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Alex Banks - Resurgence

As the pandemic restrictions are set to ease soon in the UK and we finally had some hot weather, I was getting nostalgic for the feeling of playing outdoors at festivals and excited about the prospect of being able to do it again soon. My manager Jonny and I decided to set up an impromptu festival stage in the courtyard here at the studio in Brighton, so I could play some tunes and create a virtual festival experience for you!

Watch the video version with projected visuals here: https://youtu.be/fNF2bE-Ksbs

Tracklist: 

Twenty Seven Inches Of Mercury - Guy Andrews
Delta Waves - Intergalactic Quartet
God Knows We Tried - Hugo Massien
Never The Right Time - Andy Stott, Alison Skidmore
Void - Fearful & Mtwn
Puls - Modeselektor
Siren Call - Alex Banks
Crystal Grid (Ryan Davis Remix) - Robot Koch
Hold On - NonSquare
Black Rose - Architectural
Darlinnn - Daniel Avery
Three Stages - Musin
Vaults - Bronson
Immerse - Alex Banks
Divided Love - Somne
Golden Teacher - Alex Medina
Siena (ft. Clara La San) - Bicep
Das Programm - FJAAK
Resurgence - Alex Banks
Hope Detuned - True Peak Limit
Lithium - Mark Henning
Start of Something New - Raven Bush
Awake - Alex Banks
Vengeance Pt.1 (Reeko Remix) - Christian Wunsch
Be Yours - Greymatter, Christian J
Headphones Kid - Varsity Star
Maik the Chicken - Modeselektor
Falling Down (Nicolas Bougaieff Getting Up Remix)
Mothra - Leon Vynehall
Check Yourself - Paul Kalkbrenner
Senxenxo - Nathan Fake
Echoes - JSSL
Misjudgement Day - Imogen & Best Pest
Endless Hours - Daniel Avery
Kambo - JakoJako
An Exhale - Leon Vynehall
Epilogue - Echaskech
Movement ft. Paul St Hilaire - Modeselektor
Head Above The Parakeets - HAAi
Chemz - Burial
Final Act & Denouncement - Ivy’s Hand
Resist - Response and Pliskin
Ultra (Yung Sherman Remix) - Evian Christ

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Alex Banks - DJ Mix - Recorded Live at Metway Studios - 31.5.2021

Alex Banks releases ‘A Way Out’ on Mesh. The track stands as the first single from his anticipated third studio album ‘Projections.

‘A Way Out’ is a heady dancefloor track with a foot in breaks and techno alike. Flanked by the artist’s signature pads and synths, it balances melancholy and optimism with stirring effect.

A stunning video for ‘A Way Out’ has been created by award-winning motion graphic designer Matthew Clugston. He illustrates the track’s contrasting moods with dynamic images of hectic man-made cities, manipulated and warped in time with Banks’ hectic breakbeats. When the emotive pad sounds join the melee, images of mountains and lakes take the place of the concrete streets and buildings, representing serenity in contrast. 

Written, mixed and produced by Alex Banks
Album artwork by Michael Bodiam
Graphic Design by Colin Droz.
Mastering by Bo at Calyx Mastering
℗ 2022 Mesh © 2022 Just Isn't Music Ltd

Projections

A Way Out

Buy Projections Double LP vinyl / Stream / Download: https://ffm.to/projections

Respected producer, DJ and sound designer Alex Banks presents his third studio album ‘Projections’, returning to Max Cooper’s Mesh imprint. The work follows up critically acclaimed releases on Modeselektor’s Monkeytown, Ninja Tune, where he remixed Bonobo, and his sublime sophomore album ‘Beneath the Surface’ from 2019.

