BÄRTAUB RELEASE MARBLE EP ON R&S
Last week, esteemed Istanbul DJ/Producers Mutlu San & Batu Güler aka Bärtaub dropped their new 12″ single Marble on the ever salient Belgian label R & S. It follows up their contribution to that label’s RV Tracks Vol 3 compilation back in February with the minimal and bass focused ‘Archivolt. Here the titular track is […]
LISTEN/WATCH: AFFET ROBOT RELEASES HUZURSUZ SEYIRLER EP + VIDEO FOR OPENING TRACK “FIRTINA’
On Friday Affet Robot, the darkwave/synth pop project of Istanbul multi-instrumentalist Eren Günsan, released a more than impressive new EP called Huzursuz Seyirler (Restless). To mark the occasion he’s shared the more than appropriate video for its mood oscillating opening track ‘Fırtına’ (Storm). Reflective and tense, the pacy three minute affair takes its fascinating cues from […]
RECORD REVIEW: BIBLO (TUR) – LEKE EP
After a long hiatus, late last month Istanbul experimental electronic artist Pınar Üzeltüzenci aka biblo, marked her return to music with the release of her new four track EP, Leke (stain). It’s her first standalone solo release since her breakthrough 2014 album Absence and sees her move thematically inward using her considerable sonic palette to […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: SERETAN (TUR) – LOST IN TIME
Berlin based Turkish electronic producer Özcan Ertek aka Seretan has released a new single, ‘Lost In Time‘. Five years in the making and stemming from a collaborative jam back in 2013 with Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet at New York’s soon to be defunct Red Bull Music Academy, the track is characterised by the delicate […]
NEW & NOTABLE: JAKUZI (TUR) – HATA PAYI
Istanbul synthpop outfit Jakuzi have released their second full length album Hata Payı, the follow up to their 2016* debut Fantezi Musik. The first taste of the record surfaced in February with the pulsing circularity of ‘Yangın’ while we featured the the streamlined pop stylings of second single ‘Toz’ in our New Independent Postpunk, Wave, […]
ERDI IRMAK DROPS NEW EP
Istanbul’s progressive house master Erdi Irmak just dropped two awesome cuts in his return to Greek label Movement. The sinewy and meditative title track ‘Soul Searching’ kicks things off nicely before standout track ‘Dowa’ deepens proceedings with its elongated bass undulations and a super precise rhythm decorated with touches of diversely procured percussion and flared […]
KIM KI O ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, ZAN
Istanbul dark pop duo Kim Ki O are set to deliver their long awaited new album Zan (Presumption) later this month. It’s been a long and difficult four years since the release of the excellent Grounds and in that time its no secret that Turkey’s conservative and religious elite have taken a firm grip on […]
PREMIERE: SERETAN UNVEILS FEELING FROM NEW EP
EP Artwork: Ahmet Atıl Akar A couple of weeks back we posted about the opening salvo, ‘Thinking‘ from Seretan, the project of Turkish producer Özcan Ertek from his soon to be released third EP, Persona,Today we premiere the second track from it, ‘Feeling’. Eastern sounds are again employed to grand effect together with dark brooding electronic […]
SERETAN RETURNS WITH PERSONA EP
Istanbul electronic producer Özcan Ertek aka Seretan, is set to release his third EP later this month. Titled ‘Persona’, it comes just eight months since previous effort Transference and again is thematic in scope, this time based around the idea of Carl Gustav’s cognitive processes theory. Each of its four tracks hones in on a […]
SERETAN RELEASES TRANSFERENCE EP
Last week we shared the title track to the new EP Transference from Seretan, the project of Istanbul electronic producer Özcan Ertek. Now you can hear the whole EP in full below. From the cosmic dust trails left by ‘Transference’ itself to the perpetual motion of ‘Slipping Away’, the EP is bookended by the slow burn […]