Loud and Quiet interview with Erol Alkan

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Posted by Mr Game+Watch on Jan-05-2010 21:37:

Loud and Quiet interview with Erol Alkan

I'm not a fan at all of the guy (though him moving away from brash electrohouse into nu-disco and classic house piques my interest), but someone linked me to this interview. It's pretty in depth, and I think a few of you guys may be interested:

http://loudandquiet.com/articles/3/761/erol+alkan

Random passage from the interview:

quote:

Paul Van Dyk, Erol Alkan, Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto � it's not hard to spot the odd one out. The list of winners of Mixmag's DJ of the Year award mostly testifies to the enduring global appeal of stadium trance, except for in 2006 when the DJ in charge of indie's most exciting club night took the accolade. Despite all of the above being amongst the most in-demand DJs in the world, there's very little common ground between them. Whilst the kings of trance play ever-bigger shows and release track after track of the same cookie-cutter productions, Alkan is busy getting DJ bookings under his new Disco 3000 guise: a shift away from the indie-electro that he has become synonymous with, to share his love for the strains of � as he puts it � dance music's DNA: disco, italo, old school house and funk-influenced sounds from 30+ years of kids dancing.

Posted by TranceArmstrong on Jan-05-2010 22:43:

He produced Mystery Jets - Twenty One, amazing album

Posted by supersaw abuse on Jan-06-2010 06:06:

i post on the erol alkan forums pretty much all the time these days. it's a much nicer community than this one in a lot of ways, really, and erol's a cool dude too

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jan-06-2010 08:32:

Wow, this is the first time in ages someone links a proper interview here.