Exclusive Interview Reveals Production Tips and Tricks

Erez Eisen and Amit Duvedevani “Duvdev” (background).

Innovators, geek tricksters, obsessive-perfectionists, un-serious, electronic-rock geniuses?   Time will tell, yet The Legend of the Black Shawarma, Infected Mushroom’s 7th album release will certainly grab the chair from underneath you and leave you thinking- I’m not sure what was this meticulous musical chaos, but I can’t stop moving even after the track has finished.

Hailing from sunny shores of Israel, now based in another sunny city, Los Angeles, the sun always seems to shine in Infected land, the core of which is Erez Eisen and Amit Duvedevani.  But seriously, between the hard-earned success, the mess, the nuclear shows, the private jokes you will find two very do-it-yourself kind of musician scientists who write, produce, mix, master, tweak and fix almost every detail of their music.

It was only fitting then that Audiofanzine (AF) will ask the obvious:  How do you make that sound?  As we brushed off the cobwebs with a morning coffee in Paris, Eisen joined us late at night from his studio in Los Angeles to tell us the production tales of Infected Mushroom.  Enjoy.

Part 1:  “It’s always changing, you know”

This is Infected Mushroom today.

AF:  Can you quickly present the band? Who’s doing what?

Eisen:  We started- my partner Amit Duvedevani, known as Duvdev, and I, Erez Eisen, in 1996 doing some horrible music.  Now today we are like a big band you know, not so big, but we have a drummer named  Rogerio Jardim he’s a great drummer from Brazil, he lives in America now.  We have an Israeli guitar player Erez Netz, which is considered one of the best electronic guitar players, the best in Israel.  We love him.  And also Thomas Cunningham, another guitar player from America who performs with us.  This is Infected Mushroom.

AF:  What do you consider to be your influences?   You’re using some ‘metal’ gigs and some ‘jazzy organs’ on the same tracks, some hip-hop influences, some Spanish music influences…

Eisen:  It’s always changing, you know.  It started with electronic like Psytrance bands, which is Simon Posford, known as Shpongle as well, also Hallucinogen.  At the time we liked X-Dream, Etnica, many other bands from this genre.  These are the main ones.  And slowly through the years we became open to everything.  We are listening to radio and MTV, not as it is today, horrible, but how it used to be with more heavy metal stuff.  Even if it is hip-hop sometimes, a few Jay Zee tracks, it can be nice.  Maybe we don’t like the whole concept but we like some ideas.  We try to just have fun in the studio basically and to be as creative as we can.

AF:  Your style has changed a lot in the past few years. When you go back to your old tracks and you listen to them, what are your thoughts?

Eisen:   The Gathering, which is the first album as Infected, I tend to think that is has a few decent tracks for me.  I think Tommy the Bat is one of them, and a few others, but the production is horrible.  I’m not so proud of it, let’s say.  But, you know, I was 16 I think when we did it.  So it’s OK.

Infected Mushroom’s Studio in L.A.:  Best place for inspiration.

AF:   Do you begin making a song in your studio or sometimes you need to go to someplace else to get inspired?

Eisen:  No, it’s always in the studio.  We tried doing tracks on the road, but we never did one.  Sometimes we come with just no ideas into the studio and we just decide on a BPM, usually it’s just 145, and we just start kick, bass line, and somehow looking for sounds and stuff.  Sometimes we are lucky, everything goes smoothly and we have a track going on very fast, and sometimes we get stuck like a week on a track.

AF:  I know what you mean.  I have been stuck for 10 years now.

Eisen:  When we are stuck, I wanted to kick myself sometimes, I wanted to say “that’s it, I cannot do anymore music, I have no more ideas”, but then Duvdev said “let’s see it as a fight in the studio”, like a video game- there is a level that is really hard to pass, and you keep trying until you move to the next level.  So this is how we see it these days and it really helps.  For us, when we have these horrible days we just give it a fight.  Sometimes it’s the lyrics.  Duvdev comes in with lyrics, and from there we get something- which is much easier.   Every time it’s something different.

Infected Mushroom Live in Chicago 11/14/09

AF:  What would you consider to be your biggest challenge as a band?

