1. Members

2. Career
     1996–2004: First four studio albums    2004–2007: IM the Supervisor and increasing popularity    2007–2012: Vicious Delicious and Legend of the Black Shawarma    2012–2015: Army of Mushrooms and Friends on Mushrooms    2015–2018: Converting Vegetarians II, Return to the Sauce, and Monstercat    2018–present: IM21 Pt.1, and Head of NASA and the 2 Amish Boys  

3. Touring

4. Side projects
     Eisen    Eisen and Duvdev  

5. Discography
     Studio albums    Compilation albums    Extended plays    Singles    As featured artist    Music videos  

6. References

7. External links

They employ a variety of musical sources, including acoustic guitars and complex synthesized basses. Their compositions often contain changes of drum beat and tempo. Infected Mushroom's live shows feature vocals and analogue instruments in performances that are set against a multimedia backdrop.

Members

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

Duvdevani was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, where he was first nicknamed, "Duvdev".^[9] After he finished his conscription in Israel, Duvdevani lived in India for a year,^[10] primarily in the Indian state of Goa.^[11] Duvdevani later collaborated with a member of Shiva Shidapu on four tracks, but they were never released.^[5]

Career

1996–2004: First four studio albums

Eisen and Duvdevani first began to play together in 1996. A few of their early efforts were released under the name Shidapu & Duvdev. The duo then renamed themselves Infected Mushroom, a name they stole from a local punk band that had been disbanded. The young duo drew inspiration from The Prodigy and Metallica. In 1998 the group began work on their first album, 1999's The Gathering, inspired by Simon Posford, X-Dream and Transwave.^[9] This album featured a dark, rhythmic sonic atmosphere exemplified by its popular track, "Psycho", using a sample from the movie Batman & Robin.^[12] It was one of the first albums to bring {{Cl|Israeli_psychedelic_trance_musicians|Israeli psytrance}} to mainstream audiences, and contributed to the genre's worldwide popularity.^[13]

Their 2000 album, Classical Mushroom, contained "Bust A Move", one of their most lauded productions. The album is commonly referred to as one of the group's best efforts, in which they continued their sonic evolution, and it remains one of the best-known albums in the genre.{{citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The duo's 2001 B.P. Empire is notable for the musical epic "Dancing With Kadafi", which segues numerous styles of music, most notably through middle-eastern style melodies and a classical break which showcases Erez and Amit's piano skills.

The name "Dancing With Kadafi" can be a reference to Erez's cat, who was named Kadafi.

Converting Vegetarians (2003), was a two-disc set. The 'Trance Side' disc contained trance-like dancefloor material comparable to their earlier work, while the disc entitled 'The Other Side' contained genre-bending experimental music. 'The Other Side' included Duvdev's vocal debut on the title track, the down-tempo "Elation Station", and the electro-pop tracks "Blink" and "Illuminaughty".

2004–2007: IM the Supervisor and increasing popularity

The 2004 release of IM The Supervisor, continued to mix psytrance with other musical genres and became Infected Mushroom's best-selling album to date. It was psychedelic in a way that dance music rarely had been prior to its release. Certain parts of IM The Supervisor, most notably the gamelan-like noises, cut-up samples, and the old-school sequencer throb of "Bombat," were lauded as innovative at the time.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Guitarists Thomas Cunningham and Erez Netz joined the group in 2004, the same year as the band relocated from their Haifa base to a studio in Los Angeles, California.^[14] Brazilian percussionist Rogério Jardim was recruited later on, in 2007.

Infected Mushroom rose to #9 in the influential DJmag Top 100 DJs poll^[15] and were the highest placed psytrance DJs in the category's 2007 debut appearance, a reflection of the role the group had played in the genre's increased worldwide popularity.

