Israel

Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל; Arabic: إِسْرَائِيلُ) officially the State of Israel is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Also adjacent are the West Bank to the east and Gaza Strip to the southwest. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state with a population of about 7.37 million people, of which approximately 5.57 million belong to the majority Jewish ethnoreligious group. The largest ethnic minority group is the segment denominated as Arab citizens of Israel, while minority religious groups include Muslims, Christians, Druze, Samaritans and others, most of which are found within the Arab segment.

History

The constant wars with the mandatory army (three years for men and two for women), hot weather and hot Mediterranean temper combined with growing high tech industry spiced with a search of something different made Israel the perfect habitat for trance to have it’s first steps and then spread like Infected Mushrooms.

Israel has had a huge effect and influence on the global trance scene with such pioneers like Astral Projection, Oforia, California Sunshine and Space Cat. Most of them continue to shape the scene till this day. The journey to India after finishing the army became an Israeli ritual that helped develop the scene and made this genre the most popular for young people in the country.

[2010] We will Trance you! ISRAEL

written by PinkE
read this article in French

The Israeli Trance scene has been kicking the world with the unique Israeli sound for more than 20 years now, we managed to play, dance and plant our karahana mantra everywhere, while adapting to the evolutionary phases of the psychedelic subculture.

Trance in Israel is all over, it will haunt you everywhere you go! you will hear it in cars, kiosks, stores, houses, radio, and television. In the summer (which is most of the year except 2 month), you can usually go to nature parties at the forest at the north or the desert at the south. Remember there is no public transportation during the weekend so try to use your social skills and hook up with some groovy people to give you a ride and some info about parties. During the winter most of the parties are in Tel Aviv, at the Comfort club or at the Block club with changing organizations and at the north at Hafia you can find Bottom Line crew.

The parties are so varied that you have a big choice between genres (Fullon, Goa, Suomi, Dark, Progressive, Electro-Techno), sizes (from 150-6000) and spirit (underground to mainstream) of parties. The prices have rose throughout the years and you will probably spend around 50-120 shekels for an entrance and high bar prices, so better bring your own drinks (in a plastic bottle) unless it’s a "Hat party" which means its for free and you donate as much as you can. Music wise we have multiple options for everyone: Echoes, Dance N' Dust, Mikella Bella for the Progressive-Electro-Techno groovers, Hommega, Phonokol, Noga, Com.pact, Trancelucent for the Fulloners, Doof, Avatar & Zaikadelic for the dark souls, and Aleph Zero for total relaxation. The police in Israel is not that pleasant when caught in the wrong mood (which can be at any time) so do yourself a favor and avoid any rubber gloves encounter by taking only legal stuff or at least put it on your female friend.

This year highlights are Moksha's magnificent festival Indigo from 20-22nd of May with headliners such as Simon Posford, Union Jack, Haltya and many more. The Doof records crew has also its annual festival for the 7th time on the 2-5th of April with all Doof artists and treats such as Tristan, Cosmosis, Squaremeat and loads more! After 13 years isratrance.com is still the best platform for you to get in the Israeli psychedelic realm and check out the updates, who, what and how! If you need to relax your crave for some home listening experience you can always tune in to 106fm in Tel Aviv for Hafirot the trance magazine on Wednesday's @ 13:00, Hypnoza the underground sounds of trance madness on Sundays @ 20:00. Also listen to 106fm Ariel which have their Transformers show every Wednesday @ 22:00 with everything you need to know about Trance. Israel is an all you can eat Trance buffet, what ever you desire, we have it!

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overview about the upcoming year
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average price for a party,

average price for water/beer,

how many parties a week,

how long is a party in average,

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when is the best time to come by?

legal situation on drugs

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Hypnoza every Sunday @ 20:00 106fm Tel Aviv

Hafirot every Wednesday @ 13:00 106fm Tel Aviv

Networks

Isratrance

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Labels

Aleph Zero

Avatar Records Under the umbrella of Avatar are the labels: Pro File, the classics label of Avatar that features some of the best all time favorite albums in trance and ambient; Avatar Spirit, mainly focusing on lounge and yoga.