INFECTED MUSHROOM Heavyweight Old Composer Reaction The Decomposer Lounge 

Can't go wrong with these guys. They have such a unique sound. This album almost overwhelms me with nostalgia. I used to cut out some of the breakdowns from certain songs and use it as ring tones, which sometimes made me very slow to answer because of how awesome it was to listen to 😂

Every song in Vicious Delicious is amazing. It's like they have unrestricted access to the listeners brain.

I'm so glad you did this song! Many metalheads such as myself enjoy IM, they have a very progressive vibe. Always a pleasure to see these worlds collide.

One of my favourite gigs ever was seeing infected mushroom in Australia 00s in the forest during a rainstorm, magic.

Never in my life have a heard a track tell a story so well without a single word

If you dive into the Infected Mushroom cataluge some more, give "Becoming Insane" and "saeed" a listen ♥

Long time Infected Mushroom fan here: they’re traditionally a psychedelic trance act (yes, think energetic raves in clubs, the forest/desert, and on the beach). They are classical trained musicians though and have branched into loads of genres but certainly rock/metal vibes quite a bit. Check tracks similar to Heavyweight: - Dancing with Kadafi - Project 100 - The Messenger 2012

Never clicked on a video so fast in my life

Totally forgot how many hooks this song has...pretty impressive

Infected mushroom does two different types of concerts, either a 'DJ set' with just the two main guys or a 'full band' the former being more rave like because of the venues.

Infected is their own genre more or less :) Fantastic music

Infected Mushroom usually play Psytrance, this is a psytrance-hybrid track that strays from usual psytrance formulas. Infected Mushroom and other Psytrance acts play at Bush Doofs: i.e. outdoor psytrance hippie parties out in rural areas.

This track is a masterpiece

I am an old dude turning 60 soon and been playing guitar since 1977 after seeing Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden. I am also very psychedelic and love all types of electronic music especially bands that add real instruments to the music. Sphongle & Infected Mushroom are two of my favorite bands because I get bored of the traditional sounding instruments you hear on every album. I luckily live in the most psychedelic city on the planet which is Austin TX and saw Infected Mushroom at a local venue about a year ago. Of course I ate a large dose of psilocybin mushrooms before the show which made for a very amazing experience. I sure hope you are still using psychedelics because I am am enjoying them more now at age 60 then when I took my first hit of LSD in 1978 at a Black Sabbath concert. I will be eating mushroom when I am 90 years old in a nursing home and my wheel chair will be decked out in LEDS. And you asked where this music is played. This music is played in all types of venues from small stages at Burning Man to main stages at festivals and local "rave" clubs in every city. My advice Key of Geebz is to get hold of some shrooms, drop a couple of grams, turn on, tune in, drop out and start some psychedelic decomposing. Infected Mushroom are amazing producers and you can can check out their workflow in any of their many videos on YT. Infected Mushroom's only rule in the studio is there are no rules. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YJWPcBYqmig.html. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7NaWAuld8JM.html. And check out Sphongle live in Red Rocks 2019. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uRiTKZfsMQQ.html. They are amazing and worth watching the entire show as It is mindblowing.🍄😎

It's played in my car on the way to and from work almost every day.

It's not designed for events and raves but people chilling with their so called 'good friends.' Guitar solo is real also 😍😍

They do play at clubs but also beautiful sceneries like old temples, forests etc. And their very much psychedelic inspiried band, which bandname kinda reliefs.

*Walking down the hallways of my middle school and feeling my skin crawl with to much energy*

I’m so excited for you to find their Song “Pink Froid” from the album “Converting Vegetarians II” such incredible patience and dedication by them to replicate the style of Pink Floyd all the while implementing their own to really meld together this articulate masterpiece!

This is one of my favorite songs my college roommate showed me then I came home and showed all my friends. I haven't met many people who know infected mushroom let alone this song, this makes me so happy!

He's only couple minutes in and already starts to love it :) And I'm sitting here and thinking: Oh, bro, you have no idea what is coming on you :D The track is real masterpiece, fun and so beautiful! I love that you love it as I do.

There is an Infected Mushroom song for everyone. There is no genre they haven't touched and absolutely slayed. Seeing them live at Motion Notion in 2011 was life changing. They are literally the best DJ's in the world. Got to shake Erez's hand and say it to his face.

