ITAITAIKO is the project of Itay Berger (aka Kukan Dub Lagan). Itay is 31 years old and comes from Jerusalem/Israel. He started listening to trance music since he was 16 years old. Besides going to parties he sometimes also worked at parties as a sound engineer. His decision to make music was strongly inflenced by his trip to Ibiza in 1997-8 and visited Juan's (Muses Rapt) studio. Since then he also started to dj in Israel and abroad at mostly underground parties along big names such Space Cat, Sunshay (COMPACT), Yaniv (Cosmophlis), The Delta, Future Prophecy, Yoda-P.
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During his travels also he djed in Cusco, Peru as well as in New York along with Total Eclipse. His journey into chill-out djing started in 2002 in Israel. Meanwhile he was signed by a UK techno-house label (www.klubdj.co.uk) as DJ ITAY for a year and flow to Japan to play at parties in Osaka and Kyoto. Returning back to Israel he enrolled to sound engineering college for one year and totally comitted himsef to music composition. Drawing from his djing experience, his early family musical influences as well as his own musical background he created two projets. His techno-trance project is ITAITAIKO while his cill-out project called KUKAN-DUB-LAGAN he released tracks as Itaitaiko on labels as GROOVE ZONE rec (Japan), Dance N Dust (Israel) and more near names as Ticon, Son Kite, Freq, Sensient and more...