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Adrian Martens (born 1995), known professionally as Dasychira is a South African-born musician and record producer based in New York. Dasychira gained recognition for releasing EPs Immolated (2017), Haptics (2018) , and their debut album xDream (2019) on FaltyDL's Blueberry Records while attending the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU.

In addition to their solo work, they have production credits for Saul Williams, Haleek Maul, Embaci, Yikii and Daniela Lalita (young)

The FADER has described their music as "sounds that emphasize all the gnarled abstractions in our constantly amorphous world."

Career
While studying music at NYU in 2016, Dasychira met record producer and Blueberry Records founder FaltyDL. Dasychira felt inspired to send the label their music after hearing Eysia Crampton's American Drift.

Several months later in January 2017, Dasychira released the single "Vipera" featuring New York performer Embaci and announced their first release on Blueberry Records called Immolated. The music review website Tiny Mix Tapes gave the album 4/5 and said in praise:

"Relentlessly, productions veer into massified attempts at cinematically swallowing whole experiences of apocalypse, dysmorphia, and alienation into highly coded extensions of personal will. Dasychira’s music skirts through this milieu with a truly thoughtful impermanence" After Immolated was released, Dasychira embarked on a 2017 Summer tour of Northern America, ending the trip back in New York with an event that brought together QUALIATIK, sentinel and Kodi Fabricant to co-found the label and art-collective unseelie.

The following year, Dasychira released their follow up EP "Haptics" On Blueberry Records, which featured collaborations with Haleek Maul, Malibu, and Embaci. They toured Europe, and returned in 2019 to complete their debut album xDream.

xDream was released on Blueberry Records October 31st, 2019, and was accompanied by live performances in Asia with Yikii. Several music videos produced for the project, including "Swirl", "xDream", "Pandora", "Puppet Ballerina Edit", "Parabiotic Dream" and "Let's Share Your Memory Together".

A mascot by the name of Monstro was unveiled on the cover, and a series of blue, pink and green plushies by the names of Monstro, Mimzy and Marlow were released in addition to a deluxe version of xDream with remixes by Kamixlo, Golin, Charity and Yikii.

In early 2020, Dasychira spent several months in LA working on video projects. When the city went into lockdown, they moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands and started working on a new mixtape. They performed at several festivals in Europe including Creepy Teepee in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic and Visions Festival in Britanny, France. They released Hollywood Forever on unseelie in May 2021.

In 2022 they returned to New York where they are currently finishing their next project See Something. The first single "Banyan Tree" was released on February 10th, 2023 on unseelie.

Personal life
Dasychira was born Adrian Martens in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dasychira identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

They currently reside in Manhattan, New York.

Studio albums

 * xDream (2019, Blueberry Recordings)

Extended plays

 * Immolated (2017, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Haptics (2018, Blueberry Recordings)

Mixtapes

 * Hollywood Forever (2021, unseelie)

Compilation album

 * xDream (Deluxe Edition) (2020, unseelie)

Singles

 * Vipera ft. Embaci (2017, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Caduceus (2017, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Razor Leaf (2018, self-released)
 * Swing (2018, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Umbreon ft. Malibu (2018, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Scalaris ft. Haleek Maul (2018, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Talons ft. Embaci (2018, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Have A Few Laughs (2018, Rest Now!)
 * xDream (2019, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Pandora ft. Yikii (2019, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Swirl ft. Malibu (2019, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Let's Share Your Memory Together Ft. Baby Blue (2019, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Puppet Ballerina Edit Ft. Embaci (2019, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Parabiotic Dream (2019, Blueberry Recordings)
 * Jester's Crowfield (2020, self-released)
 * dDream (2020, self-released)
 * Beauty Contest Gift (2020, AQNB)
 * Deadnettle (2020, Blueberry Recordings)
 * KK Dirge (2020, Quantum Natives)
 * Garden of Earthly Delights (2020, Slagwerk)
 * Sunset & Wine (2021, unseelie)
 * B340 (2021, unseelie)
 * Eternal Family (2021, unseelie)
 * Heaven's Gate (2021, unseelie)
 * Banyan Tree (2023, unseelie)

Extended plays

 * Bubble Wrap Armor (2019, unseelie)

Singles

 * Future Tell (2019, unseelie)
 * Faerie Circus Waltz (2019, unseelie)

Singles

 * We Will Find It (2020, unseelie)

With Yikii & sentinel

 * Mouse Cog (2021, Imum Coeli)