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GRGDN is a Turkish music production and artist management company and record label based in Istanbul. The name of the company originates from the Turkish word ''gergedan'' which means rhinoceros. It was founded in 2003 by OIART-graduated producer Haluk Kurosman and Hadi Elazzi, who had previously worked for such companies like Sire Records (Warner Music) or Sony Music Turkey. The company has its own recording studio in Ulus, Istanbul and does the management of several renowned Turkish artists. In 2011 Haluk Kurosman parted ways with GRGDN to become a freelance producer. Record label GRGDN released the first album of Turkish rock band Gripin as an independent record label. Together with Sony BMG they released several other albums. The studio recordings usually take place at the company's own studio, supervised by Haluk Kurosman. The full list of albums published or co-published by GRGDN is as follows: Artist management The company undertook the management of several succes ...
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GRGDN is a Turkish music production and artist management company and record label based in Istanbul. The name of the company originates from the Turkish word ''gergedan'' which means rhinoceros. It was founded in 2003 by OIART-graduated producer Haluk Kurosman and Hadi Elazzi, who had previously worked for such companies like Sire Records (Warner Music) or Sony Music Turkey. The company has its own recording studio in Ulus, Istanbul and does the management of several renowned Turkish artists. In 2011 Haluk Kurosman parted ways with GRGDN to become a freelance producer. Record label GRGDN released the first album of Turkish rock band Gripin as an independent record label. Together with Sony BMG they released several other albums. The studio recordings usually take place at the company's own studio, supervised by Haluk Kurosman. The full list of albums published or co-published by GRGDN is as follows: Artist management The company undertook the management of several succes ...
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Hadi Elazzi
Hadi Nabil Elazzi (born December 7, 1973, Istanbul) is one of the founders of Turkey, Turkish music production - management company and record label GRGDN. He was the manager of several renown Turkish artists like maNga (band), maNga, Gripin, Göksel, Emre Aydin, emreaydın and Vega (band), Vega. Early years Hadi Elazzi was born into a mixed family - a Turkish mother and a Lebanon, Lebanese father. In 1993 he was among the founders of the first university radio in Turkey, ''radyo boğaziçi'', the radio station of Boğaziçi University, which he studied at. During his university years he worked for several Turkish radio stations including Radio Contact, Metro FM, Show Radyo, Radyo 5. After finishing university he decided to move to the United States and started attending music administration classes at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997. In the same year he started working for Sire Records (Warner Music) in the marketing department. In 1999 he returned to Istanbul t ...
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Afili Yalnızlık
''Afili Yalnızlık'' (''Ostentatious Loneliness'') is the first solo album of Turkish alternative rock musician Emre Aydın, released by Sony Music/GRGDN. The album has received wide attention and several awards in Turkey. The entire album is built around the concept of loneliness, concerning both the lyrics and the melancholic music. The first video, having the same title as the album, was shot by renowned director Yon Thomas. Track listing # Afili Yalnızlık (''Ostentatious Loneliness'') # Git (''Leave'') # Hareket Vakti (''Time to move'') # Ve Gülümse Şimdi (Bebeğim) (''And smile now (My baby)'') # Bu Kez Anladım (''This time I understood'') # Kim Dokunduysa Sana (''Whoever touched you'') # Belki Bir Gün Özlersin (''Maybe one day you'll miss me'') # Kalan Sağlar Senin Olsun (''The Living Be Yours'') # Unut Gittiğin Bir Yerde (''Forget, wherever you are'') # Dayan Yalnızlığım (''Endure, my loneliness'') * Hidden track: ''Tesadüfen'' (By Chance) Album informati ...
