CANSU TURAN
Cansu lives in Istanbul, and is currently at Yıldız Technical University as a 3rd year Interactive Media Design student. As soon as she became interested in photography and visual design she quit Civil Engineering, the subject she was previously studying, and realised she could never be passionate about anything as much as what she does...
2010 ISTANBUL NIGHTLIFE REPORT – 2 – AVNİ ERTEPE
INTERVIEW BY : MURAT BULUT AYSAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY : MURAT BULUT AYSAN Avni Ertepe is 35, he’s a DJ, a producer, promoter, art director and the founder of Fakülte Management. Alongside his career as an art director, Avni realised his visions for Istanbul through clubs such as Dogzstar, Dirty and Machine, and by organising all...
2010 ISTANBUL NIGHTLIFE REPORT – PART 1 – GOODOUBETS
INTERVIEW BY : MURAT BULUT AYSAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY : SEDEF DELEN Our first guests in this series are Goodoubets, Timuçin Coşkun and H. Giray Sepin. Giray’s a fashion designer, Timuçin’s a fashion editor. Who is Goodoubets? How did it come about? GİRAY: Who is Goodoubets? First of all, we’re people who like going out –...
WIN TICKETS FOR BABYLON : 19.02.2010 : 3D PARTY
Banané is offering 2 free tickets for Jori Hulkkonen’s Acid Symphony Orchestra 3D Party to one lucky Banané follower! You have until the 18th of February to email your name and surname to info@bananemag.com. The winner will be announced on the evening of the 18th and will be able to pick their tickets up from...
MİNİ MÜZİKHOL : 16.01.10 : TRUS’ME
Two years ago, Gilles Peterson said on Radio 1 about Trus’me’s Working Night’s album “If a house music album was to be made for me, this would be it”. Since then Mancunian Trus’me launched his new album last December with soulful vocalists like Amp Fiddler, Piranhahead and Paul Randolph. Trus’me will be Mini Müzikhol’s second...
ONUR YAYLA
After Onur had pretended studying ”International Finance” for two years, he graduated from the Visual Communication Design department at Bilgi University. Apart from his cut-out illustrated collage works, he also likes to capture blurry frames with his toy cameras. At school he was busy animating drawings frame by frame in the corner of his textbooks...
REMOOV RECORDS
Get ready to meet Remoov Records! The independent music label is planning to present plenty of new artists, with the launch party taking place on Friday the 23rd of October at Dogzstar, presenting 2 new EP albums released this month. The opening of the launch party will take place with the indie-electro-pop band formed by...
SOAKED
The story of Soaked starts off in 2003 with Balamir Nazlıca accompanied by a piano and an empty page. The essential concept was to merge lyrical poetry with romantic electronic melodies and captivating visual imagery. Lucid melodies turned into compositions which were written like today with a piano and a guitar. Simple in scale but...
POST DIAL & ZOOT WOMAN at OTTO SANTRAL!
The electro/punk duo Post Dial is formed of Yiğit Bülbül (guitar, vocals, synth) and Sinan Tınar (drums, vocals, synth). They played at the Rock’n Coke festival last summer and these days they are working on a new EP. Don’t miss their live performance organised by FG on the 10th of October at Otto Santral, supporting...
KARL-JONAS WINQVIST : BLOOD MUSIC
INTERVIEW BY : ÇAĞIN TÜRKER Karl-Jonas Winqvist aka Blood Music lives and works in Stockholm Sweden. He started out as a songwriter, keyboardist and singer together with Jenny Wilson in the Swedish critically acclaimed and sometimes controversial pop and rock group First Floor Power. Not only was First Floor Power ranked as one of Sweden’s...
ALI KURU
We all know Ali Kuru, the skateboarding blackout sessions kid from the block usually seen hanging round Tünel with a whisky in his hand. Playing mostly as resident at key Beyoğlu venues Lokal and Indigo, he always manages to throw a great party with no disappointments. His growing success to international scale makes us proud...
KAAN TÜRKER
WRITTEN BY : ÇAĞIN TÜRKER Şubat 5, yıl 83. Soğuk ve karlı bir kış gecesi. Birçokları çoktan sıcak yorganlarının altında rüya denizinde yüzerken, bir kadın ter içinde doğum sancılarıyla boğuşuyordu. O kadın, Kaan Türker’in annesinden başkası değildi. Doğan çocuğun ritmik çığlıkları, gecenin sessizliğini yırtarken; o ritimlerin yıllar sonra Dj listelerinde üst sıralara doğru emin adımlarla...
