WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

His e-mail address is [email protected] so why don't you mail and ask him (her?) yourself?

it's funny, i don't pparticularly like rex the dog i thought 'prototype' was awful) but it has been bugging me too for ages to know who it actually is.

(he did do that Kreisel 99 7" with Fehlmann)

Domain name: REXTHEDOG.NET

Registrant:
Rex The Dog
c/o Get Online
Unit 12D
Adlington Park
Adlington, Cheshire SK10 4PZ
GB

lucky you

the rest of these don't have much to hide
maybe fatboy, but he's kinda paved his way back into "cool" lately

who else has crossed over into mainstream pop to the detriment of his underground credentials?

mark bell?

daniel miller is a possibility, esp. with all the synthage involved on the rex the dog stuff but it would make me a little sad if it was.

that would be ridiculous tho - you're boss of world's biggest indie label (prior to Jive), then you decide to start producing again and release on Kompakt?!

that's exactly the kind of thing i'd expect mr. miller to do.

well there's that scumdolly track that was floating about for a while that i'm *pretty sure* was him.

Well, perhaps not "nothing to do", but there certainly was a time when it had *less* to do. Personally, I still don't much care who's behind the tunes.

but who knows, maybe it's Vince Clarke or Nick Cave

nice one

I don't think it's Trevor Jackson or Ewan Pearson - they've both done remixes for Depeche Mode on the same single as the Rex the Dog remix. OTOH points in favour or it being Ewan Pearson: in an interview I read with him he said he was doing another album for Soma because he was contractually obliged to (ie. he wouldn't do it for them otherwise), so this could be his way of circumventing his Soma deal.

Rex the Dog is Jake Williams from London taaan. I have his email if anyone does need to get in touch with him.. and I love pretty much everything I've heard him do *gushes* - Den

so many great JX tracks, but not a one sounds anything like Rex The Dog.
guess everyone can change paths somewhere along the way

(Don't mind me. I'm working on my Robert Evans [for Halloween].)

So, how good is that Triola record?

Very good.

I've noticed that the Hearts remix works exceptionally well as a cd opener.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, now you're saying. Just a few days ago I was convinced it was Moby, at least I can admit defeat. Rex stuff sounds more like italo to me anyway. Weren't those JX hits a little in the vein of italo house of the time, mmm?

who is that?

The closest anyone else comes to what he's doing that I can think of is Freeform Five's "Strangest Things (Remix)", which is massive in a slightly different way (a more maximalist everything but the kitchen kinda way).

btw Tim there's a great DJ T mix from last year knocking around Slsk if you can find it. "Blue Monday" and even "Killer" feature!

what do i win?

On reflection "Killer" is extremely close to the Get Physical style. Apparently Michael Mayer's been playing it too.

Oh they're all great, I just meant that "Freemind" was the first Get Physical track I think I consciously heard due to your mix.

I've been listening a lot to both the original and the Kohncke mix of "I Don't Know" today. Quiet Storm...

Do you like "Strangest Things" Ronan?

Also you should search the Michael Mayer mix of Antonelli Electr's "The Vogue"

More details, please!

also I'm 3/4s of the way through a different DJ T set which includes Brett Johnson, Steve Bug, MANDY, Silversurfer, Kiko, Joakim etc etc etc and I'll put that there as soon as it's finished.

your childrens plastic surgeon you fucking ponce!

As I said elsewhere, The Jackal-Jack Ain't Back, is a must have. It was out on Déssous about a year ago I think, complete with Steve Bug Remix.

do get that Freeform Five - Strangest Things (Freeform Reform Dub)

Please do oh yes.

I mean, why has no one else mentioned how UTTERLY FUCKING INCREDIBLE this record is? Everything about it, the huge squealy noise, the retro 303 squelching about three minutes in, the evil bassline, the drum fill, the way that you think just when it can't go up another level IT DOES! Tune of the year - utter fucking magic.

"I am having alot of instant "YES" feelings with dance lately. more than usual even."

So am I! I totally agreed with yer most recent blogpost Ronan (have even repeated it ad nauseum in one I'm writing) - it's like dance producers have, all of a sudden, en masse, had this epiphanic realisation as to just what electro could do for them. So many tracks which make me think "Yes! Why weren't people making tracks like this before now?"

