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Hailing from the southwest region of the United States, AMANI has been a unique fixture in the underground electronic music scene, seasoned by over two decades of studio production and performance. From his early days at remote desert gatherings, to his constant touring of clubs and music festivals with world renowned downtempo sensation Desert Dwellers, his career has traversed many musical styles and genres. Blending world music with cutting-edge sound design, Amani Friend has amassed an enormous catalog between his projects Desert Dwellers, Liquid Bloom, and Variant Field. Traveling the international festival circuit and staying on the road with a jam-packed schedule, AMANI continues to bring his alchemy of ancient-future psychedelia to dance floors around the globe. Equally adept at sonically fueling the spirit of large yoga classes or high-energy dance floors, Amani’s sonic offerings provide a journey into the imaginative realms of movement and sound.


AMANI Dj Set @ Motion Notion (uptempo)

A 2.5 hour DJ set I facilitated in Nevada City - September 2014. 

Master Minded - Awakening Up
Synch24 - Source
Ion Driver - Deep Sands
Occult - Kuru
Whitebear - Lost in Vibrations
Deya Dova - Sky Roarer
Occult - Assassins
Author - After Time
Symbolico - Unreleased
Incubus - Aqueous Transmission (Chris B Remix)
Kaminanda - Guardians of Virtue
Mindex - Unreleased 
Seamoon - Moonkaba
Master Minded - Down the Rabbit Hole Pt. 2
Tipper - Table Flipping
Radiohead - Talk Show Host (Goosebumpz Remix)
Ott - Squirrel and Biscuts
AMB - Make Me
Good Buddha - Party Reserve (Tipper Remix)
RJD2 - Final Frontier(Instrumental)
Plutonic Lab - Codes over Colours
Dunklebunt - La Revedere
Cuali - Patterns
Tipper - Gulch
Kaya Project - One Hundred Lights (Grouch Remix)
Hedflux - Wanderlust
Mindex - Unreleased
Noisia - Leopard Slug
?Unknown? - Sunstorm
Mr Squatch - Hip Squatch
Kool and the Gang - Funky Stuff
Maceo & The Macs - Cross the Tracks
Jesse Johnson - 100 Watts of Funky
Mandrill - Fencewalk
Commodores - Brick House
Kool and the Gang - Hollywood Swinging
Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage
Midnight Star - Midas Touch
Midnight Star - Operator
Meco - Star Wars Medley
Closer Apart - What is Love
Antix - Let the Right One In
Koen Groweneveld - Wake Turbulence
Sun Control Species - Sleeve
Grouch - Mehndimoller
Interpulse - Bundadji
Hedflux - Catharsis
Bumper - Electronaught(Plump Djs Remix)
Synch24 - Nanites
Kaminanda - The Jade Palace
Grouch - Drowning In Dub
Synch 24 - Dance of the Droids
Earth Wind and Fire - September
Nature and tones

Kalya Scintilla DJ - Ecstatic Dance Nevada City

Being Gathering, held every two years at Boomland, Portugal, is a sanctuary for healing, music, and deep connection. The festival’s intimate atmosphere draws a conscious community of musicians, presenters, and seekers.

Liquid Bloom was honored to share two sets at the 2024 edition. This recording captures our Sound Healing Journey set, performed in the afternoon on the Sacred Fire Stage—a moment of sonic alchemy woven into the heart of this transformative gathering.

Press play, breathe deep, and let the sound guide you. 🔥✨


Big thanks to the amazing visual artists who contributed to the making of this movie:
Wayne Visuals @WayneVisual - AI Animations
DJ Relajado @djrelajado - Mandala Animations
Loka Vision @LokaVision - Nature Melting Visuals
Editing by Jonathan Giovanni @theprimalsoul8362

Tracklist:
00:00  Liquid Bloom, TRIBONE - Interbeing (Tylepathy Remix)
04:55  Desert Dwellers - Wandering Sadhu (Ambient mix)
06:00  Liquid Bloom - The Face of Love - Ceremony of the Heart
08:39  Liquid Bloom, Azriel Ferro, Eternell, Numatik - Love Matrix Meditation
19:25  Poranguí & Liquid Bloom - Igniting the Sacred (bodē Remix)
27:18  Liquid Bloom, Bloomurian, Onanya - Forest Guardians (bodē remix)
33:50  Liquid Bloom & Numatik - Drifting at Sea
36:42  Poranguí, Liquid Bloom, David Satori - Inner Sanctum (Medicine Buddha Mantra Prayer)
44:15  Liquid Bloom - Emerging Heart (Re.Generations mix)
53:40  Liquid Bloom & Poranguí - Heart of the Mother (CYMA Remix)
57:50  Nessi Gomes & Liquid Bloom - All Related (Fantastic Fungi Mix)
1:04:00  Liquid Bloom - Roots of the Earth (Re.Generations mix)
1:13:20  Liquid Bloom, Bloomurian, Snow Raven - Fragrance (Tylepathy Remix)
1:15:05  Poranguí & Liquid Bloom - Feathered Serpent
1:23:20  Poranguí & Liquid Bloom - Inner Sanctum (Kora Mix)
1:30:33  Liquid Bloom & PERE - Refuge
1:37:24  Desert Dwellers - Breathing the Mysteries (Bluetech's Berlin School Mix)
1:38:54  For the Good of All - Puja (Soundscape)
1:39:20  Liquid Bloom, Darpan, Tylepathy - Gratitude Wisdom (Emerging Heart)

Liquid Bloom @ Being Gathering 2024 (Ambient Sound Journey)

Tropical chillout dj mix from a 4th of July gathering in Mount Shasta.
Featuring songs from El Buho, Chancha Via Circuito, Barrio Lindo, Nicola Cruz, Matanza, El Remolon, The Knights of Jumungus, ElMayonesa, Crussen..

