Infected Mushroom
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Infected Mushroom is an Israeli psychedelic trance duo which has attained significant popularity from the late 1990s to the present time (2006). Formed by Erez Aizen and Amit Duvdevani (also known as Duvdev) in the city of Haifa, located in the northern parts of Israel, the duo has garnered a large international fanbase. Infected Mushroom are known for their consistent sonic evolution exemplified by the subsequent albums The Gathering (1999), Classical Mushroom (2000), BP Empire (2001), Converting Vegetarians (2003), IM The Supervisor (2004), and Vicious Delicious, scheduled for release in mid-2006.
Members
Erez Aizen was born in 1980 and has early musical training: he learned to play the organ at the age 4 and started studying piano in the Haifa Conservatory at the age 8. At age 11 he started toying with computerized music, first using Impulse Tracker, later moving to more advanced musical composition software. By the age of 18, Erez had collaborated with DJ Jorg and other notable psytrance artists, and had released 3 albums and a multitude of tracks under different psytrance acts (including Shidapu and Shiva Shidapu).Amit Duvdevani was born in 1974 and has a similar musical background. He played the piano for 9 years, starting at the age 7, before taking a turn towards heavy metal and punk rock. Amit played keyboard and wrote most of the material for a local Haifa punk rock band known as Enzyme. Amit went to his first trance party in 1991, a week before conscripting to the Israeli army (where he was first nicknamed Duvdev). He has more than once described this experience as life changing - from that time onwards all he could think of was trance music. After he finished his conscription, Amit spent a year in India (primarily in Goa), and finally decided to make music himself. He collaborated with a member of Shidapu on 4 tracks but never actually released them.
In 1998, Erez and Amit began playing together. At first they released a few tracks as Shidapu & Duvdev. These tracks were 'happier' and of the simpler side of trance. Later on, they formed the duo Infected Mushroom and started working on their first album. The name Infected Mushroom was chosen to commemorate a disbanded (1989 to 1993) punk rock band of the same name, which Amit had admired.
Other Projects
- Erez Aizen sometimes releases tracks as I-Zen or One Man Crew. He has also been part of the Goa trance music groups Shidapu and Shiva Shidapu.
- Amit Duvdevani sometimes collaborates with other artists, such as PsySex, and as Duvdev.
Discography
- Intelligate EP (1999)
- B.P. Empire EP (2001)
- Birthday EP (feat. Berry Sakharof) (2003)
- Deeply Disturbed EP (2003)
- The Other Side EP (2003)
- Cities of the Future (2004)
- Stretched (2005)
Other Songs
- Symphonatic (2000) (Released in Tsunami Records)
- Raveolution
- Power of Celtics RMX
- Mamooshka
- Overload
- Area 51
External links
- Intelligate EP (1999)
- B.P. Empire EP (2001)
- Birthday EP (feat. Berry Sakharof) (2003)
- Deeply Disturbed EP (2003)
- The Other Side EP (2003)
- Cities of the Future (2004)
- Stretched (2005)
Other Songs
- Symphonatic (2000) (Released in Tsunami Records)
- Raveolution
- Power of Celtics RMX
- Mamooshka
- Overload
- Area 51
External links
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