Gökhan Kırdar (born 2 June 1970) is a Turkish musician and film score composer. He attended Yıldız University in Istanbul to study architecture in 1988. However, he devoted himself to music and soon gained success with his soundtrack, released in 1993. Then he released two highly successful albums titled "Serseri Mayın" and "Tutunamadım". During this period, his single "Yerine Sevemem" became a hit and even shadowed the name of its creator. He, then, decided to go to İzmir where he studied musicology at Dokuz Eylül University. He established his own music company "Loopus Entertainment" in 1997, and released the first Turkish trip hop album and also third Turkish electronic music album ( belongs to the first and second albums, Erol Temizel ) Trip under this label. This was a risky move but proved to be efficient, at least for creating a new view for the Turkish audience. Kırdar composed film scores for movies and TV series which received various awards and became very popular. Meanwhile, he contributes to a Turkish project titled "Self Project" with his work "Tüür" on the synthesis of Turkish musical instruments since 2000 BCE with electronic music. Life and career Gökhan Kırdar was born in Aydın, Turkey on 2 June 1970. He is of Iraqi Turkmen origin. After primary school he lived in İzmir and after being accepted in Yıldız University Architecture Faculty, he moved to Istanbul for good. He released his first album "Floating Mine" in 1994. The album immediately had a great success especially because of the hit single 'Don't Love Anyone'. In 1995 the second album "I Couldn't Hold On" was released including his first film music project single from 1993, 'Night Angel and Our Chaps'. Kırdar started his study in 9 Eylül University, Fine Arts Faculty of Musicology in 1997 and in the same year he established his own label and music company Loopus. His 1997 release "Trip" was accepted as the first electronic/triphop album for Turkish modern music. After the 1999 İzmit earthquake, he contributed in charity projects for victim children with "Furby 3 Doo" which is released in collaboration with Hasbro Intertoy. This project, designed as a talking robot created in real time with an album, was very interesting for the public attention. The soundtrack for the movie "Namaste", the winner of 1999 Ankara Film Festival as the best short movie was one of the other projects of him in