Wu Weekend : ECE ÖZEL + KEREM KAYA

ECE ÖZEL /// Idiosyncratic, mutant and rigorous transitions. From İstanbul. When you come from a place where everything collides in the worst and the best way, confusion comes with a price - it's either a bigger confusion or a huge relief. İstanbul based DJ Ece Özel’s approach towards selection, pullulates from this exact notion. Growing up in the city’s vibrant punk scene and being acquainted with electronic music afterwards, surely had some effects on her style. Expect to be carried away with transitions between styles, tempo, rhythm and mood when she’s behind the decks. Whether it’s a mixtape or a dancefloor, Ece Özel’s mystifying, unpredictable and always fresh sounds blossom into distinctive, dark but somehow shiny journeys. She runs her own nights and podcast series titled “Özel Zevkler”. So far many local and global live acts and DJs took part in the series’ parties in various clubs and/or online platforms. Being one half of İstanbul based independent label Müstesna Records, she continues to shine a light on both contemporary and past Turkish electronic music scene. KEREM KAYA /// Kerem Kaya has been considered the DJ booths’ must-have ever since 2014. He is a multidisciplinary artist that experiments on the composure and agitation spectrum of human He draws power from the hidden, the untold, the accumulated and he creates an environment for its dissolution. In his music career, he uses sound to unite all that participate, inviting them to release all that have been burdened. While he creates a selfless, historyless and landless audible ambiance for his playmates to attend, in opposition he provokes his participants to solicit their hereditary baggage in visual arts.