Desert Dwellers 沙漠居民 是一个主要做电音瑜伽音乐的团队，制作人是 Craig Kohland，主要成员有 Rara Avis、Amani Friend 和 Treavor Moontribe（即 DJ Treavor）。
Desert Dwellers 沙漠居民 由居住于美国西海岸的激进的艺术家、富有创造性的思想家和音乐现状的革命者组成。在90年代早期，我们时常在一起聚会，每次聚会之地就是我们的神圣领域，我们在那一起放松、冥想，并聆听一些chillout、ambient和downtempo风格的音乐。就是在这些聚会上延伸出了现在电子舞曲的前沿和如今的techno-tribal音乐。
“DownTemple 失落神庙”是一个新音乐系列的名字，它以一些downtempo风格的音乐为主题，目标是让世界上所有的听者在听了这样的音乐之后都能感受到平和与宁静。
当 White Swan 公司暗示将用“DownTemple Dub 失落神庙”来命名这个新音乐系列的时候，我们感到一些吃惊，因为这个项目的组织者是一些我们非常要好的朋友，但随即我们就将巨大的热情投入到了“DownTemple Dub 失落神庙”系列和 Desert Dwellers 沙漠居民 这个项目组当中。
我们希望我们的音乐能让住在这个星球上的人都感到愉悦。因为我们知道，音乐是我们治疗心灵的钥匙，音乐是我们找寻和发现朋友的钥匙，音乐是我们理解人类伟大而深沉的情感的钥匙，音乐还是我们超越自我、提升自我的钥匙。（以上原创+翻译网络英文资料，转载请注明作者和出处——See2say.com 看道）
Desert Dwellers' roots lie in a thriving community of provocative artists, creative thinkers, and progressive-minded individuals based on the West Coast. Since the early 90s, our extended family has assembled regularly, forming a sacred space where people can relax, tune in and bliss out to chillout, ambient and downtempo music produced by a loosely-knit collective of DJs and producers. These gatherings have extended the frontier of electronic dance music and today form the epicenter of the techno-tribal renaissance movement. DownTemple--in addition to being the title for this new music series--is also the theme for some of these downtempo events, where a vision of promoting a conscious way to walk peacefully in the world is shared by all. When White Swan suggested the name DownTemple Dub [+] Click to read morefor this series, we were stunned by the synchronicity, as the organizers for Downtemple are some of our closest friends and share our eagerness to spread the ethos of Downtemple and Desert Dwellers alike. This is the intent written into our music: that it may contribute to the overall well being of the people living on this planet. Music is our key to healing. Music is our key to finding fellow travelers during these intense times, and it is our key to understanding the great depths of human emotion, and our potential to soar. ------- DOWNTEMPLE DUB: WAVES is Rara Avis and Amani Friend's first full-length album together. Born less than 48 hours apart in the year of the Dragon, these longtime friends share many cosmological connections, animal totems and spiritual practices, and an uninhibited passion for the musical diversity of the Universe and the healing properties of sound and vibration.