Hey Geebz, this is actually the second time you're dissecting an Infected Mushroom song, the first one being 'Guitarmass' :-) I really love them and will try to catch them live later this year on their tour. Another track from the same album I adore is the title track 'Vicious Delicious', which has such an awesome and over the top climax it will have you reeling! Can't wait to see how you react to that one... Keep it up #channeloftheyear

Infected Mushroom were one of my first forays into electronic music. The rock instrumentation made it easier for my 13-year-old self to get into it. This song is one of my favorites!

Had never heard psytrance before, and during my first ever mushroom trip at 18-19 years old a friend put this song on. My mind was absolutely blown, probably had it on repeat for at least an hour. Became an instant fan of psytrance, seen them 4 times in the past 8 years, twice at a mixed EDM festival deep inside the woods in Sweden, then on a 10 day long psytrance festival in Portugal and another 13 day psytrance festival in Hungary. Forty thousand people in attendance, like 2 hours drive away from any small cities in the middle of nowhere. No 3G coverage or phone reception at all. Music playing constantly everywhere around you. It really feels like stepping into a completely different world, you instantly forget any of your everyday problems or responsibilities, just surrounded by amazing tunes, people dancing, smiling, laughing. It just radiates positivity and warmth from everybody. No drunk people starting fights, hell, I don't think I've ever witnessed anybody having a heated argument with somebody lol, which I have seen my fair share of on other music festivals

From The burning Man to underground raves and urban areas you can toss a rock and find somebody that'll play an infected mushroom for you. Personally for me, infected mushroom is just such a fun and energetic group to listen to while you're doing things. I don't have any background in professional music so I'm speaking as a listener. Normally I find myself listening to these guys while I'm working we're playing video games of course. But I always find their songs to be perfect in the sense that they understand how to keep momentum going and fully energetic while slowing down the tempo and I absolutely love that about them. I like your channel dude I'm subbing 👍

Dancing With Kadafi is an Infected Mushroom u need to check out

I believe you decomposed a song of theirs before. Everyone suggested this song, which is awesome. Still here!

A slightly left-field aside: Infected Mushroom is FANTASTIC juggling music. I used to spend my lunch breaks at work standing outside the building with IM on headphones, trying to learn juggling tricks and trying to perform them in time to the music. It's a truly euphoric feeling when you get it right :)

This song is a timeless masterpiece. It is like the EDM counterpart of all the early 70s progressive rock bands like Pink Floyd...

These guys are geniuses, theres a doccie on youtube somewhere where they show off their studio and go through some of their creative processes, really awesome stuff. They started out as a core psytrance act and so mostly played outdoor psy parties in Isreal, but have now evolved into a more general cross-genre EDM act and usually play alternative stages at EDM parties.

good choice by them. my favorite song to work to

Nice to see a professional react to Infected Mushroom!

As one of my all time favorite songs, i'm so happy and intrigued to see a professional composer just vibe with this song's many (and many!) different feels. Your inputs are so genuine ❤

IM fan here since 2000. Dancing with Kadafi is another IM's masterpiece.

One of my classics is Juno Reactor's "Jardin de Cecile" from their Bible of Dreams". Amazing timemachine for me , back to the weird days in the late 90's...

Infected Mushroom is one of the best bands. Makes mowing the lawn fun ahahaha

Funny thing is that the drums are not analog but programmed, they’re true sound wizards, btw this was released on 2007/6, not 1996. Also the leads are indeed synths, long live Erez & Amit!

Think this is my favourite IM track it was great to see your reaction to it! I love a bit of shpongle as well as metal and also ott is well worth checking out for just electronicy psychedelicy dub stuff, bet you’ll love it

Lmao, you already did infected mushroom

Geebz, another wonderful reaction. I can say this with 100% certainty that plenty of us that watch you weekly are also playing instruments and/or composing to a some degree. Feel free to dive in to the technicalities and that "nerdy stuff", you won't scare all of us away! Awwwwright!

