The simple piano motif forms the foundations for the track that follows as the vocals and layered backing instruments stick to the same notes throughout but bolster out the channels with a wide array of instruments. Much like in previous albums, Infected Mushroom kick things off on the front foot with their opening track, this time in the form of “More Of Just The Same”, a track worked in collaboration with WHITENO1SE.
These feel much closer to the pair’s offerings on Violent Delight while the remaining 3 tracks lean heavier into the trance-side of things but never quite hit the same stride the early tracks manage to achieve. Unfortunately More Than Just A Name feels like a top-heavy production, with “More Of Just The Same”, “No Line in Midi” and “Ani Mevushal” arguably the strongest tracks on the album and overshadowing everything that follows.
In some ways this actually succeeds to do just that, with some great tracks front-loaded on the album. The latest 2020 album from Infected Mushroom feels like a conscious effort to try and merge both these styles together a bid to please old fans and new to reproduce the goods that made the two aforementioned albums so good. Both The Gathering and Violent Delight signify the high peaks of this Israeli duo and going into More Than Just A Name, that’s worth bearing in mind. The opening track “Release Me” uses samples from Independence Day incredibly well and as an opening track, hits the right notes and sets up a musical journey into the depth of psy-trance bliss. The earlier work of the duo, including 1999’s The Gathering, leans much heavier into samples and trance beats, with a side-order of acid-house for good measure. The combination of instruments, the epic build-up of tracks like Heavyweight and Vicious Delicious along with some really smart compositional work make it an album that successfully blurs the line between psy-trance and rock, delivering the best of both worlds across its run-time. Infected Mushroom perform as a band on stage, utilizing live vocals and a variety of instruments, including guitars, drums, and synthesizers.Violent Delight remains one of my favourite albums of all time.As of 2021, Infected Mushroom had released 12 studio albums, the most recent being 2020’s More Than Just a Name.“Aura,” the opening track off Lady Gaga’s 2013 album Artpop, was cowritten and coproduced by Infected Mushroom.They also cover Foo Fighters’ “The Pretender” on their 2012 LP Army of Mushrooms. Wearing their rock influence on their sleeves, Infected Mushroom remix the Doors classic “Riders on the Storm” on their 2009 album Legend of the Black Shawarma.Their seventh full-length, 2009’s Legend of the Black Shawarma, finally dented the Billboard charts, reaching the Top 10 of the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart.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.
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