Sun City Music Festival is brimming with talented artists of all ages from all around the globe. One act on our roaster who is a prime example of this is Deniz Koyu.
German-born Turk Deniz Akcakoyunlu’s musical prowess began to take shape at a very early age. “I started playing piano when I was a kid, when I was six years old. I got lessons in a music school for a couple of years.” He would later go on to discover a love of synthesizers and drums, getting inspiration from artists like Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, and Kraftwerk. Through his teenage years, Deniz spent his days DJing and editing his favourite tracks using small tape recorders and sampling everything he could. “It took me a while until I got my first keyboard, synthesizers and music software… when I was a teenager, about 15 years old. I got into the music industry when I started making music for fashion brands for websites when I was sixteen. I got some contacts and made some lounge music. Then I started listening to music from Eric Prydz, Steve Angello, and of course Daft Punk. I got hooked on it, so then I tried to produce that kind of music. That’s how I got into it.”
His hard work would start to pay off in 2011 when Deniz’s releases “Tung,” “Hertz,” and his remixes for James Blunt’s “Dangerous” and Kaskade’s “Turn It Down” became huge house anthems at clubs and festivals around the globe, being heavily played by Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta, Calvin Harris and other Sun City acts like Tiësto and Alesso. In the same year, Fedde Le Grand voted Deniz the “Breakthrough DJ/Producer 2011,” while Sebastian Ingrosso called him “big time talent.” His list of accolades would continue in 2012 when MTV added Deniz to their “EDM Rookies To Watch” list, calling him “a blazing new talent.”
Deniz trail-blazed through the start of 2013 with a release on Dirty South’s Phazing label, titled “Halo,” the “Generation Wild” Tour with other Sun City talent Danny Avila which hit up 20 cities in 25 days across North America, and not to mention his highly anticipated release “Rage” on Sebastian Ingrosso’s Refune imprint. We hope to get a little “wild” ourselves when Deniz Koyu takes the stage at this year’s Sun City Music Festival. Buy your tickets today and let’s get bongbastic August 31st and September 1st!
