The master trashtronaut takes over at XOYO for Friday nights, with his To The Rhythm residency. Alkan has invited Dan Beaumont and Peaches to kick things off, while later in the calendar he’ll play back-to-back with Daniel Avery, Boys Noize, Gerd Janson and Xavier De Rosnay. with Ride, François K and 2ManyDJs also upcoming. Alkan has taken on many different guises so far — DJ, remixer, label founder, club promoter and radio host — each with great success. From a beginning spinning British indie records in small West End nightclubs to his current club sets that explore the bleeding edge of underground, off-kilter house, techno and disco, he has always been keen to keep moving forward. Despite his reputation as one of the world’s foremost remixers, it was his own *Illumination* EP that showed Alkan to be the artist that many already knew he was, operating between musical worlds and delivering a shimmering, melancholy anthem in “A Hold On Love.