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

Vicious Delicious, considered by some as their most diverse musical effort up until that point, was released in 2007. The album includes "Becoming Insane"—a Spanish-guitar-led track containing Spanish lyrics—a collaboration with Gil, of Kinky, and the hip hop-influenced "Artillery". The overall album features more guest vocalists than previous albums, as well as live guitars and drums.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

Legend of the Black Shawarma^[16] was released in 2009. It includes a remix of The Doors song "Riders on the Storm",^[17] and continues the stylistic variety and use of guest vocalists. The album title refers to an Australian who wanted to go to sea in a shark-proof cage and was told that he would seem like "black shawarma", a West Asian delicacy, to the sharks.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} The success of Legend of the Black Shawarma led to a three-year tour.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

2012–2015: Army of Mushrooms and Friends on Mushrooms

The band's album, Army of Mushrooms, was released on 8 May 2012 on the Dim Mak Records label. It features tracks influenced by the psychedelic trance, dubstep, house and drum and bass genres, such as the up-tempo, breakbeat track "The Rat". The album includes a cover of "The Pretender" by the Foo Fighters, the progressive heavy-hitter "Drum n' Bassa" and "Nation of Wusses"—released as a single on 3 April 2012—and "U R So Fucked",^[18] released as a single/video on 14 February 2012.^[19]

A large-scale North American tour was launched on 12 May 2012, called "The Unveiling", and featured revamped stage production and novel audio/visual live aspects. The new live production featured Erez and Duvdev within two specially designed hollow spheres placed on stage, among other high tech additions to the band's live set-up and multimedia backdrop.^[20]

January 2013 saw the duo embark on their FungusAmongUS tour across North America, with special guests The M Machine. The "FungusAmongUS" tour was designed by Vita Motus and V Squared Labs, the creators of Amon Tobin's ISAM production and Skrillex's live Cell production.^[21]

The duo released a collaborative EP named Friends on Mushrooms Vol. 1 in January 2013, again under Dim Mak Records. The EP consists of tracks featuring Astrix and Hope 6. In July 2013, the duo released Friends on Mushrooms Vol. 2, also under Dim Mak Records, which consisted of collaborations with Pegboard Nerds, Savant and Kelsy Karter.^[21] In mid-2013, Infected Mushroom embarked on a tour in support of the Vol. 2 release that featured the duo "set against an incredible three dimensional landscape that brings INFECTED MUSHROOM's visual and sonic journey to life."^[21]

In August 2013, due to the leaked song "Aura", Infected Mushroom was revealed as a production team on Lady Gaga's third studio album Artpop.^[22] Friends on Mushrooms Vol. 3 was released on 17 June 2014 and includes a collaboration with Savant.^[23][24]

On 1 April 2014, Duvdevani said that Infected Mushroom will be releasing a new album at the end of the year. It was later revealed that Infected Mushroom will in fact be releasing a compilation of the tracks from the Friends On Mushrooms extended plays, bundled together with two new tracks, "Kafkaf" and "Kazabubu". This was released on 6 January 2015.^[25]

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

Following their Animatronica tour, the band officially announced that their new album will be a follow up to their widely acclaimed Converting Vegetarians album of 2003, sporting the same name. Additionally, it has been announced that the vocals of Sasha Grey will be featured in the track Fields of Grey. The album was released on 11 September 2015.^[26]

On 27 January 2017, the band released their eleventh studio album, Return to the Sauce, which features their signature psy-trance sound. This is in stark contrast to Converting Vegetarians II which is more ambient and down-tempo in style. The release of Return to the Sauce was preceded by two singles, "Liquid Smoke" and "Nutmeg".

On 24 November 2017, the band released their single Spitfire on the Canadian independent record label Monstercat.

