Photo: Uygar Önder Şimşek
Based between Berlin and Istanbul, İpek İpekçioğlu is a DJ, producer, curator and queer activist. Her nu-disco, house and techno meet the melodramatic sounds of Anatolia and the Middle East. Her track «Uyan Uyan» on Katermukke led the Beatport charts for months. She has played from New York and Mali to Beirut, Cairo and Shanghai and received a German Record Critics' Award.
With jazzhane
- 29.04.2022 Psychedelic Music Explosion, Moods Zurich
- 17.12.2022 Psychedelic Music Explosion, Moods Zurich
- 26.07.2025 jazzhane Festival 2025, Rote Fabrik Zurich
About
Based between Berlin and Istanbul, DJ, producer, curator, queer-activist, İpek İpekçioğlu creates an extraordinarily warm, dynamic, and organic interpretation of electronic music as nu-disco, house, deep house, tech house, and minimal techno. Her music melts with the melodramatic sound of Anatolia, Orient and the Middle East and she has been pushing boundaries within the ethnic and electronic music scene for more than a decade.
The Berliner Label Katermukke released her track «Uyan Uyan, Wake up», which led the Beatport charts for several months as the most successful track. She released Bir çift Turna and Gelme Bana at Epic Istanbul/Sony Music. Her remix of Selda Bagcan’s «Gesi Baglari» was released at Majör Müzik. The Canadian Souq Records released her latest Techno track «Dame Sobh feat. Hany Mojtahedy».
İpek has performed in New York, on the desert Sahara of Mali, Salvador de Bahia, Stockholm, Marseille, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Novosibirsk, Beirut, St. Petersburg, Glasgow, Cairo, Sana’a or Shanghai etc. She has toured in Japan and has made exclusive tours throughout China.
İpek İpekçioğlu has received a German Record Critics’ Award and was named a musical and political «visionary» by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The Rolling Stonze Magazine called her a representative for «ideologically blinker-free living».