Cool Dj S Ruston ( Female Dj ) Dj Sets 2025

Podcast no. 185 for @oramicspl platform by @s_ruston
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S Ruston is a resident of the notorious femme-forward pleasure activist rave collective, Lecken, as well as a resident of Berlin’s Renate Club. Hailing from the UK, with over 20 years of experience as a DJ and rave maker, their sets serve a shape-shifting mix of bass-informed techno, rave sounds as a call to arms, and a generous serving of dance floor euphoria. As a non-binary queer-feminist rave child, S Ruston’s work is committed to rave as a praxis for deconstructing binary dualities and normativizing hierarchies of all kinds.

ORAMICS 185: S Ruston

Whilst they have called Berlin their home since 2010, our own halls in Canning Town do not feel complete without the presence of @s_ruston. A relationship that began long before we welcomed our first guest; S Ruston has been with us every step of our journey, and now they return to play at RE:SISTANCE 004.

The Bristolian’s natural jungle & drum and bass roots shine through in their music; a sensory overload fully-stocked with rapid, bassy selections and interlaced with old school UK rave. These riotous performances are seen most commonly in the German capital’s sex-positive party scene, with residencies at femme-forward Lecken and clubs Renate and Else, yet they frequently take time to revisit our home in East London, with each occasion cherished. 

We are now releasing S Ruston’s ‘Sensory Overloard Mix’ recorded live at UNFOLD XXXVI. This is now available to listen to on our FOLD SoundCloud, via the link in our bio.

The full lineup for RE:SISTANCE 004 is:

@beckystroke
Pharma
@s_ruston
@tsunimanmusic

With half of the tickets for RE:SISTANCE 004 now gone, time is running out to be a part of this special night, so act fast to be part of this. Get your tickets now via https://www.fold.london/tickets/resistance-004

S.Ruston Sensory Overload mix at UNFOLD

Recording of my set for UNFOLD LX - in the second room aka 'The Steam Room' - Sinai Sound System provided the rig, what a treat.
Inspired by previous UNFOLD's, Fusion Festival, Playing the Sioni HiFi system in Tblisi, my b2b with HORNS in CPH and my love of the euphoric 90's. 
!!! HIGH NRG !!!

UNFOLD LX - WET MESS STEAM ROOM MIX

SWU FM Podcast

Devil's Work with Farrell & S Ruston - 08 July 2024

Recording from my 2 hour closing set at FOLD for RE:SISTANCE, Probably my fave set to ever be recorded, I hope you enjoy.

RE:SISTANCE June 24

My closing set from UNFOLD back in October, Probs the most hard & 4/4 I've  played in a set... 'Ave it you slags!'

UNFOLD LXXXV Closing

Recorded live, warts & all in our fave ravey pub basement

S Ruston @ Fossil Archive Presents @ TGTF - Sun 9th Feb 2025

3+ hour DJ set recorded live at my residency for Berlin femme forward queer sex party LECKEN. Warming up for Objekt & Call Super on a hot and sweaty August night, complete with live crowd recordings- absolutely vibey!

S Ruston ☞ Lecken_9

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 306: S Ruston's Gurt Lush Mix (Bristol Sound & Beyond)

S Ruston honed her craft in Bristol, before shifting to her current home of Berlin. She currently divides her time between the decks and studio, with releases on Houndstooth and her own label One4Ho. She's also carved a rep for pumping, powerful sets at femme forward sex-positive queer parties such as Lecken, Pornceptual, TrashEra, and WHOLE - United Queer Festival. For the broadcast, we share a blinder two hour excerpt from her performance as part of Lecken for CTM Festival Berlin.

