Utopia Records is an Israeli

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

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

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

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and sun." Its website also offers a

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

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Musicians

# Ananda Shake (Osher Swissa and Lior Edri) #* Early works by Swissa only are titled as "Ananda" # Audiotec (Miki Damski) #

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(Vikenty Shagal) # Mahamudra (Ran Malka, Eyal Cohen and Sagiv Ben-Giat) # Phanatic (Kfir Lankry) #* Once part of the duo Bizarre Contact with Didi Ezra # Stereomatic (Eliran Maimone) # Sundose (Avshalom Elmaliah and Mishel Atias) #* Together with Osher Swissa they were the

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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group Psycholoop # Vibe Tribe (Stas Marniansky) #

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(Elmar Ivatarov) #* Was part of Vibe Tribe until April 2007

DJs

# DJ Ido # DJ D.vision # DJ Firaga # DJ Kin # DJ Kitty (K.I.T.T.Y) # DJ Matte # DJ SubSonix

Discography

2003

*''VA – Born Again'' (compilation by DJ Ido) *''VA – Exodus'' (compilation by DJ Ido)

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 – ''

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2005

*Ananda Shake – ''Emotion In Motion'' *''VA – Pure Imagination 2'' (compilation by Sixsense) * Chemical Drive – ''Sonic Boom'' *''VA – Re-Start'' (compilation by Ananda Shake)

2006

*''VA – Pure Imagination 3'' (compilation by DJ Ido) *Ananda Shake – '' We Speak Music'' *Audiotec – ''Freak Show'' *Vibe Tribe – '' Wise Cracks'' * Phanatic – ''In My Head'' *''VA – K-Files'' (compilation by Danny K) *''VA – Loud & Clear'' (compilation by DJ Kitty, originally called "Pure Imagination 4")

2007

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– ''Reality Is Just A Myth'' *''VA – Pure Imagination 4'' (compilation by DJ Ido) *

– ''Waiting For My Angel'' *Ananda Shake – ''Inside The Sound''

Future albums

*Spade's debut solo album

External links

Utopia-Records.com – The official website
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