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Hafif Müzik
''Hafif Müzik'' is the third album of Turkish alternative rock band Vega, released by Sony Music/GRGDN in 2005. Track listing # K-9 # Elimde değil (''Can't help it'') # Serzenişte # Mendil (''Handkerchief'') # Yalnızca ben, yüzlerce sen (''Me by myself, you a hundred times'') # Uçları kırık (''Broken ends'') # Yok (''Nope'') # Hafif Müzik (''Light Music'') # Yanıyor Zaman # O şarkı (''That song'') # Sokaklar tekin değil (''Not the streets'') # Ankara Album information Personnel * Supervising producer: Hadi Elazzi, Selim Serezli * Producer:Tuğrul Akyüz, Serkan Hökenek * Arrangement: ** Serkan Hökenek & Vega, ** Serkan Hökenek & Haluk Kurosman (03) * Recording: Haluk Kurosman, Serkan Hökenek * Mastering Çağlar Türkmen (sestrem) * Mix: Alp Turaç (atm) ** Mix assistant: Erim Arkman (atm) * Design: www.b-11.org * Photography: Şafak Taner Featured musicians * Tuğrul Akyüz: guitar, bass guitar, keyboard Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part ...
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Gripin (album)
Gripin is the self-titled second studio album of Turkish rock band ''Gripin'', released on 26 February 2007 by Sony Music/GRGDN. Track listing #Böyle Kahpedir Dünya #Sana Ne Bundan #Sensiz İstanbul'a Düşmanım (guest vocal: Emre Aydın) #Olduğu Kadar #Sustukların Büyür İçinde #Zor Geliyor (guest vocal: Pamela Spence) #Hiç Gelme Gideceksen #Baba Mesleği (guest vocal: Ferman Akgül) #Zamana Bırakma Bizi #Dört Album credits *Producer: Haluk Kurosman *Supervising producers: Hadi Elazzi, Selim Serezli *Edit: Haluk Kurosman, Arda İnceoğlu *Mixing assistant: Arda İnceoğlu *Mastering: Çağlar Türkmen *Photo: Fatih Uysal *Design: Volkan Lale Musicians *Kempa yaylı grubu (''Böyle Kahpedir Dünya, Olduğu Kadar, Sensiz İstanbul'a Düşmanım'') Writing credits *Böyle Kahpedir Dünya **Lyrics: S. Birol Namoğlu, Haluk Kurosman **Music: S. Birol Namoğlu, Murat Başdoğan *Sana Ne Bundan **Lyrics: S. Birol Namoğlu, Haluk Kurosman **Music: S. Birol Namoğlu, Mu ...
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Hikayeler Anlatıldı
''Hikayeler Anlatıldı'' is the first album by the Turkish rock group Gripin, released in 2004 by GRGDN. It was later re-released as ''Hikayeler Anlatıldı 2'' by Sony Music/GRGDN GRGDN is a Turkish music production and artist management company and record label based in Istanbul. The name of the company originates from the Turkish word ''gergedan'' which means rhinoceros. It was founded in 2003 by OIART-graduated produce ..., containing a bonus cd with the acoustic versions of the songs. Track listing # "Boşver" (Don't care) – 4:26 # "Elalem" (Everybody) – 4:18 # "Karışmasın Kimseler" (Nobody should stand between us)- 5:23 # "Çok Kısa" (So short) – 3:23 # "Üç" (Three)– 3:57 # "Rüzgar" (Wind) – 4:19 # "Hayat Mars Etti" (Life won over) – 5:14 # "Yüzümden Düşen Bin Parça" (A thousand pieces falling off my face) - 3:59 # "Bir Anlık İstek" (Momentary need)– 4:16 # "Yenilmişiz" (We're done) – 2:23 References External links Gripin official site ...
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Haluk Kurosman
Haluk Kurosman (born 1 March 1975, Istanbul) is a Turkish music producer and co-founder (together with Hadi Elazzi) of GRGDN, a music production – management company and record label; producing, mixing and mastering the albums of successful young Turkish artists. Kurosman started to play the guitar at the age of 15 and had his own band, where he was also the frontman. By the age of 23 he decided to move "backstage" and work as a producer. He is a graduate of Deutsche Schule Istanbul and Marmara University in business administration. Later he went to Canada, where he attended Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology (OIART) and graduated in 1999 as "perhaps the most brilliant student to attend OIART since its inception". Thus the institute has founded the ''Kurosman Award'' to be given to the most talented students. Besides being a producer, Haluk Kurosman also contributed to some of the albums as a musician (guitars, keyboards) and as a co-songwriter-lyricist. In 2011 ...
