His sound is self-styled as 'Arabesk-trap', as he explains: "I grew up when the Arabic style of Turkish music known as Arabesk was at the centre stage of Turkish culture, so I was listening to popular Turkish performers Ibrahim Tatlises and Muslum Gurses alongside trap originators DJ Screw and the Atlanta scene. Hell, the eagle-eared of you will even have clocked it on Sami Baha's SoundCloud, along with other bass-loaded tracks that have announced him as a definite one to watch ('Mavericks One' as well as 'Still' and 'Chunk' were faves from Sami's profile and have since been taken down and folded into the 'Mavericks' EP). The pungent instrumental, with its elegiac strings and rib-tickling doses of low-end, has been flexing everywhere from NTS to Radio 1 and has found itself into the selections of Total Freedom, J-Cush and Kuedo. So when you hear it, on the eve of its official release on Planet Mu, you'll no doubt know that you've come across it before. It's been infiltrating radio and club sets for at least a year, dropped like a secret weapon. There's something uncanny about 'Mavericks One'.
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