Özay Baş
istanbul
Kicking some House shit in the best places of da city SO catch it sometime
OZ-E (ÖZAY BAŞ)
Ozay Bas (aka Dj Oz-e) was born in Germany. He took music and dance lessons when he was a child as he had a big interest in these areas even in those days of his childhood. At later ages, he discovered House Music and in a few years, he bacame a recognised and respected dj in the Turkish Music Industry.
Oz-e started his djing career with a dance music program at a local radio station when he was 16 years old.Although the technologies of today was not around so much in those early days of his career, he made a great effort to collect his music archive by meeting with the music minded people whom he met in Turkey and abroad. He added into his collection many different styles of music in any format he could find. Around year 2000, he met the most succussful djs and producers of Istanbul and started working with Hakan Turkurer. “Working with Hakan Turkurer effected both his vision and career in music” Oz-e states.Oz-e had a residency in Cantina between 2000-2002 and he shared sets here with the best names Tangun, Cure-shot, Hakan Turkurer, U.F.U.K of House and Tech-house there.Under the organisation “Main Production”, between the years 2000 and 2003, he played not only House music but downtempo, deep, vocal, funky, chillout, nu funk, nu jazz, broken beat, soul, lounge styles at the best venues of those years; Soho, Dulcinea, Nupera and Lounge as resident dj. He expanded his vision in music even more by doing so. In those years, Oz-e became one of the most talked about House music djs with his performanses at Radio Quasar, Dada, Duss, Crystal Lounge and various festivals and organisations.Between 2004 and 2006, Oz-e shared sets with many local and foreign djs at venues like Samara, Maxim Club, Buz Bar, Blanco, Crsystal Lounge, Zeus, Rush, Rock’n’Coke and H2000.He organised his own party nights “House Groove and House-to-Tech” at Dulcinea Room and at Rush venue. These parties were success, too. In 2007 and 2008 he acted as the music director of clubs, Unique and Velvet Club. He also organised event nights for newcomer djs which has been a good influence on the new generation of electronic music lovers and followers.By not sticking to only of style of music, Oz-e started making his own productions in 2006 and had his first track released on the best House music compilation which was released under the label the Future Sound of Istanbul House Workz which Hakan Turkurer mixed. Since 2008, Oz-e has been spending more time in the studio and producing successful records of his own and still continues to play at various venues in and around Istanbul.Oz-e plays a weekly radio show between the houses of 16:00-17:00 at the leader dance radio station, Dinamo FM in Turkey every Saturday, playing Deep toTech House.
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