Ilhan Ersahin has been played on NTS in shows including PDA w/ Mischa Mafia, Ms. Carriestacks & Crackstevens, featured first on 13 March 2014. Songs played include Kefal, Selim and Our Theory.

A jazz saxophonist, Ersahin released She Said in 1996 and Home in 1997 to wide success, especially in his homeland of Turkey. But soon after he began to move in a different direction: fusing jazz with electronic dance music, a then-burgeoning genre.

The result was Wax Poetic, a group that had elements of Thievery Corporation and Joe Henderson all at once. Ilhan’s work with Wax Poetic brought him to collaborations with Saul…