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Radio Bullshiter: hello
Erez: hello
Amit: hello
Radio Bullshiter: so...infected is not just "another" act in the israeli trance, i guess it's possible to say this about you...how does a couple feels that after 3 years gets to the top of the artists, u got to work with many famous artists in israel and also all over the world ?
Amit: we feel quite the same i don't think that much have changed...i guess that for us it's the same
Radio Bullshiter: Erez? Erez the shy...
Erez: yes yes i am the shy one... i feel the same way, we don't get to exited
Radio Bullshiter: do u get flattered by the way u r treated here in israel and abroad?
Erez: offcourse,offcourse
Radio Bullshiter: you worked 4 years together?
Amit: yes plus minus 4 years
Radio Bullshiter: a little bit about your music background...
Amit: i am a piano graduate 10 years, and Erez...keyboards, musical institute
Radio Bullshiter: so music isn't an unknown subject for u?
Amit: no
Radio Bullshiter: how did u two met, started working together?
Erez: throw a friend of ours Liran Shimshon that knew me and knew Amit he introduced us and that's it...we started working
Radio Bullshiter: the beginning of Infected Mushroom , you started working with electronic music long time ago
Erez: yes, i started with "Shidapu" and Amit played a little rock music
Radio Bullshiter: like many others who started with rock music and got into trance
Amit: shortly : i came back from india we got together and made about 10 tracks...that we didn't really liked
Radio Bullshiter: under the name "Shidapu & Duvdev"
Amit: after this we started Infected Mushroom that was actually when we made our MIDI studio that included in the start a keyboard and a PC
Radio Bullshiter: gotta start with something right?
Amit: yes and from that point on it's INFECTED MUSHRooM
Radio Bullshiter: cool
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Radio Bullshiter: let's talk a bit on your work in the album, it's a very special CD it has many elements, it is not called "Classical Mushroom for nothing...
Amit: The album is called "Classical Mushroom" because of a track called "Classical Mushroom" and which is not included in the album, it was a track in which we mixed classic music with trance
Radio Bullshiter: why the track is not included in the album?
Amit: we didn't think that this track is was enough for the album, it was done a long time ago and doesn't fit in with the album's concept. it was our first try to mix classical music with trance and it went pretty well so the album is more or less in that spirit.
Radio Bullshiter: what influences your creation?
Amit
& Erez : errrrr...ahhh...tough question
Erez: nothing
Radio Bullshiter: what music do u listen to at home?
Erez: a lot of movie soundtracks...basically that's it
Radio Bullshiter: what about electronic music?
Erez: yes we like !!!Simon Posford!!!, Avi Algranati, Oforia, X-Dream, Tim Schuldt... mostly Simon
Radio Bullshiter: is there any one u would like to work with and didn't had the chance?
Erez: yes !!!Simon Posford!!!, Tim Schuldt, X-Dream
Radio Bullshiter: soon u are leaving for a tour to many places in the world right?
Erez: yes next week we are going to San Francisco, Los Angeles then a 4 days party in Porto Rico then coming back to Israel for a party in Tel Aviv a week after we are going to London, Canada then Portugal and finally coming back to Israel
Radio Bullshiter: what can u tell about the israeli audience compared to the rest of the world?
Amit: it depends the audience here in Israel is good compared to the European people that is more reticent to Trance so the Israeli audience is better but there are places...
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Radio Bullshiter: do israeli treat the artists warmer here?
Amit: yes from my point of view
Erez: no
Amit: the artists who come here get treated better than when we go abroad
Radio Bullshiter: why is it like that?
Amit: i don't know it's just is
Radio Bullshiter: but around the world the israeli artists get much respect and we have a high places in the trance scene
Amit: i'm not sure about that, maybe it was so in the past but now the Israeli trance doesn't catch on so good abroad , however some acts are still respected but Israeli trance had a downstep in the last years
Radio Bullshiter: is there a reason why this is happening? are we going back and in ten more years the trance won't be trance anymore?
