Erol Alkan marks 18 years of Trash ending by sharing classic 2002 DJ set

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Erol Alkan has marked the 18th anniversary of the London indie and electro club night Trash closing down by sharing his classic DJ set from 2002.Trash was best known for its connections to the 2000s scenes like the garage rock revival, electroclash and new rave.Bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Scissor Sisters, Bloc Party and Klaxons performed there early on in their careers.

It was first located in Soho, before moving to the West End.Alkan, the DJ and producer who ran the iconic night, played classics from artists like Peaches, Missy Elliott, Primal Scream, The Cure, Nirvana and Kylie Minogue in his set, and you can check out the tracklist here:A post shared by TRASH (@trashclublondon)Alkan explained in The Guardian in 2006, weeks before Trash would close its doors, “Had someone told me on the first night that it would run for 10 years, I’m not too sure that I would have believed them.

And due to the new commitments I have taken on, it would be unfair to try and keep the club going.2ManyDJs paid tribute to Trash when speaking to NME in 2022, too.

Discussing their work under the moniker – brothers David and Stephen Dewaele are also members of the electronic band Soulwax – they said: “We started talking to [Alkan] about all the music we liked and if it felt like we knew him but had never met him.