As any fan of underground techno-house knows, keeping up with the vast amount of new artists, labels, and releases appearing each and every week can be a daunting task. So when a genuinely fresh and exciting talent comes along, it’s worth paying attention.
Such is the case with Istanbul native Ahmet Sisman, who in the space of just two years has become one of the
most hotly tipped DJ-Producer-Live Acts around. With a string of killer releases on Cocoon, Lessizmore, Stock5 and
Dumb-Unit – not to mention his own Slash Label – Ahmet’s dynamic style incorporates all that is good about
quality club music right now, fusing next-level studio skill with power, movement, and some serious club-slaying grooves. Percussive, futuristic, and dripping with bass, the Sisman sound is the antidote to the looped-up laziness that's been so prevalent in house and techno of late. As a teenager growing up in Istanbul, Ahmet’s early musical influences were deeply eclectic, incorporating everything from Britpop to traditional Turkish folk music, from Mozart to Grandmaster Flash. If you listen carefully, you can hear some of this rich patchwork of influences in his music now, particularly in his almost classical approach to arrangements and textures ...