical horizon over explored edges by means of the artistical pulls of the charming sound of Dasha Rush, another fascinating amazon, which follows the landing of another brilliant female sound artist - Kyoka - on the label wisely managed by Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender. Mainly known for her praiseworthy sets and release in the field of techno, Dasha shows a darker and mysteriously alienated side on "Sleepstep", whose subtitle "Sonar Poems For My Sleepless Friends" underpins the different perspective behind this nocturnal outputs. Some attentive listeners would find some similaraties to other artists' stuff: for instance the lulling "Sleep Ballade" sounds like Trentemoller's "Miss You", the gothic lyricism of "Sail Away to Her" could remind some stuff by Socialistisches Patienten Kollektiv or Dead Can Dance as well as the ominous breaks of the awesome "Abandoned Beauties and Beasts", the debris on the the digital ether of the opening "Space Privet For Cosmonauts", the amazing alien clocking of "100 Hearts", where irregular plastic heart beats seem to act like gears of a mysterious engine, or the darkwave nuance of "Fog, Dogma and Bread" could lay in between the absorbing frequencies of some ambient outputs of late 90ies (Omicron, Lagowski's SETI) and the likewise absorbing outputs by other brilliant squires of the label such as Frank Bretschneider and Emptyset. Besides any possible analogies, Dasha's debut on Raster-Noton sounds homogeneneous and in line with the nocturnal dream-like atmosphere that she often tries to emphasize by means of subtle electronic airflows and catchy readings from her own poems (included in the 32-pages booklet on the cd version of the release, which includes some snapshots by Dasha as well) such as the one in French language on "Scratching Your Surface", which features a magnetic dark dub sneaking movement, the almost hypnotical one in English language of "Lucy In The Sky, Lost Diamonds" or the daydreaming surrealism of "Life Time Poem" and "Micro Universe", which could fit the palingenesis of an intimate dreamscape. You don't need to suffer from insomnia to appreciate Dasha's enchanting sonic pills, which act like other than downers.