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Vega (band)
Vega is a Turkish alternative rock band, founded by keyboardist Gökhan Mert Koral (also vocalist on some songs), vocalist Deniz Özbey, and guitarist Esat Tuğrul Akyüz in 1996. Gökhan Mert Koral left the group in early 2003. They played in many Turkish festivals like Rock'n Coke. Their biggest hits were "Bu Sabahların Bir Anlamı Olmalı", "Serzenişte", and "Elimde Değil". For their first album ''Tamam Sustum'', the group collaborated with Turgay Gülaydın from Athena and Burak Karataş from Kargo. Career Foundation and first album Vega was founded in 1996 by guitarist Tuğrul Akyüz, keyboardist Mert Koral and vocalist Deniz Özbey. Akyüz and Koral knew each other from their time at the ITU Electronic Engineering and were making music in English since 1992. Together with the Mimar Sinan University graduate, Deniz Özbey, they started to write their own songs, and the first piece, "Tamam Sustum", was noticed by NR1 Müzik's founder Murat Akad, who encouraged the grou ...
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Gripin
Gripin (English: ''The Flu'') is a Turkish rock band based in Istanbul. The members are Birol Namoğlu (vocals), Murat Başdoğan (guitar), Arda İnceoğlu (bass guitar), and İlker Baliç (drums). The beginning They started as a cover band, playing in bars like ''Bronx'' in mid-'90s, and earned a cult following. Their wide repertoire not only included Britpop, but also featured examples of American alternative rock and in some cases, Turkish rock. The band started off together in 1999 playing mostly cover tracks in Turkish bars and clubs. Soon, they managed to establish themselves as a name behind the music they covered. Hikayeler Anlatıldı In the early 2000s, they started recording their own songs and released the album Hikayeler Anlatıldı (''Stories were Told'') in 2004, which was later released as a double album containing acoustic versions of the album's songs. Some of the singles featured in this album include "Karışmasın Kimseler" (''Don't Let Anyone Stand Betwe ...
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Emre Aydın
Emre Aydın (born 2 February 1981) is a Turkish rock singer-songwriter. The singer won the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 in the "Europe's Favourite Act" category. He is also the former lead singer for the Turkish rock band 6. Cadde. Biography Emre Aydın was born in Isparta on 2 February 1981 as the first child of Şaban and Nermin Aydın, who are both pharmacists. He has a younger brother named Yiğit. In his early years, the family moved to Antalya. Emre began playing saz at an early age and later opted for guitar. He graduated from Antalya Anadolu Lisesi (high school) and then studied economics at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, upon his parents' wish."Konservatuara gitmeyi hiç düşünmedim"
In a 2009 interview Emre admitted that he never attended a
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OIART
The Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology (OIART) is a private career college in London, Ontario, Canada. The institute trains audio engineers for a variety of careers in music production, recording arts, audio engineering, sound recording and related fields. Founded in 1983 by engineer and producer Paul Steenhuis, the college focuses solely on sound. Graduates of the OIART program receive a Diploma in Audio Recording Technology. OIART has been described as "prestigious" and as "the Harvard of Audio Engineering" and attracts students from around the world. Although not accredited, the school is registered as legally required by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. OIART has the largest full-time faculty of any audio school in Canada. Curriculum OIART offers an intensive, practical program in audio engineering. The 1300-hour program is taught in the school's seven digital multi-track equipped studios, including two lecture-style theatres. The s ...
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MaNga+
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica (''hentai'' and ''ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazines (also known as manga anthologie ...
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