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Vini Vici

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The Israeli duo who dragged psytrance onto main stages worldwide — full-on, fast, and completely unashamed about it.

Before they were Vini Vici, Matan Kadosh and Aviram Saharai worked together as teenagers in Afula under the name Sesto Sento, alongside a third member, Itai Spector, from 2001. Their album Come Together (2006) went gold, but Spector stepped away in 2011 to pursue a more strictly Orthodox Jewish life, and in 2013 the remaining pair began recording as Vini Vici.

Their productions keep the rolling basslines and 140-plus tempos of full-on psytrance but shape them around big, simple hooks and long builds, moving the sound off dedicated psytrance bills and into the wider festival circuit.

The 2015 track 'The Tribe', from their debut album Future Classics, spread from the psytrance underground into EDM sets and has since passed eleven million Spotify streams; a remix of Hilight Tribe's 'Free Tibet' has drawn tens of millions of views on YouTube.

A 2016 collaboration with Armin van Buuren and Hilight Tribe, 'Great Spirit', passed a million plays within a week, and 'Chakra', made with the Dutch duo W&W, went straight to number one on Beatport's psy-trance chart. Other collaborators have included Timmy Trumpet, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Steve Aoki.

In 2018 the pair launched their own label, Alteza Records, distributed through Armada Music and home to other psytrance producers such as Blastoyz and Skazi.

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