Filth feat. Alex Metric

Where: Ironworks, 122b Academy Street, Inverness, IV1 1LX, Inverness

When: Saturday 06 March 2010

Doors: 22:00 Ticket Price: £10.00 (over 18s) With modern electronic music, there's sometimes a tendency to take things, shall we say, 'a little too seriously'. All too often producers and deejays get caught up so heavily in the idea of being elitist and 'underground' that they forget the idea of music altogether - that it should be built to be enjoyed by as many people as possible. This is not a criticism anyone could consider levelling at British wunderkind Alex Metric, however. As the man himself says, 'I want my music to reach far and wide. i want to take on the overground without compromising what i do and what i love." Something which, had you attended any one of countless Metric deejay sets last year, or been in a dark, sweaty club where someone was playing one of his myriad tracks or remixes, you would have witnessed first hand in truly emphatic style. First though let us, as the late Simply Red once said, roll back the years. After a chance, inebriated accosting of electronic pioneer Adam Freeland, young Metric found himself signed to Freeland's Marine Parade label, where he promptly offered up the first taster of the sonic cocktail brewing in his tiny mind with the teutonic 'What She Wants' EP. Although roundly embraced by ravers and deejays alike, it was not until Alex turned his attentions from tweaking (and often totally destroying) the pile of questionable 80's vinyl on his studio floor to his own vocal offerings that things really started to get interesting. The subsequent 'In Your Machine' EP fired a keytar-shaped missile into a number of electronic genres, selling as speedily in specialist record shops as it did on itunes, and prompting a flurry of remix requests from big name acts such as Hard Fi, Alphabeat, Reverend & The Makers and The Infadels. This subsequent slew of first-rate reworks aw Alex crowned 'remixer of the year' by XFM, beating the likes of Justice and Soulwax to the punch. Alex has also been building a reputation as one of the most exciting young deejays working today. His genre-hopping sound - which the man himself describes as 'less of a steady build... more of a really really unsafe rollercoaster' - has graced the soundsystems of most every major club in the world over the past twelve months, as well as the stages of festivals including Glastonbury, V, and Serbia's Exit, where this year he has been asked to return after being judged to have played one of the best sets in the event's history.