BIO
Tecer Haslıel is currently one of the leading melodic techno & indie dance & afro progressive house  dj born in, Nicosia - Northern Cyprus. Due to his great passion to music, starting in his early ages, he decided to buy his first CD Decks when he was 15. It could also be said that, his father's business was also a great factor to his endless and strong addiction to music. Tecer has recognized the spirit of music at his father's CD shop; Flash Kasetcilik.

Working hard, doing so much research on new sounds and listening to worldwide popular DJs, he has shown a great performance in few years time,and he was offered to make an online radio program called 'Ctduo Rhythm Digital Station. He had the chance to broadcast his own sets for 1 year, until the end of 2009.

Although this can also be named as a big step in his music career, actually his first big success was that he was given the chance to play with one of the best DJs in the world, Marco V, as a warm up DJ in 2007.

Some of the other top quality DJs he worked with are as follows; Murat Uncuğlu, Alex Gaudıno, Ian Carey, Fırst State(Sander Van Dien), Jonas Steur, Arnej, Ashley Wallbridge,Aly&Fila,Kyau&Albert,Ferry Corsten,Wippenberg,Ummet Ozcan

Since 2006, the year he has started his career, he has participated in many organizations, and played in countless high class clubs and bars.

To name a few; Night Park [Kyrenia] , Mojo [Kyrenia] , Club Vogue [Kyrenia] , Barcode [Kyrenia] , Park Malika [Kyrenia] , Shayna Beach Club [Kyrenia] , Nostalji [Nicosia] , Corner Pub [Nicosia] , Club Redroom [Famagousta] , Mansion Club [Kyrenia] 

IN 2008, Tecer Haslıel attended the first DJ Competition organized at Base Club and got the 4th prize among 15 young skilled DJs. In the same year,he also made his first album, 'Moonlight of the Guitar Beats'.


It was then time to step up there and ruin the crowd. Therefore,In 2009 , Tecer Haslıel joined Blackk Organization .

Blackk Organisation is a recently founded events organiser and promoter, based in Cyprus, experienced in organising music events, aiming to bring the latest and best international dance music to Cyprus.

Since then, he completed many events successfully, with a huge list of fans increasing day by day.

In the following years, Tecer Haslıel would like to continue to develop his skills in deejaying by working on production skills, and also to focus on performing abroad.

	
This young man, is a rising star who has far to go and enough determination and creative power to do it in a short space of time. Constantly seen performing in some of the hottest places to be like Favela Chic and Camden Rocks, sharing the same stage as Kasha and Moy Moy to name a few . Currently working on his first EP, ‘ The Green Light ‘ due to release later this year. Its only a matter of time until he is fully established on the underground scene.

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Franklin Freshman grew up with various musical sounds, from soul , to Indie music. He first heard Hiphop, at the age of 8 when he was playing monopoly with family. The Fugees, was playing in the background. ‘Ready or not was playing and I was amazed by the beats and lyrics ‘. For an 8 year child, hiphop was interesting but it was later on his life that he decided to starting ‘’rapping’’. 

It was when a certain white hip-hop artist, called Eminem appeared on MTV with his hit ‘ Way I Am ‘, that this young teenager wanted to rap. At first, he was writing raw angry lyrics like the ones Eminem rapped. Then he got into So Solid Crew, DJ Luck Mc Neat and various other garage legends.  After this he started emceeing to Garage. This was when he was 12 years old. It was a few years later, that he would record his first song. This was called ‘ I’m amazing ‘, after playing a video game he gave himself the rap alter ego of Mazin. He had the lucky opportunity to record this song through a government funded youth initiative. He kept his head down and got a Business qualification. During break times, he would battle rappers and rap in cyphers. At that period, a new music genre was getting popular in his district called Grime. Grime was a mixture of jungle, drum & bass, hiphop and garage. With 140 BPM, so he started emceeing to Grime and was forming crowds of supporters. 

He decided to cut a single, at a youth club. Innocent produced it for him for about $25. This would go onto become his first ‘’hit’’ . Under his new artist name Glitz, he recorded ‘ Glitz In Tha Bitz’ . As soon as it was recorded he burnt loads of copies and distributed it in his local area. The track was popular and many people had it as their ringtone. Being young and naïve he didn’t understand the music industry so he didn’t pursue a record deal with the single. 

. The friend wanted his help to run the event and also to find music acts to perform live. This gave him a zest for music again after being quiet for a while. So the friend said, he should start going to open mics and perform. This lead to nearly a year and half of attending the open mic circuit. He had made a friendship with a hiphop DJ, who he attended open mics with. After Glitz changed to Franklin Freshman, since he felt it was time to grow up from a childish tag name. They were runners up, in the July 2012 ‘ In it To Win it ‘ music contest and the hiphop dj, helped pushed him musically to what you see today. 

The projects Franklin Freshman has released, are A Slice of Cake, Candy and Sunshine and The Free Soundcloud EP. The most recent, is his debut album, Seeking The Knighthood. He has released two singles from this album, the first being ‘Love Lost’ which achieved almost 5000 views on Youtube and the second Garage single ‘ Happy Days’. 

Franklin Freshman, is back In the studio working on new material.
Franklin Freshman, is a young talent with much potential. He abuses the English language to the extent he is poetic and lyrical. With intentions of blending new school and old school sounds together, he feels that he will create music that generations will listen to for a long time. He has various influenced from Bob Marley, Kayne West, Kano to R.E.M and Blink 182.

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