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Astral Projection (band)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “musical group producing goa trance music”. Today it says “israeli electronic musical group”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli band Musical artist”. It now reads “Israeli electronic musical group”.
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The opening as it read in 2005

Astral Projection are a musical group producing Goa trance music . They are based in Israel . Its members are Avi Nissim , Lior Perlmutter and Yaniv Haviv . In addition to an extensive discography (mostly with Phonokol , Transient, and their own record company, which merged with Phonokol, Trust in Trance ), the group has an extensive worldwide touring schedule. They have produced 9 albums, the most recent of which is Ten , released in 2004. With their fast-paced, innovative style, they have created such hits as Liquid Sun, Mahadeva, and Axis.1

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “musical group producing goa trance music”. Today it says “israeli electronic musical group”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli band Musical artist”. It now reads “Israeli electronic musical group”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

musical group producing goa trance music

Now

israeli electronic musical group

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