Alex Adair – Make Me Feel Better (S.P.Y Remix)
‘Make Me Feel Better’ is the debut single from 21 year old British producer Alex Adair. Now championed by Annie Mac, Zane Lowe, Danny Howard and MistaJam on Radio 1 and 1 Xtra, Kiss, MTV Dance and beyond, ‘Make Me Feel Better’, has so far clocked up over 4.6 million plays online, and led to remixes for artists including Jessie Ware, Ed Sheeran and Ella Eyre.
Hot on the heels of Klingande’s remix of ‘Make Me Feel Better’, comes a blistering drum & bass mix from S.P.Y (premiered at the weekend by Radio 1’s Annie Mac). The Brazilian-born, London-based producer is signed to Hospital Records, and recently set the airwaves alight with his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix. Further remixes will drop soon from Russ Chimes, Illyus & Barrientos, and Don Diablo.
The video for ‘Make Me Feel Better’ was produced by Artists And Derelicts and directed by Dano Cerny. Watch as a dance troupe brings a bit of tropical heat to the city: http://po.st/MMFByt
Alex’s music veers between tropical house and chilled electronica, and with the support of leading YouTube channels like The Sound You Need, he’s been compared to the likes of Kygo and Caribou through to Ryan Hemsworth. Now signed to Virgin EMI for the UK, ‘Make Me Feel Better’ features his emotive electronic sound wrapped around a looped vocal.
Adair first created ‘Make Me Feel Better’ as part of his Creative Music Technology course at Canterbury University, whereby he had to submit different music to represent different eras (the track was his submission representing current music). Bizarrely, the university’s label declined to release it, so he put it up on Soundcloud and the online buzz exploded from there. Now free of fulltime education, Adair currently lives deep in the West Sussex countryside, holed up in a production den, creating music and experimenting with sound design.
This reclusive setting, and a classically trained background, brings a beguiling musicality to Adair’s productions. Though his music has found a home on the dancefloor, he doesn’t write records for clubs and, in terms of the limited number of remixes he does choose to take on, he first produces a mix before finally agreeing to the project. ‘Make Me Feel Better’ is set to give him a major debut hit in early 2015, and will be followed by new original releases, and (probably) remixes of other artists, further into the year.
