Duvdev comes in with lyrics, and from there we get something- which is much easier. For us, when we have these horrible days we just give it a fight.
So this is how we see it these days and it really helps. I have been stuck for 10 years now.Įisen: 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. 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.ĪF: I know what you mean. 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. We tried doing tracks on the road, but we never did one. Infected Mushroom's Studio in L.A.: Best place for inspiration.ĪF: Do you begin making a song in your studio or sometimes you need to go to someplace else to get inspired?Įisen: No, it’s always in the studio. But, you know, I was 16 I think when we did it. I think Tommy the Bat is one of them, and a few others, but the production is horrible. When you go back to your old tracks and you listen to them, what are your thoughts?Įisen: The Gathering, which is the first album as Infected, I tend to think that is has a few decent tracks for me. We try to just have fun in the studio basically and to be as creative as we can.ĪF: Your style has changed a lot in the past few years. Maybe we don’t like the whole concept but we like some ideas. Even if it is hip-hop sometimes, a few Jay Zee tracks, it can be nice. We are listening to radio and MTV, not as it is today, horrible, but how it used to be with more heavy metal stuff. And slowly through the years we became open to everything. At the time we liked X-Dream, Etnica, many other bands from this genre. It started with electronic like Psytrance bands, which is Simon Posford, known as Shpongle as well, also Hallucinogen. This is Infected Mushroom.ĪF: 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…Įisen: It’s always changing, you know. And also Thomas Cunningham, a young kick ass guitar player from America who performs with us. We have an Israeli guitar player Erez Netz, which is considered one of the best electronic guitar players, the best in Israel. 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. Part 1: "It's always changing, you know"ĪF: Can you quickly present the band? Who’s doing what?Įisen: We started- my partner Amit Duvedevani, known as Duvdev, and I, Erez Eisen, in 1996 doing some horrible 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. 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. 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. 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. Erez Eisen and Amit Duvedevani "Duvdev" (background).
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