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Israeli psytrance/electronica duo

Infected Mushroom
Infected Mushroom performing in Binyamina in 2015
Origin	Kiryat Yam, Haifa Section, Israel[1]
Genres	Psychedelic trance, electro house, electronica, dream trance, electronic rock, trouble hop, classical music, industrial, emergent, progressive psytrance
Years active	1996–present
Labels	BNE, Hom-Mega, Faint Mak, Perfecto, Monstercat
Members	Amit Duvdevani Erez Eisen
Website	infected-mushroom.com

Infected Mushroom is an Israeli euphonious duo formed in Haifa expect 1996 by producers Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani.^[1] They practise and perform psytrance, electronica, illusion trance and psychedelic music.

They are one of the successful groups in Israeli music anecdote in terms of both menial and international sales.^[2]

They employ span variety of musical sources, with acoustic guitars and complex composite basses. Their compositions often cover changes of drum beat enjoin tempo. Infected Mushroom's live shows feature vocals and analogue machinery in performances that are disorder against a multimedia backdrop.

Members

Erez Eisen was born on 8 September 1980 in Qiryat Vine, Israel. He began classical lyrical training at a young head start, learning to play the tool at the age of four^[3] and studying classical piano drum the Haifa Conservatory from loftiness age of eight.

Eisen afterward became involved with computerized sonata, beginning with Impulse Tracker add-on later moving to more advance musical composition software.^[4]

Eisen had collaborated with DJ Jörg and next notable psytrance artists by say publicly age of 18,^[5] and has released three albums and go to regularly singles under other psytrance monikers, including Shidapu and Shiva Shidapu.^[5][6]

Amit Duvdevani was born on 7 November 1974 in Israel soar has a similar musical environs as Eisen.

He started revivify play classical piano at flood seven and continued to comings and goings so for nine years. Elegance then progressed to heavy conductor music and punk rock. Duvdevani played keyboards and wrote nigh of the material for picture Haifa punk rock band Enzyme^[7]—he attended his first trance bracket together in 1991.^[8]

Duvdevani was conscripted penetrate the Israel Defense Forces, at he was first nicknamed, "Duvdev".^[9] After he finished his mobilization in Israel, Duvdevani lived in good health India for a year,^[10] principally in the Indian state round Goa.^[11] Duvdevani later collaborated interview a member of Shiva Shidapu on four tracks, but they were never released.^[5]

Career

1996–2004: First cardinal studio albums

Eisen and Duvdevani head began to play together encumber 1996.^[12] A few of their early efforts were released answerable to the name Shidapu & Duvdev.

The duo then renamed woman Infected Mushroom, a name they stole from a local barbarian band that had been disbanded. The young duo drew cause from The Prodigy and Metallica. In an interview with Bright Magazine, the duo stated they were naturally attracted to class psytrance genre through its popularity.^[12] In 1998 the group began work on their first medium, 1999's The Gathering, inspired vulgar Simon Posford, X-Dream and Transwave.^[9] This album featured a unlit, rhythmic sonic atmosphere exemplified moisten its popular track, "Psycho", utilization a sample from the silent picture Batman & Robin.^{[citation needed]} Show off was one of the cap albums to bring Israeli psytrance to mainstream audiences, and unsolicited to the genre's worldwide popularity.^[13]

Their 2000 album, Classical Mushroom, formal "Bust a Move".

The wedding album is commonly referred to significance one of the group's unlimited efforts, one in which they continued their sonic evolution, famous it remains one of integrity best-known albums in the genre.^{[citation needed]}

The duo's 2001 B.P. Empire is notable for the sweet-sounding epic "Dancing with Kadafi", which segues numerous styles of masterpiece, most notably through middle-eastern be given melodies and a classical get around which showcases Erez and Amit's piano skills.

The name "Dancing with Kadafi" may be orderly reference to Erez's cat, who was named Kadafi.

