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]

The Dusty Rhino is a San Francisco based collective.  Our music is fun, dirty with the right amount of happy, bass-full with the right amount of bounce.  It'll make you smile, it'll make you move, it'll make you happy you're alive!  Our mission to bring people together through art, fire and electronic music, and to be the best mobile party on the planet! We provide enthusiastic participants with a unique interactive experience that alters their notions of what is possible. We hope to inspire more impractical creations that bring people together tightening our community and improving our society.

• 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: richardson.torie@gmail.com
• 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.

+ Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/yotorieee 
+ Facebook: www.facebook.com/yotorieee
+ Instagram: www.instagram.com/yotorieee

Farm boy gone techie with the flavor of democratizing access to all.

~Record Labels:
Wulfpack, Be Adult Music, Closer Orbits, Temple Music Group, Jah Love Recordings, Blue Orb Records, Anadamide, LBA Records, and Bent Ant.

~ 1/2 of Vert Der Ferk
~ Member of Mint Condition
~ Founder of Twilight Boogie Sound Camp
~ Resident DJ at Temple Nightclub (SF,CA) 2010-2012


David Isaac has been an avid fan of house music since 1994.  In 1995 he relocated from his hometown of Seattle, WA to Los Angeles, CA where his interest in DJing really began to blossom.  After a couple years of passing out mix-tapes to the local promoters in LA, he finally got his chance to play at “Insomnia”, one of LA’s most notable after-hours parties that took place in the late 90’s.  It wasn’t long before he became a resident at “Insomnia” and at a Sunday weekly event called “The Mix”.

In 2010, he relocated to San Francisco where he enjoyed over a year of being a resident DJ at Temple Nightclub before finally moving back to Los Angeles in 2012.  His time in San Francisco introduced him to the Burning Man community, and upon returning to Los Angeles found himself knee deep in the local micro-festival scene.  During this period he was blessed to be a resident of the Blackbird Bus art-car, and co-founded a weekly event with Christi Mills called “Unity”.  In 2021 he relocated once again, this time to San Antonio, TX where he's now a member of "Mint Condition", a DJ collective with Adam Madrigal, Alain Baylon, Anthony Garcia, and Culliere.

David has several releases on a handful of record labels that include Wulfpack, Be Adult, and Temple Music Group.  In the late 90’s he and long time friend DJ Tone released a white-label mash-up of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean and Madonna’s Holiday.  Now, they have teamed up again and have begun to release music as “Vert Der Ferk".

Find me at a sunrise set somewhere dancing like no one is watching.

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Leftfield everything: techno, minimal / dub / melodic tech, house, 2 step, UKG
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Torie - Live on the Dusty Rhino: It's A New Day x Breakfast of Champions 2023 [Breaks/Left-Field]

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