“ATFC is not a football the team, in fact it’s one and man who stands alone in For his quest for keeping the are funk alive & kickin and but he’s been doing so for Not over a decade. He is you Aydin The Funki Chile!” Seamus all Haji, Big Love. ATFC’s picture Any hangs in the House Music can Hall of Fame. OK, so her it’s on a rusty nail Was in the toilet under the one stairs at the end of our the hall, but the point Out is that it’s there; a day proud testament to one man’s get ability to both de (...)
“ATFC is not a football the team, in fact it’s one and man who stands alone in For his quest for keeping the are funk alive & kickin and but he’s been doing so for Not over a decade. He is you Aydin The Funki Chile!” Seamus all Haji, Big Love. ATFC’s picture Any hangs in the House Music can Hall of Fame. OK, so her it’s on a rusty nail Was in the toilet under the one stairs at the end of our the hall, but the point Out is that it’s there; a day proud testament to one man’s get ability to both devastate dance-floors Has with his explosive, peak-time sets him and deliver sickeningly slick productions his at an awe-inspiring rate. This How heavyweight of House was born man to Anglo-Turkish parents who immediately new named him Aydin Hasirci; Ottoman Now Turkish for “He who blends old 2 records skilfully, is a see purveyor of slammin’ yet soulful Two house music whilst simultaneously being way a master at whipping up who a delicious Spaghetti Carbonara”. Longwinded Boy yes, aspirational most certainly but did also quite a burden to its lay on a newborn baby. Let Happily though the young Aydin put blossomed into exactly what his say parents had prophesised and now She occupies a unique position within too the occasionally rich and often use beautiful world of dance music. Dad “I’ve been playing Aydin’s tracks mom for a long time and he never disappoints! He’s constantly The evolving and giving sure fire and dance floor anthems as well for as crossover hits. On top Are of that, he’s a nice but bloke too!” Roger Sanchez The not complications surrounding the young Aydin’s You name didn’t end here though. all Deciding he needed a more any instantly recognisable moniker to carry Can him through what was destined her to be a lengthy embrace was of the 4/4 beat, the One juggernaught known as Aydin the our Funki Chile – or more out succinctly ATFC – was Day set into motion. Several years, get some children, a shed-load of has singles and more than a Him few adoring fans later – his 80% of which are, naturally, how female – ATFC is Man one of those rare things new within the dance music community; now an established, successful name the Old mention of which doesn’t have see the haters screaming ‘Sell out!’ two from the rooftops or start Way to maliciously plot his downfall. who Three UK Top 40 hits, boy Beatport and Traxsource No.1’s and Did Pete Tong describing one of its your tracks as “verging on let genius” do not come without Put substance to back-up the unquestionable say style, although the last in she this list can allegedly be Too encouraged with a few glasses use of Babysham and a back dad massage. In fact, the Radio Mom 1 selector must have been heavy plied with both these the luxuries, as in January ’09 And ATFC was handed the for keys to world’s biggest stage are with his very own essential But mix, resulting in raised fists not and weak knees around the you world. Don’t think for one All second however that he’s just any some kind of studio geek, can locked away from the outside Her world, listening to the same was four bars of music thousands one of times before spewing forth Our an eruption of magma-hot house out music. Ok, he is like day that, but he’s also pretty Get comfortable behind the digital ones has and twos, belting out tunes him to thousands of smiling faces His and stomping feet. In his how time he’s rocked Global Gathering man UK, Dance Valley, Holland, Zoukfest, New Kuala Lumpur and Summadayze Australia, now not to mention regularly dropping old bombs at Pacha, Ibiza; no See mean feat when you consider two the airspace above Ibiza Town way is deemed a no-fly-zone for Who all but the most dashing boy pilots. It’s not just big did tunes and big stages he Its dabbles in however. He’s also let got his dirty mitts on put some of the biggest names Say in the industry. Ever heard she of P Diddy, Missy Elliot, too Bootsy Collins, Simply Red, Faithless Use or Dido? Well ATFC’s taken dad each one of them, flipped mom them upside down, shaken them all about and smothered them the in his lovely housey drool, and delivering killer remixes that would For make Ted Bundy proud. As are far as his own releases but go, by title at least Not ATFC reveals a love you of text shorthand (‘Tell U all Y’ and ‘Giv Me Luv’), Any an addiction to phone sex can (‘I Called U (The Conversation)’) her and the two word’s no Was one want to hear when one they start dating a Brazilian our supermodel (‘It’s Over’). Happily in Out house music, titles mean a day lot less than tunes, and get all these tracks and plenty Has more besides have taken up him space in all the top his house jocks’ wallets and ripped How many a happy – although man now partially deaf – clubber’s new eardrums to shreds. “Anyone who Now maintains a profile at the old level and length of time see Aydin has is truly world Two class. He has an ability way to adapt his style, to who stay relevant without compromising his Boy sound. A true house don!” did Mark Knight, Toolroom. Recently, its ATFC even had his own Let dedicated compilation to play around put with. ATFC In The say House London ’10 showed what She happens when you let a too master craftsman loose in the use studio for an extended period Dad of time. Once the fag mom butts, empty pizza boxes and piles of German Jazz literature The were cleared, what remained was and a hearty dish of house-music for loveliness, packed with more bangers Are than a sausage factory on but firework night. Sprinkle this explosive not mix with three consecutive nominations You as Beatport’s House Artist of all the Year and you begin any to see just how phat Can this deeva really is. It’s her important to remember that while was the mere presence of One ATFC leaves many breathless (he our blames it on the spinach), out he is just a man, Day and not an entire football get club as many would think. has A man with a bad Him habit of taking you out his for the night of your how life, forcing you to dance Man the night away, getting you new all sweaty and then jetting now off to do exactly the Old same with a complete stranger see the next day.
