Tuesday 20 April 2021

DJ Sakin

Sakin Bozkurt better known as DJ Sakin is a Turkish-German born (Aug 2) trance/techno music producer. His background was in the German techno scene, playing in the same clubs as Michael Munzing (Snap), Taucher and Mark Spoon. Sakin is best known with his friends and for the song "Protect your mind (for the love of a princess)," which spent 1 week at #1 on UK Dance Chart in February 1999. It reached #4 in the UK and #3 in Germany. Torsten Stenzel was a producer in the friends project and Janet Taylor sang the vocals on and appeared in the videos for all the tracks for DJ Sakin & Friends. There were numerous remixes of this including ones by Van Bellen and Ayla. The follow-up "Nomansland" made the top 20 in the UK.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Feb 1999    4	Protect Your Mind (For The Love Of A Princess)
Jun 1999   14	Nomansland (David's Song)

What happened next?
DJ Sakin has had collaborations with a variety of vocalists and artists as diverse as Vanessa Mae. Most recently, he contributed a couple of tracks, "Dirty Dancing" (not that one) with Nadja Benaissa and "Too much rain" to the "Planet Love Classics 2.0" in 2020.
Janet Taylor also sang vocals on some tracks for Taucher, York, DJ Mind-X, Diver & Ace. Her most recent release was "24 hours/Help me a lifetime" at the end of 2020.

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