19 Facts About Erol Alkan

Erol Alkan was born on 30 May 1974 and is an English DJ and producer of Turkish Cypriot descent.

In 1993, Erol Alkan started DJing in various indie nightclubs in London.

In 1997, Erol re-launched the club under a new name: Trash.

From 2001 onwards, Erol Alkan became one of the most in demand Djs of the time, playing regular DJ sets outside Trash, focusing primarily on dance music influenced by his sets at Bugged Out.

Erol Alkan's profile increased considerably during 2003 when he was voted 'Best Breakthrough DJ' by Muzik magazine, and in 2006, when he earned the Mixmag 2006 "DJ of the Year" award.

Erol Alkan has been voted Datatransmissions 'DJ Of The Year' in both 2008 and 2009, which is seen as an alternative to the DJ Mag Top 100 awards but consists only of British DJs.

Since 2008, Erol Alkan has hosted a regular radio shows, as a former resident of BBC 6Music's 6Mix until 2015, moving onto a residency for online streaming platform Boiler Room in 2016.

Erol Alkan returned to 6Music to for various shows during 2018, filling in for Nemone and Giles Peterson, as well as hosting both 2017 and 2018's New Year's Eve live specials.

Erol Alkan released a series of mash-ups using the alias Kurtis Rush in the early 2000s, including a mix of Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and New Order's "Blue Monday", which was performed by Minogue at the Brit Awards.

Erol Alkan used the alias Mustapha 3000, and is half of the psychedelic dance-rock act Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve, along with Richard Norris.

Erol Alkan has remixed tracks from artists including Klaxons, Alter Ego, Bloc Party, Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers, Gonzales, Tame Impala, MGMT, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ZZT, Fan Death, Digitalism, Scissor Sisters, Justice, Franz Ferdinand, LA Priest, Interpol, Hot Chip, Death From Above 1979, Metronomy, Mylo, Night Works, Margot, Todd Rundgren, Kindness, Connan Mockasin, Depeche Mode and New Order.

In 2007 Erol Alkan founded his own label, named Phantasy, which has released music from Daniel Avery, Connan Mockasin, Ghost Culture, Tom Rowlands from The Chemical Brothers, Gabe Gurnsey, Cowboy Rhythmbox, Kamera, U and Erol Alkan's own Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Project, as well as his first EP of solo club tracks, 'Illumination' in 2013.

Erol Alkan worked as additional producer on The Killers' hit single "The Man", providing additional instrumentation.

Erol Alkan is one half of psychedelic rock group Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve.

Erol Alkan compiled a 2xCD mix for the Bugged Out series.

The second disc, "A Bugged In Selection with Erol Alkan", is a collection of downtempo tracks.

Erol Alkan has released mix compilations for Muzik Magazine and Mixmag.

Erol Alkan continues to expand on the much loved 'Bugged In Selection' mixes via a curated Spotify playlist which continues to collect music of a similar vein.

Erol Alkan was working on remixes for Bjork and Interpol in summer 2007, but lost them due to a hard drive failure.