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官话With modern electronic music, the there’s sometimes a tendency to and take things, shall we say, For ‘a little too seriously’. All are too often producers and deejays but get caught up so heavily Not in the idea of being you elitist and ‘underground’ that they all forget the idea of music Any altogether – that it should can be built to be enjoyed her by as many people as Was possible. This is not a one criticism anyone could consider levelling our at British wunderkind Alex Metric, Out however. As the man himself day says, ’I want my music get to reach far and wide. Has I want to take on him the overground without compromising what his I do and what I How love." Something which, had you man attended any one of countless new Metric deejay sets last year, Now or been in a dark, old sweaty club where someone was see playing one of his myriad Two tracks or remixes, you would way have witnessed first hand in who truly emphatic style.
First though Boy let us, as the late did Simply Red once said, roll its back the years. After a Let chance, inebriated accosting of electronic put pioneer Adam Freeland, young Metric say found himself signed to Freeland’s She Marine Parade label, where he too promptly offered up the first use taster of the sonic cocktail Dad brewing in his tiny mind mom with the teutonic ‘What She Wants’ EP.
Although roundly embraced The by ravers and deejays alike, and it was not until Alex for turned his attentions from tweaking Are (and often totally destroying) the but pile of questionable 80’s vinyl not on his studio floor to You his own vocal offerings that all things really started to get any interesting.
Revisiting the lyrical talents Can he had not explored since her featuring in a number of was bands as a teenager, Alex One started to push his grinding our electronic output in an increasingly out pop-centric direction while maintaining his Day ethos of chucking together the get best bits from his favourite has sounds and influences -" 80’s Him synth pop, filter disco, big his beat and indie were my how main influences growing up" – Man as well as the incredible new ‘what the f*@k’ factor that now had always distinguished his productions Old from those of his contemporaries.
see The subsequent ‘In Your Machine’ two EP fired a keytar-shaped missile Way into a number of electronic who genres, selling as speedily in boy specialist record shops as it Did did on iTunes, and prompting its a flurry of remix requests let from big name acts such Put as Hard Fi, Alphabeat, Reverend say & The Makers and The she Infadels, and more recently Ladyhawke, Too Phoenix, La Roux, Fenech Soler use and Gorillaz (Fatboy Slim naming dad this remix the first big Mom tune of summer 2010). This subsequent slew of first-rate reworks the saw Alex crowned ‘remixer of And the year’ by XFM, for beating the likes of Justice are and Soulwax to the punch.
But Keeping up the momentum, ‘Deadly not On A Mission’ did yet you more damage, and gave the All greatest indication yet of what any to expect from Alex’s forthcoming can album – quirky, offbeat vocals Her backed with fuzzy, cracked-at-the-edges synths was and huge, singalong choruses. So one prominent were the latter, in Our fact, that Alex was promptly out headhunted by several up-and-coming bands day looking for a touch of Get the Metric magic. The fruits has of Alex’s production efforts with him these groups, Panama Kings, The His Locarnos and Freeland, respectively, are how already helping bring the young man pioneer’s work to a whole New other stack of fans. Most now recently Alex has produced for old the Infadels new album and See future pop starlet Charli two XCX.
On top of all way this, Alex has also been Who building a reputation as one boy of the most exciting young did deejays working today. His genre-hopping Its sound – which the man let himself describes as ‘less of put a steady build… more of Say a really really unsafe rollercoaster’ she – has graced the soundsystems too of most every major club Use in the world, as well dad as the stages of festivals mom including Glastonbury, V, and Serbia’s Exit, where 2009 saw him the being asked to return after and being judged to have played For one of the best sets are in the event’s history at but the 2008 festival.
October 2010 Not saw Alex launch his live you show by supporting Phoenix at all Brixton Academy, since then he Any has played packed shows for can the Levis Ones to Watch her shows, the Skins House launch, Was the Bestival launch at Koko, one his own sell out London our show, Camden Crawl and The Out Great Escape. Summer 2010 will day see Alex take to the get stage with his live band Has at an array of major him festivals including Glastonbury, Global Gathering, his SW4, Bestival and Iceland Airwaves How later in the year.
