Utku Dalmaz (born September 9, 1985) is a Turkish electronic dance music

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music under the artist name Utku Dalmaz along with his other music projects.

Career

Utku Dalmaz started producing electronic music at the age of 21 in 2007. Studied music at

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knowledge helped him to improve his producing skills. In that year he started DJing Istanbul's best clubs. In 2009, his productions already got attention and charted by successful producer/djs, many of his tracks reached top 100 charts on digital music stores such as

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, Traxsource. He released his first full-length album "Milky Way" from FHD Records at the end of 2009. He played in clubs and festivals in UK, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Moldova, Turkey and other countries along a range of successful artists. After years of producing house and chill out music under a variety of names such as UDM Project and OUTOFME, he founded Sound Mass Records which releases tech house.

Discography

Selected singles

*2008: - "I miss you" *2008: - "Mr. Mac" *2008: - "White Shoes" *2008: - "I am not you" *2009: - "Technoscope" *2009: - "Statiscope" *2009: - "Move Your Body" *2010: - "Station 9" *2011: - "NYC Lights" *2011: - "Call The Fireman" *2011: - "Okkala" *2012: - "The Love Cluster" *2012: - "All Night Love" *2012: - "Karışık" *2012: - "Blue Dolphin" *2012: - "Euphoria" *2013: - "Cryonized" *2013: - "Blue Brain"

Selected remixes

*2009: - "Nick Olivetti - Glitter (Utku Dalmaz Remix)" *2010: - "Vas Floyd - I Am One (Utku Dalmaz Remix)" *2010: - "Stephan M - Marabou (Utku Dalmaz Remix)" *2010: - "Chase Buch, Nick Olivetti - Get Runny (Utku Dalmaz Remix)" *2011: - "Pepo, Elektriksoul - Work That Body (Utku Dalmaz Remix)" *2013: - "Jesus Soblechero - Boiler (Utku Dalmaz Remix)"

Albums

''Milky Way'' (2009) *Eyes Wide Hot *Love Poison *That Night *Le Jazz Dans L'Espace *Meaningful *This is better *Wide Space *Apollo *Kangroove *Kangroove Re-rub

Web projects

Powerlabel.Net

In 2010, after a long and hard work Utku founded Powerlabel.Net, which is an online promo service for record labels and DJs. Powerlabel service was discontinued in January 2016.

Credentials

* His track "That Night" was featured in

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References

External links

Official WebsiteArtist page on BeatportSoundcloud PageYoutube Page
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