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SABRA SESSIONS MIXTAPE DOWNLOAD
 Grab a free download of "SABRA SESSIONS VOL. 1" - a high energy Israeli dance club hip hop influenced mix by Diwon, the American-Israeli DJ/Producer extraordinaire behind the Shemspeed label. The listener hears Diwon remixing, choppin up, slowing down, speeding up, and sampling all types of sounds to create a seamless mix of seemingly disjointed tracks that sound like Israel landed on top of Daft Punk & M.I.A.'s studio. "Sabra Sessions" is a mixtape I was driven to do," commented Diwon, "where I remixed, chopped, and sped up Israeli and Hebrew music to the style of Baltimore and Miami club music and beyond." The Sabra Sessions makes for a festive and energetic blend into Israeli culture, Hebrew music, and the sounds that move people to dance floors worldwide. Enjoy it and feel free to blast it to your emails, blogs, facebook groups, twitters...and all. Sabra Sessions Download link:
www.shemspeed.com/downloadit/sabra
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Based in the stereophonic heart of Brooklyn, world music maestro Diwon (aka Erez Safar) is one of the most innovative and versatile Producers and DJs performing and recording music today. Diwon’s beats are strongly influenced by the musical traditions of his mother’s family, whose roots lie in Yemen. He blends Yemenite music with electro hip-hop and cinematic psychadelia, and draws inspiration from the Middle Eastern musical canon.
A prolific producer, Diwon releases a clutch of albums every year. The last twelve months has seen The Beat Guide to Yiddish, the quirky Rarities & Remixes and the hour-long meditation Shir Ha Shirim (The Song of Songs), mixing heartfelt Moroccan song with hypnotic hip-hop, rock, and Middle Eastern beats.
Diwon is currently completing his soaring, cinematic album Serene Poetic, with guitarist Dugans, as Dreams in Static, while working on the revolutionary hip hop record This is Unity with acclaimed multilingual MC Y-Love, as well as working on his own records, Diwon Riddim and Others, which will feature vocalists and rappers from across the globe, including the white-hot Sizzla.
Diwon’s music brings to mind a Brooklyn-based hybrid of the best elements of Diplo and Cheb i Sabbah. URB magazine listed him amongst their NEXT 1000 and wrote that "Diwon is something else…in a profound kind of way", calling his sound titillating and ‘juicy for the ears’, while The Village Voice described his producing as 'adventurous and banging'. CBS featured Diwon as part of their Faith, Music and Culture series and he has made appearances on NPR, PBS, and BBC World.
Diwon has performed with Lou Reed, Anthony Coleman, Matisyahu, DJ Spooky, and Idan Raichel, among countless others. His slamming live sets include a diverse mix of singers and live musicians, creating an unrivalled festival vibe with an explosive blend of world music, hip hop, and jazz.
Erez Safar is also mastermind of Shemspeed Shemspeed, the web’s largest, most diverse Jewish music site; the independent label Modular Moods; the 40 Days 40 Nights Campus Tour, a festival stopping at 30 colleges nationwide; the renowned The Sephardic Music Festival; and the groundbreaking strong>Hip Hop Sulha.
"Diwon is something else …in a profound kind of way. The New Yorker gets crafty when it comes to beats by extracting world music—mainly traditional Yemenite music-- and fusing it with electro hip hop; creating a titillating sound that’s juicy and for the ears." - URB Magazine
Diwon was featured and interviewed on BBC World TV to a viewership of 77 million people, on his UK Tour. To see photos click here
Selected PRESS:
* Jpost feature (read)
* Urb.com (read)
* Jewish Week feature (read)
* Time Out (read)
* Jewcy feature (read)
* Jerusalem Billboard cover story (read)
* Forward Top 50 (read)
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Washington City Paper review of Diwon's Shemspeed launch (read)
* JTA interview with Diwon about "The Beat Guide" (click here to read)
Diwon website
Erez Safar website
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"Rarities & Remixes"
* This record give the listener a taste of Diwon's beats as well as his world famous remixes which bring hip hop and bmore rhythms to Yemenite & Sephardic sounds.
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"Dreams in Static"
* Dreams in Static conjure up the aesthetics of Pulp Fiction & Tortoise. Using live drums, samplers, analog synths, electric pianos and guitars. Diwon & Dugans create an instrumental master piece that resurrects the guitar and live instrumental music which pops in a world where popular music has been left in a state of static and midi sounds. For fans of hip hop, indie, world & psychadelia.
