The daughter of Turkish immigrants living in Bavaria, Ipek has been raised in what might be described as the Orient within the Occident. As Kismet (Fate) would have it it, she spun her first tunes at the infamous queer party, Morgenland-Schleiertanz, at the SO36 nightclub.
Her style, which she calls Eklektik Arabesk KonFUSION OrAsia, is a groovy, strong, feminine and sensual mix of Nu-Oriental Dance, Pop, Desi-Bollywood-Bhangra-Indian-Soundz, Breakbeats, Tech Buka House, Asian Electronics and Queerdance. DJ Ipek takes whatever is best from any kind of music, colouring it with Oriental and Asian sound attacks. Resident DJ for the past seven years at the Gayhane party night, she has shaped one of Berlins most legendary and colourful club nights.
It is not just in Berlin that her innovative musical fusions have been all the rage on the dance floor. She is now exporting her sound to New York, to the deserts of Mali, to Salvador de Bahia, Stockholm and now to Glasgow. Just recently she was named one of the most important women in Berlin by the influential city magazine, Zitty.