*If this has been now scientifically proven beyond all reasonable doubt you are now free to laugh at me.

(Matt I was going to text you today and say the track you meant was probably mislabelled cos when I downloaded it it was mislabelled too, but I thought that'd be kind of sad of me)

I Look Into Mid Air = swirly synths and vocals, sometimes labelled Frequency

Frequency = Evil helicopter bass (I realise this is the tune I was trying to identify from Erol's set at Glastonbury this year - joy!), sometimes labelled Prototype

Prototype = ???

are Frequency and Prototype the same tune? 100s of ppl on Slsk seem to think so!

"Prototype" starts off [evil bass fart]/[crash]/[evil bass fart]/crash before building into a multilayered electro tune, whereas as I recall (only heard it in store so far, picking it up Monday) "Frequency" just launches straight into electo-rave intensity.

We Live In Daddy's Car is the slightly softer sounding one with an electro bassline stuttering glitch noises and Orbitalesque multilayered tinkling that gets more complex as the tune progresses, right?

Take the Speicher split with Voigt & Voigt that had Vision 04 and Was Du Willst on it. Now, Vision 03 was a 10 minute epic, so you assume that the 10 minute epic labelled Was Du Willst must actually be Vision 04. BUT NO.

Which is weird because the small etchings are fairly obvious I think.

Ha ha a lot of the synths on the excellent Ewan Pearson mix of "Enjoy the Silence" seem to be saying "Rex the Dog, step off!", although obv Pearson's mix is v polite and respectful - esp compared to the ace mayhem of the Rex dub of "Photographic". Mind you I've only heard the edit of the Pearson mix so maybe the extended mix is more insane.

Seriously track down the "Photographic" (Depeche Mode) mix, it is unspeakably huge.

Heartbeats remix.
60 second sample MP3s:
Prototyp
Frequency; I Look Into Mid Air

All house producers should be required by law to do at least one gigantic maximalist electro Depeche Mode remix. It would make the world a much better place.

I should've stuck with my assumption (see the Kompakt thread for more mislabelling woes).

I love her/him/them.

Which made me think - is Rex the Dog named after Inspector Rex? You know, that laughable Austrian detective drama starring a crime fighting dog? I'm sure that show is a huge export from Europe, and for most English speaking people is the only experience of Germanic television. There's actually been a few running jokes with my friends about Kommisar Rex, while German/Austrian mates remain horrified that it's actually broadcast here in Australia.

Again, this makes me think it's kind of a pisstake - not the music, so much as how it's presented as a 'Kompakt' release.

The English is obviously a pisstake...

However I'm also hearing a lot of Kohncke in that Client remix, weirdly.

"Depeche Mode: Photographic

The song Photographic is from Depeche Mode's first album Speak And Spell which was first released in 1981 when we were children."

Mark Moore wasn't a child in '81 ergo can't be him. It has to be somebody in their late 20s/early 30s...

(Note to self: stop being lame)

At first i thought - woah cool, i'm gonna look for one of these on the internet.

but after searching everywhere and not turning anything up, maybe i saw Rex the dog?!?!

either way it was a cool shirt.

Or that Vladislav Delay was actually called Sasu Ripatti? That Afrika Bambaataa is really Kevin Donovan? We want passport and fingerprints, preferably.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/anniemac/index.shtml

It's dumb, but made me laugh :p

There's also a mini-mix by Rex, containing:

Mel & Kim 'Showing Out' (Supreme)
Bangkok Impact 'Masters of the Universe' (Crème Organization)
S'Express 'Theme From S'Express' (Rhythm King)
Prodigy 'Girls' (XL Recordings)
Ellen Allien 'Trashscapes (Anthony Rother Remix)' (BPitch Control)
DJ Koze 'Brutalga Square' (Kompakt)
Mel & Kim 'Respectable' (Supreme)

Enjoy.

S Express was actually Mike Morris - he also presented the football results on TVAM during those heady late 80s days

http://www.rexthedog.net/kompakt_dinner.htm

"For the second time I fell asleep before [Michael Mayer] started to play. We are nearly expecting to be expelled from KOMPAKT. With the music we make we skate on difficult ice anyway. "

sorry if this is already here but do yuo think I have time to ready every message here?

