Oforia (also known as Ofer Dikovsky) is a psychedelic trance & electronic music artist and a producer from Israel.
He is one of Israel's longest standing psytrance artists. he has been active in the trance scene since its early days and He's responsible for creating the first form of the Israeli electronic sound and by that he is consider to be one of the inventors of the genre.
Ofer Dikovsky was a member of the legendary Goa-trance band 'Indoor'. Their album - Progressive Trance – released in 1995, was one of the first in the wave of trance-artist albums. After the group disbanded, he continued his agenda together with Marco Goren to form “Tandu”, another mythological band that made its mark with Ofer's solo-well known track - "Alien Pump". Ofer began working as a solo artist under various names: Starting with “Oforia”, he was one of the first Israeli artists to be signed to the leading UK label – Dragonfly that was owned by the Legndary english producer "Youth" and the result was his debut album “Delirious” (1998), a bestseller album that established Ofer's unique sound and brought him world wide fame. Beside the main project - Oforia, ofer was running two other side projects. one was Solaris with the successful single “Out There / Extra Mundane” This 12” was played & licensed to compilations all around the world. The other one was a one time, full length concept album under the name “Pigs In Space” (1998). This album was pure dance floor mayhem, on par with the strong, metallic, full on style that took over the world at that time. In 1999, he released its second album under the name "oforia" - “Off The Ground” - a high quality album featuring various styles of trance - psychedelic, progressive, ambient and even a bit of industrial. This album was considered by many as “ahead of its time".