Produced in his studio in Brighton, UK, the album is an immersive nine-track masterstroke covering the gamut of electronica, techno, breakbeat, bass and IDM, fit for clubs and home-listening alike. The project was born in the early stages of 2021. With little outside stimulation to draw inspiration from, Banks
invested in new gear including a Moog Matriarch, DFAM and a host of Eurorack Modules - and set about immersing himself in the possibilities of his new semi-modular synths. In terms of sonic reference points, he found himself in new territory, too. “Usually going to a club night, or concert, or even the
simple things in life that you take for granted all feed into a melting pot of things that inspire me to create. But without these, I instead found myself drawing on memories of experiences, and imagining new ones for the future to come. I began to feel like these were projections, almost like memories of experiences I had been projecting via the music I was creating,” he shares, adding that memories of clubbing trips to Berlin, London and Brighton fuelled his vision for the album.

Furthermore, the seclusion we collectively experienced allowed Banks to philosophise on the nature of human connection, which fed into the album concept: “I started to think about how during our period of relative isolation, we are all projecting into the digital ether, searching for a connection in an increasingly virtual world where shared human contact and experiences have
become scarce.”

Stratosphere

Resonate

What We Have

Introspective

Recall Mindset

Into The Realm

Transition

Before The End

My own re-work of the first single from my forthcoming album 'Illuminate'.

As featured on Resident Advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=23840

'All You Could Do' EP is out May 2nd (May 5th UK), 'Illuminate' LP May 30th (June 2nd UK) on Monkeytown Records.

All You Could Do (Alternate Version) feat. Elizabeth Bernholz

Alex Banks Remix of 'We Shall Burn Bright' by Husky Rescue

Out now on Amazon and iTunes:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shall-Burn-Bright-Munk-Remix/dp/B00AVGXZX2

We Shall Burn Bright (Alex Banks Remix)

Taken from the album 'Illuminate' out now on Monkeytown Records http://www.monkeytownrecords.com/releases/view/115/alex-banks/monkeytown043-illuminate

Phosphorus

Watch the brand new video for All Over ft. Alphabets Heaven at http://www.clashmusic.com/videos/premiere-alex-banks-all-over-ft-alphabets-heaven and download the track free at http://www.unlock.fm/565

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All Over (feat. Alphabet's Heaven) - FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD

I collaborated with an old friend Joel Dawes, who is one third of Drum n Bass trio 'Klax' (https://soundcloud.com/klax) and House/Bass Music trio 'Spoils'  (https://soundcloud.com/spoils-music)

We met at Uni in 2001 studying music production and used to write tracks together back then, so we came together again to have some fun and make some beats. 

FREE DOWNLOAD

Paraffin (feat. Joel Dawes) FREE DOWNLOAD

Following on from the recent deluxe release of Vessels critically acclaimed 3rd album, DILATE REMIXED is a compilation of electronica reworks featuring Alex Banks, Ripperton, Barker & Baumecker, Gordon, Wesley Matsell, Pick A Piper, Erik Luebs, Rival Consoles, Olerton, Seamless, Antenna Happy, Rob Clouth, Sun Glitters, Paper Tiger and Snasen.

Vessels 'Elliptic' Alex Banks Remix

DJ Mix for Soundwall Magazine Italy. Originally uploaded in July 2015 on Mixcloud, re-uploaded here for Soundcloud followers.
Original article here: www.soundwall.it/soundwall-podcast-269-alex-banks/
Follow Alex Banks on Facebook: www.facebook.com/alexbanksmusic

Alex Banks Soundwall DJ Mix July 2015 FREE DOWNLOAD

ALEX BANKS remix of Bonobo's 'The Keeper'. Out now on Ninja Tune

Bonobo 'The Keeper' ALEX BANKS Remix

Alex Banks remix of Andreya Triana's 'Lost Where I Belong' Released on Ninja Tune as a free download. Click here: http://www.unlock.fm/55y

Andreya Triana 'Lost Where I Belong' (Alex Banks Remix) Free Download

One of five remixes 'Beneath The Surface Remixed Pt.2', released April 30th 2020 on Mesh.

