The story behind Vini Vici
Vini Vici was formed in 2013 by Israeli producers Aviram Saharai and Matan Kadosh, both already known from the long-running group Sesto Sento. Instead of simply renaming their earlier project, the pair created Vini Vici as a new outlet built around the collision of old-school psychedelic references, progressive structures and a more immediate festival-scale sound.
The 2015 album Future Classics established the project’s relationship with Iboga Records and helped define its early identity. A succession of high-profile singles, collaborations and remixes then carried Vini Vici beyond specialist psytrance events into mainstream trance and large electronic festivals. Their productions retained the rolling bass and psychedelic cues of Psytrance while increasingly using vocal hooks, dramatic builds and arrangements designed for very large stages.
In 2018 Saharai and Kadosh established Alteza Records, giving the duo its own label platform and extending its influence beyond the Vini Vici catalogue. The project remains highly active in 2026, continuing to release new music and tour major international festivals while Sesto Sento remains a separate historical and creative identity.
Origins of Vini Vici
Vini Vici began in 2013 as a new project by Aviram Saharai and Matan Kadosh after years of working together in Sesto Sento. The new identity was intended to combine older psychedelic ideas with the progressive direction then reshaping the festival scene.
The early years
The duo’s existing production chemistry gave Vini Vici an unusually experienced starting point. Future Classics in 2015 became the first major album statement and established a strong relationship with Iboga Records.
How the career developed
Collaborations and remixes expanded Vini Vici rapidly into the wider trance and EDM circuit, where the duo became one of the most visible psytrance names of the late 2010s. Alteza Records, founded in 2018, created a dedicated platform for their own music and related artists.
Vini Vici sound
Vini Vici combines Psytrance and Progressive Psytrance with old-school Goa references, large melodic hooks, vocal elements and the dramatic pacing of mainstream festival trance. The result is intentionally accessible without abandoning the rhythmic framework of psychedelic trance.
Place in psytrance history
Vini Vici helped carry 2010s Psytrance onto some of the largest stages in global electronic music. Vini Vici brought contemporary Psytrance aesthetics to audiences far beyond the specialist psychedelic scene.
Connections and influence
The project connects Sesto Sento, Iboga Records, Alteza and a broad network of trance and electronic collaborators. Sesto Sento should remain a distinct project instead of being rewritten as an early version of Vini Vici.
Vini Vici today
Vini Vici remains fully active in 2026, with current releases and major-festival touring continuing at an international level.
How the sound changed over time
Selected releases in the archive
Festival connections
Adhana Festival
Adhana Festival is a Brazilian New Year psychedelic gathering founded in 2016, combining a major Psytrance programme with alternative electronic stages, workshops and nature-based festival culture.
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.
Related projects and collaborations
Artists with overlapping styles
Ace Ventura
Yoni Oshrat’s Israeli Psytrance project, combining progressive groove, psychedelic detail and long-form DJ storytelling across a wide network of collaborations.
Atmos
Tomasz Balicki’s Swedish progressive Psytrance project, a foundational name in the late-1990s Scandinavian shift toward deeper, groovier trance.
Captain Hook
Reshef Harari’s Israeli Psytrance project, known for deep hypnotic arrangements, analogue-minded production and a deliberate crossover between psychedelic trance and techno.
Gaudium
Gaudium is a Swedish Progressive Psytrance project founded in 2004 by Andreas Wennersköld and Denis Bajramovski and later continued by Wennersköld as a solo-led act.
LOUD
Haifa duo Eitan Reiter and Kobi Toledano, known for a psychedelic-trance sound that brought old-school Goa ideas, studio experimentation and cross-genre electronic production into a modern framework.
Liquid Soul
Swiss producer Nicola Capobianco’s long-running progressive Psytrance project, one of the defining acts of the Iboga Records sound and still highly active in 2026.