WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

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 :
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(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....

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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!