Saturday 5 November 2022, 8pm
Chicago born and raised, Jana Rush started DJing at the tender age of ten. She started producing just three years later, influenced by DJ Deeon, with whom she released with on Dance Mania in 1996 as »DJ Deeon Presents The Youngest Female DJ«. After taking a break from music, working as a chemical engineer at an oil refinery by day and as a Cat Scan Technologist assistant at night, Rush re-entered the scene in 2016.
Her MPC 7635 EP, released on Objects Ltd. that year, received attention for her mind-bending drum acrobatics. She then kicked off 2017 with her debut album, Pariah, which was lauded as one of the best albums of the year by Resident Advisor, The Wire, Crack Magazine and one of the best albums of the decade by Mixmag.
Returning in 2021 with Painful Enlightenment, an intense emotional rollercoaster of disfigured samples, quivering electronics and vagrant percussion, her debut for Planet Mu is euphoric and uplifting, even blissful, yet equally chilling, and at times a difficult listening experience. As Rush has said, »This album is not a footwork album. It’s more like dark experimental listening music, an opportunity to be myself without judgement!« Again receiving a landslide of critical acclaim – year-end lists from The Wire, Bandcamp, Billboard, The Vinyl Factory, Stereogum, Crack, and more – it’s another side of the established veteran from the world of ghetto house and juke who cut her teeth on Dance Mania records in the late nineties.
Cõvco is a London-based Congolese artist whose multidisciplinary language translates in the form of Performance art, Poetry, Sound production and Visual art. In 2019 she debuted Consciente of the soul an intimate performance piece part of Liz Johnson Arthurs ‘IF YOU KNOW THE BEGINNING, THE END IS NO TROUBLE’ at the South London Galley, later performed at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam for Sonic Acts Festival 2020 closing the festival. She continues to shape the unwritten within the realms of storytelling through sound and movement. Previous performances ‘Nexus in paradise’ which debuted at the the Camden art centre (2021) a play self produced, written and scored followed by a sequel performed at La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2022). Cõvco’s approach to performance brings together modern social commentary and ancestral dialogues - a captivating playground of raw emotional curiosity, alongside unexpected giddy comical humour.
Keith AKA DJ K-Line is an east London local whose selections are inspired by his early days (and nights) as a skater, soul dancer and then DJ in and around the nightclubs, music pubs and dancehalls of Hackney and Soho. His extensive vinyl collection ranges from Paradise Garage-inspired disco and boogie, to house, soul and r&b.
Keith is also a member of Headway East London's day service for brain injury survivors. As the resident DJ, he features on Headway's monthly radio show on Threads, and he's soundtracked many collaborations and events - he's looking forward to warming up the Oto space again.
https://www.mixcloud.com/ThreadsRadio/playlists/radio-headway-east-london/
