Mai 3rd, 2010

DJ Ipek – exclusive export article from Berlin

Last weekend Berlin’s hip quarter Kreuzberg celebrated the 1. May holyday with a bright street festival. The MYFEST is meeting point for young and old from all over the city. Beetween thousands of frolic visitors DJ IPEK made good vibrations with Electro and Minimal sets.

The legendary quarter Kreuzberg is home to DJ IPEK and its source of her style. 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.

DJ İpek İpekçioğlu is ranked 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, Peking and Cairo. During the Berlin Days on the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai DJ IPEK will accompany the events & performances on the Berlin Square with an eclectic sound mix.

Eklektik Berlinİstan

The press was enthralled by her first album 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”.

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 sound sets provides surprising breaks to the steady course of club music.

A multilayerd sound mixture

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. Her emphasis clearly on kicking beats and dramatic baselines, DJ İpek İpekçioğlu offers a dj act out of the ordinary.