Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest achievements in your music career in 2015?
Faruk Sabanci: Reinventing my sound, shifting my style to music I actually love as I introduce my #NextChapter
Dimitri: Do you like to cook? What is the best recipe that you cooked this year? If you don’t usually cook who is cooking it for you and which is your best food for 2015?
Faruk Sabanci: I don’t really cook, but my favourite is forever and always, Sushi.
Best of 2015 by Faruk Sabanci
1) Best Track:
Tiesto & KSHMR ft. Vassy - Secrets
2) Best Artist (Dj & producer):
DJ: Hardwell / Producer: KSHMR
3) Best Remix:
Spada ft. Anna Leyne – Catchfire (EDX’s Miami Sunset Remix)
4) Best Remixer:
EDX
5) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
Nurettin Colak; His latest track ‘Cooler’ is MASSIVE!
6) Best Electronic Music Album:
Above & Beyond – We Are All We Need
7) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
Club Life by Tiesto
8) Best artwork/cover of an Album or Compilation:
Love the artwork of Axtone Records!
9) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
David Spekter
10) Best Electronic Music Label:
Metanoia Music
11) Best Electronic Music Video:
I haven’t seen a good Electronic Music video in a very long time, so I’m afraid I won’t be able to point out any of 2015.
12) Best Online Social media for communication with your fans:
Twitter
13) Best Twitter or Facebook message or Instagram message you received from a fan or friend or you have read on someone else’s account:
Way too many to think of, and I'm thankful for every single one!
14) Best music composition software:
Each to his own, but for me it has to be Logic Pro X.
15) Best Club Event or Open Air Festival:
Best club show I played in 2015 has to be the huge Trancemission in Club Space, Moscow. What a show!
16) Best personal Dj Gig:
A State of Trance 700, Utrecht (NL)
17) Best Dj set of the year from other fellow Dj:
Too many to mention!
18) Best country that you have visited to perform with the most up for it crowd:
My home country of course, Turkey.
19) Best Radio show:
Hardwell On Air
20) Best Radio station:
SiriusXM
21) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
A tie between Beatport and iTunes for me.
22) Best music related website that you visit frequently:
Dancing Astronaut
23) Best Smart phone/Mobile phone device:
It’s great to now be able to check promos I receive on my phone, so Fatdrop’s app for me.
24) Best Dj equipment (software or hardware):
Software: Ableton Live, Hardware: Pioneer Products
25) Best new sound or sample that has been used in Electronic Music this year perhaps introduced first by you?
I haven’t came across something totally new this year. I might however bring in the ‘Banjo’ sometime soon, guess that’s not very common at the moment.
26) Best tip that you learnt this year for your Djing techniques or music composition:
2015 is the year I learned all about the art of warmup sets.
27) Best piece of advice you got in relation to your career in 2015:
It was from my manager, when he most kindly said: ‘Do whatever the f**k you enjoy and don’t care about anything else’
28) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2015:
This actually IS my hobby!
29) Best holiday destination for 2015 that you manage to visit this year either to relax or to perform in a club or festival:
Singapore for sure!
30) Best Electronic Music magazines in printed form not online:
Despite not being a fan of the poll, DJ Magazine.
31) Best Movie of the year that may inspire you to compose a track:
The Imitation Game, loved it.
32) Best online/PC/video game of the year that you have played this year?
FIFA 2016 on PS4
33) Best joke you heard this year related to electronic music:
‘Whose Afraid of 138 ?’ and the articles of Wunderground
Dimitri: Finally, 2016 is ahead of us would you like to tell your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, Dj gigs.
Faruk Sabanci: I can only say very little, but with all these new tracks lined up I can only hope my fans enjoy my the new direction I’m heading and meet me at the #NextChapter, because I hope to see them there.
Many thanks to Faruk for replying to this interview
Many thanks to Celwin from Flashover recordings for arranging this interview
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Many thanks to Celwin from Flashover recordings for arranging this interview
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