Ahter Sönmez
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| Ahter Sönmez | ||
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 Ahter Sonmez, Istanbul
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| Background information | ||
| Birth name | Ahter Sönmez | |
| Also known as | Ahter Sönmez, A.S.T | |
| Genre(s) | Uplifting Trance Trance |
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| Occupation(s) | Disc jockey, Record producer, Remixer, Music Production Teacher | |
| Years active | 1998-present | |
| Website | www.ahtersonmez.com | |
Ahter Sönmez is a Turkish DJ, record producer, remixer, founder of the Turkish Trance Association and owner of a DJ Agency and an Electronic Music Production School called dB-Solutions in Istanbul. Ahter is a significant pioneer of uplifting trance genre in Turkey.
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[edit] Career history
Ahter started his music production career in 1998 specializing in electronic dance music. In 2002, he completed his music technology and production education from Akademi Istanbul. Having produced many tracks, in 2004 Ahter started his Djing career as a resident in Radio Koc with his weekly trance show D.E.E.P'.' His first club hit was "Yagmur Duasi", a groovy Tech Trance production which also had several famous bootlegs.
Ahter is famous for teaching Electronic Music Production Workshops and Music Business seminars in universities and colleges. He has also been a teacher in Galatasaray ITM, which is a leading music technology academy in Turkey. After having started his own company, dB-Solutions, he has also been working as a lecturer in his own company, coaching and consulting hunderets of producer nominees.
Ahter has also worked under other pseudonyms. Under the aliases UnderstarS and A.S.T (Ahter-Sönmez-Turkey), he has dabbled in Tech Trance. He also created the Reactionary Progression project with Peter Sævik, where the sound is a mixture of deep trance and minimal techno containing tribal flavors, mostly experimenting with the dark side of this odd sounding genre.
In the mean time, as a hobby, Ahter has been moderating, organizing international production contests and posting educational articles at a well known “Turkish Trance Platform” (TR-ance) with more than 6000 pursuer active members.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Singles and remixes
| Year | Title |
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| 2006 | Ahter Sönmez – Epos (Original Mix) |
| 2006 | Ahter Sönmez – Stars Beyond (Original Mix) |
| 2005 | Ahter Sönmez – Yagmur Duasi (Original Mix) |
| 2005 | Ahter Sönmez ft. Enver Murat Güclü - Media Club Party Jingle |
| 2005 | Ahter Sönmez - NTS (Original Mix) |
| 2004 | Ahter Sönmez - Psychedelikkk |
| 2004 | Ahter Sönmez - All Over The Place |
| 2004 | UnderstarS ft. Deniz - Between the Silence (Ahter Sönmez Remix) |
| 2004 | Ahter Sönmez - Analog Nightmare |
| 2004 | Ahter Sönmez - Winter Again (Radio Edit) |
| 2003 | UnderstarS - Waiting (Summer 2003 Edit) |
| 2003 | UnderstarS - Desert Queen (Summer 2003 Edit) |
| 2002 | Tan ft. UnderstarS – Peniless (Original Mix) |
| 2002 | UnderstarS - Waiting (Original Mix) |
| 2002 | UnderstarS feat. Dj Ahter - Freestyle (Trancy Mix) |
| 2002 | UnderstarS - Desert Queen (Original Mix) |
[edit] Aliases
- Ahter Sönmez
- UnderstarS
- A.S.T (Ahter-Sönmez-Turkey)
- Reactionary Progression (with Peter Sævik)
- Acilarin DJi Kuchuk Paul
