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My Saturday night set at Belonging Fest 2021

Driem - Belonging Fest 2021

A mashup of Tipper - Sahra and Anda Union - Mother Song. I hope you enjoy :-)

Sahra Mother Song (Driem mashup)

A fundraising song @eliseleblancmusic and I made. All proceeds go to Ada'itsx/ Fairy Creek protection. Special thanks to Elder Bill jones and Victor Peter of the Pacheedaht First Nation, and especially to Colby Rex O'Neill for the filming, videography, and production or our accompanying video.

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River - Driem & Elise LeBlanc

Track list (live this set was partially accompanied by guitar): 

Driem - Unreleased	
Ape Chimba, Ebyän: Amoriri (Tribal Bass Mix) - Temple Step Project 
Liquid Bloom & PERE - Riding Through (Geometrae Remix)	
TroyBoi - Mmmm	
Sumthin Sumthin - Vivid	
MEMBA  - Warrior
Driem - Unreleased 	
Etran Finatawa - Surbajo
Nicola Cruz x History of Colour - Paruma
MORiLLO - Sanskrit (Ahee Remix)	
Mikko Heikinpoika- Onnimanni (Soohan Remix)	
Skysia - Kailasa (Morillo Remix)
Rome in Silver - Fool (Extended Mix)
ALAMPA - Lush Dance (Original Mix)	
Stoik, HAANA, Equanimous - Take A Little Trip (Original Mix)	
Tripp St. - Grail
Defunk - Smokin' feat. Zeale	
Ahee  - New World Sound (Original Mix)
Handsome Tiger - 1 SOUND	
P-rallel - Greentea Peng - soulboy (IZCO Remix) 
Dark Heart, DallasK - Time (Extended Mix)	
Dillon Marinez - No Pressure	
Walker & Royce feat. Green Velvet - Rub Anotha Dub
Gabe Gurnsey - Night Track
Oden & Fatzo - Lauren (Extended) good at end	
Driem - Unreleased	
Claire George, Ardalan - Osci (Kyle Watson Remix)
Dennis Cruz - New Life (Original Mix) Feat. Nina Simone	
2fox - Lonzania (Original Mix)	
Guzbass - Alien Talk	
Damian Lazarus - Moment (Original Mix)	
Raveena - Petal

Spring - Energy - Dance Temple Comox Valley May 2022

Track list:

Yuna - Here Comes the Sun (Beatles)
Driem - Unreleased
Driem - Unreleased
Driem - Unreleased
KR3TURE - Anthropocene	
Drumspyder - Lovely Joan	
Marky & S.P.Y - Riff Raff	
Jawsharp Good and fast at 2	Rishi & Harshil
Pat Thomas, Ebo Taylor, Henrik Schwarz - Eye Nyam Nam 'A' Mensuro (Henrik Schwarz Blend)
BLOND:ISH, Amadou & Mariam, Francis Mercier - Sete (Original Mix)
Madeaux - Black Magic Woman (Original Mix)
Chris Lake - I Remember (Extended)	
Dom Dolla - Take It (Extended Mix)	
Claire George, Ardalan - Osci (Kyle Watson Remix)	
Upgrade - Blow (Original Mix)	
Ben Soundscape - The Upside Down (Original)	
Arula - How Long (Geometrae Remix)	
Grouch in Dub - Sarva Dharma (Original Mix)
DJ Shub - Come on Over feat. Northern Cree Singers	
Tribe Called Red - Sisters feat. Northern Voice	
CLABORG, FABIOESSE FEAT MISS KELLI - Get Up (original Mix)
Stanton Warriors - Somali Funk (Original Mix)	
Defunk - IMMA	
Sofi Tukker - Drinkee (Vintage Culture & John Summit Extended Mix)	
Maximono - Bust a Move (Original Mix) 
hip Wrek Dance With Me (Original Mix)	
DCP, Fellous - Symphonia (Original Mix)	
Ministry Of Funk - Automatic Lover (Feel Me Nu Disco Mix)	
Green Velvet, Dajae, Mihalis Safras Wurk (Original Mix)	
Softmal, Nytron - My Girl (Original Mix)	
Wings of Love	Randy Wood

Here Comes the Sun - Dance Temple Comox Valley

On a road through the desert, to the desert. Maybe the first time, maybe returning. Maybe the last time. I hope this music brings you something needed.

