published by Elinor C at 24.07.2008

All the trance you can eat in Israel

Country profile from Trancers Guide to Galaxy 2008

The constant wars with the mandatory army (three years for men and two for women), hot weather and hot Mediterranean temper combined with growing high tech industry spiced with a search of something different made Israel the perfect habitat for trance to have it's first steps and then spread like Infected Mushrooms.

Israel has had a huge effect and influence on the global trance scene with such pioneers like Astral Projection, Oforia, California Sunshine and Space Cat. Most of them continue to shape the scene till this day. The journey to India after finishing the army became an Israeli ritual that helped develop the scene and made this genre the most popular for young people in the country.

For many years Israel was labelled as the full-on nation, but lately the scene has started to wonder towards the progressive and minimal districts. New progressive labels like Echoes pop up alongside existing ones like VP, Dance N Dust and Ear Peaks (Domo). On the full-on side we still have the most famous and successful labels such as Hommega with artists like Astrix, Dali, Domestic and the label manager Eyal Yankowitz, BNE/YoYo with Infected Mushroom, Fatali and Oforia, Compact, Agitato, Mushy, Trancelucent, Phonokol and Chemical Crew with the notorious Skazi.

To take a dive into the realms of relaxation and down tempo you can find Aleph-Zero along with the superb Shulman. On the darker side we have the new comer labels like Zaikadelic and Psyshark together with the veteran Doof records that represent Zirkin (one of the owners) Double REL and Entropy. Doof are also making an annual festival during the days of the Jewish holiday Passover which usually occurs in April and had great success on their last one with almost 5000 people making a dust mushroom in the air.

This year for the first time we had four festivals during September which is the holiday season for the Israelis. T.A.Z festival run by the third Empire crew brought four days of progressive, minimal, electro, tech music in the South, Moksha crew made an unforgettable 24 hours fest at Achziv beach at the North with 5000 ravers dancing to Simon Posford and X-Dream and creating a vibe that hasn't been seen for long time, Holy Rave at the South tried to capture a decade later, the historic landmark in the Israeli trance scene – Ganey Huga festival in 1997 (which you can see on the movie Karahana), but the massive media advertising and the fact that it occurred on the same dates as the Moksha event prevented it to recreate the same effect, and Morrison Drops festival who made a full-on festival at the dead sea.

Always hungry for more parties and an opportunity to dig (the Israeli slang for dancing your ass off) the Israeli scene resulted in more parties during the week in various pubs and clubs like Sakaya's Mondays & Saturdays infront of Jaffa sea shore (during the summer time and Bar Gyora during the Winter) Funky Beats @ Comfort 13 on Thursdays, The Maxim Progressive (and sometimes house/minimal/electro) Thursdays run by DJ Zombi.

When it comes to nature parties, all you have to do is bring your dancing shoes because we have it all. If you are a progressive/minimal/electro fan you should go to the third Empire, Underground Team and Laplad. If you like the full-on style then you should go to TFN, Morning Glory and Panda & Hen Hen. For the Suomi and Goa madness you can look for Amanita, Psyzion, Rupas, Psyspirit and Virus & Spirala.

And if that is still not enough to relax your Trance soul you have trance radio shows in most of the students radios across the country like Matantrance on Kol Hanegev 106.4 (South) Wednesdays @ 20:00, Hafirot (Wednesdays @ 13:00) and Hypnoza (Sundays @ 20:00) on Kol Hakampus 106fm (Tel Aviv) and Psyfreaks in Netanya area Kol Netanya 106fm.

This year we had parties closed by the police every weekend and even at authorized and Independence Day parties so when you come to a party in Israel you should take this under consideration. Although the mainstream media is quite indifferent to the trance scene, there have been several appearances by Israeli trance artists on the main news TV Channels and newspapers.
Israel can no longer be defined as one particular expert of trance culture rather than a growing empire of one of the biggest exporters of artists, labels and crazy dancers that will leave an unforgettable mark everywhere they go.

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