Nitzhonot
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Nitzhonot (Hebrew: נצחונות) is a crossover between Goa trance and uplifting trance, emerged during the mid-late 1990s in Israel. The word Nitzhonot is taken from Hebrew, where it means 'victories'. Also, Holy Men released an album called Nitzch O Not.
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[edit] Genre
Nitzhonot uses the uplifting melodies and build-ups from uplifting trance and Euro-Trance, but keeps the psychedelic sound usage. The tracks are usually in a range of 145-155 BPM.
At its time Nitzhonot reached a mainstream success in Israel. The most notable artist from this genre is Eyal Barkan, who released his album 'Good Morning Israel' in 1998. It became the first trance record that achieved gold status in its home country, selling more than 20,000 copies (bootleg versions accounted for 80,000). Other artists would stand up in the same year, including Kobi Kastoriano as Iceman and Avi Shwartz aka Holy Men, well known for his Comic Strip track, a famous summer hit in 1998. These young producers were able to conquer the big cities with their hard hitting trance. In the end, the scene would dry out due to an overkill of low-budget and amateurish music. Typhoon Records, by far the biggest Nitzhonot label back in the late nineties, released over 40 CD's in less then two years and faded away in 2000.
Before it vanished entirely in Israel, artists in Greece captured the flow of this music. At the beginning of a new millenium Nitzhonot, now renamed as Uplifting, would stand up again, raising in popularity. Remarcable artists included Darma, Dementia, Cyan and Star Children.
Nowadays, this second generation of Nitzhonot is still part of Greece's trance culture, although it probably will never reach it's old level of popularity again.
[edit] Nitzhonot Artists From Israel
- Astrix (early works)
- Luminus
- Yahel (early works)
- Eyal Barkan (early works)
- Goldenfinger
- Holy Men
- Iceman
- D-Zager
- Zootrax
- Iceman
- Kaylosh
- Trivia
- Syndrome
[edit] Nitzhonot Artists From Greece
- Cyan (early works)
- Cherouvim
[edit] Uplifting Artists From Greece
- Cyan (later works)
- Darma
- X-Men
- Cyberia
- Cygnet
- Loop
- Mendark
- Space Odyssey
- Star Children
- Cydelix
- Oxydow
- Zed Reactor
- Zodiac
[edit] Compilations albums
- VA - Melodic Morning 1-5
| Psychedelic trance |
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| Chill - Dark - Goa - Melodic - Nitzhonot - Progressive - South African - Suomisaundi - Tech |
| Other electronic music genres |
| Ambient | Breakbeat | Dance | Drum and bass | Electronica | Electronic art music | Hard dance | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance |
