Ali Kuru

Few artists can claim to have their own distinctive “musical voice”: a style of composition and production that listeners instantly recognize. For starters, it takes years of experimentation to perfect, and most people simply don’t have the patience, talent or skills to pull it off.

Ali Kuru is one of those rare producers whose music sounds like nothing else around. The Istanbul-based artist has spent the best part of a decade honing his trademark style – a fragrant and intoxicating aural brew that combines a myriad of influences with atmospheric field recordings and snaking, mind-altering Middle Eastern instrumentation.

His debut release for Leng was the ‘Luna’/’Araf’ 12″, a deep, multi layered late night dancefloor production and it’s on Leng that the publicity-shy producer returned with his most ambitious release to date.

‘Egzotik’ is an album that covers 15 tracks and is not so much a debut as a statement of intent. From start to finish, it feels like a humid, sweat-soaked saunter through the winding streets of Istanbul in the company of a musician who draws more inspiration than most from his immediate surroundings.

Ali Kuru