It's been a hot minute since I've put a F|S mix out! But as the weather gets warmer, pandemic restrictions are lifting, & there's finally a sense of optimism and genuine stoke about the future in the air, I've been finding myself loving the groovy tunes of house/disco/throwbacks & the like. 

This mix is a collection of tracks intended to create joy – listen while you're hanging out with friends, enjoying the sunshine, starting your day, or just want to get a good dance in. Here's to summer, to returning to dancefloors, and to that moment of pure bliss when you're lost in the sound. Enjoy!

Photo by Liz Hagearty

Forms | States 07 - Torie [Summer Grooves]

I had the absolute pleasure of opening up the floor for KiNK's live set – one of my long-time favorite artists, and a true magician in his craft – and Galen of Sunset Soundsystem. Dive into 2 hours of minimal, classic, groovy house tunes and onwards... 

It was an early August night at Public Works SF, my first time performing on the main stage at PW & playing on the V10 mixer. I wanted my sound & energy to grow with the crowd, to bring excitement to the dancefloor as people filled in... to prepare for what was an incredible night of music from the artists to follow. 

This gig was a last-minute add-on for me as I filled in for a friend & I couldn't have been more honored to step into her shoes for this moment. It was also the same week that the music community lost two house music legends - K-HAND and Paul Johnson - so I felt it was only fitting to pay my respects with a few of their tracks as well. 

Press play & enjoy ze grooves ✨

photo + edit: Sam Drank

Torie - Live at KiNK [opening set]

I decided to shake things up and start 2022 with something fresh and surprising — playing a breaks / left field set on the Dusty Rhino at It's A New Day + Breakfast Of Champions Block Party 2022. It felt like the perfect place to try something new as the history of the Rhino and Cowboys sound has so much breaks in it… it was time for me to explore a new genre. 

I've played on the Rhino for the last few years at BOC and it's always been home & family for me. It meant the world for me to be back here surrounded by so many incredible people and to be reminded how much I love this community. Truly a pleasure. 

This was SO MUCH FUN and I can't wait to bring more breaks into 2022! ENJOY⚡️  

(note: this was re-recorded at home as I think my set was partially clipping from day-of)

Torie - Live on the Dusty Rhino: It's A New Day x Breakfast of Champions [Breakbeat/LeftField]

Quite literally, we're on a boat - a Desert Hearts boat party cruising around the San Francisco Bay, to be exact 🚢 

Torie and Jessica took to the rooftop deck to finish out the month of June with an hour of grooves – house, disco, breakbeats, techno, and a little bit of everything in between.  Thanks to DJ Dials & the Desert Hearts crew for having us out. This was a blast n' a half 🔊


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Torie b2b Jessica - Live at Desert Hearts Boat Party, SF

I was stoked to return to Northern Nights Music Festival for my second year playing – I threw down a Friday night set at the Submerged Sessions stage for an hour of trippy vocals, rolling baselines, house, minimal, techno n' breaks. This was quite fun to hear these tracks blasting out on a proper Danley soundsystem (thanks, Jobi!!) – it's one of my fav sets I've played in awhile. Thanks to everyone who joined 💜

Torie - Live at Northern Nights: Submerged Sessions

We cruised to the trash fence for a Tuesday morning sunrise cruise on the @dusty-rhino-1 - a blissful adventure to watch the sun peak over the mountains in the Black Rock desert (and play music to the Burning Man marathon runners, lol)with a gathering of some of my favorite people.

Playing sunrise on an art car is always one of the most unique experiences I think you can create on playa – this was an absolutely surreal morning & I am so grateful. 

Hope you enjoy this set as much as I did playing it (and reliving it over and over in my head). 

*re-recorded @ home bc I suck at recording my sets on playa :)

Torie - Tues. Sunrise on Dusty Rhino @ Trash Fence | Burning Man 2022

This may have been one of my favorite sets I've played... ever. 

