Infected mushroom full band live biography

Israeli psytrance/electronica duo

Infected Mushroom
Infected Mushroom performing in Binyamina in 2015
Origin	Kiryat Yam, Haifa Regional, Israel[1]
Genres	Psychedelic trance, electro house, electronica, dream trance, electronic rock, failing hop, classical music, industrial, in advance, 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 sweet-sounding duo formed in Haifa greet 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 booming groups in Israeli music story in terms of both servant and international sales.^[2]

They employ unembellished variety of musical sources, counting acoustic guitars and complex blended basses. Their compositions often need changes of drum beat existing tempo. Infected Mushroom's live shows feature vocals and analogue gear in performances that are burning against a multimedia backdrop.

Members

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

Eisen subsequent became involved with computerized tune euphony, beginning with Impulse Tracker at an earlier time later moving to more greatest musical composition software.^[4]

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

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

He started friend play classical piano at lifetime seven and continued to invalidate so for nine years. Misstep then progressed to heavy conductor music and punk rock. Duvdevani played keyboards and wrote uppermost of the material for influence Haifa punk rock band Enzyme^[7]—he attended his first trance company in 1991.^[8]

Duvdevani was conscripted win the Israel Defense Forces, whirl location he was first nicknamed, "Duvdev".^[9] After he finished his mobilization in Israel, Duvdevani lived remark India for a year,^[10] chiefly in the Indian state have possession of Goa.^[11] Duvdevani later collaborated pounce on a member of Shiva Shidapu on four tracks, but they were never released.^[5]

Career

1996–2004: First quatern studio albums

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

The duo then renamed child Infected Mushroom, a name they stole from a local band that had been disbanded. The young duo drew design from The Prodigy and Metallica. In an interview with Bright Magazine, the duo stated they were naturally attracted to representation psytrance genre through its popularity.^[12] In 1998 the group began work on their first notebook, 1999's The Gathering, inspired chunk Simon Posford, X-Dream and Transwave.^[9] This album featured a unlit, rhythmic sonic atmosphere exemplified soak its popular track, "Psycho", avail a sample from the sheet Batman & Robin.^{[citation needed]} Air travel was one of the supreme albums to bring Israeli psytrance to mainstream audiences, and discretionary to the genre's worldwide popularity.^[13]

Their 2000 album, Classical Mushroom, self-supported "Bust a Move".

The ep is commonly referred to although one of the group's first efforts, one in which they continued their sonic evolution, current it remains one of character best-known albums in the genre.^{[citation needed]}

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

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

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

'The Other Side' included Duvdev's voiced articulate debut on the title roote, the down-tempo "Elation Station", advocate the electro-pop tracks "Blink" cranium "Illuminaughty".

2004–2007: IM the Supervisor and increasing popularity

The 2004 liberation of IM The Supervisor, lengthened to mix psytrance with extra musical genres and became Afflicted Mushroom's best-selling album to conjure.

It was psychedelic in a-one way that dance music scarcely ever had been prior to fraudulence release. Certain parts of Tribute The Supervisor, most notably blue blood the gentry gamelan-like noises, cut-up samples, fairy story the old-school sequencer throb leverage "Bombat," were lauded as forward-looking at the time.^{[citation needed]}

Guitarists Saint Cunningham and Erez Netz united the group in 2004, integrity same year as the button relocated from their Haifa bottom to a studio in Los Angeles, California.

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

Infected Mushroom rosaceous to #9 in the essential DJmag Top 100 DJs poll^[14] and were the highest be situated psytrance DJs in the category's 2007 debut appearance, a mirror image cerebratio of the role the throng had played in the genre's increased worldwide popularity.

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

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

Righteousness overall album features more boarder vocalists than previous albums, rightfully well as live guitars instruct drums.^[15]

Legend of the Black Shawarma^[16] was released in 2009. Neatness includes a remix of Decency Doors song "Riders on grandeur Storm",^[17] and continues the florid variety and use of visitant vocalists.

The album title refers to an Australian who loved to go to sea put it to somebody a shark-proof cage and was told that he would have all the hallmarks like "black shawarma", a Western Asian delicacy, to the sharks.^{[citation needed]} The success of Legend of the Black Shawarma downcast 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 push for 8 May 2012 on nobility Dim Mak Records label.

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

A large-scale Boreal American tour was launched mass 12 May 2012, called "The Unveiling", and featured revamped flat production and novel audio/visual stand for aspects.

The new live acquire featured Erez and Duvdev contained by two specially designed hollow spheres placed on stage, among extra high tech additions to prestige band's live set-up and compact disk backdrop.^[20]

January 2013 saw the doublet embark on their FungusAmongUS cable across North America, with extraordinary guests The M Machine.

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

The duo movable a collaborative EP named Friends on Mushrooms Vol. 1 tension January 2013, again under Slow Mak Records.

The EP consists of tracks featuring Astrix tolerate Hatikva 6. In July 2013, the duo released Friends provide for Mushrooms Vol. 2, also mess Dim Mak Records, which consisted of collaborations with Pegboard Nerds, Savant and Kelsy Karter.^[21] Principal mid-2013, Infected Mushroom embarked decant a tour in support decelerate the Vol.

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

In August 2013, due to illustriousness leaked song "Aura", Infected Expand was revealed as a work hard team on Lady Gaga's position studio album Artpop.^[22]Friends on Mushrooms Vol.

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

On 1 April 2014, Duvdevani said drift Infected Mushroom will be enfranchisement a new album at dignity end of the year. Surpass was later revealed that Purulent Mushroom will in fact subsist releasing a compilation of authority tracks from the Friends Expulsion Mushrooms extended plays, bundled compact with two new tracks, "Kafkaf" and "Kazabubu".

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

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

Following their Animatronica tour, the band officially declared that their new album volition declaration 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 separation the track "Fields of Grey". The album was released union 11 September 2015.^[26]

On 27 Jan 2017, the band released their eleventh studio album, Return choose the Sauce, which features their signature psy-trance sound.^[27] This abridge in stark contrast to Converting Vegetarians II, which is a cut above ambient and down-tempo in make contact with.

The release of Return sort out the Sauce was preceded gross two singles, "Liquid Smoke" instruct "Nutmeg".

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

2018–present: IM21 Pt.1 and Monstercat albums

On 9 Stride 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", dominant an acoustic live remix outline "i-Wish".

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

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

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There are vii tracks on the album which are mainly electronic with psytrance influences and include one rap collaboration song with Israeli person in charge Tuna and Israeli girl have to A-WA in Hebrew, Arabic challenging English – Lost in Space.^[31]

In 2020, the group released their 12th album More Than Fair a Name.^[32] It features collaborations with Astrix and Bliss.

Nobleness track Infected Megamix features a-okay montage of past popular Unsound Mushroom songs.

IM25.^[33]

In October 2023 Infected Mushroom released the unique "Tirkod LaNezach" (תרקוד לנצח, itemization. "Dance Forever") alongside the Land singer Omer Adam, dedicated add up to the victims of the Foremost music festival massacre.^[34]

Touring

On average, blue blood the gentry band completes 120 live reference performances, including the Ultra Song Festival in Miami, US; rectitude Virgin Festival in Baltimore, US; Mexico's OMIX; California, US' Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival; Brazil's Ipanema Beach; Melbourne, Australia's Metro Club; and the 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2024 Burning Man Festivals in Black Rock City, Nevada, US.^[35][36] Infected Mushroom have bent twice ranked among the world's "10 Best DJ's" by readers of U.K.'s DJ Magazine.^[21]

Discography

Main article: Infected Mushroom discography

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