NITRO
Gil Dagan was born in 1982, and raised in Hertzelia and Karcur, Israel. He started his musical path by playing African drums, and got into trance music at the age of 18, which was also when he started to attend psychedelic trance parties. He started making his own music after being a partner of Yaniv (U-Recken) in Tel Aviv at 2003, and started Dj-ing in 2002. Gils style is psychedelic, full on, groovy, influenced by drum and bass and can be distinguished by his breaks and his basses.
U-RECKEN
Yaniv Ben-Ari got into trance music in 1998, when he was 20 years old. He was born in Haifa, Israel, and was playing in rock bands since he was 14. Soon after that he was working as a music producer and sound engineer in recording studios in Israel. Yaniv also worked as a sound engineer at theater plays in New York and Great Brittain. The long exposure to music drove him to start Dj-ing and organizing trance parties. After a while he realised that playing his own music was much more fun, so he started to write music, which was soon appreciated by Doof Records. His musical style has developed from harsh dark banging full on trance, into a more melodical (yet still pumping) form of psytrance, which made Doof records decide to invite him into the rising Dooflex project.
TERRANOISE
Maxim Galinov was born in 1986, and grew up in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Maxim arrived in Israel when he was 9 years old and currently lives in Tiberias in the north. He started his musical career by playing on his grannys piano, and was first exposed to trance music around 1997 when Eyal Barkan and Holyman were at the scene. Psytrance conquered him completely and he does not listen to any other types of music ever since. He started producing his own music on Fruity Loops when he was only 14 years old and played as a DJ as well. The name Terranoise was a suggestion of his friend, when Maxim asked him how to describe his music. He defines his musical style as full power and full energy dance floor, night and morning music, and he says that when making it, he tries to imagine himself on the dancefloor. That is what makes his music so pumping and irresistible.
CACTUS
Avi Sakorka was born in 1980, and grew up in Azur, Israel. His musical path started when he was 12 - playing drums. He was first exposed to electro music and trance at the age of 16 – and started Dj-ing at the age of 18. Though after his army service he got more into it and also started writing his own music. His inspiration comes from all types of music – starting with rock and through all electronic genres. He mostly writes hard dark psy with a lot of twisted effects combined with powerful, pumping, mind blowing music.
ccL
Troy and Paul started working on their project in december 2004, and the music they make sounds very unique and special, described as funky, trippy, acid groove and "has its own style" – for sure it will give us something to wait for. The shared inspiration of both is coming from hearing a lot of different music, going to many parties and live music shows and mostly having fun. Describing their work together sounds like they are both enjoying each others skills and attitude, as well as sushi… The combination of the two experienced DJs and music creators is promising. Looking forward to the album -"Unleash The Beast" - coming out in January 2006, surely promises a harsh pumping winter on the dancefloors.
ZEBRA-N
Paul Elfferich, the man behind Zebra-N, is the guy responsible for some of the greatest psychedelic night-time twisters from the last couple of years. The 43 years old Amsterdam based, was born in Gouda, Netherlands (yes, where the cheese comes from). His musical history includes playing bass guitar for about 8 years, followed by African percussion for approximately 10 years. Then a good friend took him to a trance party on Queensday, 2000. He was hooked immediately and started to collect music, play as a DJ and then moved to Portugal for a year where he started to get into producing music. It was not until he came back to Amsterdam though, that everything started to get serious with music production. In 2003 he started to write his own music. The name Zebra-N, which raises some eyebrows, is an anachram of Barnez, which is his internet nickname.
DOUBLE R.E.L.
Double R.E.L. are: Ariel Ram (1979, Tel Aviv aka Happyleptic)
& Ariel Sela (1983, Kfar-Saba aka The Farting Parrot).
Ram discovered psytrance music at the age of 15, and since that day, psytrance and music in general became his reason for living. His musical background contains a lot of death metal and oriental music, and he is also playing the guitar since the age of 12. In 1998 he started making psytrance professionally in his home studio, under the name Happyleptic.
His partner, Ariel Sela, discovered psytrance at the age of 15 and has a musical background which contains guitar and keyboard playing and a lot of rock n roll & funk music. The RELs met in a blind date on the internet some years ago and since than it has been a true "love story". They started creating psychedelic trance music that can only be described as dark, intense and funny, while taking it to the edge and trying to make it different.
Their influences start with X-Dream and go through more of the bigger names in the scene like MFG, Little Blue Men, Weirdo Beardo, Tsuhyoshi and many more… Their style is very unique and special, and after so many tracks released on several albums, their first album which will be out soon is promising some tasty surprises!
ENTROPY
Pitt & Omer, in their mid twenties, are the ones standing behind the project of Entropy. Born in southern Israeli cities, they both share a large musical background. Pitt played the piano for 4 years during his childhood, until he got fed up and discovered electronic music – drum and bass, techno and house – but this of course until trance music swept him away, while Omer has a degree in sound engineering. They both discovered psychedelic trance during the early days of this genre. First they were just ravers, enjoying the music and the vibes, until they met Shay who was a party organizer, and so a successful musical collaboration known as the Kopsses project began between the three of them. After several years, their debut album Kopsses was released in 2002. As we, humans, always change and evolve, so did the members of Kopsses. Shay decided it was time for him to seek his own path, while Omer & Pitt decided to take their music into a darker phase. And so a new project was born – ENTROPY. It took them 2 years of hard work, until their second album "The Second Law of Thermodynamics" saw the light in July of 2004. Up till today, the main reason for them to produce their music is Fun. Being true musicians, selling is not their primary goal. They aim to reach the listeners mysterious minds.
REV
Troy Leidich was born and raised in the USA and began his musical career as a successful saxophone player. With a student exchange program he found himself in Amsterdam, making electro and dance music with a bunch of crazy Dutch people. Since he was familiar with the psychedelic crowd in Amsterdam he started traveling around Europe looking for trance festivals. Troy started making trance music in 1996 together with BONKY and in 1997 together with Ramamurti. With him they founded the legendary band : F.O.L. (Fungus of Light). Today, he makes his own groovy psychedelic music as REV, and has a sideproject with Zebra-N (ccL).
UV
UVs style is always evolving, always staying on the outskirts of the scene. He is an anti-mainstream with particular love to weird, wacky music. UV got acquainted to electronic music through the Spiral Tribe acid-techno soundsystem and the combination of these acid drifting sounds, with his love to old school psychedelia like Hendrix, The Doors and the like, brought him into psytrance. He started organizing underground parties with Zirkin in 1995, playing the records and tapes they collected in their travels. Today UV plays funky, pumping wicked night music, showcasing the more bizarre side of DOOF.
ZIRKIN
Zirkin started his music career simply by going to techno & trance parties. He was attracted to the music and its vibe and started playing psychedelic underground sets, as he was traveling around the word. In 1998 Zirkin started to produce his own dark and mysterious music, and had tracks released in various labels. Living in Amsterdam for a while, he was part of the party scene there, and it was there where he met with Troy, and BONKY (Onno Borgen, RIP). Those two guys were already making music from the early nineties, and with great fun and friendship the three of them started making psychedelia together.

Today, Zirkin is one of the dark lords of trance. Together with UV he runs Doof Records, keeping his underground musical flow.