My Vision

Music profoundly influences our emotions, serving as a portal for boundless expression and artistic communication. It has the power to create and evoke emotive memories and the force to inspire limitless amounts of dreams and creativity. It effortlessly transcends social, linguistic, and cultural barriers, remedially allowing listeners and artists to tell stories that last an eternity. It is a fundamental aspect of life and the human experience.

Utilizing my distinctive sound and style, I aim to transmit my visions and energy to the rest of the world through the infinitely evocative possibilities of music.

History of ERAN

Since birth, my life has been embedded within the music and media industry, sometimes without even realizing it. Below I share a brief timeline of some of my experiences.

November 2002 – April 2005

I was born in Miami, Florida, near South Beach, where my parents decided to settle down after immigrating from Turkiye in 1999. Little did I know then, I was born in one of the hearts of a quickly evolving electronic music scene, with ULTRA MIAMI 2002 minutes from the hospital, just a few months before I was born, featuring some of my idols, such as Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto, Dimitri from Amsterdam, and many more.
My parents were artistically inclined and consistently shared this appreciation as they raised me, exposing me to various genres of music. My dad loved playing his guitar in college. After noticing my fascination with his music, he bought me my first guitar in 2004, so we could play alongside one another.
Coming to be three years old, my parents decided to move to Raleigh, North Carolina, to settle down and raise me and eventually our family with my little sister.

August 2010 – June 2014

After growing up in North Carolina, and constantly growing my admiration for music, I wanted to dive into new music areas and decided to join my elementary school choir in 3rd grade, which I stuck with all through the rest of my time leading up to middle school.
In 2012, I began attending Village Music School for piano lessons. At a young age came an interest in non-music related subjects, often using some piano lessons to engage in non-music related topics and playing video games with my teacher. Nevertheless, I will always be grateful for the countless knowledge and assistance my teacher provided in my growth as a musician through his invaluable insights in helping me prepare for my music recitals and more.
In 2013, I signed up for after-school violin lessons at my school to further expand my musical understanding. That same year, in 4th grade, I composed my own work of classical music for my elementary school arts competition. Now, looking back, the piece was nothing too crazy, but it is still one of my favorite achievements.
Leading up to 2014, I started losing joy in playing piano, dreading the countless hours I was putting in to perfect my sight-reading, overworking my fingers, and playing the identical measures of music over and over. Additionally, my commitment to pursue higher levels of music education at the time became too strenuous, eventually leading me to burst and quit piano (a decision that I still regret to this day).

August 2014 – August 2016

After finishing elementary school and starting middle school at Cary Academy, the curriculum at the time allowed all incoming students to test out all of the arts our middle school offered, and by November of 2014, each student chose one art to pursue for the rest of middle school.
Appreciative of all the arts, I enjoyed every art, ranging from studio art, orchestra, band, chorus, theatre, and more. Now, maybe a habit from elementary school or simply my interest in the art, determined to continue my choral pursuits from elementary school, I chose chorus.
Through 6th and 7th grade, our choir sang multitudes of musical genres and works. I developed my sight-reading, singing, and breathing techniques, accumulating a more robust understanding of musical theories. Our chorus participated and occasionally placed in state and other regional competitions. I started as one of the few male sopranos, as my voice had not yet dropped from puberty, and finished my time with our middle school choir as a tenor.
My decision to leave our middle school choir stemmed from two reasons. I began to realize my musical inclinations and strengths were not from my vocal production, and at the time, my interests progressed to the art of media and video production. So, I decided to switch to film production in my last year of middle school.