Amit: errr tough question...we don't know
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Radio Bullshiter: the track we hear in the back ground is "The shen"... Amit you told me there's a story behind that name?
Amit: when we finished this track we needed a name for it and Erez called me at 01:00 and started shouting we need a shen ( tooth in hebrew = shen sounds like shem=name in hebrew )
Erez: i said SHEM! but he heard SHEN
Amit: he told me at 01:00 that we need a "shen" so i told him where can i find a "shen" at this hour , and in the end we decided to call the track "The Shen"
Radio Bullshiter: this is the way you give names to tracks ?
Amit: no no there's not a lot of meaning to the names we give...
Radio Bullshiter: is there other stories like that?
Amit: the first track "Bust A Move" is named after a playstation game , every time we just come up with all sorts of titles
Radio Bullshiter: lets talk a bit about israeli trance artists ? let's take Astral Projection for instance what do you think about them ?
Amit: there's a lot of respect for them because that they have been here many years , great sound, the music however doesn't evolve in the 2 last albums but still it's professional music but there are artists we like more in Israel : Oforia, Space Cat and Dj Goblin who is a new artist today , Moshe Kenan and Yahel.
Radio Bullshiter: what about artists from around the world?
Erez: Simon Posford first of all , there is also Tim Schuldt also X-Dream those are mostly all...also Total Eclipse
Radio Bullshiter: let's talk about you as Infected Mushroom... in every band there's always the one who pulls more to the soft side and the one who pulls to the heave
Erez: no we are not like that we don't pull to any of those sides and if so that we are both in the same side
Radio Bullshiter: but you are two different individuals with different minds ?
Amit: sometimes we fight in the studio...who ever wins decides
Amit: no but there are disagreements in the studio...sometimes we stream with something that Erez doesn't likes some time with what i don't like but in the end we both like it only at that moment it is so...we have the same head more or less
Radio Bullshiter: is there some one who is more responsible for the rythm section or the other...
Amit: first of all Erez is responsible for the computer
Radio Bullshiter: who is more dominant in what part?
Amit: Erez is responsible for the computer part he is much more better with computers than me but in music and composing we are both the same but on computers i am much behind Erez
Radio Bullshiter: Erez is more progressed in the computers?
Amit: yes much more than me
Erez: yes from age 6, i'm sitting in front of a PC like a moron :)
Radio Bullshiter: so what other artists? MWNN Martin Freeland?
Amit: no no our taste in trance is very selective and it gets more and more selective with time, the artists we named you now we like very much , also we have much friends in the trance world that we love not as artists but as friends
Radio Bullshiter: like who?
Amit: like many of whom we mentioned already Total eclipse , Jorg , we don't like their taste in music very much but still we are good friends we also forgot to mention Dado who is a good artist and whom we like very much.
Radio Bullshiter: a question we always ask Israeli artists when they come here is the problem here...
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Radio Bullshiter: so you want to say that the problem with trance parties is now similar to house parties?
Amit: not exactly the cops have started to take interest on what's going on in house parties
Radio Bullshiter: so they got off trance parties?
Amit: no but let's say the are handling both trance & house parties as one and not individual so it touches us less now
Radio Bullshiter: was there ever a time that you were Dj'ing and you'r party got closed?
Amit: many times we were arrested
Erez: let's say more than 10 times for sure
Radio Bullshiter: so tell us how is being arrested ad artists? you were arrested just because you are artists?
Amit: with no reason at all ,usually after 2 hours they would let us go
Radio Bullshiter: and how does an artists feels after his party was shutdown?
Amit: if the party was good than it is sad and if the party sucks than we say thank's that they have arrived but usually it is sad because it's a bummer when you get a party going to have it shutdown
Radio Bullshiter: and the track we hear in the background is...
Amit: ..."Bust A move" named after a very good playstation game
Radio Bullshiter: and who plays the guitar here?
