Ace Ventura:
ACE VENTURA is Yoni Oshrat, a
32-year old Israeli with a rich musical background & a
career on top of the trance scene, stretching for over a
decade.
Already from an early age Yoni was heavily influenced with
music. He was born in a musical family with his father being
a famous Israeli composer and song writer (for instance
behind the Eurovision song "Halelujah"), and it was
therefore no surprise that he went for a career in the
sound-business; at first in the TV and movie-industry as a
sound producer.
After discovering the blooming trance-scene in the beginning
of the nineties, he started DJ'ing and teamed up with his
friend DJ Goblin to form the psychedelic trance project
Children Of The Doc, which later changed name to PSYSEX.
Together they released 3 critically-acclaimed full length
albums on HOMmega Productons, and played a big part in
establishing Israel as one of the most important
trance-countries on the globe.
After several years of intense touring, playing at some of
the biggest parties and festivals worldwide, Yoni's taste
moved more and more towards the slower, groovier side of
music though, and from 2006 he took the decision to leave
the Psysex project and form the two soloprojects SCHATSI and
ACE VENTURA. With Schatsi he was quickly featured on labels
like Hadshot and Mylo's Breastfed Recordings, and top DJ's
like John Digweed played some of his material on numerous
occasions. More attention was put into the Ace Ventura
project though, and using a fusion of the hard, pumping
dancefloor-oriented style from Psysex and the deeper,
groovier influences of progressive trance, the Ace Ventura
project became a big success, and in a matter of just a few
releases, such as the now classic debut "Cardiac Arrest", he
was already considered among the top producers on the
progressive trance scene.
After appearing on releases on labels like Flow, Domo,
Echoes, Blue Tunes, Spintwist, HOMmega and Iboga Records he
finally released his debut solo album "Rebirth" in 2007. It
featured 9 tracks, including collaborations with Liquid
Soul, Lish and Intelabeam, and was without a doubt one of
the biggest releases of the year, which also resulted in Ace
Ventura winning the Psytrance category at the Beatport Music
Awards in 2008.
About one year later the album was followed by a remix-album
"Re:Boot", which contained two CD's with remixes by various
progressive trance, house, electro house and techno artists
- from Zen Mechanics, Sensient and Liquid Soul to Perfect
Stranger, Fiord and Duca. This release, together with the
release of "The Spark", the summer anthem remix of FREq's
"Short Life Again" as well as a collaboration with the
upcoming Israeli duo Quantize, also resulted in Ace Ventura
winning the Psytrance category at the Beatport Music Awards
in 2009, For the second year in a row.
"What's next" you might think. Despite playing all around
the globe, at major events from Boom in Portugal,
XXXPerience, Tribe and Universo Paralello in Brazil,
Solstice in Japan, Glade in the UK to Indian Spirit,
Tshitraka, Antaris and Full Moon in Germany, Yoni isn't
resting on the laurels. Summer 2009 included the second
chapter in his "New Order" compilation series on HOMmega
Records. The first chapter from 2007 was a huge success, and
this time around the tracks were deeper and more
techno-oriented, and featured new material from artists like
Ticon, Liquid Soul, Riktam & Bansi, Ido Ophir and Miki
Litvak - all previously unreleased, and handpicked by Ace
Ventura. Also still fresh is the digital EP, "Dr.Lupo" - a
collaboration of Ace Ventura and Rocky, with techno remixes
by top italian artists Andrea Bertolini and Piatto .
Following the success of the Dr.Lupo EP, Ace & Rocky decided
to establish a new project - titled EASY RIDERS. The first
official Easy riders release, titled "Test drive", is out
now on IBOGA, and will be followed by a full length album on
Echoes in 2010, as well as releases on Plastik park and
other labels.
To kick off 2010 here is the latest DJ set from Ace, the
sequel to last year's Techno delights 2 - enjoy it and have
a great new year.
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