DJ TARKAN Biography

His professional music career started, when he became a DJ on one of the famous radio stations in Turkey . Right after showing up in the music scene as a radio DJ, he started to perform at the biggest clubs in Istanbul. The big break came in 2002 with the DJ of the Year award. DJ Tarkan was sponsored to play his eclectic house (deep, vocal, jazzy, funky, disco, techy) and deep, dark & dirty tribal progressive sets, which he sharply forms depending on the time, the venue and the crowd, all around the country.His creativity and talent was appreciated by the crowds and he was named number one DJ of the year in Turkey again in 2003 and 2004.Based on this success, Tarkan decided to spend more time on productions, releasing tracks based on years of musical experience. His productions and remixes were included in the tracklists and charts of the world's well known dj's like Tiesto, Sasha, Hernan Cattaneo, Nick Warren, Deep Dish, Sander Kleinenberg, Anthony Pappa, Dave Seaman, Danny Howells, Steve Lawler, Seb Fontaine, Lee Burridge, Sultan, Tone Depth, G-Pal, Chus & Ceballos, Dimas aka D-Formation, V-Sag and many more.While doing collaborative productions, Tarkan became close friends with V-SAG from Greece. Both went on tours together and the Turkish-Greek friendship resulted in the NO SMOKING RECORDINGS label, which is intended to only release the highest standard of deep, tribal and progressive house music.