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"Sabra Sessions Vol. 1"
* A high energy Israeli dance club hip hop influenced mix. Diwon, remixes, chops up, slows down, speeds up, and sampling all types of sounds to create a seamless mix of seemingly disjointed tracks that sound like Israel landed on top of Daft Punk & M.I.A.'s
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"Shir HaShirim"
* The music mixes the emotive Moroccan singing of Benyamin Brody in a "call out" to the most high, through the writings and poetry of King Solomon, with Diwon's and Dugans' signature walls of sound that bring hip hop, rock, and mizrachi influences to this middle eastern meditative record.
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"Levi Mordechai"
* In the late sixties, Israel experienced a music revolution that has never been repeated. Artists like Shalom Chanoch, and The Churchills, became the musical force of the whole nation-young and old alike. Levi Mordechai recapture that same magic in their music. Produced by Diwon & Dugans, the music puts guitars back in the spotlight while blending poetry, World music, electronics and rock in a way that has not been heard before.
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"THE CHANGE EP"
* The combination of Y-Love's militant mysticism with the plaintive urgency of DeScribe's singing creates infectious energy filled songs that the listener can't get out of their heads. The release includes all 3 singles plus a bonus Remix of "Change" by Diwon and "Make It" by Electro Morocco..
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"I Heart Mixtape"
* A mix devoted to what pop music is made of, LOVE. Diwon mixes various languages and genres as well as some of his own sounds into the music of which love is made.
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"The Beat Guide to Yiddish"
* The Beat Guide mixes some of Diwon's own music into forgotten sounds from Eastern Europe. Hear Yiddish in a way you would have never thought possible.
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"The Y-Love Mixtape"
* The classic CD that introduced Y-Love to the world. The MC drop his lyrical skills over a genre smashing blended classic mixed by dj handler (Diwon).
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"Sephardic Music Fest Mixtape"
* The SMF mixtape is much like the festival. It gives the listener a great taste of all sorts of music, but with an emphasis on beats. All music mixed by the festivals founder and producer, dj handler. (Diwon).
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"Psychadeliciwon"
* A world music enthusiasts dream, Diwon mixes his own psych compositions with rare tracks from Turkey, Brazil, Israel & Japan. For fans of the fuzz and lo fi.
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"Laissez-Jouer"
* A collection of dj handler (Diwon's) early mixtapes which blend, afrobeat, bhangra, hip hop, house, soul & bmore. This disc marks the period where distinct genres blurred through thee eyes of the dj, a melting pot of culture clash.
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"This is Babylon"
* This revolutionary hip hop debut by Y-Love, the militant mystic, boasts stand-out electric dance tracks like "Bring It On Down" and politically supercharged anthems such as "6000," with a Parliment/Outkast-esque production vibe. (executive producer)
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"Count It" (Sefira)
* An all vocal hip-hop record with over seven tracks to correspond to the seven weeks of the Sefira. The album is amazingly musical and innovative, hard to believe that Yuri Lane's mouth wasn't being produced by Timbaland. (produceed by Diwon).
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"Shemspeed Alt Schule"
* Punk klezmer jazz influenced heavily by John Zorn and underground experimental group, Gutbucket. This debut record captures a live energy rarely packed into a studio recording.
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"InSatiable Jonze"
* Diwon's first exploration into the world of abstract music. InSatiable Jonze was an instrumental trio that mixed jazz and progressive rock with an occasional spoken word piece.
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"Conveniently Unconventional"
* The remaining document from Diwon's week long 24 hour live exhibit at Times Square's Chashama Gallery. The exhibit used abstracted and blended audio and visual art blurring the lines of the source material.
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 DIWON - URB NEXT 1000!!!
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http://www.urb.com/next1000
"Diwon is something else …in a profound kind of way. The New Yorker gets crafty when it comes to beats by extracting world music—mainly traditional Yemenite music-- and fusing it with electro hip hop; creating a titillating sound that’s juicy and for the ears. His musical influence developed from his migration from Yemen to Ethiopia to Israel. Among his myriad of aliases, he is better known as Erez Safar a producer/drummer/DJ/as necessary singer, who champions himself on representing Jewish culture to the fullest. When he’s not on the 1’s and 2’s, he’s busy running Shemspeed (music website) and Modular Moods (independent record label) and a couple of music festivals. Check out Idan Raichel vs. Kid Sister from his remix album That Yemenite Kid. Yeah, it’s fire." - Nicole Dawley, URB Magazine.
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