![]() “I recognised that I needed something to go constantly for one to two hours, so I started recording sets on Audacity and using YouTube,” she continues. Undeterred, she set about researching how to smooth out her sets. The ladies were all dancing and shaking, the vibe was there, but then this pause killed the moment.” “When I played those CDs, I realised there was a pause after each track. It was here she started to learn the art of DJing, unaware that being a ‘DJ’ was even a thing, having never set foot in a club. “My career actually started making CDs for Turkish weddings,” she says with a cheeky smile. “I had Windows Media Player and I’d make the playlists there.” Eventually, those CDs led her to her first gig. “I got really nerdy with it,” she remembers. “Everything was mixed up together and I saw all genres have great music.”Īged 14, Adasi started making CDs for her family trips. One liked R&B and hip-hop, one was more into wave and rock and the other was very poppy,” she explains. “They had so many cassettes and they all had different tastes. She also remembers the influence of her then-teenage older sisters. “I would listen to music from all different cultures on those trips.” “We would be driving for 23 hours through Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, depending on which route we took,” she says. Her parents are from Macedonia and she keenly cites family road trips to their homeland as a catalyst for her eclectic tastes. “As a child I didn’t even play with my toys, I just enjoyed putting music on and dancing.”Īlthough raised in Germany, Adasi was born into a Turkish Muslim family. “We had a big Sony soundsystem with a CD and cassette player,” she remembers. “It was just nice to see I could connect people with music I enjoy.”Īdasi has loved music from a young age. ![]() Even if it was an opening set or if I paid for my train there on my own,” she continues. What’s clear throughout our conversation is Adasi’s willingness to do things. “You play at a party, then somebody sees you and they like you, so they invite you to play at their next party.” “Things built up year on year,” she explains. “I’m still confused!” Her rise is a process she describes humbly as “natural”. Adasi is the newest resident at Berlin’s Panorama Bar - “Which is, like, hilarious, you know?” she laughs. Over the years, Adasi has held residencies at clubs big and small, from the now-defunct Augsburg club, Schwarze Schaf (Black Sheep in German), to Munich’s famous Blitz Club, but recently she reached a new high. “Now we get international DJs who just want to come and play because they heard it’s good, which is super nice,” she says. Her debut EP ‘Fantasy Zone’, released in 2021 via Public Possession, transferred her eclectic tastes to production with similar ease, weaving her all-important acidic flavour with pastelly trance, glistening house and electro.Īdasi has been doing her thing for a decade now, and her HAMAM Nights party at Augsburg’s City Club has been instrumental in putting her city on the map. She’s one of those genre-hopping wizards who can seamlessly slink into new dimensions beyond the booth. “I love Berlin, it’s really nice, but I’m comfortable and happy here with my family, friends and the scene we’ve built here.”Īs a DJ, Adasi’s sets sparkle and bounce alongside tough and psychedelic acid lines. “The first question I’m always asked is, ‘When are you moving to Berlin?’ I’m not moving to Berlin,” she grins. Despite her international DJ career, she hasn’t felt the need to relocate elsewhere. ![]() We speak to Adasi from her hometown and birthplace, Augsburg, a Bavarian city of 300,000 people. ![]() For me, what’s most important is that I contribute something to my scene,” says Sedef Adasi. ![]()
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