Sinan Mercenk

Anyone who lives in Hamburg will definately cross his path sooner or later. Even if you do not know him personally: as producer, musician, remixer and DJ hes a true talent when it comes to music. Sinan is a part of the music scene not only in Hamburg. He is not only known to the Hamburg crowd as a producer and Remixer. His remixes for Tarkan, Mustafa Sandal and Faray, to name just a few, conquered the dance floors and dance-lists all over the world. Even songs by Minimal Funk, No Underground,Big Owl, Blank & Jones and G Park were branded by Sinan and again, the dancefloors were rocked all over Germany. The exceptional talent had his first moments of fame in 1994 with some releases under the name of M.U.L.E., then an artist at the company „Container Records. The legendary „Sinan EP (U.S.S.) and many more project followed.. Sinan sets himself no barriers. His roots may be in House Music Electro and Soulful Mix, but it does not end here. Especially as a producer I have to be open-minded. Its important that the chords have Soul I want to give my songs a soul.His affinity to music started at a young age his brother Saim constantly played songs by Santana for him. Sinan was only 3 months old at the time HipHop, Soul, R&B and later New Wave and Bands like B 52s and Talking Heads influenced him strongly. Most of all though, the influence came from The POLICE, he admires them till today. For Sting, I would do a remix right now, he says. As a 15 year old he received a keyboard for his birthday a crucial experience which strengthened his wish to produce and play music. How to play the keyboard he learned that all by himself. Nowadays, Sinan can present a superb selection of songs. The list of his releases and compilations is long. Even his style as DJ is in great demand. „For me, there is only bad or good music, he says, „I do not play the bad music. Its so simple to explain his secret to success.My taste of music