Dearest friends,
I've finally updated the music section to include all the newest track in addition to a brand new one. It's called My Secret and you can listen to it here -

My Secret by Eliran Ben Ishai

or in the music section, they're all available now finally.

All of your comments and emails were absolutely fantastic. The majority of you feel that the name DNA-Groove ran its course and I agree. I still haven't decided on whether I'll use my own name or just choose a new alias. But either way, change is coming. I hope you'll like it.

I wanted to share with you another track I've been working on for a little while. It was inspired by a beautiful story of family. As always, your comments are fantastically appreciated -

Human Clockwork by Eliran Ben Ishai

Greetings dear friends,
As one of my previous posts suggested, I'm building a new website and as the creative (and technical) process lingers on, I suddenly realized that not only the site needs a face-lift... but also myself. I was thinking of a new alias - DNA-Groove is almost 17 years old now (more than half my own age) and I definitely feel it's time to let it go. At first I thought about dropping aliases altogether and just use my own name, but I wasn't sure I'm comfortable with that.

So I turn to you, yes you personally... what do you think? A new alias? Leave the old one? No alias at all? If it is a new alias, which one?

I was never big on sharing unfinished works, but lately I feel that since I have so many more unfinished tunes than finished ones, maybe I should share them with you and maybe be inspired by your comments to finish them... so here's one -

My Bird Doesn't Sing Anymore (sketch) by DNA-Groove

Your comments are, as always, priceless. Thank you.

Dearest friends, it's been a while since I've written here and I feel it's time to share my plans for the foreseeable future. I greatly appreciate the emails and message and hope this is an update that you'll like. :)

This website is going to be replaced with a newer version, same but improved design, more frequent updates and hopefully more (frequent) new music. I spent the past few months dabbling in various music styles (namely dance and club styles). It was an interesting experience which taught me mostly that I as much as I like listening to that kind of music, I'm not very fond of making it. :) I do dabble more often in Rock elements in my music lately and enjoy it very much... expect more on that in the future.

Since the new site is still being developed, I would love to hear your ideas on how it can be improved and what new content interests you the most?

Thank you all and see you soon

After too long a pause, I finished Fly Home With Me and it's now here. Extensive use of Albino 3 (absolutely love it) and Massive, 12mb of samples and nearly 3 weeks worth of work. The creative process was a little different this time, there were plenty of ideas but none seemed to satisfy me with this piece. Usually I don't mind changing the structure of the piece as it plays, I actually used to like it, but this time I just needed some kind of solidarity... the undertones of the message were of a quest. The optimistic start, the gradual decline and the uplifting end are the different stages of the search and the return home... and that's why I named it like that.

Some of the ideas that didn't make it into this piece were not thrown away, I'm using some of them for a new piece... but more on that in the next couple of weeks. :) I hope you'll enjoy it and tell me how you feel/think. Thank you.

Music was always free. For tens of thousands of years the human race had musicians who played music for everyone. Music was art, it was never a commercial product. In the 50s it all changed. Music was enslaved when mass production of records proved a lucrative prospect. What was an expression of the heart was now the hen that laid golden eggs.

Music was like art. You could buy a copy of Rembrandt if you really wanted (and could afford it) but the original was available for everyone to admire. The excitement and fulfillment in observing the original on display is robbed from owning a copy, making the copy into a waste of money. Music is available for everyone to admire in a concert, just like on display, but the copy is worthless if you can't take part in the energy and excitement of watching the original perform his/her art.

We're deep in the process of the liberation of music, but music is still far from being free... not just of money, but also of servitude. Artists deserve more than a handsome reward for their talent and laborious efforts, but holding the art ransom isn't the way to do it. Most people want the original, and anyone who doesn't won't give anything for it anyway.

I have many possible solutions to this, and if my muse will permit it, I will elaborate. :)

Until recently I couldn't listen to Kings of Leon. I still can't, I find them (and him) to be extremely shallow musically and dull. But only until recently it used to bring up the worst memories and throw me back to some dark places. During most of last year when I went to work and the radio stations here would brainwash you with those songs (9-10 times a day, no joke). That in time imprinted those thoughts and emotions on the back of my head along with the sounds and tones of those songs.

It's obviously not Kings of Leon's fault, nor the radio stations here who do their best to play as few songs possible as many times possible. Today Kings of Leon were screaming through the radio after a long recess... I found that those ghosts have left me and the imprint has faded to an echo of the past. It was a cheerful realization that made me almost like Kings of Leon... but I went too far. I don't like them... yet. :) I just thought how both daunting and rewarding the effects of music can be.

The time has come. After countless delays I've managed to unleash a new collection upon you all, my innocent children. Introspection I named it, in memory of the year 2009, which I will forever hold in awe for the quantity and intensity of challenges it had in store for me. A new project is now present there - Question of the Stars, which is a direct derivative of the album name. I will write more on the project it self in a later post... but for now, please share your thoughts on the new find, I'm always glad to hear it.

No, this is not about astronomy or physics, nor about theories of superstrings or the big bang... well, not in an astronomical sense anyway. This is about how fragile the concept of stability can be. We all seek it, yearn for it, aspire to give and be given stability. But the truth is that as romantic as that concept is to us in a relationship or in friendship, it can never be fulfilled, even if promised with the best of intentions. Each of us is an expanding universe with big bangs that shape us from within.

Big bangs are waiting to happen everywhere, we don't have to travel 15 billion years into the past to see one (or many ;)), just listen and hear it happening with your family, friends and loved ones. Not all of them are bad, in fact I believe that the scale of good and bad is even in this case. And yet, the perpetual change is what we love to fear and fear to love. Stability is the dream we wake up from with each bang, with each pulse of expansion. The expansion doesn't come at the cost of the people you love, it's usually when you rearrange your inner galaxies to make more room for them. :)

Currently I'm working on a track I called 'Questions of the Stars' which is a result of such big bang that threw me back in time... 14 years back actually. Back when I was trying as hard as I could to imitate the greatest years of music in the history of mankind (in my opinion, anyway) - the 80s. I called it by that name because the space race has affected a lot of the art in the 70s and 80s and music is no exception. Space Age trends popped everywhere and such influences exist in my track as well. If the name is familiar to you from a phrase you heard or read somewhere, you're not mistaken. :)