Victoria, BC Canada. Queer. House. Techno. Dancers only.
RUSH loves House and Techno as both sound and culture, offering a home for dancers and the queer community.Based in a once-abandoned nightclub, it trades its past pop-up mobility for mastery, shaping its identity through refined sound, dance, and dark ambiance.
Hey, I’m Josh and I run Rhythm You Should Hear.
Continuing the RUSH//Quilt collab parties, this time the crew decided to ask The Mole, Colin De La Plante to join forces with them.
Quilt is composed of Nick (Dual Citizen) Dexter (Trakstar) and Zack (Malek).
I met Colin in 2021/2022 when we asked him to play a Club Loading party.
He’s got the classic DJ and Victoria story, one that is awesome.
Grew up and started DJing in Vancouver and Victoria, moved to Berlin, moved back with the family.
The Mole is widely regarded as a profound DJ globally.
He’s been everywhere and is a wealth of knowledge.
My jaw dropped when, at a dinner with his family, he handed me the memory book of Trouw, an important club in Amsterdam that closed on Jan. 3 2015 and said “I think I'm in there somewhere, I played the closing party.”
I smile typing this.
I learnt a lot reading that book.
Never heard of Trouw or De School?
Look them up.
Lot’s of beautiful music history there.
From the first booking, getting to know the family and his wife Anja, running a speakeasy listening bar pop-up called Tuntun together - it was nice to have him back at the helm.
This party also meant a lot to the young guard.
Trakstar opted to not play to help perfect the room's atmosphere and set decorations.
Which left Malek to bring his bag of records for an all vinyl night with Colin.
Nick, the third man in Quilt, was sadly out of town.
Being able to use my party as a platform for connecting DJs means the world to me.
Truly.
The Mole had played in the basement RUSH currently uses, 1605 Store St around 2001 as part of Cobblestone Jazz.
This was his return to an old stomping ground.
Unsurprisingly, the space looked very similar to 20+ years ago.
As is the usual way it goes in a forgotten basement.
I came to learn this after finding it and throwing parties there.
History repeats itself in beautiful ways.
Also really bad ways but this moment is beautiful.
A few thoughts from me, Josh:
Colin accidentally (?) hit stop on the turn table and the track slowly stops.
This grabs everyone's attention.
The room slowly freezes.
The Mole does a little dance.
Re-cues the track and smashes the play button.
The crowd erupts and I toss on exciting lighting to match the energy and perfectly light the drop that's early in the track.
Not sure if he did this on purpose or not…
We don’t need to know.
The room was electric.
A few thoughts from Trakstar:
I think that night really stands as an example of what partying can be. A community coming out of the woodwork to support an adored local deejay.
Dancing and experiencing the same joy they had experienced years prior in the same location but in a very different space.
It stands out to me as a welcome reminder that the aesthetics and trends of dancing and clubbing change but the main soul of it remains intact in small basements and diy spaces everywhere.
This is pushed forward by people who just want to move and interact with likeminded individuals.
It was a love letter to the game 🗣️
A few thoughts from Malek:
On what was otherwise a quiet Thanksgiving weekend, October 11th 2025 turned out as one of the cooler parties in recent memory.
With relatively short notice, we recruited The Mole, a legend in his own right.
When asked if he’d be using CDJs, he responded “no need, I don’t have much digital media”.
That night felt pure - dark, hot, a crowd serious about dancing, two turntables and rotary controls.
I routinely relive the memories of pensively mixing in a Korean white label disco edit I found at Audiopile a week earlier, jumping around to Colin playing a stomping edit of Rock the Kasbah, bursting out of the green room to the unforgettable intro of Blackwater, and being so consumed with joy around 2am that I jumped atop the sub and danced above the crowd.
As I regained my senses and jumped off, 10 avid dancers at the front followed suit and climbed up after me.
Until their forces started causing needle jumps a couple minutes later, we couldn’t help but laugh at the elevated wall of dancers in front of the booth.
I didn’t take a moment for granted that night.
What a privilege!
C U on the DF soon,
Josh Franklin
Rhythm You Should Hear
