Erol Alkan is sharing recordings of his DJ sets from his iconic TRASH club nights to mark nearly two decades since the London party wound down. Listen to a set from 2002 below.

The London DJ and producer’s first mix in this series is part one of his set from 21st October, 2002. The 15-track, hour-long recording features hits like Missy Elliott’s ‘Work It’, New Order’s ‘The Perfect Kiss’ and an edit of Kylie Minogue’s ‘Come Into My World’ by Fischerspooner mixed with their track ‘Emerge’. Additional included artists are Peaches, Primal Scream, Nirvana, The Cure, Duran Duran, Liars and more. 

“It is exactly 18 years since TRASH closed its doors forever”, Alkan wrote in an Instagram post from Monday, 6th January. The club night, key in making eletroclash the sound of the era, ran from 1997 to 2007 on Monday nights, moving around London venues Plastic People to the Annexe, then landing at The End, which closed in 2009. 

“Trash was predominantly guitar music up until around 2000”, Alkan told the Guardian in a 2017 retrospective feature on Trash. “But when we first heard Felix Da Housecat’s ‘Silver Screen (Shower Scene)'”, a version of which features in the newly shared DJ set, “it ticked all of the boxes. It was powerful, imaginative, mysterious… All of a sudden there was a record that I felt completely embodied the spirit of Trash.”

The TRASH sets have been remastered in lossless audio and will be published on Apple Music. More remastered TRASH mixes are expected to come, though details on release schedule have not been publicly shared yet.

In 2023, Erol Alkan remixed the Chemical Brothers track ‘Goodbye‘. 

For more on Erol Alkan’s impact with TRASH, revisit this 2014 DJ Mag feature.

Listen to part one of Erol Alkan’s TRASH DJ set from 21st October, 2002.