News — Erol Alkan

You can now listen back to Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Dj set recorded live at the BBC 6Music Festival in Bristol, over on the iPlayer  Listen Now Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Delicious Light (Intro) Die Verboten - Dafalganger Neu! - Super Faine Jade - Games People Play (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Edit) Unknown - Unknown Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies - You Can't Ever Come Down Mangamma Sabatham - Cola Cola Coca Cola Kostas Tournas - Dance On (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Edit) Bonnie St. Claire - I Surrender Jacqueline Taieb - 7 Heures Du Matin Harry Nilson -...

Erol Alkan makes his way to the Boiler Room for the first time and announces a brand new residency series. The shows starts next Wednesday at 8pm GMT online on the Boiler Room website. See you there. Erol said "I love the medium of radio (I clocked up 5 years at 6 Music with the 6Mix) so it's with great pleasure to be able to bring you another 2 hours of music from my record box and beyond. Tune in."  

Click here to stream or download my contribution to the Ghost Mix series, a new concept in soundtrack curation. 14 tracks handpicked by me and arranged by mysterious Dj, 'The Ghost'. I chose these tracks purely for the reason that I liked them rather then how they would fit in a mix, so it's been inspiring to see how well 'The Ghost' has made it all flow! - Erol Alkan  

Jockey Slut was an incredibly important magazine for me during the late 90s and early 00s. It fed all the best electronic and club music of the time to me in a way no other magazine could. When it folded in 2004, it not only left behind a huge void within that side of dance music life, but also broke up a great team of writers and musical minds who managed to turn me onto new music, each and every issue. I credit them with giving me one of my first features back in 2000 when I was a resident...