The Romanian born DJ and producer, Alex Preda, has been heavily influenced by many great artists since he was a kid. Artists like ABBA and Boney M. caught young Alex's attention. After growing up in Bucharest, he moved to the Netherlands in 2007 and now resides in the capital Amsterdam. The Netherlands is a great place for Alex to convey his sounds to clubs and venues around the country. He has played in the likes of De Marktkantine, BASIS and Thuishaven.
On the production side, Alex creates a very melodic touch and an atmospheric feel to his creations. The feeling he wants to create is, as he described it, ‘a particular instrumentation of the melody and the spacing between the notes, which reminds me of the sunny days in the neighborhood where I grew up in Bucharest’. The identification of his sound can be felt throughout his releases, where he brought out tracks on Bedrock, Rukus, Parquet Recordings and Weiter. The latter even topped the Beatport chart in 2019, with his ‘Heartbeat E.P.’. Recently he released a new EP, ‘Power Cube’, on Artessa Music. For his inspirational tunes, Alex told us about what track he had on repeat on his old portable MP3 player, what influenced him recently and what helped him during a heartbroken time.