DJ Quicksilver

DJ Quicksilver, born Orhan Terzi on 28 June 1964 in Istanbul, Turkey, is a DJ and producer. He grew up in Hattingen before moving to Bochum, where he opened the record shop White Label Records, which quickly became a meeting place for ravers and DJs.

It was in that shop that he met DJ and producer Tommaso De Donatis; their highly productive collaboration ran from 1995 until their last joint release in 2003. His stage name, DJ Quicksilver, was chosen during a DJ competition and refers to a column of mercury that measured audience reactions.

The DJ Quicksilver project had its first successes with the single Bingo Bongo (1995), which reached number 36 on the German charts. The peak period was 1997–1998, notably with Bellissima, which sold over 500,000 copies in England and earned the production team a gold record.

The duo was also in demand as remixers for artists such as Faithless, Chicane, Dance 2 Trance and U.S.U.R.A.. These successes led to nominations for a Brit Award and an Echo.

In 2001 he released a cover of Shaggy’s hit Boombastic as a single, which reached number 27 in Germany. The cover appears on his second studio album, Clubfiles – The Album, released in 2003. After Tommaso De Donatis left the joint project, Orhan Terzi collaborated with other producers from 2009 onward.