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Alper KUL, new age and instrumental music composer.

XXXL was born in 1974 in İstanbul. He completed his education in Turkey and USA and had music education from Önder Bali through his high school life like Sonay did. He attende drum lessons of Salim Ağırbaş at the same time. He participated in Cavusoglu College’s, where he had his education, band and choir. 


XXXL started his DJ career at a very early age like 13. He played Popular Dance Music, Deep, Vocal, Garage, House, Tech House & Technoin his sets besides Rap. In 2003, as a result of R&B and HipHop’s global rise, he started to play and make the music he loved and listened.

XXXL started his radio career by attending Kent FM 101’s host Kemal Ayyıldız’s programme as the guest host. After that,he worked with Ömer Karacan in Number 1 FM. He became the Production Director of Number 1 FM, Kiss FM, Energy FM and Klas FM and at the same time the producer of the Number 1 Master Mix programme. In this period, he pronounced his name with the radio jingles of firms such as Quicksilver, Tiffany & Tomato, Mavi Jeans.

In 1991, he founded Turkey’s first Ambiant & Trance formation Modulation Wave with Erol Temizel and they released an album in the same year. They continued their companionship with remixes and they remixed Tarkan’s “Sevis Benimle” under the producership of Ömer Karacan. 
XXXL also hosted many TV programmes such as “MC Hot” on Number 1 TV and on many other TV channels with the “DUKE” format that he created with the famous director Umur Turagay. 

XXXL made vocalizations to the radio and TV spots of Levis, Burger King, Clynomin, Algida which were produced by Jingle House. 

DJ XXXL , worked with Chantage (formed by Kıvanc K, Tolga İnci, Hakan Özer) and Rebel Moves (formed by the crew of the Jingle House)as sound engineer and stage manager. 

Besides hosting Turkish Basketball Federation 2006 All Star Games and Champions League Turkey Final, XXXL also gives Freelance Marketing Expertise service.

In 2004, he starred in a TV series named “Lise Defteri” which was directed by Mustafa Altıoklar, as the music teacher called “Burak” for 33 chapters. He’s been taking stage as a DJ in performances of Ege Çubukçu as well as continuing the Nuké project. 

DJ XXXL’S musical goal is to establish an R&B Hip Hop based music company and to to improve this business in Turkey while establishing a Label that will help our younger candidates.

www.djxxxl.com 

Circassian-Turkish electronica producer from Istanbul.  Releases on Ki, Universal, Lost Tribe, Armada, FatCat...Remixes for Christian Löffler, Jan Blomqvist, Hauschka, Ambassadeurs...Support slots for John Talabot, Christian Löffler, Gidge, Weval, the XX, Jan Blomqvist, Digitalism...

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