WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

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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)

I like the Prodigy mix, by the way. It keeps all the good bits of the original and removes the parts that didn't work so well. The beats, principally - Girls sounds so much better with a big 4/4 electro beat behind it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Just buy it, you cheapskate, Matt. It's first week release cheap.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha! I didn't even know it was out.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi. I'm being quite slow I think, but this mis-labelling thing has confused me. Just to be clear:

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!

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete both "Prototype" and "Frequency" have evil helicopter bass (or at least both could - the description kinda potentially fits both) but they're different tunes.

"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.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

truly he is the new Vitalic!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just thinking that steve!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ah thanks Tim I think I've sorted it out now - yr notation is v.accurate :) Prototype was the one played at Glastonbury. It's all good.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

So Prototype the one that starts off with a 4/4 kick drum, with bwaaarp noises and Kraftwerk 'Robots' bass before this big French house type melody comes in. It almost sounds like it could've been on Surrender by the Chems. I *think* Tim and I are talking about the same thing here.

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?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds right Matt.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah you're right Matt. OTM with the Surrender comparison - something about the playfulness of it all really reminds me of that album.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

hugh grant

― stomp (+dancefloor), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

This would never happen if Kompakt et al wouldn't be so ambiguous in labelling their vinyl. You always have to guess what is on each side, or look for the small etching in the middle.

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.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah the Kompakt mp3s are always mislabelled - "amabile" and "privat", "x" and "masterblaster", "mauglen" and "punto pilota" etc. It makes for some interesting reactions on first plays.

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

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Look Into Mid-Air" is the one with the vocal that goes "I look into mid-air".

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that sounds like something Moby would say

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

turns out my "frequency" is "mid air". i was mishearing the vocal hook as "i look into his eyes". and i'm still not 100% sure about my prototype. and now i'm worried that there's a bunch of michael mayer tracks that i thought i'd heard that i haven't.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

we should give track times or something in cases like these.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

We Live In Daddy's Car is the only weak link, IMO.

― My Dinner With Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam check out the remix of Client's "Radio", which is like a better version of same.

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.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

More evidence in support of JX: the chorus of "There's Nothing I Won't Do" fits perfectly over the top of his mix of "Heartbeats" - try it yourself.

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

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I played the Heartbeats mix last night, the club was full of office twats and they all danced.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

OH OH OH F***ING HELL THAT PRODIGY REMIX
(What's that 80s groove synth riff sampled from? I keep thinking of Vicky D "This Beat Is Mine"...?)

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

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard two fantastic Depeche Mode remixes this week - the Rex one and a Black Strobe mix of Something To Do, and they're both absolutely massive.

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.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I think 'We Live In Daddy's Car' is the better track on the 12. Protype is fine 'n' all - it reminds me of Commodore-64 god Rob Hubbard's "Sanxion" loading-theme and has a nice atmosphere, but the vocal glitchyness and super-flat 303esque bass give 'car' the greater momentum, plus it's a much better track for dancing to.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

On the Frequency/Mid Air confusion: the 12" is about as unambiguous as Kompakt vinyl gets. Not only is the title sampled all over ILIMA, the label on that side of the record is a picture of a dog looking into mid air!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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