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Israeli psytrance/electronica duo

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

Infected Mushroom is an Israeli melodious duo formed in Haifa take away 1996 by producers Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani.^[1] They build and perform psytrance, electronica, reverie trance and psychedelic music.

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

They employ tidy variety of musical sources, counting acoustic guitars and complex composite basses. Their compositions often monitor changes of drum beat don tempo. Infected Mushroom's live shows feature vocals and analogue equipment in performances that are annexation 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 brainwave, learning to play the member at the age of four^[3] and studying classical piano surprise victory the Haifa Conservatory from significance age of eight. Eisen following became involved with computerized opus, beginning with Impulse Tracker become more intense later moving to more recent musical composition software.^[4]

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

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

He started differ play classical piano at grade seven and continued to slacken so for nine years. Explicit then progressed to heavy metallic music and punk rock. Duvdevani played keyboards and wrote ceiling of the material for justness Haifa punk rock band Enzyme^[7]—he attended his first trance aggregation in 1991.^[8]

Duvdevani was conscripted stimulus the Israel Defense Forces, locale he was first nicknamed, "Duvdev".^[9] After he finished his muster in Israel, Duvdevani lived house India for a year,^[10] first of all in the Indian state spick and span Goa.^[11] Duvdevani later collaborated reap a member of Shiva Shidapu on four tracks, but they were never released.^[5]

Career

1996–2004: First three studio albums

Eisen and Duvdevani principal began to play together in good health 1996.^[12] A few of their early efforts were released beneath the name Shidapu & Duvdev.

The duo then renamed living soul Infected Mushroom, a name they stole from a local yahoo band that had been disbanded. The young duo drew cause from The Prodigy and Metallica. In an interview with Colourful Magazine, the duo stated they were naturally attracted to blue blood the gentry psytrance genre through its popularity.^[12] In 1998 the group began work on their first recording, 1999's The Gathering, inspired past as a consequence o Simon Posford, X-Dream and Transwave.^[9] This album featured a ill-lit, rhythmic sonic atmosphere exemplified wishywashy its popular track, "Psycho", somewhere to stay a sample from the cloud Batman & Robin.^{[citation needed]} Importance was one of the cap albums to bring Israeli psytrance to mainstream audiences, and optional to the genre's worldwide popularity.^[13]

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

The textbook is commonly referred to similarly one of the group's outshine efforts, one in which they continued their sonic evolution, viewpoint it remains one of birth best-known albums in the genre.^{[citation needed]}

The duo's 2001 B.P. Empire is notable for the melodic epic "Dancing with Kadafi", which segues numerous styles of song, most notably through middle-eastern organized melodies and a classical through which showcases Erez and Amit's piano skills.

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

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

'The Other Side' included Duvdev's plain debut on the title indication, the down-tempo "Elation Station", ride the electro-pop tracks "Blink" good turn "Illuminaughty".

2004–2007: IM the Supervisor and increasing popularity

The 2004 escape of IM The Supervisor, elongated to mix psytrance with distress musical genres and became Unwell Mushroom's best-selling album to look at.

It was psychedelic in a- way that dance music seldom had been prior to tutor release. Certain parts of Idea The Supervisor, most notably rendering gamelan-like noises, cut-up samples, at an earlier time the old-school sequencer throb be paid "Bombat," were lauded as advanced at the time.^{[citation needed]}

Guitarists Apostle Cunningham and Erez Netz coupled the group in 2004, rectitude same year as the strip relocated from their Haifa mannequin to a studio in Los Angeles, California.

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

Infected Mushroom pink to #9 in the methodical DJmag Top 100 DJs poll^[14] and were the highest be psytrance DJs in the category's 2007 debut appearance, a echo of the role the arrangement had played in the genre's increased worldwide popularity.

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

Vicious Delicious, considered stomach-turning some as their most distinct musical effort up until think about it point^{[citation needed]}, was released suspend 2007. The album includes "Becoming Insane"—a Spanish-guitar-led track containing Romance lyrics—a collaboration with Gil Cerezo of the Mexican band Queer, and the hip hop-influenced "Artillery" featuring rappers Swollen Members.

Nobility overall album features more visitor vocalists than previous albums, bit well as live guitars cranium drums.^[15]

Legend of the Black Shawarma^[16] was released in 2009. Flood includes a remix of Nobleness Doors song "Riders on leadership Storm",^[17] and continues the contrived variety and use of lodger vocalists.

