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DJ Eyal Yankovich Founder of Hommega Passed Away

With great sadness we have learned today that Eyal Yankovich, DJ Eyal, the heart and brains of Hommega and one of the key figures in the Goa and Psytrance culture for more than 25 years has passed away this morning.

Rest in Peace Eyal Yankovich. The music is your legacy. You will be missed. See you in the big party in the sky.

In a message on their facebook page Hommega wrote:

“It is with infinite sadness and great shock that we have to inform you that Eyal Yankovich, the beating heart of Hommega, has passed away this morning.
We will reveal more details when it is possible. For now, we ask everyone to respect his family and friends and let us all mourn and get over this horrible shock and adjust to this new reality. Also try and understand if we do not communicate normally in the coming days.
If you would like to pay your respect, please do it by remembering a special personal moment or by sharing the biggest moving force in Eyal’s life – the music he loved so much and pushed for more than 20 years.”

…if you met him it was very hard to believe that this quiet, reserved and so ordinary looking person was the channel to the music that got so many people all over the world dance madly and loose themselves in trance rituals.

Eyal was a key figure in the Psytrance culture, and especially in the Israeli psytribe. Eyal started his journey through the psytrance world when a friend took him to a party in his early twenties. The music got hold of him and his life changed forever. He once said in an interview about that first party: ” I… felt an enormous experience and I fell in love with the music.”.

In the mid 90s Eyal managed Melodia Records, the first Israeli label to release trance and early Goa Trance music. Eyal, who was a DJ in his teens, also took to the decks and started DJing Goa Trance. In the Israeli Goa Trance scene of the second half of the 90s everyone knew about DJ Eyal “The Fat” as he was called fondly (Eyal was never a thin guy). It was well known that if Eyal is playing in the morning there’s going to be a lot of dust in the air.

At a certain point he felt it was time to do his own thing and together with Moshe Keinan (Xerox) and that same friend who first introduced him to this new music, Meir Cohen, he opened Hommega and released the first compilation “Full On” in 1997.

Eyal (center) with Moshe Keinan (Xerox) on the left and Meir Cohen on the right @ Hommega back yard in 1997.

From that moment on Eyal was a key figure in the Israeli trance world and in the world trance community. He was responsible for so many musical moments and if you met him it was very hard to believe that this quiet, reserved and so ordinary looking person was the channel to the music that got so many people all over the world dance madly and loose themselves in trance rituals.

Hommega’s roster through the years included key artists to the development of the Psytrance scene such as Astrix, Infected Mushroom, Xerox, Cosma, Juno Rector, PsySex, Ace Ventura, Skazi, Yahel, Sandman, Domestic, MFG, Pixel, BLT (Perfect Stranger), Illumination, Freedom Fighters, Hujaboy, Mascalin, Sub6, PsyCraft, Chakra, Vertical Mode, Animato and many others.
It’s two series of compilations – Full On and Israliens – both reached 7 volumes, were instrumental to the development of Psytrance and contain milestone tracks.
Eyal also released a series of Chill Out compilations not many people are aware of, and he loved chillout music.

Read our last interview with Eyal Yankovich from 2015 here: https://trancentral.tv/2015/12/an-interview-with-eyal-yankovich-the-man-behind-hommega-records/

This year Hommega was celebrating 20 years with a series of label parties all around the world and double compilation with remastered and remixed classics. It’s a good peak into the legacy of Eyal Yankovich.

HOMmega 20 Years Anniversary (Remastered):