Here's my opening set ahead of Overmono at Monarch SF on Friday, Oct 14th. Breaks, UKG, fun things. 

Thanks to everyone who joined me on the dancefloor, to DJ Dials for having me out, to the Monarch team, and to Ty for making the Monarch basement sound the best it's ever been.

This was unreal. Enjoy xx

Torie - Live at Overmono @ Monarch SF - 10.14.2022

2022 was the year I discovered that Torie (no longer hates) loves breaks. Yep. So naturally, I decided to carry that one forward... Here's my set from that one damn sunny day we had in San Francisco amidst so much rain. What a way to kick off a new year: back on our beloved Dusty Rhino, still standing on a CDJ case to see over the decks, at the annual It's A New Day x Breakfast of Champions block party at The Great Northern.   

Enjoy an hour-long journey through all sorts of breaking-broken-beats n' things. 

There's much more to come. 

-t

photo: @storiesbysay

Torie - Live on the Dusty Rhino: It's A New Day x Breakfast of Champions 2023 [Breaks/Left-Field]

Saturday late-night to Sunday sunrise, just after daylight savings kicked in, I had the pleasure of taking the main stage at The Afternoon Umbrella Friends' annual Umbrella Weekend festival in Jacumba, CA. From trippy wee-hours breakbeats to some groovy melodic breaks as the sun came up - playing a sunrise set will continue to be one of my absolute favorite things. you just might catch a bit of b2b with dernis for the last few tracks too 🙃

photo: @ AUUDREY.A on ig

Torie - Live @ Umbrella Weekend 2023 [Late Night >> Sunrise Breakbeats]

Trippy tech-techno-acid-minimal-breakbeat tunes opening up for the iconic powerhouse of a legend that is Anja Schneider. Bonus: a bit of B2B with Mossmoss at the end. 

Opening up the Monarch basement will always be one of my favorites times-places-things-to-do, ever. It's home for me. 

Thanks to @tchilt for the mastering & @notyourdadscloud for guidance on some acid selects to play.  

Take a trip with me... enjoy✨

-t

Torie - Live @ Anja Schneider | May 2023, SF [Acid Techno · Minimal · Breaks]

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Torie - Live @ ICARUS ::  Fall From Space Fundraiser - Sunburnt After Dark @ Monarch SF

A pleasure and an honor to join Moontribe for the October edition of FMG out in the desert. It was my first time playing (talk about nerves, lol) after attending and learning so much from the MT crew for years. Their 30-year history has had a huge influence on me - my sound, my musical path, the events I throw - in countless ways and I was grateful to join this lineup for a Halloween celebration. 

Enjoy my noon/midday set on Saturday - right between two of my breaks favorites and friends, Brandroid and Bartek. It's a mix of groovy 4/4 and breakbeats to get your day moving :)

Thank you @siobhan.moon for capturing this moment!

Torie Live @ Moontribe Halloween FMG - October 2023

Bright n' early at 11am on the Dusty Rhino for the annual It's A New Day x Breakfast of Champions 2024 block party! Breakbeats and four on the floor to get you groovin' and movin' into the new year. (140bpm at 11am? here for it!) 

Happy to be back home at BOC on the Rhino, it's always an honor. Enjoy :)

~ thank you @marbs for the master + Johnny Edge for the photo ~

Torie - Live on the Dusty Rhino: It's A New Day x Breakfast of Champions 2024

saturday afternoon at the junkyard grooves ~ here's my set from Lightning In A Bottle @thedolab! breaks n' 4 on the floor grooves to get ya movin' :) 

photo: @storiesbysay 
mastering: @tchilt

Torie – Live @ Lightning In A Bottle 2024: The Junkyard Stage

A huge thank you to Moontribe for having me out to celebrate their 31st anniversary with so many friends on the dancefloor. Here's my Saturday afternoon set of groovy breakbeats and four-on-the-floor to get ya movin' :)

