Alex Metric

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Alex Metric

| image = Alex Metric @ Spring Awakening 6 14 2014 (14490645021) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Performing in 2014 at Spring Awakening

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|12|31|df=yes}}

| alias = Alex Drury

| origin = London, England

| genre = {{flat list|

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| years_active = 2006-present

| label = Marine Parade, Owsla, Big Beat Records, Anjunadeep

| website = {{URL|alexmetric.com}}

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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".{{cite web |title=Alex Metric - Artist - GRAMMY.com |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/alex-metric/246853 |publisher=Grammy Awards |access-date=19 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119183559/https://www.grammy.com/artists/alex-metric/246853 |archive-date=19 January 2023}}

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"{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/how-could-i-ever-feat-shungudzo/1520196647?i=1520196649|title=How Could I Ever (single)|website=Apple Music|date=17 July 2020|access-date=23 January 2021}} (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

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scope="col" style="width:160px;"\| Title ! scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Artist(s) ! scope="col" style="width:180px;"\| Album ! scope="col" \| Credits ! scope="col" \| Written with ! scope="col" \| Produced with
scope="row"\| "Hate" \| rowspan="3"\| 2007 \| rowspan="3"\| Adam Freeland \| rowspan="3"\| The Hate EP \| rowspan="9"\| Co-writer/Producer \| Adam Freeland \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Where's Your God Now?" \| Adam Freeland \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Glowsticks" \| Adam Freeland \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Under Control" \| rowspan="12"\| 2009 \| rowspan="12"\| Freeland \| rowspan="12"\| Cope \| Adam Freeland, Kurt Baumann \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Do You" \| Adam Freeland \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Strange Things" \| Adam Freeland, Kurt Baumann \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Bring It" \| Adam Freeland \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Mancry" \| Adam Freeland \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Borderline" {{small\|(featuring Brody Dalle)}} \| Adam Freeland, Brody Dalle \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Rock On" \| Producer \| - \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Silent Speaking" \| rowspan="5"\| Co-writer/Producer \| Adam Freeland, John Ceperano, Kim Field \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Best Fish Tacos in Ensenada" \| Adam Freeland \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Only a Fool (Can Die)" {{small\|(featuring Gerald Casale)}} \| Adam Freeland, Gerald Casale \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Morning Sun" \| Adam Freeland, Damian Taylor \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "Wish I Was There" \| Adam Freeland, Kurt Baumann \| Adam Freeland
scope="row"\| "From Out of the Black Sky" \| rowspan="6"\| 2012 \| rowspan="6"\| Infadels \| rowspan="6"\| The Future of the Gravity Boy \| rowspan="6"\| Producer \| - \| -
scope="row"\| "The Future of the Gravity Boy" \| - \| -
scope="row"\| "Ghosts" \| - \| -
scope="row"\| "We Get Along" \| - \| -
scope="row"\| "Mercury Rising" \| - \| -
scope="row"\| "Jupiter 5" \| - \| Jagz Kooner
scope="row"\| "American Girl" \| 2013 \| Bonnie McKee \| {{n/a\|Non-album single}} \| rowspan="3"\| Co-writer \| Bonnie McKee, Jonathan Asher, Oliver Goldstein, Jacknife Lee \| -
scope="row"\| "Talk to Myself" {{small\|(featuring Sterling Fox)}} \| 2015 \| Avicii \| Stories \| Timothy Bergling, Brandon Lowry, Matthew Hartke \| -
scope="row"\| "Endisco" \| rowspan="3"\| 2016 \| The Knocks \| 55: Japanese Edition \| Benjamin Ruttner, James Patterson, Benjamin Berger, Ryan McMahon \| -
scope="row"\| "On What You're On" \| rowspan="2"\| Busted \| rowspan="2"\| Night Driver \| Co-producer \| - \| John Fields
scope="row"\| "Thinking of You" \| Co-writer/Co-producer \| James Bourne, Matthew Willis, Charlie Simpson, John Fields, Eric Bazilian \| John Fields
scope="row"\| "Word of Mouth" {{small\|(featuring Bree Runway)}} \| rowspan="7"\| 2018 \| Metroplane \| {{n/a\|Non-album single}} \| Co-writer/Producer \| Vito de Luca, Uzoechi Emenike, Rebecca Hill, Ryan Campbell \| Metroplane, Mark Ralph
scope="row"\| "Ginger" {{small\|(with Riton)}} \| Kah-Lo \| Foreign Ororo \| Co-Writer / Producer \| Henry Smithson, Faridah Demola-Seriki \| -
scope="row"\| "Only Can Get Better" {{small\|(featuring Daniel Merriweather)}} \| rowspan="3"\| Silk City \| rowspan="4" {{n/a\|Non-album single}} \| Co-producer \| - \| Mark Ronson, Diplo, The Picard Brothers, Riton, Lil Silva
scope="row"\| "Feel About You" {{small\|(featuring Mapei)}} \| Producer \| - \| Mark Ronson, Diplo, The Picard Brothers, Magnus Lidehäll, Jr Blender
scope="row"\| "Electricity" {{small\|(with Dua Lipa)}} \| Additional producer \| - \| Mark Ronson, Diplo, The Picard Brothers, Jarami, Riton, Jr Blender
scope="row"\| "Runway" \| Duke Dumont \| Producer \| - \| Duke Dumont
scope="row"\| "Heaven Let Me In" \| Friendly Fires \| {{TBA}} \| Additional producer \| - \| Friendly Fires, Disclosure, Hal Ritson, Mark Ralph, Richard Adlam
scope="row"\| "High Heels” \| rowspan="1””\| 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,

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scope="row"| "Hate"

| rowspan="3"| 2007

| rowspan="3"| Adam Freeland

| rowspan="3"| The Hate EP

| rowspan="9"| Co-writer/Producer