My Israeli pride is exploding every time i hear Infected and see how many ppl globally simply adore them

Another excellent choice mang! These guys are typically classified as psytrance (portmanteau of psychedelic trance), a genre I fell in love with around 2010 when searching for background music to help me write. You keyed right into what got me hooked on IM in your first break, and I love the mix of electronic/digitally generated sounds with acoustic drums and guitars. To my ears, they push that even further on their album “Legend of the Black Shawarma”, which is full of bangers and absolutely worth a listen (“Saaed” just doesn’t quit and “Project 100” and “Franks” are super cool). I could go on, but for all of our sakes I’ll stop here. These guys (and the genre writ large) aren’t super popular in the states, so in the past they’ve toured in smaller venues (100’s to 1000’s of people), but also perform at huge multi-day festivals like you’re thinking of. Last time they came through NYC they played a theater that holds ~2k. I’m still here mang and lookin forward to what you listen to next. Awwwright 🤙🤙🤙

This song leads directly into Suliman, which is imo the best song on the record. Give it a listen sometime!

wooo Mushroom!.... They are typically described as "Psychedelic Acid Trance" Vicious Delicious was a particularly "rock" focused album I felt. Always amazing music though.

I'm still here!

Infected mushroom always keeps me hooked because their best songs like one of my other favorite bands blind guardian keep the song changing. In one of their best songs you get what could have been 3 or more songs that stick to one good riff and repeat it the whole time, but instead they just keep changing and building.

They're so good. Fans were pleasantly surprised when they released Spitfire in 2017. You can definitely recognize an IM song.

This music is played in your heart

Still with you Geebz! since the beginning man!! As a metal artist I have to say infected mushroom is one of my biggest influences outside of the world of metal and I'm super happy that you did this song. Another one you should really check out is Artillery and, also, Becoming Insane. Both of those tracks are off of the same album as this one

This particular song you will only hear at an Infected Mushroom show. This is not rave music, or house club music. This is quite niche. Best song they've made by far. Commibg from a guy who have seen them live about 20 times int different cities in north america

My friend who passed away introduced me to this song! Love hearing reactions to it :)

I was going to write that all of this album is great to pick from but then realized that's not quite true: All of their ENTIRE WORK is great to pick from.

This was great! Infected Mushrooms usually plays at festivals with the main focus on Psychedelic Trance as DJ's, But they also does tours with a full band. I would recommend checking out Their 2003 album Converting Vegetarians. The sound design on that album is out of this world. It's a double album with the first disc being all psy-trance and the second disc is more experimantal stuff. I would check out the opening track Albibeno and Shakawkaw from the 2. disc. Thanks again for another great video.

IM are geniuses! You’re right, they take so many styles and meld them together. The first tune I heard by them was this tune! It immediately reminded me of being in the late 80’s stadium rock and Erez the keyboardist actually does a lot of the “guitar solos” with his keyboard on differs tunes. There are some videos of him doing it in concert

Yesss please more Infected Mushroom! They will take you on so many amazing journeys! 👏

You mentioned shpongle - Simon (one of the members) posted your reaction to the shpongle FB group, with the line "great he reacted, I wish he did a better song of ours"

Since we're going down this route, I'd love to watch your reaction on Shpongle - I Am You. Just a masterclass on semiotics of music

this....the nostalgia is taking me back to my early 20's. i was happy and didnt knew it

I used to listen to this album when I was 15 on shrooms with my friends. Honestly, looking back probably one of the most fun experiences of my entire life

They have so many great tracks. Please do Becoming Insane or The Messenger or the Army of Mushrooms Mix

This is far from the first time I listen to this song, but it is a journey every single time.

I just discovered your channel today and while going through your videos for more to play I was thinking this would be a great song to recommend, not long after there it was! This is one of my all time favorite songs and I make my friends listen to it at least once hoping they have a reaction like yours! Ive always said this song takes you on a journey.

All of Infected's older work is creative and technically impressive. Edit - digital hybrid = Progressive Psytrance which is predominantly played at outdoor fests and warehouse raves (inherent industrial nature). I am also afflicted 😆. Excellent breakdown ✊️

I have this album, but when I start my Infected Mushroom playlist, I keep going back to “The Black Shawarma” and looping it so I fall asleep to it and wake up to it. I guess I could say it’s my favorite of theirs.

It's actually DuvDev signing with a huge amount of pitch shift effects to sound female. He called the voice DuvDevAni.

Rave parties late 90s. Early 00s I saw them live. With drum's guitar and the whole set of a f...ng awesome band!

