Derek Beres

About Derek Beres

Derek Beres is the author of three books, including Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music, an insightful gaze into the new world mythology being created by global electronica. His photojournalism has appeared in dozens of magazines, focused on the international music scene. As part of GlobeSonic Sound System he has traveled the planet DJing with the top names in world music. He is also a Vinyasa yoga and Budokon instructor at Equinox Fitness in Manhattan. His next book, Sound Against Flame: The Process of Yoga and Atheism in America, will be published in June 2008.

Features

Culture

Pathways to Creation: Exploring Sacred Music in Fes, Morocco

[21.Jul.08] :. PopMatters goes to Morocco for the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music to honor and share the world’s great spiritual music traditions. At this 14th annual festival, Derek Beres would hear the indigenous sounds of Vietnam, Tunisia, Norway, Pakistan, Belgium, America, and much more.

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Columns

Global Beat Fusion

Ten Years Dancing on the Hudson

[16.Jun.08] :. For the last decade, Turntables on the Hudson has held gatherings of positive music -- funk, hip-hop, soul, dance; African, Latin, and Balkan beats -- that thrive on human connection.

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Global Beat Fusion

Three Nights in France

[12.May.08] :. Beres hits Paris and Bourges to take in the eclectic sounds of Transglobal Underground, Les Primitifs du Futur, Watcha Clan, and Fat Freddy's Drop, and gets pulled into the "sacred space" that solders the connection between sound and human.

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Global Beat Fusion

Women of the (Music) World

[14.Apr.08] :. There is little in this world as beautiful as the female voice. Sometimes it’s necessary to stop and remind ourselves of this.

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Global Beat Fusion

Classical Egypt in America

[18.Mar.08] :. By shining the light on the vast, rich cultures of the Middle East, these musicians are bringing misconceptions and misunderstandings out of the darkness of the past, not to mention the dark corners of our present.

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Global Beat Fusion

Devotion Through Music

[20.Feb.08] :. Global spiritual traditions are being evolved by artists fusing the best of many worlds, electronic and traditional, into forms of devotion applicable to us all.

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Global Beat Fusion   Bass Makes the World Go 'Round

Global Beat Fusion   The Redistribution & Revival of Roots

Global Beat Fusion   Big Brass at the Disco

Global Beat Fusion   Bachata: Generations Apart and Together

Global Beat Fusion   Passport to the Future

Global Beat Fusion   New Ways to Breathe

Global Beat Fusion   The Evolution of Africa and Hip-Hop

Global Beat Fusion   Journeymen

Global Beat Fusion   The Evolution of Vintage

Global Beat Fusion   Emerging Ideas in Global Distribution: An Interview With Six Degrees' Bob Duskis

Global Beat Fusion   The Marleys and Mind Control

Global Beat Fusion   Rumi-nating on a New Axis

Global Beat Fusion   Ali in the Family

Global Beat Fusion   A World Shares the Stage

Global Beat Fusion   Desert Trance

 
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