It was just a few months back that ITM reported on the meeting of two of electronic music’s current leading forces, Erol Alkan and Boys Noize, who had collaborated on a double sided single Waves / Death Suite. Since the single’s announcement, both tracks have been smashed to pieces in clubs, on blogs and throughout Alkan’s triumphant Parklife visit, becoming unofficial underground anthems for 2009. For those worried that that blissful package would be the sole fruit of the partnership, fret no longer, as the Disco 3000 wizard has announced that the pair have plenty more collaborations in the works.

Speaking in an interview with UK music sheet Loud & Quiet, Alkan opened up about his collaborative work with Boys Noize mastermind and upcoming Future Music Festival hero Alex Ridha, explaining that their partnership was born out of his professional admiration for Ridha’s work and their ensuing friendship.

“It was about a year and a half ago, Alex said that he was going to be in London and did I want make some music and see what happens?” Alkan recalled. “With Alex it’s totally natural – it’s actually having fun, there’s certainly no ego. That’s why it wasn’t ‘Erol Alkan vs Boys Noize’ – I really hate the whole notion of it being a ‘versus’ thing, of ‘battling’,” he explained. “We made Death Suite in 4 hours. And in that time the computer had crashed and we’d lost everything and we had to go back and rebuild it! Waves took a bit longer ‘cos it kept changing so much. I think there were about 22 different drafts to it; we wanted to do something that was more sublime than people would expect.”

Speaking about the future of the partenership, Alkan explained that there are more tracks in the pipeline, only they’re still forming at this stage.

“We’ve got about 10 unfinished tracks that we’re working on together. I think it’s only fair when you work in that collaborative sense that there are two people in the room when you finish it. That whole thing of doing a mix and sending it to the other person, them checking it and writing notes and stuff, that takes ages.”

If you’re hungry for more Boys Noize action, check out the FMF page on ITM’s festival guide, and check the video below to see 2manydjs give Waves a workout in a recent set.