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Chilly Gonzales 'Never Stop' (Erol Alkan Rework) taken from his 'Reworks Volume 1' compilation, a track long been out of print and highly sought after on vinyl. "This rework for 'Never Stop' by Chilly Gonzales is another one which took a few attempts. I spent around a month working on a really slow, Balearic mix which was centred around the piano riff, it almost drove me insane. I couldn't add anything of value to that piano part, so I admitted defeat and did two things: 1: I made a version with just piano, just to satisfy myself that I could so something different using just...

Tame Impala 'Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind' (Erol Alkan Rework) taken from his 'Reworks Volume 1' compilation, a track long been out of print and highly sought after on vinyl. "This rework for Tame Impala proved to be one of the trickiest on the compilation. Rewind back to 2010, I was asked to remix 'I Don't Really Mind' from Innerspeaker, I ended up making a version which was good, it had a nice acid line, a sweet 3 minute Juno synth drone breakdown, and chopped up vocals. I sent it to the label and it was approved a few days later, but in...

Daft Punk 'The Brainwasher' (Erol Alkan's Horrorhouse Dub) taken from his 'Reworks Volume 1' compilation, a track long been out of print and highly sought after on vinyl. "I reworked Daft Punk's 'Brainwasher' back in January 2006, I didn't receive the parts as Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Man were away from the studio at the time, it was made using the master track which I chopped up in the sampler, and then built the rest of the track around it. It was heavily influenced by hearing records by Meat Beat Manifesto, Renegade Soundwave, Eon and 'The Exorcist' by The Scientist on pirate radio...

Erol Alkan announces his next London date at Printworks, London, alongside Cowboy Rhythmbox and headliners The Chemical Brothers [DJ Set].  Erol and Johnno from Bugged Out! were given a guided tour of the new venue and talked about how it all began for them. Watch the video interview HERE