Track list:

T-Puse - All Aboard
Amour Propre - Desert Story
Stavroz -In Mindibu
Stavroz -To be in Mara
Agawe - Leza (T-Puse Remix)
Aaroon - Teacher (Original Mix)
Djuma Soundsystem, Emok - Osuga feat. Olith
Ben Bohmer - Beyond Beliefs (Original Mix)
Enzo Siffredi, BAQABO	- MY FRIEND (Original Mix)
DJ Taz Rashid and Momentology - Vagabonds (Scott Nice Remix) 
Yuksek - Beirut Ma Bet Mout (Extended Version)
Malone, Calussa. - More Life (After Hours Mix)
Parcels - Lightenup (Alex Metric Remix)
Two Door Cinema Club	- Bad Decisions (Purple Disco Machine Remix) 
Enzo Siffredi - Sometimes
Biscits - Sundown (Original Mix)
Four Tet - Mango Feedback
Bia - CAN'T TOUCH THIS (R3HAB Remix)
Emmit Fenn - Who Dat

Desert Roads

Samhain Dance Temple Oct 2022. Joined by Alicia on didgeridoo and Eric on drums.

Track list:

Driem - Unreleased Bysjan mashup
Dirtwire - Polaris
Yør Kultura - Eivør - Trøllabundin (Yør Kultura Remix)
Desert Dwellers - Dub Sutras (Cosmic Trigger Remix)
Temple Step - Rasqa (Dysphemic feat Yiani Treweeke Remix)
PIQSIQ- Ikitaa
Driem - Unreleased
Noosfære - Era of Mass Customization (Original Mix)
Lunar Plane - Children Of Rain (Original Mix)
AMEME, Mario Charo - Power feat. Mario Charo (Original Mix)
Fawn Wood - Tapwe Oma (Kidsonic Mashup from Pause Play)
Handsome Tiger - 1 SOUND 
KOSMA - Calling My Spirits
Dark Heart, DallasK - Time (Extended Mix)
The sponges	- Deelite delight sponges the
The Sponges	- Shake It (Original Mix)
Kollektiv Turmstrasse - (T) Error (Original Mix)
Guzbass - Alien Talk
The Polish Ambassador - Temple Tantrum
Driem - Uneleased

Samhain Dance - Dance Temple Oct 2022

Driem Collective is a collective of musicians passionate about performing live electronic global dance music. Festivals played at include the Woodstove Festival & Belonging Music Festival.

:: Driem ::

Driem (Aaron Handford) is a producer of organic electronica, deep house & downtempo bass whose festival credits include Burning Man, Burn In The Forest, Otherworld, & SubLunar and releases on the Visionary Shamanics label.

:: Éric Boucher ::

Passionate about sound, rhythms and music since his birth, Eric Boucher stepped into drumming and journeyed on hand-drums through multiple styles from all over the world. Over the last 27 years, fascinated by reggae, latino jazz, tribal music from the African diaspora, afro-funk, a great variety of Arabic, Persian and Indian music as well as many other styles.

:: Alicia Lumb ::

The didgeridoo came into Alicia's life during a time of transition and learning how to play the didge became a form of meditation, healing, and expression of what she was feeling. Alicia owns her own Art business called Art Adventures where she teaches art to all ages, and she lives and breathes art, music and creativity in all forms.

Driem Collective - Full Live Show Dec 2022

Driem's remix of Aye Vamos by the Momentom Collective recorded in January of 2023.

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'Ahi Vamos' (Driem Remix) - Momentom Collective

Comox Valley Dance Temple Mother's Day Dance. Live guitar, some originals, and my latest discoveries. I hope you enjoy!

