The story behind OxiDaksi
OxiDaksi is an Israeli psychedelic-trance project founded by Nir Dak and Eliran Hasan. A 2012 Cryptic Symmetry release credits both producers directly, while secondary artist biographies date the project to 2007 and describe its shift toward a high-technology/high-speed style from about 2008. The project later released the full-length Manifestation in 2019, the Evolution EP the same year and Avira through Shamanic Tales in 2020. Secondary biographies consistently date OxiDaksi to 2007 and identify Nir Dak and Eliran Hasan as founders. 2012 label credits name both musicians as joint producers. The project moved rapidly into high-speed psychedelic material. Cryptic Symmetry’s 2012 Infotech compilation labels the context hi-tech/dark psytrance and credits White Weirdo to Nir Dak and Eliran Hasan.
Manifestation and Evolution in 2019 consolidated the project’s mature high-speed catalogue. Avira in 2020, released by Astrix’s Shamanic Tales, deliberately introduced more atmospheric and neighboring stylistic directions. Current 2026 festival listings confirm continued live activity. A durable Israeli representative of the Hi-Tech generation, useful for showing how high-speed Psytrance could broaden into more melodic and atmospheric territory without becoming identical to Progressive Psytrance or Psycore.
Active in 2026, with current festival announcements including Psy Experience and Indian Spirit. Connects the Israeli Psytrance scene with the international Hi-Tech network and labels in South Africa, Switzerland and Israel.
Origins of OxiDaksi
Secondary biographies consistently date OxiDaksi to 2007 and identify Nir Dak and Eliran Hasan as founders. 2012 label credits name both musicians as joint producers.
The early years
The project moved rapidly into high-speed psychedelic material. Cryptic Symmetry’s 2012 Infotech compilation labels the context hi-tech/dark psytrance and credits White Weirdo to Nir Dak and Eliran Hasan.
How the career developed
Manifestation and Evolution in 2019 consolidated the project’s mature high-speed catalogue. Avira in 2020, released by Astrix’s Shamanic Tales, deliberately introduced more atmospheric and neighboring stylistic directions. Current 2026 festival listings confirm continued live activity.
OxiDaksi sound
Hi-Tech Psytrance is the strongest classification, reinforced by both early releases and later festival positioning. Psytrance remains the parent genre, with historical Darkpsy overlap. Avira marked a new direction with neighboring stylistic excursions, but its progressive-trance tagging does not make Progressive Psytrance a project-wide classification.
Place in psytrance history
A durable Israeli representative of the Hi-Tech generation, useful for showing how high-speed Psytrance could broaden into more melodic and atmospheric territory without becoming identical to Progressive Psytrance or Psycore.
Connections and influence
Connects the Israeli Psytrance scene with the international Hi-Tech network and labels in South Africa, Switzerland and Israel.
OxiDaksi today
Active in 2026, with current festival announcements including Psy Experience and Indian Spirit.
How the sound changed over time
Selected releases in the archive
Festival connections
Psy-Fi
Psy-Fi was a Dutch psychedelic music and arts festival launched in 2013, best known for its De Groene Ster years near Leeuwarden; a planned 2025 German return was cancelled before taking place.
Artists with overlapping styles
Cosmo
Slovak producer Peter Kubala, whose hyper-detailed, acid-heavy psychedelic trance helped bridge early darkpsy experimentation and the faster sound later identified as hi-tech.
Highko
German psychedelic-trance producer associated with the early development of ultra-fast night music and the hi-tech scene, both solo and through Highcosmos with Cosmo.
Kashyyyk
Pablo Valdes’s high-speed psychedelic-trance project, rooted in Mexico City and strongly associated with the early development and popularisation of Hi-Tech Psytrance.
Kindzadza
Moscow producer Lev Greshilov, one of the central architects of the Russian darkpsy and hi-tech continuum and a founder of the OSOM Music network.
Crazy Astronaut
Nikolay Golutvin’s melodic, rave-driven high-speed psychedelic-trance identity, distinct from his more experimental Furious project and strongly associated with OSOM Music.
Dark Whisper
Manuel Bellini’s dark, experimental psychedelic-trance project, associated with Alice-D Records and spanning Darkpsy, high-speed Psytrance and later Hi-Tech overlap.