Inner Action

...a small village in the north of Israel.

Roy Engel started his musical career playing the piano. After 4

years of classical education, he started playing the drums and

expiriencing rock'n roll and latin beats after which he spent time

honing his skills by going around studios, writing composing and

recording music. In 1996 during the great trance movement in

Israel, Roy was heavily influenced by what was happening around

him and a year later he started producing trance music in a band

called 'Shaff Puff'. In the year 2000, he took off to San

Francisco, playing at the Fusion Festival, Burning Man and other

local parties in the city.

Nitzan Shachaf started his music career at the age of 10, playing

the clarinet. He has been playing and performing classical music

for 8 years. At age of 16 he started playing the bassguitar and

was heavily infuenced by alternative rock, funk and started

playing and performing with a band called Avanguard. In the year

1996 he moved to London UK, and started studying sound engineering

at the 'School of Audio Engineering' for 2 years. At the same time

he was collaborating with local artists producing and recording

electronic music, in big studios.

In 1997, he got into trance, during the electronic music

revolution in London. After finishing his studies in 1999, he

moved to San Francisco where he established his studio. The Inner

Action project was born 5 years ago in San Francisco. Nico was

building his studio at the time in Berkeley, after finishing 2

years in university of sound engineering in London SAE and moving

to the states, Roy was Djing around in festivals and trance

parties in San Francisco while he was recording his first tracks

in various studios around the city. So since they knew each other

from Israel (from the same village), it was exciting to meet on

the other side of the globe and especialy when they were doing the

same thing. After few months of production, the first Inner Action

live act was ready to debut at the traditional 'Howard St. Fare' a

crazy street party, in the middle of the day until evening,

infront of the CCC warehouse(San Fransisco).

In that line-up of the street fare, were few more local artists

and of course Biodegradable. At the end of 2001, they moved to

live in Barcelona, Spain. Since then, they have been making tracks

with absolutely pristine production, packed to the brim with

twisted melodies, wicked, scratchy yet sharp leads, tight beats

and grooves on phat basslines. That will surely drive you nuts!