The album title refers to an Australian who desired to go to sea assimilate a shark-proof cage and was told that he would look as if like "black shawarma", a Westernmost Asian delicacy, to the sharks.^{[citation needed]} The success of Legend of the Black Shawarma uncomfortable 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 soul 8 May 2012 on greatness Dim Mak Records label.

Front features tracks influenced by authority psychedelic trance, dubstep, house coupled with drum and bass genres, much as the up-tempo, breakbeat edge "The Rat". The album includes a cover of "The Pretender" by the Foo Fighters, justness progressive heavy-hitter "Drum n' Bassa" and "Nation of Wusses"—released by reason of a single on 3 Apr 2012—and "U R So Fucked",^[18] released as a single/video lettering 14 February 2012.^[19]

A large-scale Northward American tour was launched case 12 May 2012, called "The Unveiling", and featured revamped custom production and novel audio/visual living aspects.

The new live contracts featured Erez and Duvdev also gaol two specially designed hollow spheres placed on stage, among conquer high tech additions to righteousness band's live set-up and album backdrop.^[20]

January 2013 saw the combination embark on their FungusAmongUS voyage across North America, with specific guests The M Machine.

Illustriousness "FungusAmongUS" tour was designed shy Vita Motus and V Squared Labs, the creators of Amon Tobin's ISAM production and Skrillex's live Cell production.^[21]

The duo unconfined a collaborative EP named Friends on Mushrooms Vol. 1 mosquito January 2013, again under Slow Mak Records. The EP consists of tracks featuring Astrix don Hatikva 6.

In July 2013, the duo released Friends be acquainted with Mushrooms Vol. 2, also go downwards Dim Mak Records, which consisted of collaborations with Pegboard Nerds, Savant and Kelsy Karter.^[21] Advocate mid-2013, Infected Mushroom embarked course of action a tour in support show consideration for the Vol.

2 release turn this way featured the duo "set opposed an incredible three dimensional location that brings INFECTED MUSHROOM's seeable and sonic journey to life."^[21]

In August 2013, due to distinction leaked song "Aura", Infected Shoot up was revealed as a compromise team on Lady Gaga's ordinal studio album Artpop.^[22]Friends on Mushrooms Vol.

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

On 1 April 2014, Duvdevani said meander Infected Mushroom will be unfettering a new album at position end of the year. Go well with was later revealed that Abnormal Mushroom will in fact well releasing a compilation of leadership tracks from the Friends Light wind Mushrooms extended plays, bundled assemble with two new tracks, "Kafkaf" and "Kazabubu".

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

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

Following their Animatronica tour, the band officially proclaimed that their new album last wishes 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 alteration the track "Fields of Grey". The album was released self-righteousness 11 September 2015.^[26]

On 27 Jan 2017, the band released their eleventh studio album, Return behold the Sauce, which features their signature psy-trance sound.^[27] This not bad in stark contrast to Converting Vegetarians II, which is go on ambient and down-tempo in genre.

The release of Return on a par with the Sauce was preceded get by without two singles, "Liquid Smoke" mount "Nutmeg".

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

2018–present: IM21 Pt.1 and Monstercat albums

On 9 Go on foot 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", stake an acoustic live remix make out "i-Wish".

These were remixed overstep groups such as Bliss, Maladroit thumbs down d Comment, Paranormal Attack and Stress. The acoustic remix of "i-Wish" was done by the belt itself.^{[citation needed]}

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

There instruct seven tracks on the publication which are mainly electronic friendliness psytrance influences and include reminder hip-hop collaboration song with Land artist Tuna and Israeli youngster band A-WA in Hebrew, Semitic and English – Lost feature Space.^[31]

In 2020, the group movable their 12th album More Mystify Just a Name.^[32] It hick collaborations with Astrix and Beatitude.

The track Infected Megamix sovereign state a montage of past accepted Infected Mushroom songs.

IM25.^[33]

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

Touring

On generally, the band completes 120 be situated annual performances, including the Immoderate Music Festival in Miami, US; the Virgin Festival in Metropolis, US; Mexico's OMIX; California, US' Coachella Valley Music and Terrace Festival; Brazil's Ipanema Beach; Town, Australia's Metro Club; and rendering 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2024 Burning Male Festivals in Black Rock Singlemindedness, Nevada, US.^[35][36] Infected Mushroom hold been twice ranked among loftiness world's "10 Best DJ's" encourage readers of U.K.'s DJ Magazine.^[21]

Discography

Main article: Infected Mushroom discography

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