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Desert Dwellers is the convergence of music producers Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe, who honed their individual crafts in the mystical deserts of California and New Mexico, long before electronic music reached mainstream. Amani and Treavor combine the raw sounds of the natural world, wrapped in dance-floor and chill-out productions; blending deep bass, earthy percussion, etheric voices, and cross-cultural instrumentation into a sonic incense for the mind and body. Desert Dwellers’ unique global sounds are a bridge between worlds, and their label Desert Trax has become a platform to spotlight similar alchemical artists. 
 
Brought together in the late ‘90s through the legendary Moontribe gatherings, in 2019 the duo celebrated their 20th anniversary of making music together, adding depth to their reputation as a pioneering and prolific downtempo, psybass, and tribal-house act from the United States. The culmination of two decades of partnership has forged their Beatport number 1 selling electronica album BREATH, out on Black Swan Sounds, which features more than 20 musicians and vocalists over a 10-track nomadic journey.
 
Desert Dwellers’ studio output is matched only by their extensive touring history, which juxtaposes performances at America’s most iconic festivals like Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle, Burning Man, and Coachella, with high-powered sets at the biggest trance festivals around the world; BOOM in Portugal and Rainbow Serpent in Australia. Desert Dwellers are equally at home in the clubs as they are in the yoga studios, and the jungles, deserts, and mountains of far-flung international festivals.

Desert Dwellers @ Desert Hut Podcast Series [ Chapter LXXIII ]

A short and sweet winter downtempo mix to warm you by your heart fire.

Tracklist:
1.  Dombrance - Giscard d'Estaing
2.  Pierre Rousseau - Souvenir
3.  UssaR - Bidon Vie
4.  Always Centered At Night, Moby, Serpent With Feet - On Air
5.  Para One - Vertigo
6.  Akbaba İkilisi - Darıldım Darıldım (feat. Arif Sağ)
7.  Sevdaliza - Human Nature
8.  JB Dunckel - Shogun
9.  Hayden Thorpe - The Universe Is Always Right
10.  Bicep - Ayr
11.  Weval, Eefje de Visser - Never Stay For Love
12.  Moderat - MORE LOVE
13.  O'o - Moon
14.  Worriedaboutsatan - An Absolute Living Hell, Pt. 1
15.  Röyksopp - Some Resolve

Holotropic Happy Hour - Winter Solstice DJ Mix

Here's a live recording of my closing set in the chill room at Tropical Valentine in Portland, February 2023.

Sunset Riders - SuBird
Evolve - Do You Know This One
D-Echo Project - Galactic Shine
Rocket Empire - Boombadom
Klik & Frik - Achalay
Giyo - Faux Monsoon
Bombay Dub Orchestra - Monsoon Malabar (International Observer remix)
Alef - Alma
Oceanvs Orientalis feat. Idil Mese - Ege
y e l a g u a - Micro e Macro
Somatoast - Kokoa (Alex Unger Remix)
Sola Rosa - Badman (feat. Spikey Tee)
Moonspatz - In Tune With The Universe
Sick-E - The other me
Globular & Geoglyph - Take Down Everything
Dov1, Hooves - Vital Ital
Bluetech - Restless (Erothyme Remix)
EMOG - Kayra Han
stellar- - Slack Dub (International Observer Instrumental Dub)
Balancé - 14 Gaivotas em terra (remixed)
M-Seven - Spiritual Spy
Deep Dive Corp. - Echo

Light Up The Night

Excited to share my late night ambient set from Rendezvous (Tipper & Friends) at Spirit of Suwanee in Florida, USA May 2024 under the live oaks, spanish moss & stars.

Deeply humbled for the opportunity to come back home to the states after so many years & thank you Dave for challenging me to share a beat & bassless set.. it was a moment in time I'll forever cherish.

Thanks to the Rendezvous team for seamless organization, production & to the @datagrama_visuals team for their breathtaking, mesmerizing visuals 👁🌀🌠

And most importantly thank you to all the lovely humans that came out to share this moment. It truly felt like time stood still during the Saturday late night ambient 3 hour sesh with Faelow & tye. Forever grateful xxx

Track List ~
Crystal Nada - APSARAS / アプサラス
Keigo Tanaka -Aeternitas
Max Cooper - Small Window On The Cosmos
Kaya Project - On Cliffe Bridge (Ambient Version)
Lo.Renzo - Bliss
Iyakah - Wahe
Ishq - Leaf
Iyakah - Nanyei
Master Minded - Standing Strong

Rendezvous 2024 Ambient Set

Proud of this mix.  I spent a fair amount of time sequencing and practicing this set to get the right flow and journey over 1.5 hours.  I hope you enjoy listening and dancing to it as much as I enjoyed playing it.  

