Electronic Music Compilation Released to Support Families of Hostages and Survivors of Israeli Festival Attack

A consortium of Israeli producers have joined forces to launch an digital music compilation benefitting victims of Hamas’ lethal raid of the Universo Paralello Festival, which killed at the very least 260 on October seventh.

Titled #ConveyThemBack, the marketing campaign is led by the Electronic Music Community (EMC), a grassroots motion launched to increase consciousness of crucial Israeli social initiatives, in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Foundation. The two-pronged compilation options over 50 authentic tracks from a slew of influential Israeli dance music acts, together with Infected Mushroom, Vini Vici, Magit Cacoon and Astrix.

All proceeds collected by #ConveyThemBack shall be donated to official representatives of the households of the hostages and survivors of the assault, in accordance to a press launch shared with EDM.com. Over 240 civilians have been kidnapped by Hamas militants on October seventh, Amnesty International reported.

“This Electronic Music Community initiative is important. It is essentially a tool to convey the message: people dressed up nicely, went out with friends to dance in a music festival, and were brutally and horrifyingly massacred by Hamas,” Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani of Infected Mushroom advised EDM.com. “It can happen to anyone. It can happen to you. It can happen anywhere else in the world.”

Israeli psytrance duo Infected Mushroom.

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“As artists who come to bring joy and make people dance all over the world, we condemn in every way the massacre that took place at the Nova Festival, which was only part of Hamas’ vicious attack on Israel,” the duo continued. “This EMC initiative isn’t about politics, and the compilation is our means of advocacy. Through it, we communicate to the world that such things cannot happen again and the world needs to see what happened to people whose only fault was that they went to dance and didn’t come back.”

The funds collected from #ConveyThemBack shall be allotted to “directly support the safe return and rehabilitation of survivors of this event from mental health care to support in bringing the kidnapped back,” per the EMC. The effort will even assist set up a remedy heart for victims and their households.