Taylan Yılmaz

As a man dedicated to art, Taylan Yilmaz was introduced to music at a young age and has been expressing himself with music ever since. Aside of being a musician he is an art graduate from MSU Art Academy. His painting skills have been appreciated by art society since the age of ten and his illustrations and paintings have been published by major and wellknown comicbooks and magazines in Turkey so far.

He started to spin in some of the most prestigious clubs as a resident DJ. With his unique style of mixing and new world sound, he established a reputation in a remarkably short period of time.

In 2003, he performed on the closing night of Phonem, a music festival that guides today’s techno concept in Istanbul and he became one of the leaders of this concept by performing an outstanding show with Chris Liebing and Monika Kruse.

Taylan played in many festivals and shared the same stage with Dave Clarke, Umek, Percy X, Gaetano Parisio, Stanny Franssen, Valentino Kanzyani, Justin Berkovi etc.

In year 2004, he started his own club Auf, where he hosted and played with some of the biggest names such as Bruno Pronsato, Savas Pascalidis, Bangkok Impact, Stephan Sieber, Rennie Pilgrem and many more and in 2006 Auf came to an end.

In 2006 Auf came to an end. Since then he has been focusing only on music production, painting and photography.

Released first EP from Londons Living Records owned by Dub Kult in 2007 after that he started out a booking and event management agency named "Auf Entertainment". Organized parties, worked and played with Dub Taylor, Akufen, Bruno Pronsato, Sammy DEE, Patric Bateman, Mr Q, Magnum 38, Dj Flush, Irradiation, Evirgen, Lena, booked Anthony Collins and Daniel Rajkovic for his summer parties. His remix for "Evirgen" released from Living records, distributed from Neuton.

Played with Akufen, Sammy Dee, Dave Clarke, Chris Liebing, Umek, Monika Kruse, Gaetano Parisio, Stanny Franssen, Dub Taylor, Valentino Kanzyani, Savas Pascalidis, Rennie Pilgrem, Legowelt, Matt Samo, Percy X, Bangkok Impact, Orgue Electronique, Dub Kult, Michal Ho, Pink Elln, Sheed Lads Soundsystem, Patric Bateman, Antoine Clamaran, Styro 2000, Len Faki, Bang Goes, Stephan Sieber, Dj Trickstar, Wax Poetic, Onur Ozer, Justin Berkovi, Ozan Oner, Cess, 4 Hero, Andrew Weatherall, Bruno Pronsato, Christian Fischer, Lars Christian Muller, Daniel Rajkovic, Anthony Collins and more...