This year’s WMC took place from March 23-27, and to get the skinny on how it really goes down behind the scenes, we asked Pat Pardy—one hald of our fave DJ/producer duo Evil Nine to give us an on-the-down-low diary of their time there.

When Infadels debuted in 2006, the U.K. quintet were kind of caught between two poles—the danceable post-punk of, say, Bloc Party and the nu-rave of mega-buzzed about bands like the Klaxons. As a result, Infadels didn’t get the hype of those bands, but they may have staying power beyond expectations—especially if a track like the new single “Ghosts” is any indication.

Fenech Soler are the new British buzz band du jour, with all the proper ingredients: four attractive young band members, endorsement by the likes of Alan Braxe and Mark Ronson, an engaging electro-pop sound (emphasis on electro), and a unshakeable love of hooks that border somewhere between fromage and sublime.

Mixing off-piste sound and slopes is a short but storied tradition: perhaps due to temperature, cool music has always gone well with snow sports. The illustrious annual Snowbombing festival – which features acts like 2 Many DJs, Dizzee Rascal, Alex Metric and Reverend and the Makers in a dope Austrian Alpine resort setting – has always seemed like the ideal ski and snowboard escape

We already hipped you to the massive anthem potential of Alex Metric’s remix of “One More Chance” by Bloc Party – indeed, per our prediction it has proven to be a summer 2008 dancefloor mainstay. How, we wondered, could it get any better?

As you know, we’re fans of DJ/remixer/radio personality supreme Alex Metric, one of the absolute brightest talents ever to plug a computer into a Technics at the moment. Therefore we weren’t surprised to find that, at the time of this writing, two of Metric’s latest productions are #4 and #6 respectively on the influential Hype Machine . His remix of Bloc Party’s “One More Chance” is an absolute summer banger.

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.”