A little late on the scene..?

Here are two outstanding Alex Metric remixes.

“Alex Metric
? Where have you been, Pelski? Alex Metric is old news.”

Well I’m sorry, as I’ve pointed out: I’ve been away for a while, traveling. Im out of the loop, late on the scene and missing a trick or two. Still, at least you can thank your lucky stars I didn’t come back from traveling ‘enlightened’: listening to psytrance and hippy rave, wearing hemp (possibly the greatest fashion tragedy ever) and tie-die. The blog could have been filled with hippy rubbish I pretend to understand, and would probably be renamed You Can Call Me A Gap Year Tragedy. So count yourself lucky, and deal with this rather late post.

I first heard Alex Metric some time ago and immediately wrote him off as another of those artists rinsing the hell out of the now overdone rocky/distortion sound. Gnarly, dirty, but hardly distinctive. Nothing standout. But this led me to dismiss his remixes. But his remixes are something else entirely. His re-edits of Hard-Fi, Jack Daniel, Jape and The Rapture were much of the same, but the electro touches he’s given to both Infadels and Splittr are prodigious.

By now you’ll have heard his remix of ‘All Alone’, and it’s the second half that’s so brilliant. It starts off like any other humdrum remix, with looped vocals and a solid backing beat, until it drops into a glitched, distinctively mashed-up chorus.

Splittr – All Alone (Alex Metric Vocal Mix) [pelski highly recommends]

Metric’s remix of Infadels is no banger. It’s a lyrical song, given a beefed up, electro lick by Metric. But it still maintains the winsome lyrics and poppy vibe, now with added momentum and a pulsating beat:

Infadels – Free Things (Alex Metric Remix) [pelski highly recommends]

  • http://www.analogstrike.com/ brian savage

    ahhhh. i hate that you pull from the DWEB group.

  • http://therecommender.wordpress.com/ therecommender

    Another great post. Nice work fella. Thanks as always…
    Mike,
    Brighton

  • Sam

    Sweet post mate

  • http://ppelectro.blogspot.com/www.bighuman.com Rus

    Great post. But you shouldn’t be so quick to bash psytrance. Some of us might actually like it. Please post some. :)

  • park ranger (ittf)

    get ready for a slaughtering…..

  • lukeskywalker

    love the blog mate, could you try and find an mp3 version of ‘you are the one’by shiny toy guns (adam freeland remix)- gets rinsed by alex metric the whole time but cant find it anywhere, thought you may be able to help…?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by-lNXfMx7o

  • The Runner

    just got back from EXIT fest in serbia and alex metric was my favourite surprise act of the whole thing. he absolutely nailed his whole set infront of 40000 people and dropped the infidels remix which was live.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/00320901160021649926 Pelski

    Rus, yes I am of course aware there will be many reading this who like psytrance (and many of my friends like it too – god help them). But if I wanted to cater to everyone’s opinions i would write nothing. I mean, I insulted Ed Banger in the post below, but i dont think ppl got offended… this blog is purposefully opinionated: sometimes for humour, other times just to get my point across or spark debate. But im glad u enjoyed the post.

    And ‘Skywalker’, sorry, but I can’t find that adam freeland remix anywhere. You can try ripping it straight from Youtube, tho it may be poor quality.

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