Знакомтесь DJ IPEK IPEKCIOGLU (Berlin ) 

DJ İPEK İPEKÇİOĞLU


STORY

It was the mid-nineties as DJ İpek İpekçioğlu changed the multilayered Berlin club scene. Gradually her eclectic music and characteristic mixes turned into a foundation of the new style emerging in the clubs and nightlife of the city at that time. Widespread magazine Zitty acknowledged exactly this when they ranked DJ İpek İpekçioğlu as one of Berlin’s most important cultural contributors. Berlin based queer DJ has developed herself into an exclusive Berlin export article, visiting festivals and clubs all over the world: The desert Sahara of Mali, Salvador de Bahia, Istanbul, Glasgow, Shanghai, Peking and Cairo. She has toured in Spain with Ojos de Brujos and has made exclusive tours throughout China - twice. In Stockholm, İpek is much longed for as annual host DJ at the RE:Orient festival. The Swedish queer magazine QX selected her hippest DJ in Europe, and the Londeners seems to agree, ’cause in the World Beat DJ Competition at Electrowerk in 2005 they voted her the winner. Undisputedly, DJ İpek İpekçioğlu has earned herself a reputation in the heterogeneous landscape of international nightlife. Her first compilation named “Beyond İstanbul - Underground Grooves of Turkey”, was awarded by The German Record Critics. The press was enthralled and called DJ İpek İpekçioğlu a musical and political “visionary”, whose eclectic adventure journey leads immediately into a country of radical social change, far beyond the clichés and known Pop exports. The music critician Daniel Bax called her, “the Master of Ceremony of the transcultural understanding and has set important milestones”.

STYLE

The turkish SHE-J İpek İpekçioğlu takes the crowd its senses on a flight through the night, serving hybrid and eclectic mix of Middle Eastern, OrAsian Balkan FolkElektroFusion , Anatolian & Oriental DubInElektro, Gypsy Funk & Break Beats & Pop and Berlin Elektro & Minimal, interwoven with electronic tunes from Break Beat, Drum’n Bass, House and Dancehall. Through one set, she takes the audience on an aural journey through the cultures and music of Turkey, North-Africa, Israel, Persia, the Balkans, Greece and Bollywood, as well as carefully planned escapades to the UK and USA. DJ İpek İpekçioğlu is also known for her Berlin style Electro and Minimal sets. Her sound “Eklektik Berlinİstan” provides surprising breaks to the steady course of club music. Her emphasis clearly on kicking beats and dramatic baselines, DJ İpek İpekçioğlu offers a dj act out of the ordinary.
RESIDENT CLUBBING

In Berlin, DJ İpek İpekçioğlu is resident DJ at a row of popular clubs and festivals: SO36, Absolut Balkanizm, Kanakwood-PostMigrantSounds, Popdeurope and Berlinale. She is one of the masterminds behind the Berlin cult club night “Gayhane - House of Halay” and she hosts the “Re: Orient Club Night” in Stockholm / Sweden regularly since eight years. Apart from djaying, İpek has been the club curator of the InTransit Festival Berlin. For many years she organized the Orient Bazaar stage at the Carnival of Cultures together with Kokona Productions. İpek organized the turkish Alternativ-Electro-Night at Popkomm 2008, where great musicians held there showcase, such as Norrda and Gevende. She designs her own stage during the Berlin-Kreuzberg 1. May event MyFest and invites Bands to perform at her stage. She works also as music director of the prestigious post-migrant Theater and performing Art Space Ballhaus Naunystr. in Berlin Kreuzberg and of the Berliner Diyalog Theaterfestival.




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