WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

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.

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.