With this whole Internet thing, you just can’t sleep. Something will be up on the Web one day, the next day it’s gone into the online abyss… To that end, you may have missed the BBC DJ mix from Alex Metric.  It’s the young wunderkind’s first edition as a once-a-month host of the BBC radio show “In New DJs We Trust.” Alas Radio One’s policy, they only leave up radio shows for a week after airing, and Metric’s mix is only up for two more days so… Don’t sleep, but you can watch for next month’s.

It’s clear from this set that Alex Metric is one of the most bright and shiny lights to come out of the U.K.’s electro/dance rock/whatever scene in recent memory, as both a dj and artist/producer/remixer (check out his absolutely insane Phoenix and Ladyhawke remixes) and as a spinner. Metric’s DJ selection is totally fresh, spanning both brilliant new bangers du jour (check Grum’s incredible remix of “Borderline” by Metric’s mentor, Adam Freeland) and olde tymes (anyone forgot how dope “Leave Home” by Chemical Brothers is?). Metric also plays here Les Rhythmes Digitales classic “From Disco To Disco” in a set comprising the songs that made him want to make music. It’s a perfect choice, as Metric may be the new Jacques Le Cont/Stuart Price for the 2000s. Admittedly there was nothing wrong with the old one, but it’s always good to have as many people making the freakiest, funkiest, most fun grooves. Sure, you could wait until Marine Parade releases his debut artist album later this year, but why? As we said before, don’t sleep…