D.

he has it on the authority of his heart, which is all that matters.

yeah, but think about it.

they wouldnt let a guy with 2 small releases and a knife remix under his belt do a Depeche Mode remix and a prodigy ( on their make or break release) remix if it was some nobody.

so its got to be a well known ( in the industry ) person.

or at least a studio enginner that people know well..

and check out the rob da bank quote earlier.

but hey whadda I know

can anyone translate this ? it looks like it's daniel milller!

or maybe not, german was never my thing...

eek!

:-))

RABID RECORDS PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH THE KNIFE - February 8th at The ICA London

On February 8th Rabid Records invite you to spend an evening in their company at the ICA in London. An evening of art, music and performance with a few special surprises thrown in for good measure.

There are a very limited amount of tickets available, to get your ticket to this unique event please see below.

Running Times:
7pm - Doors Open
7.45pm Sharp Like A Knife - Screening and performance
8.15pm - DJ's Rex The Dog and DJ Coolof (from The Knife) 9.30pm - Finish

Address: ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH

in spanish

http://www.f135.com/2step/f135?0=1&tplt=musEditorial

why don't you care anymore, Ronan? is he passé?

of course he's passe jed. do keep up.*

THE AMAZING RANDY

I don't think it beats the Heartbeats mix overall but that had a better song to work with. The E-Talking mix feels like every Rex teh Dog production to date playing simultaneously!

BTW, don't think I'll make Friday unless you plan on paying half the (large) train fare it'd take. :-(

Here's a tune released by Moby in '94 that Tim has yet to hear I suppose :
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-20506-004.gif
(that's Horses by Voodoo Child on NovaMute)

(yesyes i know it's jx, i'm doing a funny)

Mike Jones, obv.

pictures NOW!

Woo, eee! Just putting the finishing touches to our remix of 'Marblehouse' by The Knife. The new album by The Knife 'Silent Shout' is another triumph of synthesizer, melody and words. The Knife are the leaders and if you get one album this year, this is it. (Until we release ours, then you could please get that instead...)

maybe it is paul oakenfold.

Ties in with a thread I never started about decline of British dance music/producers, climate change and usurping by Germany etc.

hmm, i dunno, i think 'i look into mid-air' still stands up really really well. 'frequency' isn't so much dated as...v v closely associated with the time it came out cos it was played so much, rather like 'rocker'. i don't know if my problem with the royksopp rmx is that it's dated so much as just...boring.

i think barima may be right about the knife rmx.

basically i favour his maximalist approach, and in the face of so much intricate minimalism dogging (ha) dance production elsewhere, he stands out. as usual 'dated' is a given (see also 'Rocker' as Lex says). but i'm not bored of the 'Heartbeats' remix because i haven't heard it much lately (but then i'm not bored of the original mix either - song of the decade!).

MFA and Fake would be up there too re Brit producers of course. if there's a point where Rex's style correlates a little with MFA's maybe it's that 'ravey' aspect of 'Rinse Time'. But I think Rex could do something more like 'Mandarin Girl' and would LOVE to hear that.

Is Pete Heller still making tunes? After that thread where Ronan went mad for Mayer playing 'Sputnik' he could do v well!

And again I wonder where Medicine 8 are (for that true RETRO 2002 techpophaus sound). Maybe I should google them right now and find out.

I dispute you need to particularly dense or multilayered to be textually interesting though.

Then don't bring it up at all - it's made you look like a backpedaller. No one actually said anything for you to dispute on this point anyway, tho' I find multilayering does so much for me - to stay on topic, Rex gets so much out of the Mylo mix by using so many passages and a palette of sounds that repeat listening is guaranteed simply because he doesn't bash most of the ideas into the ground in the first 2 minutes and repeat them for the next 5.

I personally feel the handful of sounds approach can only be done right by a select few. Rex's Prodigy remix does it well. The Micronauts were pretty good at it. Cagedbaby's (second) Van Helden remix is also a good example and I'd be remiss if I didn't compliment the early Get Physical releases for doing this excellently, but I'd be hard pressed to say it's any better than multilayering because so the returns are too inconsistent. I think Stevem's mindset appears similar to mine in this regard.

Ewan & Al are pretty high in my top producers list even though they get together about once a year and are Scottish. Probably a little too black-sounding for the current electro scene too ;-).

I quite like the Rex the Dog remix of Royksopp but I don't think he's a very good producer really, I liked the original well enough that I think the vocal is a fairly key component in it anyway.