Artwork by: Ben Ridgway - https://benridgway.com/

Tropical chillout Dj mix (summer 2015)

Oblivion Trail (Extended)

Lost In The Club (Long Play)

Buy On Bandcamp

Kee Ciardo & Alchimist - Lost In The Club (Long Play)

Our Live Desert Dwellers set from the recent Earth Heart Tour November 2015. Recorded in Malibu, CA at Symbiotic Sunday. We had a blast touring with Kalya Scintilla and Eve Olution and look forward to more events with them in 2016!

Artwork is from a collaboration between Eric Howard, Seth McMahon, Gabriel Welch & Jonathan Solter. Live Mural at Symbiosis 2015.


Desert Dwellers Live @ 2015 Earth Heart Tour

2 hour sunrise set on New Years Day on the banks of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. 

Purchase tracks at : https://pro.beatport.com/artist/living-light/372802
Connect on Facebook :  http://facebook.com/livinglightfrequencies

Living Light - Live at Cosmic Convergence 2016 ~ 2 hour New Years Day sunrise set

If you would like to download this set as well as many more sets and rewards, head over to the Desert Dwellers Patreon site: www.patreon.com/desertdwellers

This set was recorded at the Essential Oil cocktail party in Boulder on 6/10/16. 20 minutes of ambient followed by nearly 2 hours of 70bpm dub tracks. 

1) Desert Dwellers - In The Beginning
2) Suzanne Sterling - Shivasana (Surrender)
3) Erothyme - When there’s Nothing Left but You
4) Lab’s Cloud - Horizontal Bodies
5) Ishq - SKyline
6) Bluetech - Cosmic Trigger
7) WolfTech - Deep Space Dubz
8) Grouch & Chop - Final Breath
9) Commit - Atlantis
10) Perkulat0r - KinKao
11) Wu Wei - Our Ghosts
12) Shaman’s Dream & Bird of Prey collaboration
13) Soulacybin - Four-Five
14) Temple Step Project & Tahir Qwalli - Alif Allah
15) Tribone - Gnosis
16) BEEP - Darkness (Antserum & Rozanski remix)
17) WolfTech - Way of the Tao
18) WolfTech - The Dragons  Back
19) Phaeleh - Iscabe Piano (original mix)
20) Beatroots - Bass Chakra
21) AtYyA - Sixth Serpent
22) WolfTech - Desert Living
23) Martin’s Garden - Leviathan
24) Phaeleh - Whistling in the Dark (ft. Augustus Ghost)
25) Master Minded - Air: One Dreaming Owl
26) Soulacybin - Multisq
27) Tribone - Your World
28) WolfTech - Say You Care
29) Geode - Pacific
30) Trashbat - Tibet
31) Kalya Scintilla - Osiris

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AMANI dj set - Essential Dub part 1

Just before the memories start fading, let the drizzle of live recordings rocket you back to this past summer’s experience and keep the joy alive. This new series on radiOzora is all about re-living O.Z.O.R.A. 2016 with the live recordings from the Valley’s stages. Close your eyes, open your ears and heart and get that smile back on your face with Re-Live.

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BIRDS OF PARADISE - Live @ O.Z.O.R.A. 2016 Dome

We played on the thunder stage at LIB 2019 and it was one of the greatest Lightning in Bottle moments for us! Big thanks to do the Do Lab for doing what you do!

Set List:
1) Longing for Home
2)Dreams within a Dream
3) Saraswati's Twerkaba (Landswitcher >> Tribone Remixes)
4) The Great Mystery (Tribone Remix)
5) Perfect Stranger - Clear Vision (Desert Dwellers Remix)
6) Ace Ventura & Symbolic - The World that You Know (Desert Dwellers Remix)
7) Bluetech - Dawn Ascent (Desert Dwellers Remix)
8) Eat Static - Dionysiac (Desert Dwellers Remix
9) Seeing Things
10) To Be the Air
11) One that Shows the Way
12) Liquid Bloom - Resonant Migration (ATYYA Remix)
13) Breathing the Mysteries

Latest DD Album BREATH

Desert Dwellers Live @ Lightning In A Bottle 2019

Booking Inquires:

North & Central America: bookings@desertdwellers.org
International: bookings2@desertdwellers.org

Desert Dwellers is a pioneering electronic music project that bridges the ancient and the future, fusing deep bass, world instrumentation, and psychedelic textures into immersive sonic journeys. Founded in 1999 by Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe, the project grew out of the legendary Moontribe gatherings in the deserts of Southern California and Santa Fe, New Mexicos desert rave scene. 

Blending influences from many genres, Desert Dwellers has released dozens of albums and remixes, toured across five continents, and collaborated with an eclectic array of artists from around the world. Their music has graced stages at Symbiosis, Ozora, Lightning in a Bottle, Boom, Envision, Shambhala, and Burning Man, resonating with audiences through both meditative journeys and powerful dancefloor experiences.

In 2026, Desert Dwellers will enter its most significant evolution yet. Co-founder Amani Friend will be stepping away from touring to focus on studio production and other creative pursuits, while a new collaborator joined the project, acclaimed producer and mixing/mastering engineer Sarkis Mikael. While continuing to honor the project’s signature sound and ethos “Music Beyond Borders,” Desert Dwellers is now expanding into bold new sonic territories. Sarkis, with releases on respected labels like Sol Selectas, Saisons, and Hoomidaas, brings a fresh creative spark and deep musical integrity.