Inner Action

The dynamic duo of supreme sonic sorcerery- Nitzan Shachaf and Roy Engel hail from Yokneam... ...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

Engel hail from Yokneam...

...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!