Something About This Place Makes You Dance

If you have ever had a glimpse into the underground dance music scene, you would know that Israel has a major role to play in it.

No matter where you are in the world, if you seek out electronica, particularly trance music, you will find Israelis. Often they are the ones organizing the dance parties, from intimate gatherings to huge events.

But more than just party planners, Israelis have also been leading the way in creating the world’s best trance music, for quite a long time now.

Demonstrating this fact is London-based DJ Magazine’s 2006 Top 100 DJs poll, which was answered by 217,102 dance music fans.

If you click on the link, you won’t find any Israeli DJs in the top 10, but take a look what happens from number 12 until the end of the list. There are many talented Israelis listed.

Infected Mushroom comes in at 12, DJ Yahel is 28 and Offer Nissim 29. Then there is DJ Skazi, Astrix and others.

And what’s more, an argument can be made (and was made quite strongly to me, by an Israeli friend) that the number one DJ Paul Van Dyke and the number three, Tiesto, both had their careers launched by their Israeli popularity.

“Especially Tiesto,” My Israeli friend said. “He was basically discovered by the Israelis and only afterwards found international success.”

“Tiesto said at one of his interviews that if there wasn’t for the Israelis his career would be completely different. And it’s all from a small country surrounded by enemies in the Middle East.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

The video above is Infected Mushroom live at the Love Parade in 2005.

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