Impérieux

Electronic experimentalist Impérieux combines melodic house, techno, and d'n'b with avant-garde weirdness, psychedelia, ethnic elements, and exquisite production design. Born Alper Durmush in Kardzhali, Bulgaria, near the border with Turkey, he was part of the region's majority ethnic Turkish population. His father was a DJ and he grew up surrounded by music from his earliest memories, mostly electronic, but also traditional Turkish and Balkan folk; he claimed not to have been particularly influenced by the latter, but its imprint appeared unmistakably in some of his work. A...