Variant Field is a collaboration between Amani Friend of Desert Dwellers & Alex DeYoung. Blending many sources of inspiration into abstract and cerebral soundscapes that are equally suitable for both the feet and the mind.  Their intelligent and textured productions pulse with hypnotic-punchy beats, earth shaking bass, and blissful cinematic expansions and melodies .... Variant Field occupies the realms between sonic worlds.

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Emily Torrence

Reincarnated Love

For Amani Friend and his Liquid Bloom project, the Re:Generations mixes are a gift that keeps on giving. First remixed by AtYyA, who took on the entire album by himself, now an all-star cast of subsonic wizards from around the globe are putting their own spin on these intoxicating tunes. 

Stars of the psychedelic world like Hedflux and Land Switcher pump thrilling bass into “Roots of the Earth”and “Fire Gathering,” respectively. Kaminanda takes “Sacred Blessing” on a more than 11-minute epic journey. Numatik ignites new life into Fire Gathering .Suduaya, Momentology, Salis, and Nanosphere run the gamut from rich, organic strings and ethereal voices to dark, brooding, and bellowing sub bass covering the spectrum from delicate, ambience to pounding grooves. TRIBONEonce again remixes Deya Dova for a Desert Trax release, and Erothyme closes out the collection with a sprawling anthem of lush sounds. 

This album includes a bonus Music Video download of "Emerging Heart Nanosphere Remix" created by Matt Worldly.

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Resonant Migration Feat Deya Dova (TRIBONE Remix)

Fire Gathering (Land Switcher Remix)

Roots Of The Earth (Hedflux Remix)

Emerging Heart (Nanosphere Remix)

Drift

Step Deep

Fields of Variance (Spacious Mix)

Released: 19 January 2010
℗ 2009 Desert Trax

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Talking Lucidity

Amani's solo Liquid Bloom DJ set recorded at Danyasa Yoga retreat center(2018)

01 - Desert Dwellers - In the Beginning 
02 - Liquid Bloom - Ceremony of the Heart 
03 - Liquid Bloom - Sacred Blessing (Mose Remix)
04 - Liquid Bloom - Ecstatic Grounding (AtYyA Remix)
05 - Numatik feat Liquid Bloom - Ensename (AtYyA Remix)
06 - Liquid Bloom - Resonant Migration feat Deya Dova (AtYyA Remix)
07 - Liquid Bloom - Jaguar Dreaming (Mose Remix)
08 - Liquid Bloom - Jaguar Dreaming (AtYyA Remix)
09 - Liquid Bloom - Fire Gathering (Numatik Remix)
10 - Liquid Bloom - Fire Gathering (AtYyA Remix)
11 - Liquid Bloom - Roots of the Earth (Hedflux Remix)
12 - Liquid Bloom - Emerging Heart (Nanosphere Remix) 
13 - Liquid Bloom - Emerging Heart (AtYyA Remix)
14 - LulaCruza - Uno Resuena (Desert Dwellers Remix) 
15 - Nicola Cruz - Jocotoco Antpitta
16 - Matanza - Existencia (Nicola Cruz Remix)
17 - Grupo Socavón - Homenaje a Justino (Thornato Remix)
18 - AtYyA - Pura
19 - AtYyA - Illuminate (Liquid Bloom Remix feat Porangui)
20 - Porangui - Ayahuasca (Liquid Bloom Remix)
21 - Liquid Bloom - Ecstatic Grounding (Mose Remix)
22 - Liquid Bloom - Sacred Blessing (Kaminanda Remix
23 - Liquid Bloom - Ceremony of the Heart (Dopple Remix)
24 - Liquid Bloom - Roots of the Earth (AtYyA Remix)
 25 - Liquid Bloom & Numatik - Drifting at Sea
 26 - Liquid Bloom - Whispers of our Ancestors
 27 - Liquid Bloom - Cosmic Soul Lotus
 28 - Desert Dwellers - In the Beginning 
 29 - Liquid Bloom - Bless the Waters (Ambient Mix)
 30 - Desert Dwellers - Stratosphere
 31 - Liquid Bloom - live nature mash up

