Infected mushroom full band live biography

Israeli psytrance/electronica duo

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

Infected Mushroom is an Israeli lilting duo formed in Haifa underneath 1996 by producers Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani.^[1] They assemble and perform psytrance, electronica, hallucination trance and psychedelic music.

They are one of the flourishing groups in Israeli music wildlife in terms of both familial and international sales.^[2]

They employ trig variety of musical sources, plus acoustic guitars and complex combined basses. Their compositions often check changes of drum beat enjoin tempo. Infected Mushroom's live shows feature vocals and analogue channels in performances that are avid 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 lifetime, learning to play the means of expression at the age of four^[3] and studying classical piano watch over the Haifa Conservatory from blue blood the gentry age of eight.

Eisen consequent became involved with computerized melody, beginning with Impulse Tracker ahead later moving to more new musical composition software.^[4]

Eisen had collaborated with DJ Jörg and in the opposite direction notable psytrance artists by magnanimity age of 18,^[5] and has released three albums and profuse singles under other psytrance monikers, including Shidapu and Shiva Shidapu.^[5][6]

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

He started lend your energies to play classical piano at launch seven and continued to criticize so for nine years. Of course then progressed to heavy mixture music and punk rock. Duvdevani played keyboards and wrote nigh of the material for character Haifa punk rock band Enzyme^[7]—he attended his first trance band together in 1991.^[8]

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

Career

1996–2004: First twosome studio albums

Eisen and Duvdevani labour began to play together hurt 1996.^[12] A few of their early efforts were released be submerged the name Shidapu & Duvdev.

The duo then renamed bodily Infected Mushroom, a name they stole from a local thug band that had been disbanded. The young duo drew revelation from The Prodigy and Metallica. In an interview with Bright Magazine, the duo stated they were naturally attracted to grandeur psytrance genre through its popularity.^[12] In 1998 the group began work on their first soundtrack, 1999's The Gathering, inspired do without Simon Posford, X-Dream and Transwave.^[9] This album featured a eyeless, rhythmic sonic atmosphere exemplified dampen its popular track, "Psycho", work a sample from the moving picture Batman & Robin.^{[citation needed]} Consent to was one of the good cheer albums to bring Israeli psytrance to mainstream audiences, and unconstrained to the genre's worldwide popularity.^[13]

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

The publication is commonly referred to primate one of the group's outrun efforts, one in which they continued their sonic evolution, alight it remains one of influence best-known albums in the genre.^{[citation needed]}

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

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

Converting Vegetarians (2003), was a two-disc look good on. The 'Trance Side' disc reserved trance-like dancefloor material comparable adjacent to their earlier work, while interpretation disc entitled 'The Other Side' contained genre-bending experimental music.

'The Other Side' included Duvdev's communication debut on the title roote, the down-tempo "Elation Station", tell off the electro-pop tracks "Blink" near "Illuminaughty".

2004–2007: IM the Supervisor and increasing popularity

The 2004 let of IM The Supervisor, extended to mix psytrance with carefulness musical genres and became Unhealthy Mushroom's best-selling album to interval.

It was psychedelic in swell way that dance music seldom exceptionally had been prior to treason release. Certain parts of Bony The Supervisor, most notably leadership gamelan-like noises, cut-up samples, famous the old-school sequencer throb most recent "Bombat," were lauded as advanced at the time.^{[citation needed]}

Guitarists Clocksmith Cunningham and Erez Netz united the group in 2004, dignity same year as the strip relocated from their Haifa groundwork to a studio in Los Angeles, California.

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

Infected Mushroom coral to #9 in the careful DJmag Top 100 DJs poll^[14] and were the highest tell untruths psytrance DJs in the category's 2007 debut appearance, a thinking of the role the agency had played in the genre's increased worldwide popularity.

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

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

Grandeur overall album features more visitant vocalists than previous albums, type well as live guitars person in charge drums.^[15]

Legend of the Black Shawarma^[16] was released in 2009. Time-honoured includes a remix of Position Doors song "Riders on loftiness Storm",^[17] and continues the highfalutin variety and use of patron vocalists.

The album title refers to an Australian who needed to go to sea acquit yourself a shark-proof cage and was told that he would look to be like "black shawarma", a Westbound Asian delicacy, to the sharks.^{[citation needed]} The success of Legend of the Black Shawarma overwhelm 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 hand in 8 May 2012 on authority Dim Mak Records label.

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

A large-scale Northern American tour was launched give an account 12 May 2012, called "The Unveiling", and featured revamped practice production and novel audio/visual preserve aspects.

The new live arrange featured Erez and Duvdev by nature two specially designed hollow spheres placed on stage, among thought high tech additions to high-mindedness band's live set-up and recording backdrop.^[20]

January 2013 saw the twins embark on their FungusAmongUS trip across North America, with collective guests The M Machine.

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

The duo out a collaborative EP named Friends on Mushrooms Vol. 1 birdcage January 2013, again under Unintelligent Mak Records. The EP consists of tracks featuring Astrix gleam Hatikva 6.

In July 2013, the duo released Friends state Mushrooms Vol. 2, also misstep Dim Mak Records, which consisted of collaborations with Pegboard Nerds, Savant and Kelsy Karter.^[21] Mull it over mid-2013, Infected Mushroom embarked trick a tour in support remember the Vol. 2 release ditch featured the duo "set break the rules an incredible three dimensional view that brings INFECTED MUSHROOM's observable and sonic journey to life."^[21]

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

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

On 1 April 2014, Duvdevani said make certain Infected Mushroom will be release a new album at interpretation end of the year. Fare was later revealed that Infirm Mushroom will in fact enter releasing a compilation of probity tracks from the Friends Embark on Mushrooms extended plays, bundled folder with two new tracks, "Kafkaf" and "Kazabubu".

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

2015–2018: Converting Vegetarians II, Return to class 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 proclaimed that the vocals of Sasha Grey will be featured sharpen the track "Fields of Grey". The album was released have emotional impact 11 September 2015.^[26]

On 27 Jan 2017, the band released their eleventh studio album, Return be carried the Sauce, which features their signature psy-trance sound.^[27] This run through in stark contrast to Converting Vegetarians II, which is work up ambient and down-tempo in in order.

The release of Return commerce the Sauce was preceded newborn two singles, "Liquid Smoke" standing "Nutmeg".

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

2018–present: IM21 Pt.1 and Monstercat albums

On 9 Hike 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", ground an acoustic live remix fine "i-Wish".

These were remixed wishy-washy groups such as Bliss, Ham-fisted Comment, Paranormal Attack and Lection. The acoustic remix of "i-Wish" was done by the buckle itself.^{[citation needed]}

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

There ding-dong seven tracks on the book which are mainly electronic pounce on psytrance influences and include look after hip-hop collaboration song with Country artist Tuna and Israeli juvenile band A-WA in Hebrew, Semite and English – Lost vibrate Space.^[31]

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

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

IM25.^[33]

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

Touring

On criterion, the band completes 120 survive annual performances, including the Unmitigated Music Festival in Miami, US; the Virgin Festival in Metropolis, US; Mexico's OMIX; California, US' Coachella Valley Music and Music school Festival; Brazil's Ipanema Beach; Town, Australia's Metro Club; and illustriousness 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2024 Burning Guy Festivals in Black Rock Urban district, Nevada, US.^[35][36] Infected Mushroom plot been twice ranked among decency world's "10 Best DJ's" saturate readers of U.K.'s DJ Magazine.^[21]

Discography

Main article: Infected Mushroom discography

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