Eisen:  We always have challenges.  I guess the first big challenge was to make the band happen, to find the guitar player, to find the drummer, to write the parts for them, because the tracks are already kind of busy for us, and we didn’t want to make it noisy for the live show.  It’s kind of hard, in the beginning, to think about what the guitar player would play that will not sound too busy, and how to add a drummer that will not create too much of a mess.

AF:   In the studio you can create and produce music under ideal conditions.  It then becomes a challenge to re-create that sound on stage.  How do you approach that?

Eisen:  Yeah, for stage we try to have a little bit more bass, this feeling that you have a big speaker and you want to feel the bass, not just hear it.  This is very important.  And for the rest of the frequencies we try to make it as good as we can compared to what we had in mind in the studio- which never happens, by the way.  With our luck, we go to horrible sound systems most of the time.  It’s always a challenge to do a proper sound check.

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AF:  The big thing in this record is your collaborations with Jonathan Davis, Perry Farrell and the Doors.  Is this something that you’ve wanted to do for a long time, collaborate with other artists?  And what was their contribution?

Eisen:  We can start with the Doors.  It was the Doors track that Warner Brothers requested us to remix.  They did a remix CD for many Doors tracks, and basically we got approved to use it in our album – The Riders on the Storm.  We got original channels from the Doors which was really exciting to get all these cool recordings, which sounded pretty good I must say.  This was the easiest one because it was pre-recorded so we didn’t really collaborate.

With Jonathan Davis from Korn, in the beginning we asked him which song he wanted to sing.  He chose Killing Time in the beginning.  He came to the studio and we said, ‘do you mind trying Smashing the Opponent because we think it fits more to your style’.  And he said ‘sure’.   He didn’t practice it, but we just printed the lyrics, he gave it a shot, and I think not more than one hour recording and it was done, the vocals.

AF:  So basically, the lyrics and the melody lines were written and he just performed them?

Eisen:   Yeah.  Everything was written before.  He just came and performed the vocals.  Same for Jane’s Addiction singer, Perry Farrell.  We asked him if he minds doing Killing Time, and he liked it.  With him we did two different sessions.  We bothered him twice.  Actually, he knows us for a long time.  He has Classical Mushroom EP and The Gathering, which was very weird for us.  Like, why do you have these albums?  It was pretty fun.

Our move to Los Angeles was the move to make collaborations with people.  In Israel we were pretty limited to Israeli artists, which I have nothing against.  But it’s limited to Hebrew mainly.   We have dreams, as kids, you want to work with big artists, and you never believe that you will be able to do, so we said let’s try.  We almost got Dave Ghan from Depeche Mode singing, but at the end it didn’t happen.  Hopefully, it will happen with Dave in the next album.

Duvdev and Eisen: Serving up The Legend of the Black Shawarma to legions of ‘converted vegetarians’.

AF:  Last question about your lyrics from [the track] “The Legend of the Black Shawarma”, they are very positive and they are almost sending a message but maybe with a little bit of a warning.  I am assuming these are not totally random lyrics, is this something that you’ve realized with time and now you wish to share with your listeners?

Eisen:   When we started doing lyrics, we said we will write about everything except about love.  Because, it’s not that we have anything against love, but every song is about love.  So we said everything but love, which was not so hard.  And slowly it became the Duvdev road, most of the lyrics.  He came into the studio with almost all of the lyrics and maybe I didn’t like one or two words.  Duvdev is a pretty crazy guy.  He has lots of weird ideas.  Lots of them we cannot even write about.  We try to write stuff with less meaning, that will open people to think about stuff.  Or we write very un-serious lyrics that it’s just private jokes between us and our friends.  So please don’t take our lyrics seriously.

AF:  So you mean that actually you don’t want to convert vegetarians for real?

Musik alltså. Jag är en enorm periodare och kan lyssna sönder en och samma artist/låt i månader, men det finns massor jag lyssnar på. Har fått någon fråga om min musiksmak tidigare så jag tänkte vara lite snäll och tipsa om bra musik!