Trinity Carbon - Buzz Feelin' [Art-E-Fax]
Overmono - The Mabe [Poly Kicks]
ROSH - Winona’s Love (Stranger Things Mix) [Rosh]
IKE RELEASE - Geospatial [Mister Saturday Night]
Laksa - Madu’s Break [Ilian Tape]
Stanley Schmidt - Shifting Modernism [Vienna]
James Shinra - Pinwheel [Analogical Force]
Danny Daze & DeFeKt - Negative Pressure [Omnidisc]
Renart - Terreur sur la Ville [Cracki] 
Solid Blake - Masha [Monkeytown]
Aquarian - Ten Years (Leather jacket Mix) [Forth]
Voicedrone - Amen Godess [??]
Skee Mask - 50 Euro to Break Boost [Ilian Tape]
Chontane - Nedelia [THEM]
Justin Cudmore - Are You Ready (Gunnar Haslam Bass and Superstructure) [Bunker NY]
Sciahari - The Dream is True [Ilian Tape]
Nightwave - Psychic Tonic (Jerome Hill Remix) [Dext]
Born in Flamez - Talking to the White Noise (Quest?onmark Remix) [Infinite Machine] 
Hector Oaks - Together We Stand [Bassiani]
Mor Elian - Russian Wave Group [Fever AM]
Martyn - Voids Two [Ostgut Ton]
Mella Dee - Deep Soul (Endian Remix) [Dext]
AQXDM - Aegis [Bedouin]
Avatism - XX (AQXDM Remix) [Vakant]
Tzusing - Shame [Bedouin]
Akkord - RCVR [Houndstooth]
Abyss X - Allegory [Different Circles]
Hodge & Peder - Inside the Rain [Peder Mannerfelt]

Pic by Kasia Zacharko

Ep. 136 w/. S Ruston (Lecken // UK/DE) @ CTM Festival

3 Hour recording from my first ever closing set for Lecken. From UKG to Techno in 3 vibey hours. Was one of the most special and emotional sets of my life - we cried, we cheered, we hugged and we celebrated queer love. Thank You Lecken. Artwork by Leon Allez <3

S Ruston ☞ Lecken_11 (tears, cheers n' spin backs)

S Ruston—jackin’, pumpin’, voguey, UK, ravey, some fast, some slow—she knows what you need and she’ll give it to you good. Having cut her teeth on the Bristol scene over 15 years ago, she started organising secret warehouse parties in London and playing at seminal bass music events such as DJ Pinch’s Subloaded and Dubloaded, while consistently threw it down at major UK festivals like Glastonbury, Glade, Shambala, Ashton Court and Bloc, under the alias Ghettozoid and with female booty bass collective Octopussy. She made it SXSW representing “UK Urban” with her band Bubbz & the Black Notez in 2010, before relocating to Berlin where she has divided her time between the decks and the studio. She founded the label One4Ho, focusing on 140 Bpm driven music with female led creative input, and has released as a producer and vocalist on Fabric’s Houndstooth imprint. In 2012 S Ruston served as Zebra Katz’s DJ on his first European tour, and continues to make occasional appearances at his gigs. She’s also worked closely with artists Linards Kulless and Ursula Hutchinson on music videos and VJ/DJ collaborations.
As a resident of femme-forward collective Lecken, she’s been making a name for herself on the city’s queer sex-positive party scene, serving it up at TrashEra, Riot, Hot Topic, Whole Festival, Pornceptual, Warning and more. With a new release on TrashEra Music, and with her reputation quickly spreading beyond Berlin, S Ruston guarantees a sweaty dance floor and an impeccable selection wherever she goes.

ELSEMIX: S Ruston

INTERVIEW > inverted-audio.com/mix/s-ruston-voicedrone

S Ruston (@s_ruston) and Voicedrone (@voicedrone) take control of IA MIX 318, serving up a warm up mix for the paced-up techno and breakbeat heads out there. The mix features a back-to-back set recorded at FOLD in London, from when the club hosted UVB and December back in September 2019.