Also there are tons of maximalist producers that are far more prolific and at this point probably more popular than Rex the Dog, whatever your opinion of them, the point being "minimal" dominance is not utterly outright, even if the lines between minimal and electrohouse are a little blurry occasionally; Huntemann, John Dahlback, Tomas Andersson, Tekel, Black Strobe, Lutzenkirchen, Boys Noize, the MFA (definitely not minimal, unless minimal is being used to mean "dance music I don't like", as is so often the case) Duoteque, Linus Loves, Williams, Tiga.

For the record I think pretty much every single one of the above is better than Jake Williams whose brief stint in the sun is pretty much over even if the Royksopp mix gives him a tiny shot in the arm..... and I don't even like John Dahlback!

I wasn't referring to solo Pearson, but I guess I should stop referring to Carl Cox as Ewan Pearson from now on...

Suck on this Rex fans (and Jacques fans), about as good as pop electrohouse gets I think....

http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?
id=1VER2N1GF42Y322VD91Q2JY7NY

in this list only MFA are British right? i'm still amazed that they ARE British!

i can't actually fault Rex as a producer, other than understandably prone to formula (like so many inc. JLC) and not really fitting in with the continental trend(s), in that there are things about that i would love to see co-opted with whatever passes for a British take on electrohouse if that's even workable as a concept.

Ronan why are you being so anti-Pearson anyway? Only six months ago you were saying he buys all the same records as you!

I was going to put together some sort of rambling thesis about being more into that hinterland where electrohouse and minimal house meet these days - Eulberg, Gabriel Ananda and friends, rather than the full-on pop electrohouse. But then that track Ronan linked to PWNED MY ENTIRE WORLD and made me realise I was wrong.

Also on a completely unrelated tangent I think a lot of people are put off unnecessarily by the term 'minimal'. So much plip-plop isn't actually minimal in the slightest - something like Swat Squad's Monsterism is actually really complex and involving. And don't even get me started on the awesomeness of Ihre Personliche Glucksmelodie.

(Who are these bands from Japan you keep talking about anyway? And why do I get the feeling this might be a slightly different proposition here?)

i'm still intrigued by the fascination with minimal-complex now. when i say minimal these days i mean minimal-complex usually - this was basically the definition of microhouse anyway (Brits didn't seem to want to make that either), although a lot of what i heard really just seems sparse and monotonous without progressing much. that was what put me off, as i went in the other direction really (pop?).

Although it's probably unfair to pick on Herbert cos there's a litany of British producers who have the same stifled rubbish attitude, check any Freaks interview from when people actually cared about them, laden down with snobbery and attempts to stake a claim to whatever heritage is never theirs anyway. I guess these guys have a complex cos they'll never be from Berlin or Chicago or Detroit but still, it's a very real phenomenon, the snobby British producer/DJ!

still it's the vocals that really put me off. i haven't heard the original royksopp tune but i have a feeling it's awful.

The only snobbish thing he's said that I can remember is a complaint about Tiefschwarz-alike tracks and, well, he had a point there!

Maybe you don't really get this - it's never going to be pop in the way Rex The Dog or JLC are. And maybe it is monotonous, but isn't dance music *all about* throwing yourself into the monotony and waiting for the WOAH moment to smack you sideways?

But often, in order to like it/get it, I have to hear it as a current equivalent to old dance tracks that WERE pop and even hits. Hence 'Mandarin Girl' becomes like an '05 'Pacific State', or 'Gazebo' or 'I Feel Space' an '06 'Energy Flash' or 'Amphetamine' because of that sinister aspect (but minus techno hardness, and obv. empthasis on 'texture' rather than just 'mad sounds' - which does seem like the only step forward). Maybe it's not a good comparison and perhaps tired to even mention age-old anthems, but they do seem to have that same spirit about them, just approaching it in a different way, because they HAVE to surely. It's been a while since you can impress people by sound alone (think dance ran with this as long as it could which was a pretty long time it turned out), in recent years it must be more about what's done with the sounds.

