

Ironically, Infected Mushroom’s recently released album, Return to the Sauce, is the antithesis of their unbridled musical mischief over the years. I see some amazing young producers, and the one thing I love most about them is how much I can learn from them.” In today’s time, it is challenging”¦ It’s pretty difficult because every half year, it changes. “We have never gone with trends, but we do look into what people like at any given time. But Duvdevani says when it came to exploring newer stuff, the duo only followed their instinct. In fact, Infected Mushroom haven’t done a bad job themselves in that department.
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In the mean time, no hard feelings towards the MacBook lot actually, it’s remarkable how the latter have cracked the code to predicting trends and riding on them. He is hopeful that just like “how vinyl and piano are back,” music-making in the studio will make a comeback too. But if people can’t learn music, it will be a shame,” says Duvdevani. But if audiences like them and follow their music, I can’t fight it. Their first record as Infected Mushroom was released three years later.Īlso See Shantanu Pandit Returns With Solo Song ‘Aliza don’t count on me’Īs artists who trained in classical music before dabbling in electronica, does it bother them that a whole new brigade of laptop lords with questionable music credentials are capable of helming the scene today? “Well, some people become big with no knowledge.

Upon his return to Israel, he teamed up with Eisen in 1996 and the duo started working on material together. I have been coming to Goa since I was a child.” It was Goa where the frontman’s love affair with psy-trance began after he spent a year there, fresh off his conscription in the mid-Nineties. For Duvdevani, who has spent a considerable time in India in the past, it’s a happy homecoming. The duo, who famously average one gig every three days, are gearing up for their headlining performance at SulaFest in Nashik this weekend. “I give it up to our fans for having followed us all through-from rock and heavy metal to trance.” Dubstep and house too found inroads into subsequent material. For all their pioneering work as psy-trance crusaders back in the Nineties, the Los Angeles-based duo comprising DJ/producers Erez Eisen and Amit ”˜Duvdev’ Duvdevani have since glided through unsuspecting genres like there’s no tomorrow.Īs if they weren’t wholly content with the super success of their psychedelia in the flagship albums The Gathering (1999) and Classic Mushroom (2000)-“bringing underground to mainstream,” as international media declared in no uncertain terms-Infected Mushroom gleefully embraced synthpop by the time their fourth record came out ( Converting Vegetarians, 2003), moving on to explore rock, hip-hop, metal ( Vicious Delicious, 2007), and more recently, straight-up pop courtesy a Lady Gaga collab. Infected Mushroom are perhaps, oxymoronically, the biggest anti-purist purists the global electronic music circuit has nurtured in recent times. Erez Eisen (left) and Amit ‘Duvdev’ Duvdevani of Infected Mushroom.
