Astral Projection

The official US Album Release Event for “Open Society”

Astral Projection is a Psychedelic trance group from Israel.

The beginning was when Avi Nissim and Lior Perlmutter get together in 1994 and formed “SFX” after both of them have been making electronic music for several years under different names.

In 1989 they made their first album which unfortunately didn’t came out, so they made another track called “Monstermama” which came out in 1990 on a beat/techno label in Belgium. After that Lior went to New York and started a trance label called X-Rave Records which released the new SFX single.

At the end of 1993 Avi and Lior hooked up with Guy Sebbag and Yaniv Haviv. They formed Outmosphere Records and released CD album/compilation including tracks from SFX and others, called “Trust in Trance” … they also released a “Trust In Trance 2″ second album/compilation.

After a while Guy left Outmosphere Records. Then the Outmosphere Records turned into Trust in Trance in 1994. Avi, Yaniv and Lior formed Astral Projection in 1995. The first album they released under this name was also “Trust In Trance” (in fact Trust In Trance 3), in 1996 …

They became very popular thanks to 3 Tracks : “Mahadeva”, “Kabalah” and “People Can Fly”. The same year, they released “The Astral Files” (containing several mixes). Then Yaniv left the band, and today it’s Avi and Lior who are running everything.

They released “Dancing Galaxy” in 1997, “Another World” and “SFX : The Unreleased Tracks 89-94″ in 1999…

Few time ago, many Goa addicts thought they were the best Psychedelic Trance group, but Hallucinogen, the new Infected Mushroom Israeli group, and particularly their last album “In The Mix” released in 2000 (which hasn’t been appreciated by several people, even fans, because it’s mixed and contains few new Tracks), are changing this supremacy…

To their new live act they were joined by one of the best Israeli drummers- Dani Makov (Siam, Nikmat Hatractor and more). They are currently working on their next album OPEN SOCIETY with Trust In Trance records will be out in the beginning of 2009.

Stage: PLUR Productions Stage