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One of the best DJs/producers around today. With some groundbreaking original material and epic remixes Alex Metric is equally awesome live.
Need to hear: Alex Metric & Steve Angelo - Open Your Eyes (Style Of Eye Remix)
Crazy bunch with a trigger happy synth finger. Grown in the last 10 years into an exciting and very current act.
Need to hear: Animal Collective - My Girls
Three girls playing keys. Doesn't get much hotter than that.
Au Revoir Simone have only recently broken into the mainstream but fit nicely into the female singer/songwriter category without being so quaint they end up on the Heart FM playlist. Which is no mean feat.
Need to hear: Au Revoir Simone - All Or Nothing
Big band, big sounds, BMSR will try anything and aren't afraid to put it on a record. Not Thom Yorke let's-literally-put-any-sounds-we-can-create-on-the-record, but not a million miles away. Experimental in the most awesome of ways, and the first band to be featured more than once on NMB. Oh the dizzying heights.
Need to hear: Black Moth Super Rainbow - Happy Melted City
I got very excited when I first heard Yeah Boy back in 2008. Since I've been a bit disappointed, but I'll hold my reservations until I see them live. And I do like the Spiderman theme.
Need to hear: Bloody Beetroots - Yeah Boy
What better way to start a DJ career than to work with Felix Da Housecat. German born Boys Noize has some next level sounds up his sleeve and I reckon the best is yet to come.
Need to hear: Boys Noize - Yeah
I fell off the 'dubstep is rubbish' shelf with a thud, the second I heard Caspa's take on I remember by Deadmau5. Since then I've always had a soft spot, and along with his work with Rusko he now has a long long list of remixes any producer would be proud of.
Need to hear: Deadmau5 - I Remember (Caspa Remix)
Fair play to Chase & Status for founding their own label MTA label, with some great up and coming D&B artists. And they'll always have 'More Than Alot'. But 'No More Idols' went in a very different direction than I'd anticipated with collaborations out in full force. Some good (including the incredible Flashing Lights, mostly thanks to Sub Focus), some terrible. Shame. Let's hope next year brings some better news...
Need to hear: Chase & Status - Flashing Lights
Deadmau5 is my boy right now, and can do pretty much no wrong. If anyone said they were going to remix Let Me Be Your Fantasy and Cafe Del Mar I'd tell them they were idiots and if they tried it I'd slap them. But the big man has stepped up and both remixes are absolutely epic. LED festival this summer will definitely be a contender for gig of the year.
Need to hear: Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Deadmau5 Remix)
If there's one thing I need to do before the dreaded winter sets in on London again, it's see Diplo live. Can someone sort that out for me please.
Loves his blackberry, loves a bit of Twitter, Diplo's all over the social media and from the looks of some of his behind the scenes footage his shows really kick off.
Need to hear: Tiesto vs Diplo - C'Mon
It's a somewhat hazy memory, but DIOYY? getting kicked off stage at Glasto was one to remember. They might have been a bit nu rave, but they've got heart and tracks like Epic Last Song show it.
The new album is a must for 2011. And if you haven't seen them, do it.
Need to hear: Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Wrong Time, Wrong Planet
It took a few months after the album was produced, but Walking On A Dream did make a bit of a stir, and We Are The People is one of the best songs I've heard in the last 5 years. And the Sub Focus is probably the best remix I've ever heard.
3 years on the next album can't come soon enough. So you could say they're ones to watch out for if you've not yet had the pleasure.
Need to hear: Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People
I first came across Fake Blood when I heard his remix of Stuck On Repeat by Little Boots. I sort of missed it at that point, and it wasn't until the Restless (UNKLE) remix really caught my attention that he got on my radar. And what a tune that was.
Need to hear: UNKLE - Restless (Fake Blood Remix)
To sum up, much more exciting than Friendly Fires. I mean that in the nicest possible way to FF, who I'm sure will enjoy plenty of Radio 1 and probably Radio 2 airtime off the back of new album Pala, but Fenech Soler have something of an edge that just makes them that bit more interesting. And is probably why there are so many good remixes of them around.
Need to hear: Fenech Soler - Lies (WolfChild Remix)
It's rare you find a new band these days that makes you literally say wow. But track for off the Sun Giant EP, Mykonos, did just that for me back in 2008 and I haven't looked back. My only disappointment is their all too sudden rise to fame, and I'm now bored of the grumblings that Helplessness Blues is too samey. If you don't like samey, don't buy a folk CD.
Need to hear: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
After a very hit and miss first album, Total Life Forever is a cracking album and a must for anyone who hasn't. You know. Heard it.
Need to hear: Foals - Miami
I just love Fred Falke for all those remixes he does, often with Alan Braxe, where it's like he hears a tune and thinks, 'I know how to make that awesome,' smashes it, and makes it slot into any Friday night warm up playlist you could want.
Need to hear: Burns - First Move (Fred Falke Remix)
I don't know too much abut GRUM, but I do that he smashed it at Dance Koko Dance earlier this year. Even though I was completely oblivious at the time while Alan Braxe and Alex Metric took over my Thursday night in the main room.
What I do know is that Want U has so many spinetingling synth sounds that it can't do anything but be your need to hear:
Need to hear: GRUM - Want U
She's pop, she's ginger, she was pretty much ubiquitous in 2009/10, and she had pretty good reason to be. La Roux gets the prize for the most incredibly amenable songs I've ever heard. From dubstep to electro to drum and bass remixes by huge DJs including Skream, Nero, Fred Falke & Alex Metric, each one twists the original in a way you wouldn't believe was possible. And isn't, with most tunes.
Need to hear: La Roux - Quicksand (Alex Metrix Remix)
LightsoverLA, or Stormy to his friends, is one of those producers with a real ear for how different a tune could feel with the right bassline. Even if it already has a pretty great one. So his At Dawn We Rage (dubstep) project comes as no surprise, and features some great remixes like Sofi Needs A Ladder (Deadmau5) and Mars (Fake Blood).
Need to hear: Miike Snow - Billie Holiday (LightsoverLA Remix)
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