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Liquid Bloom Dj Set @ Ecstatic Dance Costa Rica

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Eskmo: “Language” EP (Ancestor) ANC006 – Release Date: October 30, 2012

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Press release:

Brendan Angelides is a Los Angeles-based electronic music producer who records and performs live as Eskmo. His multi-genre compositions have been featured on influential labels like Ninja Tune, Warp Records and Planet Mu. While Angelides’ tracks encompass a wide range of electronic styles, he avoids classifications. Much like his previous releases, ‘Language’ is reflective and constantly exploring new terrain. The album cover, which was created by Trek Matthews for the project, shows the Egyptian god Thoth who is the master of writing, magic, science and healing. Above him are the merging of sun and moon and Ouroboros. The themes within the tracks range from the Self to relationship, fear, nostalgia and the sonic interpretation of not folding as expressed in “World of Dread.” The ‘Language’ EP oozes classic Eskmo textures while diving into emotive rushes, minimally avante-pop melodies and chunky dance aesthetics turned on their head.

His 2010 self-titeld full-length, released on Ninja Tune, was described by Future Sequence as “Create(ing) his own sound.” and BBC Music noted the album as “Electrifyingly enveloping…Mind-melting invention.” Ninja Tune recording artist and film composer Amon Tobin hailed his work as “some of the best production I’ve heard in recent times” in 2009. Shortly thereafter, the pair teamed up to release a collaborative project under the name ESKAMON on Eskmo’s own record label, Ancestor, in early 2010. The ‘Language’ EP is the latest Eskmo release on Ancestor since his collaboration with Tobin.


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4. Eskmo - Lifeline

Our track Maelstrom is on the compilation Resonant Heart on Kalya Scintilla's new label Merkaba Music http://www.theuntz.com/kalya-scintilla-resonant-heart-compilation-review

Variant Field - Maelstrom

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GONG BATH

Buddha Bass - Inceptional (Variant Field Remix)  Amani from Desert Dwellers & Alex de Young = Variant Field. Amazing!

Buddha Bass - Inceptional (Variant Field Remix)

Born from a path of shared experience and kinship, Variant Field is a fusion of two minds traversing the boundless landscapes of beat-driven electronica from one chapter of musical history to the next. Touching on every tempo and instilled with the energy and spirit of warehouse, club, desert, and festival culture, the project draws upon technical influences from years recent and past while reveling in its creators’ enduring instincts to explore, expand, and reshape concepts lying at the core of music and the greater human experience.

After meeting in Santa Fe, NM in the mid-nineties, producers Alex DeYoung and Amani Friend (Desert Dwellers, Liquid Bloom) began producing electronic music together in 2004, developing a distinct sound that collided the cerebral influence of IDM and UK electronica with a genre-blending array of fast and downtempo beats, heady breaks, deep bass, and rich dub rhythms that spoke to their mutual love of underground music and dance floor culture. Building on musical themes that had endured through the decades, DeYoung and Amani’s releases displayed a timeless and technical quality that bore the hallmarks of numerous musical styles yet could not be decisively placed into any single genre. They began releasing these deep and cinematic stylings in 2008 under the banner of Variant Field and quickly found favor in the international scene, with releases on Iboga Records, Merkaba Music, Interchill Records, Twisted Records, and Desert Trax lining their discography in the years that followed.

A portal to the unfolding story of electronica through time, Variant Field’s compositions occupy a space between niches and deviate from the traditional constraints imposed by genres, tempo ranges, and the everlasting battle between light and darkness that has come to define music scenes across the globe. Whether inoculating ambient soundscapes with syncopated drumwork and heavy bass, blending acid-style synth progressions with classical instrumentation and mid-tempo beats, or conjuring opulent psychedelic atmospheres alongside the warm and soothing rhythms of boom bap, the duo’s sonic identity is rooted in the notion that music is a spectrum without limits — flexible, expansive, and perpetually in flux.