Dasha Rush, real name Dasha Ptitsyna Van Celst, was born in Russia and grew up in Moscow city. Began to dj in her home country at the age of 14. Openning herself to diverse style of electronic music from ambient to hardcore.
After her move towards Europe in 1996, beside djing and working in fashion business, Dasha Rush began multi-artistic collaborations alongside artists and dancers. Developing sound installations and working with theatre/dance pieces. Well-travelled Muscovite Dasha Rush has spent most of her time between Paris, London and Tokyo, exploring emotional and technological aspects of electronic music, as well as symbiosis and conflicts between sound and other artistic expression. During this period she brings up "Hunger to Create" concept, awakening, earlier mentioned, relations between music and arts.
In end of the year 2004, she approached back to dance floor music , and create new record label called "Fullpanda". Her first release was quite successful - track called "Shtirlitz" was taking places in various dj's charts. In 2006 her debut album "Forms ain't Formats" was released. She combined there dance floor rhythms and bass lines with expiremental soundscapes, mixinig cold industrial with minimalistic atmosphere. This release provoked numerous reaction and reviews from international music magazines, dj, producers as well as several following ep's.
Nowadays Dasha Rush lives in Berlin for a period, performs mostly live acts and dj sets time to time in Berghain, Maria and Tresor clubs, develops her labels, and produces other artists. Dasha Rush performed all over the globe, in numerous venues alongside with famous and less known artists.