LSDREAM has always been about much more than bass drops and psychedelic textures. Few electronic artists speak about purpose with as much clarity or tie it so deeply to shared healing. For Sami Diament, that healing wasn’t a side effect. It was his Big Bang.
Every baby opens their eyes to a world inside a universe they didn’t choose, each second designed to absorb and process. Adolescence brings curiosity, then a search for purpose. Early adulthood confronts us with impossibly big questions.
And then, for many, something strange happens: we stop seeking. Curiosity dulls. Purpose becomes complacency. Questions are replaced with misguided certainty.
Diament understands this pattern deeply. In an Instagram post last year, he wrote: “I’ve made many mistakes in my life, have battled my demons, and for the longest time they owned me. I have been numb, I have felt hopeless, I have been a prisoner to a kind of secret darkness that no one sees, that slowly manifests very bad decisions, and a lot of pain. It’s a hollow feeling that success, money, and validation can not fill.”
This idleness creeps in slowly. Sometimes it’s born from stubbornness, other times ignorance. We often quietly lay bricks—piece by piece—forming rigid walls. On the surface, they feel protective; in truth, they limit our growth.
Diament’s ongoing healing process started with self-love. His spiritual rebirth allows him to revisit his childhood and find a deeper understanding of himself. He’s processing, curious, finding purpose and revisiting impossibly big questions all over again.
His experience suggests that we don’t stop growing. Maybe we just forget how to.
“The point of LSDREAM isn’t necessarily a music project,” Diament told EDM.com at this year’s Same Same But Different festival. “It’s about creating a container for the audience to feel free, to feel like it’s safe to be themselves, to enter a hard space, to express themselves and to connect with like-minded people. It’s a container for that higher vibration of love and energy.”
There are best practices for emotional and spiritual growth—ones better explained by mental health professionals than this writer—but there isn’t a one-size-fits-all formula. That’s where LSDREAM’s side project, LIGHTCODE, comes in. It captures the duality inside that shared purpose.
LSDREAM is the external: a big dance party, an openly shared experience within a wave of lasers, lights and funky wubs. LIGHTCODE is the internal: a stripped-down, meditative soundbath that invites you to seek within yourself.
“It’s closing your eyes and going within,” Diament said of his LIGHTCODE project. “It’s creating a container and holding space for people to meet themselves with more compassion and love. To honor their light and dark sides, their shadow and brightness, whatever that is. It reminds me of the quote, ‘A spiritual being having a human experience.’ I think LIGHTCODE is the same journey through a different medium.”
“What’s the same is that both projects use sound. Sound is the vehicle that creates the container. Those elements are in the LSDREAM music, which is the other side of healing: movement, dancing, yelling, expression, and smiling. LIGHTCODE is the inside one.”
Diament immigrated to the United States from Israel as a child. It’s almost impossible to reconcile the man we see today—fuzzy bucket hats, tie-dye shirts, baggy pants and pashminas—with a young kid sitting in Hebrew school, probably in a uniform.
“Growing up, I always felt like a bit of an outcast,” he recalls. “Coming from a different country, going to a school, being the one, seeking my people. What I think happened was that it taught me to hide. It wasn’t safe for me to be who I was because I was afraid I wouldn’t fit in or be liked. When you grow up that way and do everything for validation or to be liked, or there’s peer pressure to fit in, you don’t get to access your full, authentic self.”
Not fitting in is a feeling that might resonate with many reading an LSDREAM article. Diament eventually left Hebrew school for public school, a blank canvas where he could experiment with his identity and find other like-minded oddballs. If this new, more inviting setting sounds familiar, it’s for good reason. It’s what many of us, Diament included, found in the rave scene.
“When you’re old enough and you come into a community like the rave scene, which honors and becomes a catalyst for who you truly are, to find a place where you’re safe to express yourself, dress how you want, enjoy the music you want and find your tribe with other people,” he said. “For me, that was a big outlet for where I felt the most in my authentic self with my passions, music and how I dress.”
The latest chapter in Diament’s evolution is Trippy Bee, a record label that’s less about imparting wisdom and more about creative reciprocity. It lets him tap into the present, reach into his past and build something for the future.
“What makes the artist and producer so special, in our world, is this idea that we can all stand on each other’s shoulders,” he explained. “It’s a really beautiful thing. It’s what creates such vibrant art in this culture. The people who get more popular are always inspired by underground producers because they’re the ones in their zone, experimenting and figuring out new things.”
“I think what happens is that you start touring a lot, playing shows and your popularity grows, it takes time away from your studio exploration. It’s a big balancing journey that a lot of successful artists go through. How do you balance your creative exploration with your touring side?”
Diament celebrated 44 years around the sun this summer, and now finds himself on the opposite end of where he once stood, the latest evolution in a life of reinvention. Back in the day, Kill The Noise compelled him to pursue his solo project, Brillz, when he was living out of a recording studio and splitting Subway sandwiches with his wife. Later, Liquid Stranger put his support behind LSDREAM when he most needed a professional and personal evolution. Both artists brought him on tour, believing in what Diament had to share with the world. Now he pays it forward to the next generation.
“An artist who has a platform can be so powerful for an upcoming artist to get that co-sign,” he said. “When you spread that spotlight out, it grows community and gives a massive opportunity to younger artists. It creates a mutually beneficial container for this culture.”
Like all worthwhile pursuits, Trippy Bee is sparked from personal aspiration, but crafted through the shared drive and mutual benefit of community.
“As a label owner, I’m excited to invite what I think are modern sounds to my community,” he says. “As LSDREAM, the artist, I’m excited to share that spotlight with younger artists who inspire me.”
The mind is a muscle. It’s trained, strengthened and reinforced through repetition, which is why Diament writes down what he’s grateful for every day. It grounds him, cuts through the mental clutter and reminds him that there’s a life worth living, something that’s as true for his community as it is for him.
“I’m grateful to be alive in this time. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to be of service,” he said. “I’m grateful for you and all my people, everyone who loves me and supports what I do. It fills me with tremendous gratitude.”
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