WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

If you'd bet money I've been thinking the exact same thing about you, you'd be slightly richer right now.

Also, last time I looked we were involved in a conversation involving several people (all of whom, yourself included, happen to be my friends) on a public message board. To suddenly go "I'm not talking to you anyway" is childish and frankly fucking rude. You weren't exactly being all sweetness and light to Ronan either.

Well, gosh, Matt, public or not, for you to respond to a post of mine that was specifically in response to an accusation from someone else entirely and therefore specifically not aimed at you...I can't possibly imagine what isn't unnecessary about me chastising you for it.

Ronan and I haven't exchanged words for the better part of about 8 months, which I've honestly been glad about. It was born out of the fact that when I got burnt on electrohouse last year, Ronan's idea of encouraging me to continue caring was posting "I think you're wrong" ad nauseum and pulling the same kind of tricks he's been doing here ("Barima hates all electrohouse/tries to substitute it with different things entirely" **. That he actually went to the lengths of attacking me for (politely) turning down Toby's invitation to Fabric one time told me all I needed to know about how much I should interact with him in the future. I actually had to justify that to Toby in person simply because of Ronan's snarkiness), albeit with more condescension back then. The online disagreements in the past between you and myself or Alex and I have NEVER dictated our ILX interactions henceforth, but there will always be that one person hellbent on being an exception. So really, I can go without responding to him again and should be able to continue on this thread/ILX while keeping that up.

(xpost - seriously, turn off the computer, do something else and calm down)

Matt, pulling the "softly, softly" approach in an argument (and you used the term first) is an uber cop-out. You don't want to set off my bullshit detector? Fine. Agree to disagree and move on but don't dare presume you're any less pissed off than I supposedly am or that you'll automatically look better in an argument by talking about our (online) personalities instead of our opinions. Do you really think this will harm our real life friendship or something (yes, Steve, I know you're kidding about a murder in the DJ booth)? I certainly don't.

**g) So I listened to 'My Friend Dario' and 'Frequency' back to back and I can't understand why the former should have more in common with the latter than it does with 'I Like The Way You Move'.

You should have seen Steve and I at Clique though. When I wanted play Gregorian monks chanting over folk-gabba-theatre hall instead of Mel & Kim and Black Strobe, things got...ugly.

x-p I don't think Ed will be getting them back any time soon. Steve is rather handy with a Zippo lighter and a spray deodorant.

(no "that's Rex The Dog alright" zing please)

I guess it's a comfortable halfway-house, but even so much as an inch closer to fucking Bodyrockers would be one too far.

ada and basteroid in particulat remind me of video game techno done better, more funky, and more deranged than anyone else

(btw, any of you aussies gonna apply for in-melbourne-this-year R3D B\/LL MUSIC ACAD3MY?)

With the possible exception of Drop The Pressure and the Depeche Mode dub, every Rex The Dog remix is the same, isn't it? He's either deliberately seeing how far he make the same small collection of sounds go, or he's just lazy.

agree that Rex is on auto-pilot here though. difficult to see what else he could've done with it but def. need to try something new.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jgDq6jvHUGk

June 27th 2006

NEW TUNE!

We made a new tune and we tried it out for the first time this weekend in Macedonia. Here is a movie clip, there was one special guy who seemed to be satisfied, he comes in about 2/3 of the way. Special thanks to this guy!

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