Over in California there is a few places that they will occasionally show up at, usually venues that will have a bit more of the unusual types of Genre like Tool or Primus style occasionally. They are not the most packed venues, but there are for sure people showing up. Overall the vibe is somewhere between a space cadet gathering and ravers taking a chill day. It's just a pretty chill and fun time.

Tbh if there was a venue near me where they played infected mushroom I would go to raves more often.

What a pleasant surprise. I only know a few tracks from them, but this one is on my favorites list. Thank you for your reaction.

Haha you are absolutely right about this being played in raves! This is psychedelic music and "ment" to be listened while on psychedelics and the experience on those is absolutely magical

I LOVE Infected Mushroom, everything they do is a banger if you are a fan of the style.

Every single IM song is a trip. Not just variations on a theme like with most bands, but a single song takes you to so many places inside a single arrangement with different moods, energy levels, emotions, and so on. As a composer, this is basically what nirvana is, to be able to create such a complex yet harmonious arrangement where often the starkly different moods and energies flow so smoothly into each other, it completely defies genre classification. Not just elements of different genres haphazardly thrown together into a cacophony, but instead blended and sewn together in a way that creates an entirely unique experience which is immediately recognizable. Infected Mushroom is a genre onto itself and very few bands have the honor of that title.

form my perspective : heavyweight, project 100, stretched, the messenger 2012 are the most tracks that i am addicted to.

Wow, love this song. Haven't heard it in years. I don't remember getting into any of their other stuff but I ave to give it another shot after rehearing this. Cheers!

Your question around 10:50, but yeah Infected Mushroom plays the glowstick type nightclubs and rave-style music festivals. I'm sure back in the early 2000's they played the old-school rave scene as well! You're spot on about that.

Not only you reacted to Infected Mushroom but Heavyweightttttttttt I absolutely love this song and have interesting memories! I've always been surrounded by musicians in my life and they also say the same thing that if you don't have the background or know instruments or theory you hear things differently even though it doesn't mean you don't feel it but you describe or express it in other ways such as dancing and for I loveeee progressive bands because you're on a journey and every single time I listen to songs like this it is like the first time, goosebumps and joy. :>

Don't find many people reacting to infected mushroom. It's a shame because they are really amazing. One of the very few groups that I will forever go back and listen to sooooo many amazing songs. Great music to anything to.

love this band, such amazing composition on their tracks! I have to say, even though so many albums and songs are great, Heavyweight brings back the most memories and feelings. there used to be a fan made video with scenes from Fight Club for this song, must have looped that hundreds on times back in the day. aloha!

“Melodic lady’s voice” that’s a synthesizer, I forgot which one they use for that

I just want to mention Heavyweight is still to this day the best song I've ever heard and still far from being beaten

Thanks for the video! Love all the breakdowns. One band I’ve never seen is Corrosion of Conformity. They’re incredible, like a bluesy Metallica, and actually spent years touring with Metallica. The lead singer, Pepper Keenan, was also in a band called Down that featured Pantera’s lead singer, Phil Anselmo. For Corrosion of Conformity you can’t go wrong with anything off the Deliverance, Wiseblood or In the Arms of God albums, but I’d suggest “Seven Days,” “Never Turns to More” or “Senor Limpio.”

4:04 "super sick video game first person kinda music" IMAGINE: Infected Mushroom actually making the OST for a video game what a blast that would be

Friends and I used to eat acid and try to match muted shows or movies to albums. This album plus a show called Manhunters was without a doubt one of the most excellent experiences in my life. It was perfect.

That beat at 1:31 is straight out of the Vectory Groovebox in Native Instruments Reaktor. I feel like a proud nerd to recognize that.

Upon listening to this song the first time, I thought that the “electric guitar” was actually a guitar. But you can hear how the some of the arpeggiations and chromatic ups and downs are a little steppy. Pretty impressive though for the convincing nature of the sound. This song pushed me to explore more instrumental metal music like Intervals and other such bands, which pushed me into djent and a lot more of the prog metal genre that I hadn’t been exposed to yet. It was like up until that point, I hadn’t actually listened to music. Thanks as always Geebz.

