Various Artists : Tumi Dance

Tumi as a music label started in 1984 when Rumillajta, a renowned Bolivian folk group, was brought on a tour of the UK. Now Tumi has over 50 titles ranging from Traditional Andean pan-pipe music to Contempory Salsa. Tumi Dance is the latest project carried out with association with Single Minded Promotions and is further designed to widen the audience for Latin American music and culture. Like with all Tumi associated projects, the proceeds of their music will be used to support educational and other projects amounst the Waorani peolple.

Track Listing: Tribal Drift : Innocence Inside Of Ignorance (8.55) Astralasia : Waorani - The Amanita Muscaria Mix (7.30) Technicality : Waor-animism (6.10) Timeshard : The People Who Brought The World Into Existance (7.50) Zion Train : Anaconda (7.00) Scanner : Remote (4.50) Youth : Amethyst Dub Mix (6.36) Zone 12 : Deep Into The Ambient Jungle (4.57) Instant Xen : The Good Way Of The People (6.30) Suns Of Arqa : Heart Of The Suns (6.00) Pan Pacific : Canopy (5.00) Bedouin Ascent : Native Code Mix (7.00)

Ambient Amazon is the first Tumi Dance project. This album is inspired by samples from Waorina Waaponi (TUMI 043), and album of chants from the heart of the Amzonian rainforest in Ecuador. The original album is a unique recording of a Waorani festival, made at the request of the Waorani people. When Tumi became involved it was as part of a campaign against the destruction of Waorani homelands by oil companies. However, the intention of the Waorani themselves were more global.

Track Listing : T-Power : The Inti Raymi Remix (8:30) Hidden Chipsters : New Day (4:28) Mr Psyche : The Drop (6:21) Zone 12 : Moody Pan Pipes (5:10) Aphrodite : Q-Flutes (6:45) Youth : Half Moon (9:35) Transglobal Underground : Cazares Mix (5:53) Finitribe : Kusga Quilla remix (6:02) Pylon King : Mask the Inner Though (7:10) Astralasia : Orgo Mogo (6:32) Fun-da-mental : Sufi Inca (5:18) U-Ziq : Mo Soz Punchay (5:30)

This is the second Tumi Dance project, inspired by samples from the Inca Quena [TUMI 047], an album of pre-Hispanic Inca music recorded by the UK-based band Inti Raymi. An excursion into drum and bass, trip hop, trance and dub, this promises to take you into the heart of Inca civilisation before it was corrupted by Western culture.

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