Track list:
Driem: Unreleased
Dirtwire: The Whip (An-Ten-Nae Remix)
Arula: How Long (Geometrae Remix)
Nadav Dagon: Enkarewa (Original Mix)
TroyBoi: Do You? (Original Mix)
Driem: Unreleased
Mose: Forest Ohm
Tamikrest, Islandman: Tarhamanine Assinegh (Original Mix)
Kalya Scintilla: TribeOriginal (feat. Deya Dova)
Busta 929: Mmapula feat. Mzu M Original Mix
Driem: Unreleased
Monkey Safari: Artifact (Original Mix)
Hugel, Danit: 4 Vientos (Extended Mix)
Dr. Fresch: Fire
Dillon Marinez: Wormhole
Dirtwire: Intertribal
Sagi Abitbul, Guy Haliva: Stanga (Original Mix)
Mr.Diamond: Bakeneko
Les Filles de Illighadad: Eghass Malan
Glauco di Mambro: Hanyauku
Armen Miran: Nani Jan
Victor Deme, Synapson: Soro te karaba (feat. Victor Démé) (Original Mix)
Ambyion & GalaxyTones: Metanoia
Driem: Unreleased.

Dance - Temple - Mother Groove

Here is my set from Pachena Bay music festival, consisting of a bunch of unreleased music. I hope it serves you.

Pachena Bay 2023 Morning Set - Originals with Live Guitar

This tune that came from a collaboration with Elisa Bava at the Momentom Collective Sound Residency in Spring of 2023. It is inspired by the beautiful music coming out of Turkey, and the scale if of Turkish origin. We hope this track serves you.

The Anatolian One (feat. Elisa Bava) [Lump Records]

Feeling IT - Dance Temple Comox Valley September 2023 with Live Guitar from DJ Driem.

Unreleased - Driem
Kokoa - Somatoast	
Swoon - Rising Appalachia and The Human Experience
Two Suns (CloZee Remix) - Tor
Unreleased - Driem
Hebele Hubulu (Zuma Dionys Remix) - Omerar Nanda Hebele Hubulu & Belantash
Ouroboros - Beats Antique & Bosa
All Aboard - T-Puse
Mose & Castello Branco - Bem a Tempo (Yemanjo Remix) - Mose
Comin' Thru - Chali 2na	
Makin' Hype Tracks (Original Mix) - Fracture
Fawn Wood - Tapwe Oma (Kidsonic Mashup)
Energize - Slynk x Beat Le Juice
Alight - Pat Carroll
Altar - Fakear
Nothing On Me - Maz (BR)
Nocturnal Garden - Tripp St.
Satisfied (Ambient Reprise) (Original Mix) - Catching Flies
Wings of Love - Randy Wood
Unreleased - Driem

Feeling It - Dance Temple Comox Valley September 2023 Live Guitar

Music by Driem (Aaron Handford)
Vocal samples: Nina Simon

New Dawn (Nina Simone Edit)

This track took shape over several years and was completed when I travelled to Ometepe Nicaragua and met the singer Zaia Ma.

Music & Production: Driem (Aaron Handford)
Vocals & Lyrics: Zaia Ma
Djembe: Éric Boucher
Saxophone: Kaelin Murphy

Exhalar (feat. Zaia Ma)

I recorded this track with the talented Kes Reid on vocals and lyrics.

Lyrics:

Ándate para la madrugada hijo siempre para adelante 
Es lejitos que hay que caminar mi joven 
Y cada paso es brillante
Tu pasado, tu pueblo, tu tierra es tu cargo 
Que nunca te olvides
Hay camino hay futuro, hay cantos y flores

Cuando la madrugada cae 
Anda en confianza 
Cuando la luna sube 
Anda en confianza

(Poema) Que la madrugada te brinda su copa bella
Que sus vientos te recuerdan de todo lo que eres, de todos que pasaron antes
Que el sol te alumbra como la piedra más alta de la montaña
Que seas la piedra, que seas la montaña, que caminas por el rayo del sol

