I will never understand what it means to be a person of color, but I can do my best to empathize with the people who have lived under much marginalization and oppression due to their race. I want to recognize that I use samples and take inspiration from cultures all around the world to create my music. My genre is a blend of my own creativity and that of other musicians, particularly people of color, that have had a profound influence on music since the dawn of time. In particular, African people have shaped almost every genre of music known to man. I also take inspiration from Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and many other cultures to create the music that I make.

Umoja is the swahili word for Unity—meaning to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. This song incorporates Mongolian throat sining and Senegalese vocals with trap 808s to create a really fun and high energy song. French is the Senegal national language, and there are over 30 languages spoken in Senegal. So, I chose the Swahili word Umoja for this song to declare that the music that I create is a symbol for unity across borders and across race. I never knew that throat singing and African singing could be so incredible together—and what an amazing world we live in where this is even a possibility.

All of my music, and this song in particular, is a tribute to people of color across the world who have given me the ability to use the incredible musical vocabulary and instruments from their cultures. I want to explicitly express my immense gratitude and appreciation for these people who have shared and given the rights to their music to use in my own creative process. 

I choose to use my undeniable privilege to do my best to make the world a better place for everyone around me regardless of their race or nationality. Everyday I look to see how I can be better for everyone around me and how I can serve the planet more. 

If you are a white musician I would encourage you to also recognize where your music comes from and the people that made it possible for you to create what you create. May we all continue to unify and to not let the powers that be tear us apart and make us villainize one another. With love, respect, and gratitude.

Umoja

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Remixer AtYyA soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/atyya

You can purchase the track at: https://shamansdream1.bandcamp.com/track/breath-of-ma-atyya-remix

Bluetech + Shamans Dream - Breath Of Ma (AtYyA Remix)

Hey all! I’m proud to announce the release of Ion Driver Presents:

It’s a 10 song V/A compilation featuring tunes by Ocoeur, Clockvice, Fine Cut Bodies, Life In A Box, Auma, Griff, Roel Funcken, EVAC, Sk’p, and yours truly,.. Ion Driver. 

Big shout out to all the artists for their awesome contributions to the comp!!!  

Support the artists > buy direct from Bandcamp:
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Ion Driver Presents:

A haunted anthology of dark pop and lo-fi horror instrumentals, where silence feels heavier than sound. Nightglass drifts through flickering tape hiss, trembling 808s, and detuned acoustic ghosts. Every track breathes like machinery remembering warmth—bass pulsing under broken neon, strings sighing through static, turntables whispering in the dark. Built from restraint and distortion, Nightglass is less an album than a slow haunting: twelve rooms of sound that never fully sleep, reflections trembling in black light.]  


Neon Silt

Wu Wei - Grains Of Sand In The Ganges

Where does your love go?
It's always going somewhere.

[Violin by Sam Wexler - samuelwexler.tumblr.com]

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Where Does Your Love Go

'Cuneiform Chronicle' by @sikadaofficial & @byzantine-time-machine is a collaboration exploring ancient Anatolian and Mesopotamian grooves merged with neuro dub basslines. All instruments recorded by Byzantine Time Machine and Sikada.

Phewa Dawn is an initiative in partnership with Skate Nepal to redesign and renovate Phewa Skatepark, the only functioning skate park in Nepal. Over 50 musicians have taken part in this project, collaborating with each other to create a variety of organic and/or tribal-influenced electronic music.

Learn more at: 
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Cuneiform Chronicle

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OUT NOW ON DESERT TRAX
https://deserttrax.bandcamp.com/album/saraswatis-twerkaba-remixes
:: Saraswati's Twerkaba Remixes from: 
1) CloZee + LuSiD
2) David Starfire
3) Nanosphere
4) Landswitcher
5) TRIBONE
6) Mindex
7) SoLow
8) Original DD mix

Desert Trax is thrilled to bring fans a star-studded remix pack for ”Saraswati's Twerkaba,” the smash lead track from Desert Dwellers' Clear Path compilation, which was originally released in 2016 by Sofa Beats. The exotically innovative original from Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe sees the Desert Dwellers blending their signature downtemple dub sounds with global club flavors. It was inspiration enough to draw in a wide range of remixers amped to take on the task.

French guitarist and glitch sensation CloZee joined forces with LuSiD for an earthy, percussive take. Southern California bass legend David Starfire leaned more into the clubby side of the yoga twerk track. Mindex and Landswitcher both went dark and dangerous on their respective remixes, pulling heavily from the subsonic sampling and fearlessly pushing the track into the cavernous abyss. Patiently building from mild murmur to full on twisted roar, Nanosphere stretches Saraswati into a psy opus. Israeli sensation TRIBONE stripped the cut down all the way to its primal, midtempo stomp, and there is no doubt his take will turn dance floors loose with its relentless pulse.

The “Saraswati's Twerkaba” remix pack features 8 tracks with 40+ minutes of music and is available July 17th on all major sites worldwide.

Album Cover Artwork: Gonzalo Rescalvo (Abzzolum) Mastering by Gregor - www.gz-mastering.com

www.desertdwellers.org :: www.deserttrax.com

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Desert Dwellers - Saraswati's Twerkaba (CloZee & LuSiD Remix)

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Grab the remix album here:  https://desertdwellers.fanlink.to/breath-reimagined-vol1

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Desert Dwellers - One That Shows The Way (Somatoast Remix)

Featured on the upcoming album "Ecliptic Visions".

Featuring spoken word by Charles Shaw.

War of Consciousness

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Curating @shivelightofficial w/ @samayamusic

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Sikada x Byzantine Time Machine - Cuneiform Chronicle

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