Aker

Born in 1994, Istanbul, Turkey. Alim was always influenced by music from a young age, whether it was playing the piano at age 6 or the African influenced percussion at the age of 10. Later at age 12 he started Dj'ing. He's decided to use his alias ‘'Aker''. Aker was first influenced by electronic music around 2006 from DJ’s like Roger Sanchez, Armin Van Burren and Hardwell. Thus the reason he's chosen electronic dance music. As he turned 18, it was time he would come to Oxford to study electronic music. It wasn’t long until he started playing around local venues in oxford, as he was studying university. Thereafter he played at bigger Venues such as the o2 academy, The grand, The Bridge. He would after play at his first festival at the Richmond athletic ground,