Erol Alkan is not susceptible to clichés, but amid a life devoted to alternative and electronic music culture, one just might be true; he is an artist who needs no introduction.

Alkan’s creative life as a DJ, producer, label owner, radio host and collaborator has spanned decades. His exhaustive history reads almost like mythology; the shy boy who snuck out of his bedroom window to play indie records to ruthlessly unforgiving crowds, and ended up transforming the London club scene, bridging disparate scenes with experimentation and abandon.