Alex Metric

Alex Metric
Performing in 2014 at Spring Awakening
Background information
Also known as	Alex Drury
Born	(1981-12-31) 31 December 1981 (age 43)
Origin	London, England
Genres	House disco house electropop progressive house electro house nu-disco
Years active	2006-present
Labels	Marine Parade, Owsla, Big Beat Records, Anjunadeep
Website	alexmetric.com

Alex Drury (born 31st December 1981), known professionally as Alex Metric, is a British musician, DJ and producer. At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, he won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for producing the Silk City and Dua Lipa song "Electricity". ^[1]

Biography

Alex Metric has released numerous EPs as a solo artist, and singles as a member of Metroplane and Kuu. He has remixed artists such as Daft Punk, N.E.R.D., Foals, La Roux, Pet Shop Boys, Phoenix, Gorillaz Depeche Mode and Bloc Party as well as working as a producer for acts such as Silk City, Dua Lipa, Avicii, Snow Patrol, Muse, Charli XCX, The Infadels and Adam Freeland.

Discography

Compilation albums

• Open Your Eyes (Remixes & Productions) (2011)

Singles and EPs

• Whatshewants - EP (2007)
• Deadly on a Mission - EP (2008)
• In Your Machine - EP (2008)
• The Head Straight - EP (2009)
• It Starts - EP (2009)
• It Starts (Remixes) - EP (2009)
• "Open Your Eyes" (2011)
• End of the World - EP (2011)
• Ammunition EP (2012)
• Ammunition Pt. 2 EP (2012)
• Ammunition Pt. 3 EP (2013)
• "Safe with You" (with Jacques Lu Cont featuring Malin) (2013)
• Hope EP (2014)
• "Heart Weighs a Ton" (featuring Stefan Storm) (2014)
• Heart Weighs a Ton Remixes EP (2014)
• Ammunition Pt. 4 EP (2015)
• Ammunition Pt. 4 Remixes EP (2016)
• "Freeek" (featuring Confessionals) (2017)
• "Word of Mouth" (as Metroplane) (2017)
• "Otic" (with Ten Ven) (2018)
• "Be Where I Am" (as Metroplane) (2019)
• "Upswing" (with Amtrac) (2020)
• "How Could I Ever" ^[2] (as Kuu with Riton) (2020)
• "We'll Always Have This Dance" (2020)
• "Qubit" (with Ten Ven) (2020)

Remixes

• Hard Fi - "Suburban Knights"
• Autokratz - "Stay The Same"
• Splittr - "All Alone"
• Black Daniel - "Gimme What You Got"
• Locarnos - "Make Up Your Mind"
• Alphabeat - "Boyfriend"
• Reverend & The Makers - "Silence is Talking"
• Infadels - "Free Things for Poor People"
• Freeland - "Under Control"
• The Shoes - "Oh Lord"
• The Enemy - "Sing When You're In Love" (Promo Only)
• Ladyhawke - "Paris Is Burning"
• Phoenix - "Lisztomania"
• Bloc Party - "One More Chance"
• Merz - “Many Weathers Apart”
• U2 - "Crazy" (Unreleased Remix)
• Kenneth Bager - "I Can't Wait"
• Fenech-Soler - "Lies"
• La Roux - "Quicksand"
• Gorillaz - "Stylo"
• Ellie Goulding - "Salt Skin"
• Maximum Balloon - "Groove Me"
• NERD - "Hypnotize U"
• Depeche Mode - "Personal Jesus"
• Niki and The Dove - "Mother Protect"
• Pet Shop Boys - "A new bohemia"
• Sade - "Love Is Found" (Promo only)
• The Whip - "Secret Weapon"
• Miike Snow - "Devil's Work"
• The Presets - "Youth In Trouble"
• Ellie Goulding - "Anything Could Happen"
• St. Lucia - "September"
• Two Door Cinema Club - "Sun"
• Scissor Sisters - "Inevitable" (unreleased)
• Willy Moon - "Get Up" (Promo only)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs- "Despair" (unreleased)
• Foals - "Bad Habit"
• Empire of the Sun- "DNA"
• Madeon - "You're On (ft. Kyan)"
• All Tvvins - "Darkest Ocean"
• Saint Raymond - "Young Blood" (promo only)
• Everything Everything-"Distant Past"
• Foals - "Mountain At My Gates"
• Dusky Grey - "Told Me"
• Just Kiddin - "Fall for You"
• Bad Sounds - Evil Powers
• Friendly Fires - "Love Like Waves"
• Mel - Santiago
• Silk City- "Electricity"
• Parcels-"Lightenup"
• Big Wild-"City of Sound"
• Foals-"Sunday" (Release TBD)
• Roosevelt - Sign
• Foals - Wash Off (As Kuu)
• Victor Le Masne - Fortune Cookie

