WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

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Rex the Dog remix of "There's Nothing I Won't Do" stat!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 October 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually that would be really marvelous. And it could repeat that trick that Freeform Five use in their remix of Mylo's "Muscle Cars" - brief snippets of early house/hardcore classix! Actually what *is* that sample in the "Muscle Cars" remix? My mind is blanking.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 October 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rex the Dog dub of Depeche Mode's "Photographic" sounds great on first listen.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 October 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the new single on repeat, it's kind of face melting. I can only imagine what it will sound like in clubs.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It's massive. He's probably the most self-consciously anthemic producer working right now - hence the flashbacks to "Take Me With You".

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).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It's odd you mention Cosmos, it came up on my Ipod on Wednesday and I was really struck by it again. certainly the "Heartbeats" mix is very similar.

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!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

If it ever turns up on limewire I'll nab it. Have I thanked you enough for introducing me to "Freemind"?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, could be JX!
-- teh pow! (stevem7...), September 28th, 2004 1:45 PM. (blueski) (later) (link)

what do i win?

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

probably not, Tim, I prefer "Phantomas" myself though I have to say.

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

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

rex the who?

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

dog, see it says it in massive capital letters in the title and is mentioned many times in the 100 posts on this thread.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

why don't you just ask me?

― REX THE DOG, Friday, 1 October 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

are you really a dog? do you know pippin?

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"probably not, Tim, I prefer "Phantomas" myself though I have to say."

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"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I have only heard "Strangest Things" once or twice, knowingly, my friend bought it and played it over the shop system. I remember liking the MANDY mix but I am not sure about the other mixes. I'll try and get it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't want the original but the Freeform Reform Dub. The M.A.N.D.Y. mix is good too, but the FRD one is like the Tiefschwarz Mix of Spectrum meets "Prototype".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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!

More details, please!

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm on now as mr_lamouche, there's a "Get Physical Music" folder and pretty much anything else I could find by them.

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.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

pretty much anything I could find by them IS IN that folder, I meant to say.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

it was me all along. sorry dudes.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"WHO IS REX THE DOG?"

your childrens plastic surgeon you fucking ponce!

― layne stayley, Friday, 1 October 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

???

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 2 October 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan you should also track down Covenant's "Bullet (Le Dust Sucker Mix)"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

And do, do get that Freeform Five - Strangest Things (Freeform Reform Dub). Right now it's sounding like the most amazing thing ever, the grand summation of everything that's great about electro-house at the moment. It's got everything!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 October 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the original of "Bullet".

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.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 2 October 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Five Rex the Dogs in a row (and more goodness besides) (RealAudio), for whoever reads this and isn't under the spell yet.

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

Please do oh yes.

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 2 October 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It took hearing I Look Into The Air for the first time on the way to a friend's this afternoon to convince me that Rex The Dog is actually God.

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.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 3 October 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

It gave me the sort of instant YES!!!!!!! frantic head-nodding moment I haven't experienced since La Rock 01.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 3 October 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

check - the same thing happened to me on the motorway last night...

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 3 October 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 3 October 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a plea for "look into the air" host-age. stevem?

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt, it sounds like you are actually describing "Frequency". "I look into Mid Air" has vocals repeating the title over and over in it.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Both sides sounded fantastic when I listened to them at the record store last week. I think I'm gonna buy the 12" today even though I know I shouldn't.

"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?"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael - argh! Damn mislabelling, it really is like the Poney EP again. I Look Into The Air is the French sounding one with the vocoder, right? And Frequency is the face-melter.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 October 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

this is all a bit weird because there was a new JX single only 6 months or so ago and it was shite

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think its Williams*, if only because the JX remix is kinda different to everything else - somewhat flatter and more perfunctory.

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

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

to the best of my knowledge it's not ewan pearson and, really, i'm more likely than anyone else here to know if it was him.

― stelfox, Monday, 4 October 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

it's been established that it is Williams, as odd as it seems. so what do we do now?

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Daub graffiti on his walls?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

kill a lamb and offer it to him.

(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)

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm listening to the JX mix, now and OMG, it's JC Chasez without the guitar and shouty vocals!

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

PS, Ro, where's yer blog? Always forget.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

If not Daniel Miller... is Si Begg a possibility? Published/released by Mute, London-based (I think)...

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard D. James, obv.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 4 October 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

from the horse's mouth: not ewan pearson

― stelfox, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe Jake Williams?

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Prodigy remix (radio rip).

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow he's everywhere! This has been a very fast progression from Kompakt-sponsored obscurity to sudden ubiquity. I wonder if he'll grow too big for Kompakt.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Why oh why are there no good-quality MP3s of the Heartbeats remix yet? The one doing the rounds is frustratingly quiet.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

My 128 kbps version is pretty good on the volume.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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