Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe continue their march down a golden avenue of world dance culture built throughout the last thirty years, unveiling fourteen new remixes by their contemporaries in psybient music. The record, entitled Breath Reimagined Vol. 1, hosted by the Desert Trax record label, gives us at least one new spin on each of the ten tunes from the latest Desert Dwellers brainchild, ‘Breath.’ 

Breath Reimagined Vol. 1 builds on the foundation of the original album, with each artist stripping the music down to its core elements and splaying outward. The result is a compilation record that’s bound to pique the interest of any fan of psychedelic bass music. Such an impact is achieved via a multitude of stylistic offshoots, each expressed through colorful arrays of instrumental and vocal work from around the world, expounding Desert Dwellers’ passion for unification through dance. 

The remixes done by MantisMash and DRRTYWULVZ capture the essence of the original album through a smooth broken beat veneer. DRRTYWULVZ cultivates a refreshing take by building upon the eeriness of the original atmosphere in “Realms of Splendor”, as the familiar sounds of wind, thunder, rain drops, and chimes fill the headspace. MantisMash puts a beefy spin on the percussion in his remix of “One That Shows the Way”, carrying the composition through precise phrasing and clever engineering. Both remixes peak through the use of absolutely maddening lead synths that express wobble factors so astronomical, they could even turn Hare Krishna into a certified bad boy.

With decades of experience and influence under their belts, it’s no small thing to be apart of the ongoing Desert Dwellers vision. The trust that Friend and Moontribe put into their selected collaborators paid off in full, with each track on the remix album diving deeper than the last. Breath Reimagined Vol. 1 begins a trilogy of remix albums curated by Desert Dwellers, and if the next two are anything like their predecessor, we’re certainly in for more scintillating, playa-inspired experiments.

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