Anyway I learned a lot from him. All the pronunciation and written characters and a better sense of Turkish history. He put me onto Okay Temiz who was Erkin Koray's drummer on seminal Turkish psych-rock instrumentals like Bir Olasilik (thanks for the tip!).
Okay Temiz is also on a compilation that may be the most sought after re-issue vinyl on the planet! Bosporus Bridges - A wide selection of Turkish jazz and funk was released by TWIMO records in 2005 but someone called shenanigans on it using Turkish retrospective copyright law and the remaining stock had to be recalled and trashed(citation required). Feridun had told me about how many pirate tapes were going around when he was growing up in Istanbul. He also told me that Turkish copyright law didn't exist until the eighties.
Now I'll tell you why the above mentioned compilation is so important. It was made by obsessive Dj/Collectors using re-recordings from vinyl and tapes. An astonishing and artful achievement. It is also part of wave of re-issues of music form Turkey and the middle east and a general surge in interest in all things Turkish.
The re-issue/compilation market is growing and diversifying. Now you can follow the story of Dj collectors like Dj Franc O and his West African collecting trips, blog and blogcasts, and New York club nights. Compilation makers are no longer anonymous collectors or label appointed compilers, they are more often than not Dj's and small label owning musicians. Good Groove record store in New York is evidence of that. The shop is a focal point for a community of rare groove collectors all putting their mix-tapes out for show. They are the true inheritors of the mix-tape revolution because their music has resilience and has already passed the test. Making a truly great compilation is regarded more more as a great artistic achievement.
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