Namedropping:

Astral Projection, Afasi & Filthy, Bob Marley, Bomfunk MC’s, Counting Crows, Cypress Hill, Damian Marley, Dezarie, Dison the Dice, Deva Premal, Eva Cassidy, Eminem, Eddy Grant, Frou Frou (Imogen Heap), Governor Andy, Inti, Irya Gmeyner/Irya’s Playground, Infected Mushroom, Kapten Röd, Kingston Airforce, Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Looptroop, Lasse Lindh, Lil’ Wayne, Mari Boine, Marlon Asher, Marillion, Nine Inch Nails, NERD, Oingo Boingo (Danny Elfman), Opeth (Damnation-albumet, mesig som jag är), Pendulum, Röyksopp, Ri-Fa, Shpongle, Sting, Sizzla, Svenska Akademien, The Cure, Toto, Timbuktu, The Mo, Treklang, UB40, Xzibit

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That’s it for droppin’ names. Förutom ovanstående så är det i alla fall en massa random ambient meditation/yogamusik, reggae, psy/goa, hiphop och lite till.

All time favourites:

Av ovanstående all time favourites har jag sett 2 live, kan ni gissa vilka? More importantly, langa musiktips till mig ifall ni kommer på några! ♥

Então belos e belas, vocês já ouviram falar de Infected Mushroom, certo?

Não?! É aquela dupla de israelenses, o Erez e o Amit (Duvdev), que são formados em música clássica. Eles são pioneiros na música eletrôncia com o Psy Trance. Em 99 eles lançaram o primeiro album, o Gathering e daí fizeram sucesso, viraram mainstream e começaram a falar mal deles os chamando de “indústrial”. Isso por conta do sucesso deles, pelo som mais melódico, guitarras, baterias e muuuito scretch.

Acho que pela música fica mais fácil, né?!

E aí?! Reconheçeu?

Bom, eu adoro. Podem falar o que quiser, mas gosto é que nem bunda, ne?!

Em fim. E o Korn? Tudo bem se você não os conheçer, afinal este é um blog de eletrônica. Mas a música mais famosa deles é esta aqui (reparem no vocalista):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU2zfDFjffo ( não posso colocar o vídeo porque a Sony não liberou a incorporação de vídeos. Aquele lance de copyrights e problemas com conteúdo colaborativo que as gravadoras ainda não aprenderam a lidar).

Então, juntaram o moço de Nu metal e os carinhas de Psy TRance e fizeram isso:

Tá, OK. Mais do mesmo, eu sei. Mas é co car*lho!

Adoro fusões musicais, elas mostram possibilidades e qualidades de sons e musicos que é de babar.

E você? O que achou?

Um dia desses falo sobre essa idéia do “Mais do mesmo” da música eletrônica aqui no Brasil. Falta opinião neste blog. E peço isso de quem lê também, gente. Bora “monologar”?

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Nearly fifty thousand people gather every year in early September, a week of economic rationality frameworks kiszakítva live. A nevada , a Black Rock City nevű ideiglenes városban aztán a fogyasztói társadalom minden bűne megkövetésének jelképeként, látványos pirotec hnikai show keretében elégetik a hatalmas fából ácsolt embert, a névadó Burning Man-t ( égő ember ). The Nevada desert, called the temporary Black Rock City in the consumer society, then a symbol for all sin megkövetésének, a spectacular fireworks show under the huge wooden man burn, Burning Man is the authors’ (burning man).

HVG cikk HVG Article
A Burning Man fesztiválról beszámolót olvashat a HVG csütörtökön megjelenő számának 35. The Burning Man festival in the HVG on Thursday published a report about the number of 35th oldalán, és további képeket nézhet meg itt. side, and additional images to look here.
Előzőleg rasztás, tetovált, színes göncökbe öltözött jómódú amerikaiak tömegesen vásárolnak a nevadai Reno városában, amely az utolsó nagyobb település a Black Rock sivatag felé vezető úton. Previously rasztás, tattooed, dressed in colorful göncökbe wealthy Americans to buy a massive city of Reno, Nevada, which is the last major town in the Black Rock desert road. A fogyasztói társadalom kritikáját alapeszméjéül választó Burning Man fesztiválon ugyanis a kávén és a jégen kívül semmiért nem lehet fizetni. The critique of consumer society alapeszméjéül Selection of the Burning Man festival is the ice coffee, and nothing can not be paid. Ezen kívül tilos mindennemű reklám, hirdetés és kereskedelmi tevékenység; emiatt a résztvevők valósággal letarolják a környező települések boltjait. In addition, prohibited any advertising, advertising and commercial activity, therefore, the participants seemed letarolják shops in the surrounding communities. Sőt, a sivatagi túlélős bulira külön iparág épült ki. Indeed, the desert túlélős bulira separate industry has been built up.

