Dataline

Dataline is Cenk Sayinli (Jake). This is a project which focuses on making electronic music using Elektron Music Machines and performing with them wherever possible... Cenk's first musical experience started through a commodore64. Astonished by the those sounds, he decided to craft his own music using hardware sequencers and drum machines. Dataline first started as solo project around the early 90s while living in Istanbul. After moving back to UK and getting hold of an Elektron Machinedrum, he never looked back and did many gigs around Europe using only Monomachine and Machinedrum, taking part in gigs with well known acts like Vector Lovers and Daedelus. During his time in the UK, Cenk became a resident performer at the LaptopLounge - a well known electronic music night in Edinburgh. The creators of LaptopLounge started a new project Electric café - the electronic music live event that takes place in the gallery The Institute every second Sunday which lasted for a while...Cenk is living in Goteborg, Sweden at the time of writing. After acquiring the Octatrack - Elektron's latest 'invention' and OP1 - portable wonder from Teenage engineenering, Dataline is working on musical performances where Elektron trinity (Machinedrum, Monomachine, Octatrack) and OP1 are combined together.