August 2016 – June 2019

Around the end of middle school and the start of high school, I developed an interest in media production from watching creators on YouTube and similar platforms share and express their stories through various forms of media ranging from vlogs to movies to shorter video edits.
Around this time that online content creation was evolving, my fascination was further developing just as fast. I became obsessed by gaming videos from UK YouTubers such as KSI and W2S and enjoyed vlogs from Casey Neistat.
I opened a video channel on YouTube where I began editing my own videos ranging from interactive videos to gaming to vlogs about my travels around the world. Exposure to this art medium helped me become familiar with electronic media and art production. Simultaneously, video production taught me two lessons. The first was the limitlessness of the art’s expressive and creative capabilities. The second was allowing me to tackle anxiety problems, motivating me to put myself out there despite the negative feedback I received from those around me and online.
Through my time with video production, I learned crucial videography, photography, and digital editing skills. Additionally, I developed my understanding of MAC-based applications such as Garage Band, Logic Pro, and Final Cut Pro.
In time, I shifted my interests towards further extending my skills to the Adobe Suite, mastering Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, and Illustrator. During this part of my journey, not only did I further grasp and familiarize myself with the growing possibilities of digital media production but developed my original methods and framework on how to tackle such creative projects. Moreover, I still utilize these skills for all my media and marketing ventures for the ERAN brand.

November 2019 – May 2021

As a junior in high school, I returned to my musical side and downloaded trial versions of FL Studio and Ableton. Through dragging and dropping random samples, I attempted to pair various sounds to create a song. Although it might seem clear today, with my experience, this proved to be a much more difficult task than I had anticipated at the start.
Then, I had a greater affinity for making hip-hop/rap beats, so I stuck with FL Studio. Unfortunately, the trial version of the software prevented me from reopening projects, forcing me to produce tracks in one sitting or start over with a new project each time.
Leading up to my high school graduation in 2021, I dabbled when I could find the time, but eventually, my free time disappeared with exams, extensive AP course loads, and participation in our school’s Soccer and Lacrosse teams.

May 2021 – November 2021

After graduating, I invested my time in my musical interests over the summer, leading up to the start of college, and began working on music more, re-exposing myself to the industry. I began diversifying my musical interests, listening to more Country, EDM, Indie, and Pop tracks.
Ironically, I always used Soundcloud in high school to listen to unreleased edits and leaks of some of the hip-hop artists I liked, but over that summer, I stumbled upon mixes and house edits of popular songs. Consequently, I fell in love. Today, I even upload my music edits to the platform.
I began listening to various subgenres of house music, exposing myself to a part of the music industry I had seemed to avoid my whole life. EDM always had a stigma. Eventually, I learned EDM is not just one sound but rather millions. EDM represents all digitally/electronically produced music for dancing: Electronic Dance Music.
On November 2021, for my birthday, I asked for an entry-level DJ board and the full version of FL Studio to learn this art of mixing (I had come to love) and explore my potential in music production.
Day after day, I would come from my lectures and immediately start watching tutorials on how to play music through my new Pioneer DDJ-400. When reflecting on this time, there were so many little tricks and ideas that I had no idea how to replicate. I began watching DJ sets on YouTube, listening to their mixes on MixCloud, and trying to listen to and recreate what they were doing. Hard at first, time and practice overcame these obstacles, and I began to learn more.
At first, I had no clue how to do anything, but as I dove deeper and learned more, instead of getting happier, I became overwhelmed, considering giving up at the front of all the capabilities of my board and the industry, but my passion never seemed to die out, so I persisted.

May 6th | 2022

Two weeks before the final exams of my first year, I was sitting outside of one of the campus libraries with not much studying left to do. After learning that my friend Boone Williams had a DJ deck a few weeks prior, I called him, asking if he wanted to meet and work on music together.
Fortunately, he liked the idea and invited me to play at an event with him on May 6th, after the last day of final exams. I accepted but became nervous as I had never played at a venue with other people, only giving concerts to the many dust particles in my bedroom. Nonetheless, it went spectacularly, and as my first event, it kickstarted what would grow to become my career as it stands today.

Accomplishments & Honors

Current and soon to be more!

SEPTEMBER 22 | 2022 – UNC Chapel Hill STILLIFE BATTLE of the DJs Champion
MAY 12 | 2023 – Music Edit Recognized by MEDUZA MUSIC