Utopia Records is an Israel

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i independent record label

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 that specializes in producing and releasing melodic psytrance music. Utopia Records was established in 2003

2003 in music

-January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...

 by the Israeli DJ

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 Ido Yaron. Most of the musicians signed in Utopia Records are from southern Israel. According to its website, Utopia Records' vision is to "upgrade Eilat's rave

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s and parties while taking electronic music to the next level, in the city of freedom, nature, sea

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 and sun." Its website also offers a mailing list

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, free download of one track in a month and a currently inactive online shop

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Musicians

1.   Ananda Shake
   Ananda Shake
   Ananda Shake are a psychedelic trance duo. It is composed of Osher Swissa and Lior Edri, both from the city Qiryat Gat, located southern Israel.The act is considered one of the most influential in the full-on subgenre of psy-trance...
   
    (Osher Swissa and Lior Edri)
   • Early works by Swissa only are titled as "Ananda"
2.   Audiotec (Miki Damski)
3.   Brain Damage (Vikenty Shagal)
4.   Mahamudra
   Mahamudra (band)
   Mahamudra is a Trance/electronic project based in the south of Israel.Members are: Ran Malka, Eyal Cohen and Sagiv Ben-Giat....
   
    (Ran Malka, Eyal Cohen and Sagiv Ben-Giat)
5.   Phanatic (Kfir Lankry)
   • Once part of the duo Bizzare Contact with Didi Ezra
6.   Stereomatic (Eliran Maimone)
7.   Sundose (Avshalom Elmaliah and Mishel Atias)
   • Together with Osher Swissa they were the 1998
     1998 in music
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      Goa trance
     Goa trance
     Goa trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.-History:The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of industrial music and EBM...
     
      group Psycholoop
8.   Vibe Tribe
   Vibe Tribe
   Vibe Tribe is the project of producer Stas Marnyanski.Stas Marnyanski, Russian born Israeli, has been producing electronic based music since his early teens , 4 years of experimentation of thorough learning kick started his professional career....
   
    (Stas Marniansky)
9.   Spade (Elmar Ivatarov)
   • Was part of Vibe Tribe until April 2007

DJs

1.   DJ Ido
2.  DJ D.vision
3.   DJ Firaga
4.   DJ Kin
5.   DJ Kitty (K.I.T.T.Y)
6.   DJ Matte
7.  DJ SubSonix

2004

• Perplex – Circles Of Life
• VA – Pure Imagination Vol. 1 (compilation by DJ Ido)
• VA – Timeless (compilation by DJ Ido)
• Audiotec – The Magic Of Love
• Vibe Tribe
  Vibe Tribe
  Vibe Tribe is the project of producer Stas Marnyanski.Stas Marnyanski, Russian born Israeli, has been producing electronic based music since his early teens , 4 years of experimentation of thorough learning kick started his professional career....
  
   – Melodrama

2005

• Ananda Shake
  Ananda Shake
  Ananda Shake are a psychedelic trance duo. It is composed of Osher Swissa and Lior Edri, both from the city Qiryat Gat, located southern Israel.The act is considered one of the most influential in the full-on subgenre of psy-trance...
  
   – Emotion In Motion
• VA – Pure Imagination 2 (compilation by Sixsense)
• Chemical Drive – Sonic Boom
• VA – Re-Start (compilation by Ananda Shake
  Ananda Shake
  Ananda Shake are a psychedelic trance duo. It is composed of Osher Swissa and Lior Edri, both from the city Qiryat Gat, located southern Israel.The act is considered one of the most influential in the full-on subgenre of psy-trance...
  
  )

2006

• VA – Pure Imagination 3 (compilation by DJ Ido)
• Ananda Shake – We Speak Music
  We Speak Music
  We Speak Music is the second album from Israeli psychedelic trance duo Ananda Shake, released on February 7, 2006.-Track listing:#"Meshel 6 Days" – 7:29#"After Shock" – 8:17#"Street Fighters" – 7:43#"Pushing Me Out" – 7:38#"Digger" – 6:59...
  
  
• Audiotec – Freak Show
• Vibe Tribe – Wise Cracks
  Wise Cracks
  Wise Cracks is the second album from Israeli psychedelic trance duo Vibe Tribe, released on April 17, 2006.-Summary:Following the success of their 2004 debut album Melodrama in the full-on scene, Wise Cracks was released in April 2006...
  
  
• Phanatic – In My Head
• VA – K-Files (compilation by Danny K)
• VA – Loud & Clear (compilation by DJ Kitty, originally called "Pure Imagination 4")

2007

• Mahamudra – Reality Is Just A Mtyh
• VA – Pure Imagination 4 (compilation by DJ Ido)
• Brain Damage – Waiting For My Angel
• Ananda Shake
  Ananda Shake
  Ananda Shake are a psychedelic trance duo. It is composed of Osher Swissa and Lior Edri, both from the city Qiryat Gat, located southern Israel.The act is considered one of the most influential in the full-on subgenre of psy-trance...
  
   – Inside The Sound

External links

• Utopia-Records.com – The official website (incompatible with Mozilla Firefox
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• Utopia Records at Discogs
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• Utopia Records at Psychedelic Trance Database