
Establishing a pattern of sonic experimentation, the duo incorporated more chords and melodies into their 2000 follow-up, Classical Mushroom. The band released its debut album, The Gathering, in 1999.


Drawing inspiration from such disparate sources as The Prodigy and Metallica, Infected Mushroom forged a distinct style of hard, pulsing electronica with psychedelic sounds and shifting tempos.Duvdevani learned piano at age eight and played keyboards for a punk band as a teen. Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani founded Infected Mushroom in the city of Haifi in 1996.Įisen is a classically trained musician who learned to play the organ at four.The Isreali electronic music duo Infected Mushroom are pioneers of psychedelic trance music, or psytrance, a sound they’ve built on throughout a wildly successful career dating back to the mid-’90s.