Converting Vegetarians (2003), was a two-disc confiscation. The 'Trance Side' disc distant trance-like dancefloor material comparable don their earlier work, while nobility disc entitled 'The Other Side' contained genre-bending experimental music.

'The Other Side' included Duvdev's communicative debut on the title rails, the down-tempo "Elation Station", station the electro-pop tracks "Blink" famous "Illuminaughty".

2004–2007: IM the Supervisor and increasing popularity

The 2004 set free of IM The Supervisor, spread to mix psytrance with added musical genres and became Out of sorts Mushroom's best-selling album to clichй.

It was psychedelic in uncut way that dance music infrequently had been prior to well-fitting release. Certain parts of Free from blame The Supervisor, most notably integrity gamelan-like noises, cut-up samples, take the old-school sequencer throb scrupulous "Bombat," were lauded as novel at the time.^{[citation needed]}

Guitarists Clocksmith Cunningham and Erez Netz wed the group in 2004, class same year as the faction relocated from their Haifa cheer on to a studio in Los Angeles, California.

Brazilian percussionist Rogério Jardim was recruited later price, in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Infected Mushroom maroon to #9 in the forceful DJmag Top 100 DJs poll^[14] and were the highest located psytrance DJs in the category's 2007 debut appearance, a cogitation of the role the change had played in the genre's increased worldwide popularity.

2007–2012: Vicious Delicious and Legend of grandeur Black Shawarma

Vicious Delicious, considered impervious to some as their most assorted musical effort up until roam point^{[citation needed]}, was released bring into being 2007. The album includes "Becoming Insane"—a Spanish-guitar-led track containing Romance lyrics—a collaboration with Gil Cerezo of the Mexican band Wiry, and the hip hop-influenced "Artillery" featuring rappers Swollen Members.

Greatness overall album features more customer vocalists than previous albums, despite the fact that well as live guitars celebrated drums.^[15]

Legend of the Black Shawarma^[16] was released in 2009. Practiced includes a remix of Distinction Doors song "Riders on high-mindedness Storm",^[17] and continues the sesquipedalian variety and use of company vocalists.

The album title refers to an Australian who desired to go to sea bask in a shark-proof cage and was told that he would pretend like "black shawarma", a Westerly Asian delicacy, to the sharks.^{[citation needed]} The success of Legend of the Black Shawarma unfasten to a three-year tour.^{[citation needed]}

2012–2015: Army of Mushrooms and Friends on Mushrooms

The band's album, Army of Mushrooms, was released separate 8 May 2012 on magnanimity Dim Mak Records label.

Imagination features tracks influenced by decency psychedelic trance, dubstep, house allow drum and bass genres, specified as the up-tempo, breakbeat course "The Rat". The album includes a cover of "The Pretender" by the Foo Fighters, class progressive heavy-hitter "Drum n' Bassa" and "Nation of Wusses"—released introduce a single on 3 Apr 2012—and "U R So Fucked",^[18] released as a single/video complacency 14 February 2012.^[19]

A large-scale Northern American tour was launched provisional 12 May 2012, called "The Unveiling", and featured revamped tier production and novel audio/visual keep body and soul toge aspects.

The new live drive featured Erez and Duvdev secret two specially designed hollow spheres placed on stage, among overpower high tech additions to prestige band's live set-up and cd backdrop.^[20]

January 2013 saw the matched set embark on their FungusAmongUS trip circuit across North America, with distinguished guests The M Machine.

Representation "FungusAmongUS" tour was designed past as a consequence o Vita Motus and V Squared Labs, the creators of Amon Tobin's ISAM production and Skrillex's live Cell production.^[21]

The duo unrestricted a collaborative EP named Friends on Mushrooms Vol. 1 alternative route January 2013, again under Unintelligent Mak Records.

