**Kobi Nigerker** (born in 1990 ), mostly known by his stage name **Blastoyz**, is an Israeli psytrance producer, musician and DJ from Beit Ezra .

Nigarkar started recording at the age of 9 at his parents' house in Moshav Beit Ezra and at the age of 16 the name "Blastoyz" stuck to him.

Starting May 2023, Blastoyz is on the list of the 20 most played Israeli artists on Spotify with 724,000 monthly plays.

Blastoyz is considered one of the most successful Israeli DJs in the world,  and one of the leaders of the psytrance style around the world. 

Blastoyz performs in most of the worlds most important EDM music festival, among which are EDC , Ultra Music festival, Transmission, Tomorrowland and others major event in South America and Asia.

In 2020 Blastoyz was ranked 97th according to DJ Mag Top 100 which ranks the best DJs in the world, and in 2021 he was ranked 94th. 

His song "After Dark" was featured in the Netflix series "insatiable "(season 2, episode 1). 

His song "Mandela" was certified platinum for over 100 million streams, views and downloads worldwide. 

In 2021 Blastoyz launched his own record label called "WELVRAVE".

Biography
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During 2003-2006, Blastoyz began his career as a DJ performing in small clubs and private events throughout Israel, mainly with alternative music, and during these years was exposed to electronic music through his brother.

During these years he set up a recording studio in his parents' house at the same time as his high school studies. At the beginning of his career, he started recording in Goa trance style, while being influenced by artists of the time such as Eyal Barkan, Astral Projection, Asterix, Infected Mashrom and Skazi .

Between the years 2009-2012 he served in the IDF, and at the same time during his weekend vacations he recorded in the home studio he built, and from time to time performs. Shortly after his release from the IDF, he released his debut album "Something for you mind", on the label "Geomagnetic Records".

Blastoyz's big breakthrough occurred in 2013-2014, when he had the opportunity to release works under the "SectionZ" label, where he released his second mini-album "Bastard" which revealed to the world of electronic music Blastoyz's unique style, and gave him international publicity that followed perform around the world. His next album "Mind games" was also released in 2013 and reached the 12th place in the "the top 100 Psytrance releases" chart of the American electronic music service "Beatport ".

In 2014 - saw the light of the trek "Mind & Spirit".

In 2015 Blastoyz released his fourth album "Step Aside" which jumped to second place on Beatport's "the top 100 Psytrance releases" chart. Following his success, Blastoyz joined the psychedelic trance label Nutek Records. In 2015 Blastoyz performed at major festivals around the world - Burning mountain in Switzerland, Metagenesis in Mexico and others.

In the same year he released his fifth album "Heal The World" which reached the first place on the Beatport chart. At the end of that year he released two collaborations - one with Sol J and the other with Skazi

In 2016 Blastoyz achieved a more psychedelic style which was well expressed in works such as "Parvati Valley" which reached third place on the Beatport charts and received over a million plays. Also many collaborations that marked the psychedelic trend of Blastoyz with artists such as "WHITENO1SE", the Israelis Ranji and Skazi, collaborations that saw the light of day as part of the project "Blastoyz + Friends.

In 2016, he appeared for the first time at the Airbeat One festivals in Germany on the main stage together with first-class artists such as Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Afrojack, Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, Steve Ioki and others. At this festival he revealed the track "Life System" - a collaboration with Asterix .

Discography
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### Albums

* *Something for your mind* (Geomagnetic. TV, 2012)
* *We love rave* (Nutek records, 2015)
* *Step aside* (Nutek records, 2015)
* *Parvati valley* (Nutek records, 2016)
* *Step aside (the remixes)* (Nutek records, 2019))
* *Blastoyz, Reality test- Kabalah* (Nutek records, 2019)
* *High on Acid* (WELVRAVE, 2022)
* *Blastoyz XTechnical hitch Mother North* (WELVRAVEs, 2022)

### Collaborations

* *Blastoyz & Allen Watts- Who's Afraid of 138?* *!* *(Vol.3)* (Armada Digital, 2019)
* *Blastoyz, Reality test, Part of the dream III* (Dreamstate Records, 2019)

### others

* + *Blastoyz, Reality Test- ABCD (2023)*
	+ *Blastoyz X Sajanka Ft. Liora Itzhak – Indian Spirit* (2022)
	+ *Skazi* & Blastoyz- Heart on a tree (2020)
	+ *Blastoyz, Vini Vici, Jean Marie* – Gaia (2018)