IA MIX SERIES

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IA MIX 318 S Ruston & Voicedrone

Heads Radio presents

Show 0016

18.00h-19.30h --- 131bpm
19.30h-21.00h --- S Ruston

S Ruston
S Ruston lives to blow out parties with sexed up radical sounds, breakbeats, UK bass & rave welded into a techno framework. As resident of Berlin's infamous femme-forward party collective Lecken and of the techno basement of the theatrical house party that is Wilde Renate, S Ruston fully flexes the breadth of her DJ expertise and curatorial skills, rudely plowing ahead to thrust her ravey intentions against the audience's limits.
https://soundcloud.com/s_ruston

131bpm
Initially DJ and coming from an industrial rave background, 131bpm grows his outstanding digging skills while playing in illegal parties, constantly looking for new sonorities.
Always sweaty and sexy, his sets are very eclectic, builded from punchy techno to vocal electro breakbeat, smattered with chicago ghetto house and 90´s groovy tracks.
Strongly implanted in the queer techno Berlin scene, he played in places like Whole Festival in Ferropolis, Lecken and Members in Berlin, Sous Tes Reins in Paris, and in Milan for Solida and Vitamina where he is a resident.
He released his first 12" in January 2020, "Rim That Snare"
https://soundcloud.com/bpm131bpm

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S Ruston - Heads Radio 0016 - 08.04

In loving memory of Mariana Nobre Vieira. 
I had known that I would drop Skream's remix of La Roux 'for the kill' as the closing track as soon as I was asked to play Lecken in March 2020 and was very excited for this as I felt it embodied Lecken so well. Once I dropped the track I ran out into the dance floor to enjoy it amongst the Lecken ravers and I shared my favourite memory with Mariana dancing, hugging and crying. 

Here I share some words from the Lecken Collective:
Mariana will be remembered as a beloved and integral member of the arts, dance and performance communities in Lisbon and Berlin. Her passionate commitment to collective practice and what she lovingly called "a state of rave" will be deeply missed by the collectives she was a part of—Rabbit Hole, Lecken and Ravelength. 

"When I rave I can watch myself watching myself watching the world melt down and build itself up again. Does this world build itself up again in the same way every time or will we one day be taken through a wormhole into a glitch in the matrix, a parallel universe where there is milk and honey and social welfare and basic income for everyone? And there is so much fucking love and so much fucking despair being rendered and spun together and touched and sweated out, all that excess love and that excess despair that doesn’t find its place in the world of people because it is just too much it is so much that it cannot be contained it will not be contained it needs out, out! to get out, where does it go to, where is it flowing into, it must be flowing somewhere, when will the wormhole take us to that glitch in the matrix, that parallel universe where there is milk and honey and social welfare and basic income for everyone? 
Although it may lead to a form of ecstasy where the excess energy, love, laughter, despair
and tears contained within our systems may be released and shared, to be in a state of rave is not equivalent to being in a state of ecstasy. 
To rave also means to support and call something forth, to engage with the dancing body in order to propel and support ideas and ideals with madness and enthusiasm. As an author I aim herefrom to keep working from a state of rave, looking at the stage and the dance floor as sites for rituals of passage, cleansing, confusion and transformation to be devised, offered and shared; upheld and supported by the stomps of feet dancing to techno beats." (Mariana Nobre Vieira, “State of Rave”, 2019)

Lecken Reconstruction / Club Quarantäne

This mix was made especially for my technodrifters far & wide in time for the Winter Solstice and the Grand Conjunct. The idea was to press play at 18:30 & drift, with the ending being aligned with the Saturn & Jupiter Conjunction at 19:37 CET. The tempo is 128bpm throughout - the optimum drifting tempo. There are added vocals throughout the mix with particular meaning & attached to specific memories of the ghosts of our ravey pasts. 

The call to arms from Maria Scaroni, technodrift creator:

'Technodrifters it’s the darkest time of year. If you have a bit of a pagan, either undercover or outed spiritual practice, you know these days are for planting intentional seeds for the returning sun. We will dance away assessing 2020 and dance intentions and wishes towards 2021. Sophie conjured a mix just for this purpose, so there is much power given already to the collective mind.

This drift is dedicated to Mariana, who vanished at the end of summer leaving many longing to have one last dance with her. A sunshine. May this dance serve your grieving in tender recognition.'

Cool Dj S Ruston ( Female Dj ) Dj Sets 2025

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