1.  Tim Green - Coriolis
2.  Valdovinos - Autumn Leaves
3.  Amonita - Amulet
4.  Steve Slight - Magellanic Cloud (D-Nox & Beckers Remix)
5.  Giles et Diego - I know who I am 
6.  DIM KELLY - Beyond The Depths
7.  Double Touch - Pomelo
8.  Nino Tores / Tal Tobi - Minako
9.  Anton MAKe - Catallopa
10.  Daniel Meister - Planet of the Apes
11.  Dor Danimo - Melomad
12.  Enzo Paradiso, Chär Spinelli - Eternal 
13.  Sébastien Léger - Secret
14.  Alej Ch - Floating
15.  JFR - Lasa
16.  Nathan Katz - Parallax
17.  Oliver Koletzki, Marlena Daever - Don't Ever Wake Me Up (Fabian Kroos Remix)

Solar Echoes DJ Mix

Bluetech - Solar Echoes DJ Mix - Aug 2024 (Live at EarthRise Inception Seattle)

House Version of Courage i wrote a while ago.

COURAGE (House Version)

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Music, arrangement V.M.- DJVANI
Recorded :Vani Music Studio Harrogate

DJVANI-Circus

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Pool parties at hotels...one surefire reminder of summertime. For the second year in a row, I was invited to open a Tropical & Friends pool party at the Custom Hotel with a set that accompanied a yoga class, before the dance masters took over the decks into the afternoon. This is a live recording of that set.

Tracklist:

1. Spiral System - Rain (Full Length)
2. AtYyA - Emanating (Hakuu Remix)
3. Lab's Cloud - Hypnotes
4. Xerxes - Longyaard
5. Rhian Sheehan - She Walks Into Mine
6. Digby Jones - Under the Sea
7. Bluetech - Green Sophia
8. Ishdub Feat. David Cataro - Introspective (Kaya Project Remix)
9. Kuba - By the Foot of Your Mountain
10. Kaya Project - Burning Spirit
11. Govinda - Mind Mysterium
12. Orbient - In Time
13. Tarun - Water (Desert Dwellers Remix)
14. Snakestyle - Misunderstood
15. Esionjim - Purple
16. Dopelimat - Oceanauts
17. Data Rebel - Continuum Filter
18. Dream Stalker - Deeping
19. Hedflux - Peyote Dawn

Deep Beat Diving

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Unfolding

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Rival Consoles - Unfolding

For over 15 years Bluetech (aka Evan Marc) has been making some of the most interesting and vibrant electronic music around. With near perfect production chops and a deep knowledge and execution of music theory, Bluetech has covered IDM, ambient, house/techno and more. He also works with Android Jones on Microdose - a potent video/audio phantasmagoria and is an accomplished digital artist that obsesses over plants daily. His exclusive DJ set for FWD.DJ is a well executed and colorful journey of slow mutant house and various melodic excursions that is a real treat to take in.

Tracklist: http://www.fwd.dj/mix/fwd111-bluetech/

Interview: http://www.fwd.dj/interview/bluetech-fwd-interview/

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It was a great honor to set the sonic space as people arrived for the final 2 nights of Shpongle Live Band performances at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Gratitude to Simon and Raja for including us in their extensive trip into the "Garden of Unearthly Delights," and for providing us all with the weekend of a lifetime!

We played all the tracks from our new album Breath, split between the two nights. On Friday night we played:

1) Praise Her, The Fire Keeper
2) Realms of Splendor
3) Dreams within a Dream
4) Traversing the Endless Road
5) Closed Eyes in a Dust Storm
6) Give Thanks
7) Warm Desert Sands (Vajra Mix)

Breath

LISTEN TO BREATH

Desert Dwellers set at Red Rocks May 3rd, 2019 (Night 1)

Lotus - Spaghetti 2-04-2012

I named this mix "Ka Mua" which translates as "First", as I was asked to play this set during an early morning yoga set at a yoga & music retreat called Tropical Oasis, held at a beautiful campground on Maui. We kept the energy low and flow to accomodate both the early hour and the climbing temperature. An hour and change in length, with a long last track for a prolonged sivasana pose at the end.

Tracklist:

1. Rhucle - Visitor
2. Skywide - Here I'll Stay, With You
3. Sync24 - Coffee Break in Orbit
4. Bansara - Morning Wind
5. Guardner - Zero Altitude
6. Lab's Cloud - Hypnotes
7. Edamame - Bask
8. Kalaha - Spejderrbot
9. Green Beats - A Touching Trip (Lab's Cloud Remix)
10. The Psychedelic Manifesto - Lost in Dub (Chilled) Snakestyle Meets Tangerine Dream on the Dark Side of the Moon
11. Sinewave - Star Tripping
12. Orbient - In Time
13. Hypnotizer - Relaxing (Green Beats Remix)
14. Snakestyle - Misunderstood
15. Desert Dwellers - Lotus Heart

Ka Mua

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