Muyuririririri

English translation: 

Walk towards the dawn, child
Always move forward.
It’s far to walk, my youth 
But every step shines
Your past, your people, and your land are your charge
So never forget
There is a path, there is a future, there are songs and flowers 

When the dawn falls 
Walk in trust
When the moon rises
Walk in trust 
(Repeat)

(Poem) May the dawn offer you it’s cup of beauty
May its winds remind you of all that you are, and all who came before you 
May the sun shine on you as the highest rock on the mountain
May you be the rock, may you be the mountain, may you walk with the ray of sun 

May it be so

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Inspired by Kichwa Amazonian prayer songs, and the cultural honour shown towards youth.

Madrugada (feat. Kes Reid)

Dance Temple Comox Valley Nov 26 2023. It was fun to pay some guitar today. I hope this set can serve you in some way.

Set List: 

Driem - Unreleased
Driem - Unreleased
Rorschack feat. SaQi - Animal Desire (SaQi Remix)			
TroyBoi - Talk To Me Nice	
Driem - Unreleased
Fatoumata Diawara - Nterini
Ali Farka Touré - Goydiotodam (Muno edit)
Ali Farka Touré-Ai Bine (Mula Edit)
Scott Nice - Wanna Boom
David Starfire - OK	
Dirtwire - You Got To Move		
Basher Toe - Suboriginal	
Sir Felix - Hope (Original Mix)
Meloko, Mozambo	- Osaya
Club Indigo, Max Mignot - Okuhepa
SIDEPIECE - Together (Extended Mix)
Alar - Jumja (Original Mix)		
Cee ElAssaad - Mahboubti (Jose Marquez Remix)		
Kronan & Nyaruach - Gatluak (Bakermat Remix)		
Tycho - Small Sanctuary	
Rwanda  - Rwanda (Extended Mix)
Beautiful Chorus - Pachamama	
Erothyme - LMNL (EARTH)

Dance Temple - Dancing Through It All - with Live Guitar

I am grateful to have been graced with Vidia Weselund's vocal for this new track.

The Three Wanderers

Pangea - Dreaming

Candles & Flow

2017 Burn In The Forest Festival Boobs and Berries Sunday Day Party

Burn In the Forest 2017 Deep House Set, Shadow Puppet Pavilion. It was an honour and a privilege to play!

Burn In the Forest 2017 Deep House Set Shadow Puppet Pavilion

Honoured to remix EMOG's Magical Wind. Available at Visionary Shamanic Recordings https://tinyurl.com/y8oqncxm

EMOG - Magical Wind (HANDFORD Remix)

Dance Temple Oct 28, 2018 - Between the Worlds

Set list:

Wardruna ~ Isa 
AtYyA ~  Dream 	
CharlestheFirst ~	Roots	
Tor ~ Myth
Populous ~ Azulejos (Kiko Navarro Re-Edit Rastronaut Remix)
Roman Fluegel ~ 9 Years (DJ Koze Remix)
Rodrigo Laffertt ~  Tierra Del Fuego (Original Mix)	
Powel ~ On A Whale Through The Desert (Original Mix)	
Sahalé ~ Magharibi	
Spada ~ Lost In Space (Original Mix)	
Florence and the Machine ~ You've Got the Love (The XX remix)
CloZee ~ Chinese Trip
Gidge ~ I Fell In Love (Original Mix)
Handford ~ Colours
Fisher ~	Ya Kidding (Original Mix)
Plump Djs ~ Yes Yes	
Super Flu ~ Bebey Love 1 (Original Mix)(based on Francis Bebey's "Sanza Tristesse")	
Danijel Kostic ~ Vinternatt (Nora en Pure & Sons of Maria Remix)
Justin Martin, feat Femme ~ Hello Clouds (Ardalan Remix) 
Antic (Offcl)~ Can Believe (Nils Hoffmann Remix)	
Kyle Watson, Franklyn Watts ~ Chomp (Original Mix)	
Fisher ~	Stop It (Original Mix)	
Seth Schwarz & Be Svendsen -  The Bar Tender 	
Christian Tiger School ~ The Soul of Morpheus and the Comet Man	
Zamy Juarez ~ Agua De Estrellas (Steffen Kirchhoff Edit)

Dance Temple - Between The Worlds

Bone, Fire, Feather, & Bass; a psychedelic journey through the realms of downtempo bass & downtempo world music.

