Utku Dalmaz (born September 9, 1985) is a Turkish
electronic dance music
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producer,
jazz guitarist
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and
web developer
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. He has been releasing
deep house
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and
tech house
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music under the artist name Utku Dalmaz along with his other music projects.
Career
Utku Dalmaz started producing electronic music at the age of 21 in 2007. Studied music at
Istanbul Bilgi University
Istanbul Bilgi University () is a private university founded in 1996, located in Eyüpsultan, Istanbul, Turkey. The university has four campuses in Istanbul: SantralIstanbul, Kuştepe, Dolapdere, and Kozyatağı.
History
The university was ...
.
Jazz music
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education and
computer programming
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knowledge helped him to improve his producing skills. In that year he started DJing Istanbul's best clubs. In 2009, his productions already got attention and charted by successful producer/djs, many of his tracks reached top 100 charts on digital music stores such as
Beatport
Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Beatport is oriented primarily towards disk jockey, DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that ...
, Traxsource. He released his first full-length album "Milky Way" from FHD Records at the end of 2009. He played in clubs and festivals in UK, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Moldova, Turkey and other countries along a range of successful artists.
After years of producing house and chill out music under a variety of names such as
UDM Project and
OUTOFME, he founded
Sound Mass Records which releases tech house.
Discography
Selected singles
*2008: - "I miss you"
*2008: - "Mr. Mac"
*2008: - "White Shoes"
*2008: - "I am not you"
*2009: - "Technoscope"
*2009: - "Statiscope"
*2009: - "Move Your Body"
*2010: - "Station 9"
*2011: - "NYC Lights"
*2011: - "Call The Fireman"
*2011: - "Okkala"
*2012: - "The Love Cluster"
*2012: - "All Night Love"
*2012: - "Karışık"
*2012: - "Blue Dolphin"
*2012: - "Euphoria"
*2013: - "Cryonized"
*2013: - "Blue Brain"
Selected remixes
*2009: - "Nick Olivetti - Glitter (Utku Dalmaz Remix)"
*2010: - "Vas Floyd - I Am One (Utku Dalmaz Remix)"
*2010: - "Stephan M - Marabou (Utku Dalmaz Remix)"
*2010: - "Chase Buch, Nick Olivetti - Get Runny (Utku Dalmaz Remix)"
*2011: - "Pepo, Elektriksoul - Work That Body (Utku Dalmaz Remix)"
*2013: - "Jesus Soblechero - Boiler (Utku Dalmaz Remix)"
Albums
''Milky Way'' (2009)
*Eyes Wide Hot
*Love Poison
*That Night
*Le Jazz Dans L'Espace
*Meaningful
*This is better
*Wide Space
*Apollo
*Kangroove
*Kangroove Re-rub
Web projects
Powerlabel.Net
In 2010, after a long and hard work Utku founded Powerlabel.Net, which is an online promo service for record labels and DJs. Powerlabel service was discontinued in January 2016.
Credentials
* His track "That Night" was featured in
DJ Mag
''DJ Magazine'' (also known as ''DJ Mag'') is a British monthly magazine dedicated to electronic dance music and DJs. Founded in 1991, the magazine is adapted for distribution in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, France, Italy, Lati ...
Special Stereo CD mixed by
DJ Chus
References
External links
Official WebsiteArtist page on BeatportSoundcloud PageYoutube Page
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Club DJs
Remixers
1985 births
Living people