A Burning Manre ugyanis az utolsó sörig és rágcsálnivalóig a résztvevőknek mindent maguknak kell megvásárolniuk előre, ezért a közértek mellett vízfeltöltő állomások, autómosók, kempingboltok, partyruha és -kellék üzletek, s még ki tudja, mi minden segíti a sivatagba készülőket. The Burning Manral since the last sörig and rágcsálnivalóig the participants themselves have to buy everything in advance, so by filling the grocery stations, car washes, kempingboltok, partyruha and accessory stores, and who knows what might help in the desert készülőket. A Burning Man “közgazdasági elveit” körülíró gift economy -t ( ajándékgazdaság ) a résztvevők olyannyira komolyan veszik, hogy az amúgy a világ táncterein emelt áron árult kábítószereket is ingyen megosztják egymással. The Burning Man “economic principles” gift economy is paraphrased (ajándékgazdaság) the participants are so seriously that the already raised prices in the world táncterein sold drugs to free exchange.

Si todavía no usan Google Chrome, hoy es un buen día para empezar, puesto que han añadido la opción de usar distintos temas con bastante facilidad.

Acabo de poner para usar el tema más hard que encontré, después del de Mariah Carey, claro. Observen.

Para que vean en detalle la necedad de lo duendes:

Descarguen Google Chrome… ¡YA!

I’ve been meaning to write up my Burning Man experiences but it’s harder to do than it sounds. Meanwhile, let me just update you on my excitement to see Infected Mushroom at Burning Man. And boy was my excitement fulfilled; it was one of the most adrenalating, annihilating, wildly surreal dance music experiences of my life. Infected Mushroom were set left on a stage with a projector screen behind them, two lasers arching overhead and a flamethrower directly in front of us throwing jets of fire thirty feet up as ten thousand people stomped and shook and screamed their passion into the night air. It was dance music at its best, as a return to a more tribal state, a giving of yourself to the ancient human pleasure of pounding the earth with our feet, finding unity in repetitive music and motions. It was madness, glorious madness.

Here’s the video I took. The sound quality is awful but hopefully you get a sense of the setting. Check out the fire at 2:36.

Here’s another good vid of them playing Cities of the Future, one of my favourite Infected Mushroom tracks and very apt for the setting:

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When I first heard about the iPhone years ago I was not interested. Sure it looked cool but it was WAY too fucking expensive. I didn’t become interested until they announced the 3G. Not only was it cheaper but the App Store was going to change everything. Today I have the 3GS and I can safely say that iPhone has in fact changed everything. There is literally an app for EVERYTHING. With that being said I am going to list 5 apps (in no particular order) that you should own if you have an iPhone.

1) I Am T-Pain

Jay Z might hate Auto Tune but I sure as hell love messing around with it. This app lets you use the same auto tune T Pain uses (and customize it in different ways) to record whatever you like. You can sing to karaoke versions of his songs (I’m on a boat is coming soon) or you can just record yourself singing whatever you want. It’s the type of app that is sure to get a good laugh from anyone wherever you are. $2.99

2) iConcertCal

Let me first start by saying that this app is in fact FREE for computers. However, having it on the go is VERY useful too. The app goes through all of the artists on your iPhone and tells when they are playing live near you. You can even order tickets and get more information right from the app itself. Thanks to this app I just saw that Wallpaper will be playing in Brooklyn on Saturday… FUCK YES. $2.99

More Under the cut….