So Rex won't impress so much because the production lacks this 'sophistication' comparatively, but it's still damn fine entertainment. Argument reminds me a little of 'artcore vs junglism' or whatever - when DnB got more jazzy, melodic and sophisticated and you could still dance to it and it would often still awe you but others complained it had lost something or other too. Not that electrohouse is 'coffee-table' of course (not that I've ever had a big problem with that anyway), but I do get that feeling with some tracks - and this is crossing into the 'Gazebo' threads more now, as that's a track that to me seems both 'coffee-table' and clubby (but so were numerous late 90s DnB tracks, and also other genre tracks from this decade that I love that are big on melodic/textural richness albeit older e.g. Duplex 'Late Night Cycling').

Things have certainly developed anyway, and continue to. And that's good.

I've usually preferred the original Royksopp (second album) tracks to their remixes (that I've heard).

I will always make allowances for different intepretations in these instances because I will always come across as an obscurist in these cases, but I think it's a bit of a pre-emptive move on your part to imply Tokyo will have little in common with the UK or Germany. Sure, a band like The Aprils sing over their records (which I know you haven't heard, but Steve has) but that doesn't stop us liking or playing out 'It's Magic' or 'So Good' in electro sets. And electro house in general has absorbed so much from rave, techno, ambient, trance, electrofunk etc (I mean, that's practically Rex's entire oeuvre right there) that I can't say the dancier crews in the elepop are in opposition to electrohouse Europe at all.

Tho' at the end of the day, I doubt either of us gives a damn about what the other likes - this just seems to be more about what we believe (ie. I think your monotony advocacy is both narrow and partially incorrect).

I think a bigger problem is that you expect people to interchange lo fi indie bands with techno.

So, when's this ignore user feature kicking in anyway?

Let's put it this way: I have never referred to The Rapture or Radio 4 or dancepunk acts as electro house and when I talk about not giving a damn what Matt likes, it goes for you and everyone else, including Steve and Alex, but the overriding theme there is that I therefore do not force "expectations" on people at all.

So, get over yourself.

i always think the best video game house is all areal stuff, they do it beeter than those gameboy-core people (i have no idea who that is, is it bodenstandig 2000!!?!?!?!)

I don't really see why we're talking about pop bands from Japan when what I'm arguing is that I don't think the new Rex The Dog stuff is very good, production-wise, compared to other electrohouse producers. Your personal taste or "forcing expectations on other people" (whatever that means) don't come into it.

2) 'Twinkle Of The Stars', which was the song I was really referring to in terms of the video game electrodance canon is sampled on the site and I will stand by that. The reference also came about because I felt the USP of the Linus Loves remix was evidently done better elsewhere. I mentioned Max Tundra in this regard also, but naturally, you've ignored that because this wouldn't jibe with your belief that I'm the black Momus or whatever.

The other, better examples of The Aprils doing electro such as 'Stro-B' and 'Pocketship' aren't, so I suggest you find those yourself. I completely fail to see how you can't find anything electro or housey about at least half of Astro, but then again, YOU'VE NEVER HEARD THE COMPLETE SONGS, have you?

3) what I'm arguing is that I don't think the new Rex The Dog stuff is very good, production-wise, compared to other electrohouse producers. Your personal taste or "forcing expectations on other people" (whatever that means) don't come into it.

Ah, where to begin?

a) Spot the hypocrisy - a guy arguing a personal opinion born out of personal taste telling another person not bring his own opinions (born out of his own personal tastes) into it.

b) Yes, you have your argument, but I think we established a while ago that aside from generally not being agreed with, people are more interseted than speaking about the scene at large than wasting time on quibbling. I don't care what you think of Rex, end of, and the last thing I actually spoke to you about was actually about you dropping self-contradicting nonsense into your posts.

c) "We" are not talking about Japanese pop bands. I mad some off-hand comments about production and you're assisting in devolving the thread into a strawman circus.

d) RE: expectations - either you have reading comprehension issues or you didn't actually read that quote-and-response.

e) At least recognise that when I'm talking to Ronan (as enjoyable as that is), I'm talking to Ronan. I'm not interested in your attempts to pull yourself into every conversation.

Also, last time I looked we were involved in a conversation involving several people (all of whom, yourself included, happen to be my friends) on a public message board. To suddenly go "I'm not talking to you anyway" is childish and frankly fucking rude. You weren't exactly being all sweetness and light to Ronan either.

(xpost - seriously, turn off the computer, do something else and calm down)

If you'd bet money I've been thinking the exact same thing about you, you'd be slightly richer right now.