Torie - Live @ Moontribe FMG 31st Anniversary

Morning breaks & groovy minimal house vibes from my Saturday 9-10:30a set at the magical Never Sleep Again campout in Humboldt. (sleepy, messy, fun things inbound~) 

Press play and enjoy <3

Torie - Live @ Never Sleep Again Kampout 2024 [Sat. Morning Minimal+Breaks]

Torie – Live @ Moontribe FMG Dec 2024

hey hi hello, friends! here's my live set from Ego Trip's annual Leather & Lace event at SPiN with Serge Devant back in February. I was the small gal in the loft playing at midnight ;) 

Press play for an hour-and-a-half of grooves I've been digging lately ~ four on the floor house/techno/melodic breaks/lots of fun stuff to get ya moving. 

Torie – Live @ Ego Trip Leather & Lace XI: Veiled w/ Serge Devant | SPiN, San Diego - Feb 2025

Torie - Live @ Inquiry: Curiosity 2025 in the Mojave Desert

Saturday night grooves in the mountains with friends ~ house, techno, breaks, disco, sounds to make ya move. Enjoy! 

Torie - Live @ Bartledoo Campout 2025

I've been sitting on this recording for months now because this night was almost too magical to put into the interwebs. This is my 1.5hr opening set for @tycho at Public Works SF back in April '25. 

so here we are, uh ...many...months...later... ;) 

thank you to the public works family for having me back out – i love warming up a dancefloor as an opening DJ to set the tone, & continuing to learn the art of ~opening for artists that have wildly impacted your own creative path~. 

deep melodic housey tunes from my crates: a mix of new and old favs. enjoy the sonic grooves ~

-t

Torie – Live @ Tycho, Public Works SF – April 2025

house - techno - breaks comin' to ya from a weekend of debauchery at the beloved tupperware gathering in tahoe ~ live from the rug dr's office on saturday night, here's the first hour of my 3-hr set into sunrise sunday morning. good grooves & tracks that have been constantly stuck in my head. 

thank you @leftrightmusic for the master

Torie Live @ Tupperware pt. 1 //  [Rugdoctor Therapy– ] undisclosed rug-point, Nov. 2025

It's Friday night, the rain has died down and the energy in the club was high. 

Recorded live at Public Works - my first time on the decks at such an amazing venue with a fusion of tech house, bass house and a twist of techno. 

Huge thanks to the Zero Fucks crew for bringing me out - this was a ton of fun to play. Enjoy!

Torie Live at House of Bass - March 2018

Had an incredible time rocking the decks at sunset on top of a boat as we sailed around the San Francisco Bay. This was an unbelievably fun set to play - some of my guilty pleasure and hidden gem bass house tracks - and the crowd was always ready to dance. Thanks to all who came out!

Recorded live at the Shiba San Boat Party in September 2018.

Torie Live at Shiba San Boat Party

Wow, wow, wow. This was the first time I've had the pleasure of playing the basement at 1015, and what an experience that was. I'm so honored to share a lineup with the mega-talented Maya Jane Coles. Here's an hour of some of my favorite sounds right now: some groovy, darker tech house and dives into a heavier techno side too. I hope it moves you as much as it moved me – enjoy ~ 
 
Much thanks to DJ Dials, 1015 Folsom, Noise Pop and As You Like It for having me out!

*This is a re-recording since I forgot my recorder that night. Thanks to @kool-karlo for the master.

Torie – Live at Maya Jane Coles, February 2020

As San Francisco heads into a "shelter in place" lockdown for the next few weeks, I've found myself with ample time to explore more tunes I don't get to play out often. I love liquid drum n' bass in the mornings, and haven't played this genre in awhile, so this was a fun way to dive back into things.

This is a snippet of a live stream I tested out on my Facebook page this morning – a wonderful 40 minutes of liquid that really helped get me through this weird Monday.

I'll be livestreaming + recording my sets more throughout the next few weeks – tune in at www.facebook.com/yotorieee.

