İstanbul based producer/composer Serkan Alkan,  who has been in the field since early 2000's, is one of the pioneers of minimal electronic music, techno and fusion in Turkey. After meeting with Mercan Dede in early 2000's, he worked with him on titles such as Su, Breath and 800, and these albums were honored as "number one" in the World Music category by worldwide organisations such as BBC, wmce.de and WOMEX. Alkan met Hülya Aksular at 2005; as she prepared the libretto and the choreography, he took upon the musical composition for the epic ballet that consists of two piece called "İSTANBUL" that was performed in 2007-2008 by İstanbul State Opera and Ballet. Serkan Alkan undertook musical composition and sound design for numerous feature-lenght movies, national/international documentaries, short films and theatre plays. Alkan, whose production was integrated with performing arts and visual arts for the better part of his musical career, also conceived two bands called Yekpare and Kahinar. He had the privilege of collaborating with artists such as Emma Shapplin, Azam Ali, Ludovico Einaudi, DJ Chab-i Sabbah, Dhafer Youssef, Susheela Raman, Sheema Mukherjee (Trans Global Underground), Hugh Marsh, Göksel Baktagir, Steve Turre, and many many more.. Serkan Alkan, who's picking up where he left off in his professional musical career in the last years, keeps on working towards reaching new tastes and ideas in the world of electronic music.