has anyone got the RICHARD X album?

bold claim !

if you're on slsk, msg frenchbloke and i can tell you where to find it tho

the ironing...etc.

it also, chucklesomely has a virgin sticker that says
strictly NOT for sale.

heh heh.

'richard x promo x factor for you
cover image to include ravishing model (drunk)
glamorous make up (smudged)
revealing dress (soiled)
succulent kebab
streaming timelapse traffic...'

and copy protected*

I do hope Rich does less dancehall remixes however 'cause it's not for him-his Tiga one is funky and brilliant and not at all dancehally.

Richard X - Start
Richard X - Being Nobody Vs Liberty X
Richard X - Rock Jacket
Richard X - You Sed To (Feat. Javine)
Richard X - Tx
Richard X - Just Friends (Feat. Annie)
Richard X - Lonely (Feat. Caron Wheeler)
Richard X - Walk On By (in Collaboration With Deborah Evans Stickland)
Richard X - Lemon-Lime (In Collaboration With Deborah Evans Stickland)
Richard X - Finest Dreams (Feat. Kelis)
Richard X - Mark One (Feat. Mark Goodier)
Richard X - Freak Like (Feat. Sugababes)
Richard X - You (Better Let Me Love You Times 4) Tonight (Feat. Tiga)
Richard X - Into You (Feat. Jarvis)
Richard X - End

i wish Rich X had been able to get Grace Jones on this thing

let's play spot the samples on the rest:
'p machinery' is on there, as is 'obsession' by animotion somewhere,
there's a bit of a petshopboys influence running thru
(hear those west end girls style stilletoes on pavenment
sound effects) used to and just friends are ace !

It also samples Human League's "The things that dreams are made of".

My fave songs are Walk on by, Lemon lime, freak like me (a bit old isn´t it....)
and i liked the Annie track aswell.

The jarvis/mazzy star song wasn´t very good...

As a nice juxtaposition, while I was listening to it in Tower, the shop stereo was playing an 80s synth-pop complilation, featuring, of course, 'Are Friends Electric', 'Being Boiled', Heaven 17, the Flying Lizards ad infinitum.

I even like the Jarvis one even if it is a tad incongruous on there.

"I probably love 'Being Nobody' more than anyone on ILX"

That's what you think.

The more I listen to this album the more I think that every second oozes genius and invention and sparkling newness, the whole sum-of-parts thing becomes almost irrelevant because this actually sounds like much more than its component bits which I hoped but did not expect at all.

*cries, then realises something*

I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I've said this on another thread, but that little Jessica chuckle at the start of the Liberty X one is the sexiest thing ever. And I don't even know what Jessica looks like.

Also, Alex in Doncaster is OTM. There hasn't been sample blending in pop of this skill since the Dust Brothers and Fantasma, and it's quite plain to see that Richard does have love for his sounds and work, rather than being into any of the 'soulless, smirking, ironic fascination/amusement' people tend to project/presume etc into such records.

The Tiga one is like getting trapped in the best and most camp straight/gay/bi/whatever disco in the world and making you love it. It's like the chorus of 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger' (the 'work it, do it, power' etc) has come to full fruition and we're reaping the benefits like no tomorrow. The spoken part is only more killer (who said "I'm the kind of girl who always gets what she wants"?). Richard's Gareth Gatex (erroneously and amusingly/appropriately referred to as 'Gaytex' in a recent review) 'Hot In Herre' rmx makes a wicked counterpart to this, as well as kicking the 'original's' ass in the process.

The album also inspires a sense of epicness (for me) that the new UNKLE fails to achieve. I feel humbled in the face of Rich's skills. There's something about artists overhauling their childhood memories and music that usually never fails to be classic (cf. aforementioned albums and the new s/titled one by Pleasure).

And David, bring it :-).

heh, it is better than burning down but mainly cos it's gone all out for the peaktime thing rather than being kind of quirky.

Sean Paul - Get Busy
Martini Bros - Boy/Girl
Jammer & Kano - Boys Luv Girls/Vice Versa
Sizzla - Love & Affection
Basement Jaxx - Lucky Star
Wiley ft. Harry Toddler - Donkey Kick (Eskimo Vocal Mix)
Bounty Killer - Hot Like Fire
Ludacris - Stand Up
Beyonce - Crazy in Love
Danny Weed & Target ft. Wiley, J2K etc. - Pick Yourself Up
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
Vybz Kartel - Sweet to da Belly
The Rapture - I Need Your Love (was it actually released?)
Mis-Teeq - Scandalous
Sean Paul - Close To Me
Oxtongue - Delight
Elephant Man - Fuck U Sign
R Kelly - Snake
M. Mayer/R. Voigt - Unter Null
Wayne Wonder - No Letting Go
Donae'o MC & Mr Fidgit - Bounce
Panjabi MC ft. Jay-Z - Beware of the Boys (and "Stop" too! Was it released?)
Kanye West - Through the Wire
Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
Sharkie Major - Ain't A Game
Audio Bullys - The Snow
T. Raumschmiere - Monstertruckdriver
Beenie Man & Ms Thing - Dude
Girls Aloud - No Good Advice

Rumour has it 'You Used To' (b/w 'Into U') will be the next single, as common sense has dictated!

