Astral projection at Life Festival 2010

Astral Projection are an electronic musical group producing goa/psytrance music. They are based in Israel. Its members are Avi Nissim and Lior Perlmutter, although they started out with Yaniv Haviv and Guy Sabbag as well.

They had their first breakthrough in ‘91 with their single ‘Monster Mania’ that came out on the Belgian Company Music Man. ‘Trust in Trance (vol. 2)’ entered the Israeli best selling album charts and reached the number 2 position. Both albums became very popular through Europe and in Goa and were released as double albums by Smart Records in Scan

Their work on Astral Projections was interrupted when they where temporarily spread out between Israel and the US, during which Aviv teamed up with Yaniv Haviv and Guy Sabbag to produce ‘Another World’ and Lior stayed in New York where he released ‘JBIE’ in ‘93. In early 1994, Lior returned to Israel and they changed their name to Astral Projection. Yaniv followed his own music style and left the group in ‘97, leaving Avi Nissim and Lior Perlmutter alone together once again!

Astral Projections was soon greeted enthusiastically by Goa and Psychedelic trance fans Worldwide. ‘Trance (vol. 3)’ was their major breakthrough into the European market, the album was reviewed by the leading UK music magazines as a masterpiece, and Astral Projection were crowned as the masters of psychedelic trance from Israel. A full computerized animation video was made for ‘People Can Fly’ and was played on MTV Europe, Viva, MLM, and Channel+, as they played over 30 live shows around the world in one year.
Leading DJs are still known to keep Astral Projection on their play list. Avex Records (Japan) released ‘The Mix’ CD included Avi’s best tracks, not to mention their tracks used in many compilations in Europe, The US, Japan, and Taiwan. They remixed Faithless’ ‘God is a DJ’ and the 2 mixes were released on ‘Psychedelic Vibes 6′ and on ‘Israeli Psychedelic ‘Trance vol. 4′.

They where the guest performance at the opening night of “The Israeli Season in France”, where they entertained VIPs from the French Culture Minister, the Israeli Ambassador to Yugoslavia; Ibiza; Russia; Croatia; USA; and all over Europe. And this year they are set to perform at Life Festival in Belvedere House this coming June bank holiday at Belvedere House.