3) MyPhone+

This app is actually one of my favorite apps. Using this app you can sync your all the information from your friends list on facebook to your contact list on your phone. In other words if you want everyones profile pic to show up when they call you: Boom Done. If you want their email and birthday synced to your phone: Boom done. The app is very easy to use and VERY useful. $2.99

4) Last Call

I love to drink. I unfortunately don’t have many friends that are capable of driving. Get where I am going yet? This app actually takes your body weight and gender and based on what you drink (what type,size,etc) determines your Blood Alcohol Content. It actually shows you a graph of what time you’ll be legally sober to drive. It keeps a history and even has a button to call a taxi or a DUI lawyer. Too good… $Free

5) Army of Darkness/RoboCop Soundboard

Ok Ok so these two maybe aren’t the most useful apps to the normal person. They are in fact ESSENTIAL though to fans of either movie. Thanks to MGM for releasing these two free apps. Groovy… $Free

KORN frontman Jonathan Davis will DJ prior to INFECTED MUSHROOM’s performance at the electronic-rock innovators’ record-release party at Terminal 5 in New York City on Saturday, October 3.

The record-release party celebrates INFECTED MUSHROOM’s new album, “Legend Of The Black Shawarma”, which came out on September 8, 2009 on electronic music giant Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto label. At Terminal 5, INFECTED’s Amit “Duvdev” Duvedevani (vocals) and Erez Eisen (keyboards) will be joined by Rogerio Jardim (drums) and Tom Cunningham (guitar) for an intense live show highlighting songs from the new CD, plus material from their previous seven releases.

On “Legend Of The Black Shawarma”, the Israeli-bred, Los Angeles-based electronic duo continue to push sonic boundaries and return with their patented hybrid of thrashing metal and psychedelic trance to bring a frenetic rock energy to the form and venture where other electronic acts fear to tread. It takes INFECTED MUSHROOM’s psy-trance fusion of bruising, metallic rock and unstoppable dance-floor beats to a new level and sees the pair teaming with high-profile rockers.

The album’s lead single, “Smashing the Opponent”, features Davis’ scorching vocal (see video below), while JANE’S ADDICTION frontman and alt-rock trailblazer Perry Farrell lends his inimitable pipes to the follow-up track “Killing Time”.

Legend of the Black Shawarma, lançado em Setembro pelos selos Hommega Productions e Perfecto, é o novo álbum do Infected Mushroom.

Dia após dia o Infected vai deixando o eletrônico e vai entrando de cabeça no rock, mais precisamente o hardcore e heavy metal. Misturas de guitarras e baterias com um clima pra baixo é o que caracteriza este álbum. Está muito diferente dos últimos álbuns do Infected Mushroom.

Na parte de divulgação, os caras escolheram incluir algumas faixas no seu próprio MySpace. Corra lá para conhecer, mas não vá com muita sede ao pote, pois poderá se surpreender negativamente devido ao novo tipo de som.

Quem sabe o Metallica não resolve fazer um remix do Infected agora.

Rádio E – Essencialmente Eletrônica

Here are this week’s new music releases:

Air Supply – The Singer and the Song
All-4-One – No Regrets
The Band of Heathens – One Foor in the Ether
The Best is Yet to Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman
Big Scoop – Tech N9ne Presents Big Scoop Monsterifik
The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
Bring it On: Fight to the Finish soundtrack album
Butterfly Boucher – Scary Fragile
Cain’s Offering – Gather the Faithful
Dada Life – Just Do the Dada
Dappled Cities – Zounds
Marié Digby – Breathing Underwater
Dodos – Time to Die
The Elms – The Great American Midrange
Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
Renée Fleming – Verismo
Ace Frehley – Anomaly
Gary Go – Gary Go
The Grates – Teeth Lost, Hearts Won
Honor Society – Fashionably Late
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers – Levitate
Infected Mushroom – Legend of the Black Shawarma
Mason Jennings – Blood of Man
Jupiter One – Sunshower
Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Kittie – In the Black
Mark Knopfler – Get Lucky
Living Colour – The Chair in the Doorway
The Lovemakers – Let’s Be Friends
Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
John Mayall – Tough
Megadeth – Endgame
Moneen – The World I Want to Leave Behind
Muse – The Resistance
Orange – Phoenix
Outloud! – Outloud!
Passafire – Everyone on Everynight
Porcupine Tree – The Incident
Q-Tip – Kamaal the Abstract
The Rifles – Great Escape
Royal Bangs – Let It Beep
Rubik – Dada Bandits
Tom Russell – Blood and Candle Smoke
Shadows Fall – Retribution
The 69 Eyes – Back In Blood
Shudder to Think – Live From Home
Simian Mobile Disco – Temporary Pleasure
Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats – Meet the Meatbats
Sonos – SonoSings
Stars of Track and Field – A Time for Lions
Super 400 – Sweet Fist
David Sylvian – Manafon
Thrice – Beggars
Trick Daddy – Finally Famous: Born a Thug, Still a Thug
Uncle Kracker – Happy Hour
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson – Break Up

