Ahter Sönmez

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Ahter Sönmez
Ahter Sonmez, Istanbul
Ahter Sonmez, Istanbul
Background information
Birth name Ahter Sönmez
Also known as Ahter Sönmez, A.S.T
Genre(s) Uplifting Trance
Trance
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
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

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