Also, last time I looked we were involved in a conversation involving several people (all of whom, yourself included, happen to be my friends) on a public message board. To suddenly go "I'm not talking to you anyway" is childish and frankly fucking rude. You weren't exactly being all sweetness and light to Ronan either.

Well, gosh, Matt, public or not, for you to respond to a post of mine that was specifically in response to an accusation from someone else entirely and therefore specifically not aimed at you...I can't possibly imagine what isn't unnecessary about me chastising you for it.

Ronan and I haven't exchanged words for the better part of about 8 months, which I've honestly been glad about. It was born out of the fact that when I got burnt on electrohouse last year, Ronan's idea of encouraging me to continue caring was posting "I think you're wrong" ad nauseum and pulling the same kind of tricks he's been doing here ("Barima hates all electrohouse/tries to substitute it with different things entirely" **. That he actually went to the lengths of attacking me for (politely) turning down Toby's invitation to Fabric one time told me all I needed to know about how much I should interact with him in the future. I actually had to justify that to Toby in person simply because of Ronan's snarkiness), albeit with more condescension back then. The online disagreements in the past between you and myself or Alex and I have NEVER dictated our ILX interactions henceforth, but there will always be that one person hellbent on being an exception. So really, I can go without responding to him again and should be able to continue on this thread/ILX while keeping that up.

(xpost - seriously, turn off the computer, do something else and calm down)

Matt, pulling the "softly, softly" approach in an argument (and you used the term first) is an uber cop-out. You don't want to set off my bullshit detector? Fine. Agree to disagree and move on but don't dare presume you're any less pissed off than I supposedly am or that you'll automatically look better in an argument by talking about our (online) personalities instead of our opinions. Do you really think this will harm our real life friendship or something (yes, Steve, I know you're kidding about a murder in the DJ booth)? I certainly don't.

**g) So I listened to 'My Friend Dario' and 'Frequency' back to back and I can't understand why the former should have more in common with the latter than it does with 'I Like The Way You Move'.

You should have seen Steve and I at Clique though. When I wanted play Gregorian monks chanting over folk-gabba-theatre hall instead of Mel & Kim and Black Strobe, things got...ugly.

x-p I don't think Ed will be getting them back any time soon. Steve is rather handy with a Zippo lighter and a spray deodorant.

(no "that's Rex The Dog alright" zing please)

I guess it's a comfortable halfway-house, but even so much as an inch closer to fucking Bodyrockers would be one too far.

ada and basteroid in particulat remind me of video game techno done better, more funky, and more deranged than anyone else

(btw, any of you aussies gonna apply for in-melbourne-this-year R3D B\/LL MUSIC ACAD3MY?)

With the possible exception of Drop The Pressure and the Depeche Mode dub, every Rex The Dog remix is the same, isn't it? He's either deliberately seeing how far he make the same small collection of sounds go, or he's just lazy.

agree that Rex is on auto-pilot here though. difficult to see what else he could've done with it but def. need to try something new.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jgDq6jvHUGk

June 27th 2006

NEW TUNE!

We made a new tune and we tried it out for the first time this weekend in Macedonia. Here is a movie clip, there was one special guy who seemed to be satisfied, he comes in about 2/3 of the way. Special thanks to this guy!

Has there been any discussion of the "Circulate" single? It's pretty great. More Italo-y/John-Carpenter-Soundtrack-y than past stuff I think. Reminds me of that "Testarossa Autodrive" song by Kavinsky.

I don’t think you could get more Italo sounding. I dig it from a style perspective and like most Rex tracks its a true centerpiece track for club play but it really doesn’t go anywhere new.

The flip, Italian Blonde is interesting. It sounds as if it could’ve been released on a スーパー ユーロビート compilation, which I’m into. Certainly not for everyone though.

Oops. Super Eurobeat compilation.

Rex The Dog will release his debut album on Hundehaus on September 1, 2008.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=9480
Rex The Dog will release The Rex The Dog Show on September 1, 2008 on Hundehaus.

this doggie done good...

listen to tracks:
http://www.myspace.com/rexthedog1980

Seven pre-released tracks including two ancient remixes = LAME.