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Já estão disponíveis no My Space do Infected Mushroom as músicas do novo álbum que foi lançado na semana passada, o “Lengend Of The Black Shawarma”…(matéria completa)

Sono state rese pubbliche le nomination per il premio di “miglior artista” nelle varie “regioni” dove è presente una emittente dedicata di MTV. Questo in vista degli MTV Music Awards, il premio internazionale della musica europea organizzato dalla popolare emittente in programma il 5 novembre prossimo a Berlino. Da questi uscirà poi, come dai vincitori di ogni categoria “regionale” un vincitore assoluto.

Sotto, tutti i candidati.Qualche notazione. Per quanto concerne l’Italia non ci sono – per ora – artisti usciti da Amici, mentre c’è Giusy Ferreri di X Factor. Qualcosa vorrà dire, anche se probabilmente, per via della permanenza in classifica, ci aspettiamo fra gli album la presenza di “Stupida” della Amoroso o del lavoro di Marco Carta.

A conferma di quello che andiamo dicendo da tempo, anch quest’anno è ricco il parterre di artisti che hanno partecipato al’Eurofestival. Notiamo: Kenan Dugulu, Helena Paparizou, Marika, Lovebugs e l’immancabile Dima Bilan. La rassegna dunque funziona (Bilan è un ex vincitore, l’anno scorso si impose l’israeliana Shiri Maimon).

Non sono poi così tanti gli artisti da primato in classifica, per un premio che tende a valorizzare i sound particolare: si prospetta però una bella lotta in Germania, Spagna, Polonia e Regno Unito. Ci fa piacere vedere, per esempio, artisti come i greci Onirama, la lettone DJ Ella o gli ottimi polacchi Afromental.

BEST ITALIAN ACT:  1) “Giusy Ferreri, 2) J AX, 3)  Lost, 4) TizianoFerro, 5)  Zero Assoluto

BEST BALTIC ACT – 1) Chungin and The Cats of Destiny (Estonia), 2) DJ Ella (Lettonia), 3) Flamingo (Lituania), 4) Leon Somov & Jazzu (Lituania), 5) Popidiot (Estonia)

BEST UK & IRELAND ACT - 1) Florence & The Machine (Inghilterra), 2) La Roux (Inghilterra), 3) Pixie Lott (Inghilterra) 4) The Saturdays (Inghilterra) , 5) Tinchy Strider (Inghilterra).

BEST FRENCH ACT: 1) David Guetta 2) Olivia Ruiz, 3) Orehlsan, 4) Rohff 5) Sliimy

BEST ADRIA(TIC) ACT: 1) Darwood Dub (Serbia), 2) Dubioza Kolectiv (Bosnia Erzegovina) 3) The Elvis Jackson (Slovenia) 4) Lollobrigida (Croazia) 5) Superhiks (Macedonia)

BEST BELGIAN AND DUTCH ACT: 1) Alain Clark (Olanda) 2) The Black Box Revelation (Belgio) 3) Esmée Danters (Olanda) 4) Fedde Le Grand (Olanda) 5) Milow (Belgio)

BEST DANISH ACT: 1) Dunè 2 )The Jooks  3) L.O.C 4) Medina 5 Outlandish

BEST FINNISH ACT: 1) Apulanta 2) Cheek 3) Deep Insight 4) Happoradio 5) Disco Ensemble

BEST GERMAN ACT: 1) Peter Fox 2) Jan Delay 3) Silbermond 4) Sohne Mannheims 5) Sportfreund stiller

BEST GREEK ACT: 1) Elena Paparizou 2) Monika 3) Matisse 4 ) Onirama 5) Professional Sinnerz