Wooo! Someone did a very good thing and pointed you at the most interweaved rock and psybient - relevant for you with the cool heavy stuff, cool for me - not many people decompose psybient. I actually appreciated a lot how you tried to combine years of digital composing into a 20 minute video when dissecting Shpongle. :3

Still here, I loved watching your brain work while you enjoyed a piece, a tiny sliver, of the genius of those guys. Do keep it up! Love your work and videos!

I like how in your analysis you put a little extra care into assessing your awareness of others' interpretations of the music. You mention "public reaction," or in other words "where can this music be found?". Another example is "first-person" experience - never really considered that certain types of music are designed for certain perspectives. Remove the lens of musical analysis and your methodology is respectable in itself.

Project 100 is very intersting with the frequent changes as well.

They're my favorite band, and this is my favorite song. The rest of the album (Vicious Delicious) is truly a masterpiece. Their music theory knowledge really shines in their earlier stuff, though, Classical Mushroom is also a phenomenal album. And them sounding analog isn't a coincidence, in addition to the plugins they create themselves, they use a lot of old-school equipment.

Watching you react to this was an absolute pleasure to see. They have a number of songs I’m sure you’d enjoy.

Crazy this came out in 2007, simultaneously feels right but also wrong for the time. I was only 8 back then so it feels like such a long time ago when I know it really wasn't, 2017 was just one decade later but I remember 2017 like it basically just happened

Psytrance is everything 💜😈

DUUDE the whole grim & creepy introduction, is literally as someone walks into a murder scene (you can hear a photograph click sound), and the girl's voice is obviously a grieving person as she discovers the tragedy!!

It's played at raves and festivals. Psychedelic Trance is the standard music they used to produce, which morphed into it's unique and changing style starting back in 2004-ish with Converting Vegetarians 😉 One of my all time favorite "bands" give a listen to the whole albums Vicious Delicious and Legend of the Black Shawarma if you haven't already.

Oh thank you! This brings so much memories from the time I've heard it for the first time. Still gives me chills!

True story: One of my circle of friends is a local psytrance DJ, and he happened to know the promoter of a concert of theirs in San Francisco back in the late 90s. As a result, we got to meet up with the band after the show, and all 6 of us (2 band members, me & 2 friends, and the promoter) all sat down for 3am breakfast at Denny's, and we sat and all talked and chatted for like 2 hours. Cool guys, definitely nice as well. Was fun to hear their stories about things like having a sunrise set on the beach in Israel in front of 20,000 people, poking fun at some really well-known DJs, etc. Definitely one of my best concert experiences.

I am so glad you dipped your toes back into Infected Mushroom. After your dive into Guitar Mass and seeing how disappointed you were about the lack of strong guitars, I was afraid you wouldn't give them another chance. Heavyweight being such a cascading and organised chaos, I was hoping you would listen to this one specifically. As for your question, I've always listened to Infected Mushroom in isolation so I'm not sure what their tours are like. But I've been listening to them for half my life. Going from album to album, it's difficult to really pick a specific genre they're in. They tend to move with the times and put their own spin on whatever is popular. Not in a "Let's go see what sells" kinda way, but more in a "Cool, there's a new sound, let's see what we can do with it" kinda way. It's too bad this video doesn't have more views, because I think it will mean you won't try more of their stuff in a video again. If you do have the time, try the entire album that Heavyweight is from (Vicious Delicious), as it has a lot of rock and guitar influences. Their following album (Legend of the Black Shawarma) has an even more rock-focused vibe. Also here's a list of what I think are the more interesting (read: not what I think is best) off of each album: - Return of the Shadows (The Gathering) - Dracul (Classical Mushroom) - Dancing with Kadafi (B.P. Empire) / Funchameleon (B.P. Empire) - Apogiffa Night (Converting Vegetarians Side A) - Jeenge (Converting Vegetarians Side B) - Meduzz (I'm The Supervisor) - Sulliman (Vicious Delicious) - Project 100 (Legend of the Black Shawarma) / Herbert the Pervert (Legend of the Black Shawarma) - The Rat (Army of Mushrooms) - The French (Friends on Mushrooms) - Pink Froid (Converting Vegetarians II) - Return to the Sauce (Return to the Sauce) - Chenchen Barvaz (Head of NASA and the 2 Amish Boys) - Splicon (More than Just a Name) I am fully aware that nobody asked for this, but I thought I would anyway.

Other way around, Aphex Twin!