Track list:


Rigzin - Great Mother
ATYYA - Oceanic	
Shanti Planti - Sixis & Shwex - Continuity Field 
Plantrae - Slow Burn
Wardruna - Isa	
Eivør - Í Tokuni	
Pachakuti - Pachakuti (el Buho remix)
Nicola Cruz - El Baile del Nahual (Original) 
Ganga Giri - Carawonga	
Pacha Papa - Togetha (feat. Handsome Tiger)	
Inti Nahual - Yaambao
Onra - Pearl Song	
Temple Step - Move It
Basher Toe - Taikun
Basher Toe - The Stomping Dragon	
Oceantied - Tribes	
Basher Toe x Baq - Tuvan Twerk	
Basher Toe - Sonic Gompa	
Esptein (LA) - ilahi (original mix)
Fatoumata Diawara - Alama (Daniel Zuur remix)	
MiRET - Monsoon (original mix)
Rokia Traoré - Tuit Tuit (Dandara remix)

Bone, Fire, Feather, & Bass

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Time Crystal

Ecstatic Dance in Cumberland BC; Dance Temple Jan 12 2020.

Meditative Mind - Heart Chakra Meditation (Tibetan Singing Bowl Edition)	
Rafe Pearlman - Bird Song Chant 
Lo.Renzo - Improv session (ft Luna)	
Basher Toe - Mahalo	
CharlestheFirst - Room to Breathe	
Dirtwire - Talking Bird (feat. Mbilou & AYA)	
JPOD - Muggle Dub	
Lagartijeando - La Frontera (feat. Minük) [DJ Raff Remix]	
Omerar Nanda, Zuma Dionys - Omerar Nanda - Some God Ruled It 
Al-Key-Jay - Jungle Fever	
XAXIM & Laylah Arruda feat. Sonido Trópico, Dudu Marote & Fabião Soares - Pó de Guaraná (Caiporas e Armadilhas)
thds, Zuma Dionys - Mamyda (Zuma Dionys remix)	
Al-Key-Jay - Congas In A Bottle	
Poranguí, & Spice Trader - Ayé Yewo (Tone Ranger Remix)
Tru Fonix - Asante 
Al-Key-Jay - Dancing Timbales	
Oloro Nyager feat. Olith (Re.You Remix) 	- Djuma Soundsystem, Fake Mood
Al-Key-Jay - Wild Life
Ali Farka Toure - Heygana (Anna Nikolina Edit) 
Al-Key-Jay - Black Magic Drums	
David Starfire - Jungle feat. Patrick D (Soohan Remix)	
Kaya Project - San Pedro Rising (SOOHAN Remix)	
Basher Toe - Suboriginal		
Basher Toe - Rangatira	
Ancestral Elephants - Indigena	
Meditative Mind - Heart Chakra Meditation (Tibetan Singing Bowl Edition)

Dance Temple - Inner Alchemy

All proceeds go to protecting old growth forest on Vancouver Island.

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Driem (Aaron Handford) is a producer of organic electronica, deep house & downtempo bass whose festival credits include Burning Man, Pachena Bay, Valhalla Fest, Burn In The Forest, Otherworld, & SubLunar and releases on the Visionary Shamanics and Lump Records label.
 
He is inspired by the intersection of the traditional musical legacies of Africa, India, Europe and the Middle East with modern sample based electronic music making methods and is an active music producer. He enjoys collaborating with vocalists and instrumentalists to co-create musical journeys. His artistic goal is to forge connections between the spheres of deep house, downtempo global bass music, jazz, and world rhythms.

Instagram: #driemmusic
Soundcloud: @driem
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