Captain Hook

Reshef Harari, performing as Captain Hook, is one of the defining producers of the modern progressive-psytrance scene. His career began in 2003 in Tel Aviv when he met Avi Nini, founder of Domo Records, who brought him into the psy scene as a label DJ. Around the same time he formed the Quantize duo with Adi Ashkenazi, releasing the debut Quantize album Time on Iboga Records in 2009 after seven years of partnership. Harari launched the Captain Hook solo project in 2010, retaining his association with Iboga and quickly establishing the moniker through a string of remixes that reinterpreted classic tracks. His debut album Human Design (2011) marked his arrival as a headline solo act, with collaborations across the album featuring Ace Ventura, Liquid Soul, Perfect Stranger, Loud, Tetrameth, Freedom Fighters, and ill.Gates — essentially the Iboga progressive-psy ecosystem at its 2010s peak. Subsequent albums Frozen Light (2017) and Vertikal (2020) consolidated his standing as one of Iboga's most-cited contemporary names, and the catalogue continues to grow through ongoing collaborations with Ace Ventura — the 2018 EP Ebe (Captain Hook & Ace Ventura with Protonica) being a representative example. Captain Hook performs regularly at Boom Festival, Ozora, Universo Paralello, and Tomorrowland's Atmosphere stage. His sets emphasise long-form arrangement and organic sound design rather than peak-time aggression — a sensibility that has helped define the modern Iboga progressive-psy aesthetic alongside Ace Ventura and Liquid Soul.