And check the NME's Big Book sometime - there's some excellent shit in there from Richard, including some priceless TOTP info, and they even picked him as their 2nd Best Producer of the year, right behind Pharrell (obv), which annoyed me because they didn't rate the album much, just like a fair chunk of the British record buying public (grumble mutter).

Many thanks!

You're a scholar and a gentleman.

Thanks!

Upthread, ya doofus.

http://www.tellerecords.com/resources/artists/annie_sml.jpg

PS: http://www.tellerecords.com/resources/releases/TELLE005.jpg

PPPS: Has anyone heard Richard's new Rachel Stevens-sung single 'Some Girls' (out next month)? The Popjustice review was so hot for me. Or maybe Rachel's hot for me. Or I'm hot for the song. I don't have a fanny though.

Fuck, man, it's like there's nothing RX can't do! The mashups, the album, the remixes (Tiga, TLC, Louie Austen, haven't heard the Prince Po but really want to), the videos, the amusing promo, the sheer crazy insanity classiqueness when I asked one of the Nag Nag Nag DJs to play 'You Better Let Me Love You' - AND HE DID at +8 and all the gay bodypoppers at Heaven completely lost their shit and mashed up the floor. Well, OK, 'You Used To' didn't get fully released, but nobody's perfect.

Annie's signed to 679? Excellent. Loaded don't really do albums - closest is this Jockey Slut mix they did. 'The Greatest Dub' is the final track - 7 minutes of madness.

2003/2004 feels like the time when female-fronted electro-pop finally starts to live up to its own potential as the post-R&B pop-form of choice in the UK. And the secret was obviously (a la "The Greatest Hit" - who was it who said this was how Madonna's last few records should have sounded) getting a bit silly and irreverent and unashamedly pop. See Girls Aloud's "The Game", Sugababes' "Whatever Makes You Happy", even Britney's "Toxic" sorta.

Can't wait to hear more Annie stuff.

He also once claimed to be behind a major garage pop single back in the good ol' garage-as-chart-pop days.

The sales were a joke - a no.1, a no.3 and a no. 8 in the singles charts over a year and the thing was underpromoted to fuck, perhaps because Virgin didn't think the kids would take to the Annie and Jarvis tracks.

X-Factro totally deserves to make more shortlists, it's overlooked in many Junior Boys reviews/modern albums that continue the synthpop lineage picks.

it's called Richard X - xfm the remix superchunk.mp3

After all Mr X has added his shine to lots of excellent bits and bobs in recent months .. surely these must be collected together to make up a proper album ?

please.

Rachel Stevens - Some Girls + track off her new album
MIA - Ten dollar + Amazon
Annie - Chewing Gum + Me plus One
Prince Po - Hold Dat
Tiga - Burning Down
Bertine Zetlitz - Girl Like You + So Beautiful

So at least 10 tracks available already

Freeform Five - No More Conversations (remix)
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (remix)

still stands up. I WANT VOLUME 2!

I've just downloaded a GEM of an mp3...it's a mix Richard X did for XFM, half an hour long, soooo good...some of his stuff, m83, etc...very very nice
it's called Richard X - xfm the remix superchunk.mp3

has anyone got this, or know the tracklisting?

also this:

Mary vs Liquitex - '73 Club' split 7". RX does the Mary side, which was from his aborted pre-fame concept record

what is this like?

rx should have become massive, he made the most perfect pop. i know he's been working with a few manchester bands, producing and writing songs with them, is that his main thing these days?

(not specifically manchester bands, i mean producing bands in general)

Can we have a moratorium on "perfect pop" as a meme please.

When I hear something described as 'perfect pop' I assume it sounds like the Lightning Seeds and will therefore avoid it on principle.

sorry guys, can i get that changed to 'very very good pop' instead

(...)

well this has had me rummaging around for my old copy of the album promo.
some great stories from 'back in the day'. TEN YEARS!

http://idolator.com/7479732/richard-x-presents-his-x-factor-vol-1-turns-10-backtracking

cool piece. i broke this album out about a couple months ago and i still love it. i must've listened to the mazzy star x jarvis song so much that the original sounds like it's missing something

Enjoyed that a lot.

seriously richard.

time for volume 2.