Torie – Liquid DnB Test Run [Quarantunes Live Stream Set]

If you've known me personally or musically at all, you probably know my deep love for @desert-hearts-records. This community has played a huge impact on my musical development and is truly a second home to me. I've been hoping to play a DH event for awhile now, and had the incredible opportunity to open up their livestream for our @inquiry-records takeover in September.

Dive into 1.5 hours of.. well.. a bit of all of my favorite things. Deep and minimal, trippy and tribal, jackin' tech house, old school, groovy and melodic – an adventure through some of the sounds I'm loving right now. Enjoy 💓

Torie – Live at Desert Hearts x Inquiry DHtv Takeover

Every year, our @inquiry-records family throws a desert renegade-style festival with a small group of friends out in the Mojave – we call it Curiosity. This year, since we couldn't gather in person, we threw a virtual version instead – and called it "Spuriosity". 

Here's my set – a journey through darker sounds, from deep house and minimal sounds to heavier basslines, trippy techno, and a bit of everything in-between. Close your eyes, take a listen, and imagine it's 3am on a dusty dancefloor in the middle of the desert with me... 

Photo by Haley Busch

Torie - Live at Inquiry: Spuriosity 2020

Huge thanks to @deckrekord & @ilayda_ @marienyx for having me on the livestream for Disco Coven – an all-ladies night of epically dark proportions to celebrate Friday the 13th 🔮🖤

Here's two hours of darker tribal, minimal tech & techno grooves. Step into the Disco Coven lair, imagine we're back on a dark dancefloor, & enjoy 💫

Torie - Live at DECKREKORD Disco Coven [Friday the 13th]

• dj ⋆ event curator ⋆ magic maker ⋆ groovez 🔮
• @inquiry-records * events lead / team mom
• breaks - house - techno - minimal - garage - dnb
• san francisco | san diego | bouncin' around

• other things n' stuff with @icarus_art_car @dusty-rhino-1 @yourewelcome-sf @dancewithhaha

• bookings: gofortorie [at] gmail 
• livestreams: twitch.tv/yotorieee

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Torie’s sound is multifaceted – to say the least. Coming from a global upbringing and current home base in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has been curating sonic adventures as a DJ and event producer for a decade. Torie interweaves elements of breakbeats, house, minimal, dark & driving techno, garage, acid, and drum and bass – balancing a line between heavy-hitting basslines and soulful vocals with ear-catching melodies.

She believes in the power of groove and always plays with one core intention in mind: to bring newfound life to the dancefloor.

– (she lives by the ethos of "i'm just here to play music & do cool shit with my friends").

As a core lead of Inquiry Collective and Inquiry Records, a builder & maker with Burning Man art cars ICARUS and Dusty Rhino, a resident DJ of You’re Welcome SF, and a co-founder of Dance With Haha, Torie draws inspiration from the dusty plains of the playa, the curious explorations of the Mojave desert, the underground dancefloors of SF, & the interstellar endeavors of ICARUS & its motley crew.

Torie has performed with KiNK, Superflu, Justin Martin, Overmono, Maya Jane Coles, Smilk, Anja Schneider, Tale of Us, Patrice Baumel, Marbs, Mikey Lion, Porky and Evan Casey, Rinzen, Dance Spirit, Eskuche, Marques Wyatt, Tycho, KMLN, Sabo, Justin Jay, Hoj, Kevin Knapp, Shiba San, Joeski and more. 

You may have also seen her with renowned crews like Space Cowboys, Distrikt, Ego Trip, and Desert Hearts – at the annual Breakfast of Champions block party on New Year’s Day for six consecutive years – or on the festival circuit at events including Lightning in a Bottle, Outside Lands, EDC Las Vegas, Northern Nights, Desert Hearts, The Untz Festival, Umbrella Weekend, Enigma, and Outside in Equinox. 

In 2025, you can find Torie throwing renegades and pop-ups with the Inquiry crew across California in clubs, deserts, undisclosed locations and beyond… as well as performing in SF, SD, Reno, LA and more.

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