Mixes Under the "Metroplane" Alias

• Becky Hill- "Unpredictable"
• Anais-"Lost My Faith"

Bootlegs

• The Rapture - The Devil (Alex Metric Bootleg)
• Metric - Monster Hospital (Alex Metric Bootleg)
• Cassius - Sound of Violence (Alex Metric Re-Edit)
• Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Alex Metric Re-Edit)
• Blur - Song 2 (Alex Metric Festival Edit)
• Frank Ocean - White Ferrari (Alex Metric Re-Edit)

Songwriting and production credits

Title	Year	Artist(s)	Album	Credits	Written with	Produced with
"Hate"	2007	Adam Freeland	The Hate EP	Co-writer/Producer	Adam Freeland	Adam Freeland
"Where's Your God Now?"					Adam Freeland	Adam Freeland
"Glowsticks"					Adam Freeland	Adam Freeland
"Under Control"	2009	Freeland	Cope		Adam Freeland, Kurt Baumann	Adam Freeland
"Do You"					Adam Freeland	Adam Freeland
"Strange Things"					Adam Freeland, Kurt Baumann	Adam Freeland
"Bring It"					Adam Freeland	Adam Freeland
"Mancry"					Adam Freeland	Adam Freeland
"Borderline" (featuring Brody Dalle)					Adam Freeland, Brody Dalle	Adam Freeland
"Rock On"				Producer	-	Adam Freeland
"Silent Speaking"				Co-writer/Producer	Adam Freeland, John Ceperano, Kim Field	Adam Freeland
"Best Fish Tacos in Ensenada"					Adam Freeland	Adam Freeland
"Only a Fool (Can Die)" (featuring Gerald Casale)					Adam Freeland, Gerald Casale	Adam Freeland
"Morning Sun"					Adam Freeland, Damian Taylor	Adam Freeland
"Wish I Was There"					Adam Freeland, Kurt Baumann	Adam Freeland
"From Out of the Black Sky"	2012	Infadels	The Future of the Gravity Boy	Producer	-	-
"The Future of the Gravity Boy"					-	-
"Ghosts"					-	-
"We Get Along"					-	-
"Mercury Rising"					-	-
"Jupiter 5"					-	Jagz Kooner
"American Girl"	2013	Bonnie McKee	Non-album single	Co-writer	Bonnie McKee, Jonathan Asher, Oliver Goldstein, Jacknife Lee	-
"Talk to Myself" (featuring Sterling Fox)	2015	Avicii	Stories		Timothy Bergling, Brandon Lowry, Matthew Hartke	-
"Endisco"	2016	The Knocks	55: Japanese Edition		Benjamin Ruttner, James Patterson, Benjamin Berger, Ryan McMahon	-
"On What You're On"		Busted	Night Driver	Co-producer	-	John Fields
"Thinking of You"				Co-writer/Co-producer	James Bourne, Matthew Willis, Charlie Simpson, John Fields, Eric Bazilian	John Fields
"Word of Mouth" (featuring Bree Runway)	2018	Metroplane	Non-album single	Co-writer/Producer	Vito de Luca, Uzoechi Emenike, Rebecca Hill, Ryan Campbell	Metroplane, Mark Ralph
"Ginger" (with Riton)		Kah-Lo	Foreign Ororo	Co-Writer / Producer	Henry Smithson, Faridah Demola-Seriki	-
"Only Can Get Better" (featuring Daniel Merriweather)		Silk City	Non-album single	Co-producer	-	Mark Ronson, Diplo, The Picard Brothers, Riton, Lil Silva
"Feel About You" (featuring Mapei)				Producer	-	Mark Ronson, Diplo, The Picard Brothers, Magnus Lidehäll, Jr Blender
"Electricity" (with Dua Lipa)				Additional producer	-	Mark Ronson, Diplo, The Picard Brothers, Jarami, Riton, Jr Blender
"Runway"		Duke Dumont		Producer	-	Duke Dumont
"Heaven Let Me In"		Friendly Fires	TBA	Additional producer	-	Friendly Fires, Disclosure, Hal Ritson, Mark Ralph, Richard Adlam
"High Heels”	2019	Melanie C	TBA	Producer	Melanie C, Rae Morris, Fryars	-
"New Love" ft Ellie Goulding	2021	Silk City	Non album single	Producer		Mark Ronson, Diplo, The Picard Brothers, Riton
"Don't Be Afraid"	2021	Diplo & Damian Lazarus ft Jungle		Producer		Diplo, Vito De Luca,

References

1. "Alex Metric - Artist - GRAMMY.com". Grammy Awards. Archived from the original on 19 January 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
2. "How Could I Ever (single)". Apple Music. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2021.

External links

• Official website