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With a love for music and technology, the decision to pursue a career in electronic music was not too difficult. Applying it in a traditional society, however, was the challenge.
Completing high school, Uncuoglu started working at CD LAND, importing foreign LPs and the first CDs to Istanbul. Collecting a vast knowledge of the current dance music, he was approached with offers to DJ at private parties. In 1987, he began accepting the offers, and started his DJ'ing career. Soon his first residency, at Bodrum Hadigari, followed.
Uncuoglu's career took a professional turn when his success at Hadigari caught the attention of the owner of Pasha Istanbul and he was immediately recruited to the club. Before long, his name became simultaneous with Pasha as he transformed the club's music scene to match that of the best in Europe.

His ever-increasing urge to become a professional DJ and producer, took Uncuoglu to what was then the heart of electronic music, London. During the day, he studied sound engineering and production at London's Media Productions. At night, he conducted field research in London's legendary clubs.While there; he met international producers including Marshall Jefferson (Chicago) and BAM BAM (Chicago) and worked as their engineers at various studios. It was not long before he was DJ'ing in exclusive parties and local clubs. Upon his return to Istanbul in 1994, he embarked upon multiple projects. Consequently, he was recruited as the resident DJ at Club 2019, Istanbul's first and legendary underground club. Simultaneously, Uncuoglu embarked on his most memorable project, the co-founding of Radio 2019, the first electronic music radio station in Turkey. Thus, the first steps towards placing Istanbul on club culture's international map were taken.

Since then, Murat Uncuoglu has founded MiracleWorkz, with his composer/singer associate Aytekin Kurt. Together they have created remixes for Turkey's top artists such as Tarkan, Sertap Erener, Levent Yuksel, and many more.
Uncuoglu has been the resident DJ at 7th House and Switch, the top two clubs in Istanbul, not to mention being host DJs Max Graham, Dave Seaman, Lemon8, Kasey Taylor, Andy Jarod, Stewart Rowell, Breeder
Having attained national stardom and respect by both his fans and colleagues, Murat Uncuoglu has turned his attention to the international music scene.

Refrence: www.muratuncouglu.com

Edited By: Kouros N Nasseri- Sound Planet

Interview By: Kouros N Nasseri- Sound Planet- Tehran

Photos & Publishing: Shideh Amerian

Thank you for your time. First can we have a short biography on you?

Sure, Long time ago I started collecting records, so my friends insisted on inviting me to their parties. At the beginning, I wasn’t much serious about the job, but after a while I found my self carrying records to different parties & in one of them, there was a guy offering me to play as a warm up DJ at his club & I accepted the job & after that I seriously started DJing which is now about 15 years & at the same time I decided to learn more about of Electronic music , so I continued my way in high education on digital studio production in London for about 3 or 4 years & after my graduation I came back to Turkey starting my professional carrier in a studio leading me to continue in my own. Now I’m doing lots of productions as many remixes of famous Pop stars of turkey such as: "Tarkan" & by the side producing my own music that is Electronic joined by some partners. We also produce sound tracks for a TV series which is very popular in Turkey.

Can we know more about the style of your music & the genre you work on?
Previously, I used to play vinyl records and after a time I changed my style using CDs & now at the moment I do live production using soft wares with its related controller equipment & my usual mixing software is "Abletonlive". Many people ask me about the satisfaction of using laptops & my answer is: the way of music performance doesn’t matter; the main thing is now to make your audience satisfied. As I said I prefer using - ableton live, because you're free to do anything during your mix & that’s the new generation I believe in & also gives me the power of improvising.

What do you think about the upgrades of the music fans & the way they listen & follow electronic music?

I believe lots of things has been changed, for example, ten years ago, there was no fast internet services so they didn’t have the chance to get the latest updates of music, but know every body has the chance to surf the net & download the tracks they are looking for & they got very open minded in music with the point of growing up fast. We also have many people who don’t know much of this music but there are much Individual opportunities they have, choosing what they like or not & can test their tastes in any conditions.

I see people here, who are much updated in music & have a professional vision; do you have any reasons for that?

Because we have our own traditional music that is highly graded, so definitely our people would have a great vision of understanding professional music. So it makes them dig through the style & find the best & compare the qualities. The important thing is they care about the melodies & vocals in electronic music & I think it originally comes from their sight of traditional origins, which is why I believe in using eastern melodies mixed with modern beats.
Can you tell us about your new music releases & the new taste you have & generally what are you planning in the future of your artist carrier?

Actually we are running a recording label named "Technical Rotation" featuring "Alican & Soner" that is a top DJ in Turkey. So due to our last records, we are planning to release our new album in September. This is the job that we were planning on last year, but because some problems we had with some vinyl companies who fell in deep problems, we decided to transform to a digital format of recording & as many "Indi" labels, we made it possible for downloading & working on the comments people send to us. Alican & Soner and I, have the same style of producing using - ableton live , so we both have the vision of performing as a real music band (instrumental) & I think this will lead us to the new generation of electronic.

Most of the readers, are the Iranian communities, can you tell us how much your familiar to this nations music activities?

Well, I had many chances to meet Iranians playing different styles & different instruments. I believe in our own genre some times it’s better to continue in the undergrounds as the ambiance & the law rules the same. You know when it's free & opened it will turn to more commercial, but when it's underground it will stay more creative & professional.

We have lots of Iranians, playing & producing world wide & stars like, "Sharam ", "Ali Dubfire " ( both from Deep dish ) , Behrouz &… are originally Iranian, do you respect this community & do you know more highlighted names from this nation?

Well, I didn’t have the chance to meet any other professional names from Iran, but I’m sure I will have the opportunity to be introduced to them in the future & maybe see them at big festivals & events.

Thank you for your time, we appreciate if you have any messages for our readers.
Sure, thanks for your interview, you can view my website: www.muratuncouglu.com, I’m glad to have your nice comments & hope to see you again.