Maybe it was uplinked here, but here's Rex The Dog presenting a hilarious puppet show playing the rejected Rex The Dog remix of Goldfrapp's "Happiness"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hEEd5N91hw

xp ancient is right.... we've been waiting for this for what 5 years????

He told me in early 2006 that he was planning on working on an album next.

and I think there were only two singles out then? this thread's not even four years old, let alone five.

'prototype' came out start of '04

Sorry, eight pre-released tracks, I didn't notice Prototype on there. This will be fine for the majority of people who won't have heard RTD before, but if it's coming out on Hundehaus how many of those will there actually be?

I can't work out how this possibly took so long. Maybe he's just a painfully slow worker, or he ran out of ideas, or he couldn't find anyone to release it over the last two or three years, or a combination of all three.

the new tracks would seem to indicate "ran out of ideas"

lol, surely he only had 1 idea in the first place. and it was a good idea! just not a whole-album idea.

it took years for Alan Braxe & Fred Falke to release an album too and when they did it didn't even have a bunch of new tracks on it.

lol, surely he only had 1 idea in the first place. and it was a good idea! just not a whole-album idea.

it was a two-fold idea: I was disappointed when he said "album," cos I thought "no! go on releasing enormous squelchy analogue bangers b/w beautiful sad upbeat dance songs about death FOREVER"

greatest hits approach is a perfectly sensible way to go (and Italian Skyline always sounded like an album track), he just should have held back the two remixes for a remix comp in the future

He's always worked at a pace of one single a year hasn't he*? an album three or two years ago might just have had lame half-arsed filler, whereas this might have good filler.

*nb check the video for Close To My Heart - at one point he's in a prison/mental hospital cell watching some of his own animations on telly, proto-Rex!

http://images.zip.ca/zip/en-CA/zip_redesign_v3.0/misc/recommendations/rex_whois2.jpg

8 minute album megamix available to mailing list subscribers and the radio megamix is online again.
given that i have come late to this party, the album has jumped straight to the top of my looking forward to list.

so who IS rex the dog anyway?

His "press releases" are hilarious.

haha, could be JX!
-- teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 11:45 (3 years ago) Link

Funny

1988 "minimix" on his website is pretty cool

i don't really understand who's zoomin' who here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JX_(artist)

Alright just realized all this has been discussed here 3 years ago. Please ignore me

i want that Goldfrapp remix

All of a sudden in the record racks I see a Rex the Dog album.

Surprised that no one here has been all over it but simultaneously not surprised.

Is it any good then?

there is little new on it, and what's old is cut down radio edits, so not much chat about it.

ace all the same

I might get it then on a "nice to have it all in one place" basis.

^^

That's its purpose for sure, although I do like the new tracks.

nah it's just pointless and feels 4 years overdue. the radio edits all feel as though they end too soon, and the best of the new tracks (all, like, three of them?) is 'adequate'. get the full-length originals off beatport or somewhere, though i guess anyone familiar with rex the dog in the first place would already have them.

I like how he's kept up the anonymous thing. I expect a k-punk coverstory in The Wire on how radical and subversive RtD and Burial are.

b-but, didn't Burial out himself?

LEAVE BURIAL ALONE

http://media1.clipaday.com/embed/m_videos/thumbs/britney_alone_88u3.jpg

His remix of Triangle Walls by Fever Ray is probably the best thing he's done since his 2004 heyday. He still only has one trick but that trick feels... relevant again?

bubblicious is up there with his best

copped this record. 'i look into mid air' still sounds sooo good

I was listening to his recentish Ministry Of Sound mix on my phone after the pub on Friday night, had to step back from the bus stop because my dancing was unnerving other waiting passengers

I Look Into Mid-Air has a magic that none of his other material quite matches.

JX

I Look Into Mid Air is still amazing.

new single in April

The A-side goes DUG DUDA DUG DADA DUGaaa and WHOOOooH
The B-side goes NANANANANANANANANANANANANANA...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEh9pN9bHkI

Those vocals are... not good.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1436

According to the sidebar toward the end of the article, Rex the Dog was reading this thread

Recently tracked down the 12" mixes of the older tracks... they are SO much better. Not that the album isn't a good listen and introduction to the music, but I'm probably never going to listen to it again.

There's a new EP out next month on Kompakt: http://www.kompakt.fm/blog/wZPyEmQgyk8T

Played on beatsinspace last night.