Amit:
Erez Aizen
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Radio Bullshiter: let's talk about the beginning, you haven't started with a MIDI studio and professional music making
Amit: in the beginning we worked with a program called "Impulse Tracker" and we made what is now called "Nitzhonot" it was the first "Nitzhonot" back then , me and Erez didn't actually liked it but it became a big hit in israel
and after a period of 10-15 track's...
Radio Bullshiter: ...you are talking about "Over the sunrise" period
Amit: much long before Barkan got our first track and he was Dj'ing psychedelic back then so then he decided to go to this style, but much before that we started making "Nitzhonot" and after 10-15 tracks me and Erez got tired of it
Radio Bullshiter: it took you 15 tracks to get tired of it?
Amit: no but even then we wanted to make something new but we just didn't had the means to do it and after i made 5 tracks alone 5 with Erez and some other variations like that we decided to leave it
and start Infected Mushroom
Radio Bullshiter: what do u think about the situation now that every kid who has a PC can make music at home on his own , even if it's not professional and get out a CD ?
Erez: first of all if the man is good and has a talent he would probably will make good music even with Impulse Tracker , not very hard not much harder than Cubase VST like many people think but it is certainly less more professional
Amit: there is another problem with that , everyone can go and get out a CD in a music store without thinking much about it and the record labels are to blame because they have released some things that personally i wouldn't release
Radio Bullshiter: do you think it lowers the music standards or brings people closer to music?
Amit: the thing that people do music on PC's is god because at some state they will leave the PC and move on to professional music...i hope but still i don't think that record labels should release every thing that a man did 8 tracks at home decided that he had enough to release an album does it , Infected Mushroom-The Gathering took 3 years to release it me and Erez did a lot of music then that also have been big hits here in Israel and which didn't get on the album, so i think u have to wait until you get a certain style
Radio Bullshiter: where do u stand with the release of you'r new album? on which state on you'r way?
Amit: Classical Mushroom represents Infected Mushroom today it's not like The gathering that was 2 years old matterial Classical Mushroom is brand new material and represents what we like now
Radio Bullshiter: what do u think you will do 10 years from now?
Erez: we hope to make music for films in Hollywood that is the far from happening dream
Amit: 10 years is a very long time to answer you we don't know what we will do 6 month from now
Radio Bullshiter: and do u want always to make music and be able to make music all your life?
Amit: yes maybe other things as well but yes music too
(Break)
Radio Bullshiter: we have a listener on the line who would like to ask a quastion...hello to?
Mr X: Sagiv
Radio Bullshiter: sagiv where are you from?
Mr X aka Sagiv: arad
Sagiv: i wanted to know...Erez you said that you are working with Impulse Tracker
Erez: i used to long time ago
Sagiv: i work with it too but i don't have money for equipment
Erez: yes me also when we started with Duvdev we didn't had even a Shekel for equipment
Amit: let me explain our situation back than, in the morning i used to work at a metal factory ... and we bought a Nordlead keybaord with guitar effective pedal and a PC
Erez: we also borowed equipment from friends
Amit: it takes a long time to start a studio like ours today , it took us 4 years to make it
Sagiv: also i wanted to mention something about what you said that people release CD's that were not produced professionaly but it is a good way to earn money for equipment
Amit: once again from one point it is good for the artitsts but it also lowers the trance standarts, becouse when you have such a huge of trance thrown on to the shelvs there are less good CD that are sold , but yes it's a good way to earn money
Sagiv: but money to buy good equipment and make good music
Erez : let me stop these questions becouse to make good music you don't need all the equipment we have today, if it's for you in specific i think all you need is a Nordlead and a PC and a good SoundCard
Radio Bullshiter: we are close to the end now is there any one that you would like to thank ?
Amit: yes first of all thank's to Avi Yossef for making me who brought us to B.N.E, my wife, Crazy D
Erez : Avi Algranati from who we learned alot
Amit: also who helped us in the album making and Ayal & moshe from Hommega...
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