2018–present: IM21 Pt.1, and Head of NASA and the 2 Amish Boys

On 9 March 2018, the band released IM21, Pt.1 under the label Hommega.^[27] It is composed of remixes of Bust a Move, Suliman, Saeed, Yamakas in space, and an acoustic live remix of i-Wish. These were remixed by groups such as No Comment, Paranormal Attack and Modulation. The acoustic remix of i-Wish was done by the band itself.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}

On 30 October 2018, the band announced a new full-length album titled Head of NASA and the 2 Amish Boys.^[28] The album was released through Monstercat on 12 December that same year. There are seven tracks on the album which are mainly electronic with psytrance influences and include one hip-hop collaboration song with Israeli artist Tuna and Israeli girl band A-WA in Hebrew, Arabic and English - Lost in Space.^[35]

Touring

On average, the band completes 120 live annual performances, including the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, US; the 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 and 2016 Burning Man Festivals in Black Rock City, Nevada, US.^[29][30] Infected Mushroom have been twice ranked amongst the world's "10 Best DJ's" by U.K.'s DJ Magazine.^[21]

Side projects

Eisen

• With Miki Litvak (ex-Domestic), Oren Kislev and Roy Sasson: Shidapu
• With Talamasca: Magic Mushrooms
• With Shiva (DJ Jörg): Shiva Shidapu

Eisen and Duvdev

• With Space Cat: Cat On Mushrooms
• With PsySex: Sex On Mushrooms
• With DJ Jörg: Jörg On Mushrooms
• With Domestic: Domestic Mushrooms
• With Pegboard Nerds: Nerds on Mushrooms
• With Savant: Savant on Mushrooms
• With Astrix: Astrix on Mushrooms
• With Deedrah: Infected Deedrah
• With Hallucinogen and Michele Adamson: Fly Agaric

Discography

Studio albums

• The Gathering (1999)
• Classical Mushroom (2000)
• B.P. Empire (2001)
• Converting Vegetarians (2003)
• IM the Supervisor (2004)
• Vicious Delicious (2007)
• Legend of the Black Shawarma (2009)
• Army of Mushrooms (2012)
• Converting Vegetarians II (2015)
• Return to the Sauce (2017)
• Head of NASA and the 2 Amish Boys (2018)^[31]

Compilation albums

• Friends on Mushrooms (2015)

Extended plays

• Intelligate (1999)
• Birthday (2002)
• IM21, Pt.1 (2018)

Singles

• "Bust a Move" (2000)
• "B.P.Empire" (2001)
• "Deeply Disturbed" (2003)
• "Cities of the Future" (2004)
• "Stretched" (2005)
• "Becoming Insane" (2007)
• "Smashing the Opponent" (2009)
• "Killing Time" (2010)
• "One Day" (with Matisyahu) (2010)
• "Deck & Sheker" (2010)
• "Pink Nightmares" (2011)
• "U R So Fd" / "U R So Smart" (2012)
• "Evilution" (with Datsik featuring Jonathan Davis) (2012)
• "Atid Matok" (with Mashina) (2012)
• "Never Mind" (2013)
• "See Me Now" (2013)
• "Psycho (Loud & Domestic 2015 Remix)" (2015)
• "Fields of Grey" (featuring Sasha Grey) (2015)
• "Koh Phangan" (with Hatikva 6) (2016)
• "Ad Or Sheyale" (with Avraham Tal) (2016)
• "Liquid Smoke" (2016)
• "Nutmeg" (2016)
• "Legal Eyes (English Version)" (with. Hadag Nahash) (2017)
• "Spitfire" (2017)
• "I Wish" (with Jetlag Music and Hot-Q featuring WhyNot Music and Jay) (2018)
• "Walking On The Moon" (2018)^[32]
• "Bliss On Mushroom" (with Bliss featuring Miyavi) (2018)
• "Guitarmass" (2018)
• "Lost in Space" (2018)

As featured artist

• Paul Oakenfold – "I'm Alive" (2011)

Music videos

References

External links

• Official website
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20170408092445/http://psychedelicmagazine.com/interviews/infected-mushroom-interview/ Infected Mushroom interview] on Psychedelic Magazine

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