We put the spotlight on DJ Alixir - who's earning a reputation as one of the world's top techno DJs. As well as sending clubbers in a spin with his sets, DJ Alixir is also promoter, organiser and reviewer extraordinaire...

When Alixir recently toured Asia for the second time, he left his mark in Hong Kong with the longest exclusive techno set played there ever, which earned him the title of HKClubbing.com resident DJ (Asia’s largest online clubbing magazine and his exclusive Hong Kong agent), even though he is UK based.

He played an unplanned, unbroken set that spanned an incredible 8 hours (covered in a South China Morning Post article), and every genre known in the field of techno, acid house and detroit techno amongst others.

Each time he has played the clubs in Hong Kong and it’s surrounding provinces, he has been asked back to play headlining sets again and again.

deep, dark but definitely varied

Alixir has also played many times at the legendary Le Bateau (Liverpool, UK, ex home to Voodoo where Laurent Garnier, Carl Cox, Billy Nasty etc have also played) amongst other well known underground clubs spanning England, and is befitting of this category with his deep, dark but definitely varied uncompromising style.

Alixir will definitely be a top name to look out for in the future within the field of techno. With a workload as frantic as the music he plays, Alixir is currently the promoter, organiser and resident headlining DJ of “Possibly Infected” (described as the best monthly night north of Liverpool’s “Bugged Out!” by the BBCi online magazine), a techno night presented in the UK by HKClubbing.com, and staged at an underground club in Lancaster where he is based.

Aside from this he’s had various residencies over the last 12 years throughout London and Liverpool in the UK. To immerse himself fully in the industry, Alixir also reviews club events and promotional releases for HKClubbing.com in Asia and is currently receiving material from over 50 major techno and electronica labels worldwide (Intec, Advanced, Jerk, Primate, Primevil, Potential, Planet Rhythm, Planet E, Gotham Grooves, Unknown Records, Tzpun etc).

he sets out to create a sound that is both fresh and rarely heard of

Not only does he play music, he knows it inside out and personally feels it. Alixir’s mixing skills are flawless. Pitching up within a couple bars and the lightening quick “cut and paste” method he has adopted over the last 12 years make him unique in style alone. Often mixing bits and pieces from multiple tracks (on 3 decks occasionally) into other records, he sets out to create a sound that is both fresh and rarely heard of, the true definition of mixing.

As a DJ, Alixir leaves his mark wherever he plays, often leaving the dance floor both breathless and in rapture but still within his control.

A talent which has been proven in the 9 month advance bookings he has received to go back and headline events in Hong Kong and Cyprus so far for this coming year.