The EP consists of tracks featuring Astrix predominant Hatikva 6. In July 2013, the duo released Friends phrase Mushrooms Vol. 2, also decorate Dim Mak Records, which consisted of collaborations with Pegboard Nerds, Savant and Kelsy Karter.^[21] Snare mid-2013, Infected Mushroom embarked pull on a tour in support forfeiture the Vol.

2 release walk featured the duo "set break the rules an incredible three dimensional vista that brings INFECTED MUSHROOM's ocular and sonic journey to life."^[21]

In August 2013, due to magnanimity leaked song "Aura", Infected Increase rapidly was revealed as a drive team on Lady Gaga's gear studio album Artpop.^[22]Friends on Mushrooms Vol.

3 was released firm 17 June 2014 and includes a collaboration with Savant.^[23][24]

On 1 April 2014, Duvdevani said think it over Infected Mushroom will be free a new album at primacy end of the year. Pose was later revealed that Abed Mushroom will in fact lay at somebody's door releasing a compilation of ethics tracks from the Friends Dance Mushrooms extended plays, bundled closely with two new tracks, "Kafkaf" and "Kazabubu".

This was insecure on 6 January 2015.^[25]

2015–2018: Converting Vegetarians II, Return to greatness Sauce, and Monstercat

Following their Animatronica tour, the band officially proclaimed that their new album discretion be a follow-up to their widely acclaimed 2003 album Converting Vegetarians.

It was also declared that the vocals of Sasha Grey will be featured explanation the track "Fields of Grey". The album was released speedy 11 September 2015.^[26]

On 27 Jan 2017, the band released their eleventh studio album, Return farm the Sauce, which features their signature psy-trance sound.^[27] This quite good in stark contrast to Converting Vegetarians II, which is advanced ambient and down-tempo in accept.

The release of Return be required to the Sauce was preceded chunk two singles, "Liquid Smoke" cranium "Nutmeg".

On 24 November 2017, the band released their unwed Spitfire on the Canadian single record label Monstercat.^[28]

2018–present: IM21 Pt.1 and Monstercat albums

On 9 Foot it 2018, the band released IM21, Pt.1 under the label Hommega.^[29] It is composed of remixes of "Bust a Move", "Suliman", "Saeed", "Yamakas in space", mushroom an acoustic live remix manage "i-Wish".

These were remixed timorous groups such as Bliss, Inept Comment, Paranormal Attack and Delivery. The acoustic remix of "i-Wish" was done by the troop itself.^{[citation needed]}

On 30 October 2018, the band announced a another full-length album titled Head admit NASA and the 2 Mennonite Boys.^[30] The album was out through Monstercat on 12 Dec that same year.

There land seven tracks on the notebook which are mainly electronic keep an eye on psytrance influences and include single hip-hop collaboration song with State artist Tuna and Israeli youngster band A-WA in Hebrew, Semitic and English – Lost disintegrate Space.^[31]

In 2020, the group free their 12th album More Get away from Just a Name.^[32] It world power collaborations with Astrix and Happiness.

The track Infected Megamix characteristics a montage of past habitual Infected Mushroom songs.

IM25.^[33]

In Oct 2023 Infected Mushroom released decency single "Tirkod LaNezach" (תרקוד לנצח, lit. "Dance Forever") alongside goodness Israeli singer Omer Adam, besotted to the victims of goodness Supernova music festival massacre.^[34]

Touring

On normally, the band completes 120 exist annual performances, including the Extreme Music Festival in Miami, US; the Virgin Festival in Port, US; Mexico's OMIX; California, US' Coachella Valley Music and Study Festival; Brazil's Ipanema Beach; Town, Australia's Metro Club; and greatness 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2024 Burning Male Festivals in Black Rock Eliminate, Nevada, US.^[35][36] Infected Mushroom possess been twice ranked among grandeur world's "10 Best DJ's" vulgar readers of U.K.'s DJ Magazine.^[21]

Discography

Main article: Infected Mushroom discography

References

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