Please contact for more information:
Label - anthony@thewildseeds.com
Management - jonny@thehookupconsultancy.co.uk

Beneath the Surface Remixed, Pt. 2

Revolution (Ryan Davis Fragmented Revision)

The new single out now...watch the stunning video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7CD8FN828

Taken from the album 'Beneath The Surface' forthcoming on Max Cooper's Mesh label 06/06/19 

Download/Stream/Purchase Vinyl here: http://mesh.lnk.to/BeneathTheSurface

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Beneath The Surface

Chasms

'Chasms' featuring Ásgeir

From the album 'Beneath The Surface' out now on Max Cooper's Mesh Label

Download/Stream/Purchase Vinyl here: http://mesh.lnk.to/BeneathTheSurface

Revolution

Taken from the album 'Beneath The Surface' out now on Max Cooper's Mesh Label

Download/Stream/Purchase Vinyl here: http://mesh.lnk.to/BeneathTheSurface

Nowhere Left

Immerse

Watch the video/stream/download here: https://ffm.to/fallingdownvideo

From the album 'Beneath The Surface' out now on Max Cooper's Mesh Label

Download/Stream/Purchase Vinyl here: http://mesh.lnk.to/BeneathTheSurface

Falling Down

Stream/download here: https://ffm.to/fallingdownvideo

From the album 'Beneath The Surface' out now on Max Cooper's Mesh Label

Download/Stream/Purchase Vinyl here: http://mesh.lnk.to/BeneathTheSurface

Follow Ital Tek https://soundcloud.com/ital-tek

Beneath The Surface Remixed Pt.1

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Falling Down (Ital Tek Remix)

DJ Mix recorded for Sally Love's Data Transmission Radio Show on 2/12/2019

Tracklist: 

Blue Veil - The Sky’s Fucking Blue
Max Cooper - Perpetual Motion
Hammer - Parabola
Forest Drive West - Phaze Shift
Special Request - Front Screen Projection
Architectural - Black Rose
Ryan Davis / Alex Banks - Sequence 1
Leon Vynehall - I, Cavallo (Club Front)
Christian Piers - P41
Yan Cook - Grey Layers
Cubenx - Hercynia
ROSH Sw4rmCLAN - Becoming You
Dusky - L.I.
Lapalux - Earth
RY-X - Untold (Alex Banks Remix)
Alex Falk - Beta
Ø [Phase] - Emergence (In A Psychological System)
Ryan Davis - Nightfall (Alex Banks Dusk Mix)

Data Transmission Alex Banks Guest Mix for Sally Love 2:12:19

Beneath the Surface Remixed Pt. 2

Falling Down (Nicolas Bougaïeff Getting Up Remix)

Tephra - EP

Uber den Vulkan Wolken

Tephra

Alex Banks is a DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist from Brighton, UK. Praised by the likes of BBC Radio 6, Mixmag, Clash and Uncut, he makes music aimed at the dancefloor that thrills with its sonic intricacy and warm human feeling.
His prismatic sound design decorates rhythms influenced by jungle, broken beat and dubstep, while techno effects hiss and clank, and off-world IDM melodies snake around the arrangements. Bank’s sound carries instantly recognisable motifs and an impressive quality. All the while he consistently pushes the envelope with an adept technical skill and sound design which commands repeated listens.
‘Projections’ is the title of Banks’ third studio album that is set for release on Max Cooper’s Mesh in summer 2022. Characterised by his passion for analogue gear and experimentation, the work is a pure distillation of his production expertise and love for emotive synth sounds. The project includes visual collaborations with award-winning motion graphic designer Matthew Clugston and Tosh Fieldsend from renowned VFX house The Mill.
His other work includes critically acclaimed releases on Modeselektor’s Monkeytown, Ninja Tune and Hunter/Game’s Just This. Remix credits have seen brilliant re-works of Bonobo, RY-X and Raven Bush. On the collaborative front Banks is just as selective, linking with Max Cooper and Sasha respectively, the latter set for an April release on LNOE as part of the ‘TEN’ compilation. 
A musical polymath, when not immersed in the electronic world, Banks works as a sound designer, composing for film, TV and advertising campaigns. Notable achievements include projects for Global brands such as Nike, Heineken and Honda. 
Alex Banks is entering a fresh and exciting chapter in 2022. A master craftsman in the studio pushing his sound into inspiring new directions, he'll augment the eclectic  'Projections' project on Mesh with a new live AV set up, taking his creative output to a new level.

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