BEST SPANISH ACT: 1) Fangoria 2) Macaco 3) Nena Daconte 4) Russian Red 5) We are standard

BEST HUNGARIAN ACT: 1) Esclin Syndo 2) The Idoru 3) The Kolin 4) The Moog 5) Zagar

BEST ISRAELI ACT:  1) Asaf Avidan & the Mojos 2)Assaf Amdursky3) Infected Mushroom 4) Ninet Tayeb 5) Terry Poison

BEST NORWEGIAN ACT: Donkeyboy, Maria Mena, Paperboys, Røyksopp, Yoga Fire

BEST POLISH ACT: Afromental, Ania Dąbrowska, Doda, Ewa Farna, Jamal

BEST PORTUGUESE ACT: Buraka Som Sistema, David Fonseca, Os Pontos Negros, X-Wife, Xutos e Pontapés

BEST ROMANIAN AND MOLDAVIAN ACT: David Deejay feat. Dony, Inna, Puya feat. George Hora, Smiley, Tom Boxer feat. Jay

BEST SWEDISH ACT: Adiam Dymott, 2) Agnes, 3) Darin, 4) Promoe 5) Mando Diao

BEST SWISS ACT: 1) Lovebugs 2) Phenomden 3) Ritschi 4) Seven 5) Stress

BEST TURKISH ACT: 1) Atiye Deniz 2) Bedük 3) Kenan Doğulu 4)  maNga, 5) Nil Karaibrahimgil

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Namasté, voila une petite news concernant Infected Mushroom, le nouvel album est sortit il y’a peu de temps  !!! Je l’ai pas encore écouté je vous dis ce que j’en pense tout a l’heure ;p

Infected Mushroom’s 8th studio Album ‘Legend Of The Black Shawarma’.

For their highly anticipated release ‘Legend OF THE Black Shawarma’, electronic-rock innovators Infected Mushroom return with their patented hybrid of thrashing metal and psychedelic trance to bring a frenetic rock energy to the form and venture where other electronic acts fear to tread. The Israeli-bred, Los Angeles-based electronic duo continues to push sonic boundaries for their eighth studio album that’s due out September 2009.

Legend Of The Black Shawarma sees Amit ‘Duvdev’ Duvedevani and Erez Eisen teaming with high-profile rockers. The album’s lead single ‘Smashing the Opponent’ features a scorching vocal from Korn’s Jonathan Davis, while Jane’s addiction frontman and alt-rock trailblazer Perry Farrell lends his inimitable pipes to the follow-up track ‘Killing Time.’ Recording with Jonathan and Perry was a highlight, of course, ‘Duvdev’ notes. They were both incredibly cool. The fact that they liked the tracks was awesome because we’re huge fans of what they do.

The album is the follow up to 2007’s Vicious Delicious and takes Infected Mushroom’s psy-trance fusion of bruising, metallic rock and unstoppable dance-floor beats to a new level. ‘It’s a really diverse record’, Duvdev says, ‘but it’s even more aggressive’both on the metal side and on the breakbeat side’. Taking its time to craft the album, the duo worked on Shawarma whenever their frenetic, globe-trotting tour schedule permitted. Whether singing about ‘Smashing’ and ‘Killing’ or paying tribute to beloved (Los Angeles) eateries like ‘Poquito Mas’, ‘Frank’s’ (‘The best taco place in Mexico in our opinion’) or Israeli hummus factory ‘Sae’ed’, Infected Mushroom prove they’ve stayed hungry despite their massive international success.

Artist: Infected Mushroom
Title Of Album: Legend Of The Black Shawarma
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: HOM-MEGA PRODUCTIONS
Genre: Psychedelic
Total Time: 73:21 min

Tracklist :

• 01.Poquito Mas
• 02.Sa’eed
• 03.End Of The Road
• 04.Smashing The Opponent (featuring Jonathan Davis (Korn)
• 05.Can’t Stop
• 06.Herbert The Pervert
• 07.Killing Time (featuring Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction)
• 08.Project 100
• 09.Franks
• 10.Slowly
• 11.Legend Of The Black Shawarma
• 12.Riders on The Storm (Infected Mushroom Remix) (Bonus)

Download : [Here] (107 Mo)

Buy : [Here] (10.85 €)

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