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!
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 7 August 2006 07:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Goodman, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Oops. Super Eurobeat compilation.
― Mr. Goodman, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― djmartian, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Seven pre-released tracks including two ancient remixes = LAME.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 27 July 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 27 July 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
xp ancient is right.... we've been waiting for this for what 5 years????
― winston, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 03:40 (fifteen years ago) link
He told me in early 2006 that he was planning on working on an album next.
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
and I think there were only two singles out then? this thread's not even four years old, let alone five.
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
'prototype' came out start of '04
― haitch, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 05:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the new tracks would seem to indicate "ran out of ideas"
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 08:50 (fifteen years ago) link
lol, surely he only had 1 idea in the first place. and it was a good idea! just not a whole-album idea.
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 08:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― blueski, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.zip.ca/zip/en-CA/zip_redesign_v3.0/misc/recommendations/rex_whois2.jpg
― abanana, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
so who IS rex the dog anyway?
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
His "press releases" are hilarious.
― ana, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, could be JX! -- teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 11:45 (3 years ago) Link
Funny
― Allen, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
1988 "minimix" on his website is pretty cool
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't really understand who's zoomin' who here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JX_(artist)
― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Alright just realized all this has been discussed here 3 years ago. Please ignore me
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i want that Goldfrapp remix
― blueski, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 22 September 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 22 September 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I might get it then on a "nice to have it all in one place" basis.
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 22 September 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
^^
That's its purpose for sure, although I do like the new tracks.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 September 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― byebyepride, Monday, 22 September 2008 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
b-but, didn't Burial out himself?
― I know, right?, Monday, 22 September 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
LEAVE BURIAL ALONE
http://media1.clipaday.com/embed/m_videos/thumbs/britney_alone_88u3.jpg
― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Monday, 22 September 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Sunday, 23 August 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
bubblicious is up there with his best
― NI, Monday, 24 August 2009 09:39 (fourteen years ago) link
copped this record. 'i look into mid air' still sounds sooo good
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Monday, 26 April 2010 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Monday, 26 April 2010 08:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I Look Into Mid-Air has a magic that none of his other material quite matches.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 April 2010 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
JX
― Jack BS, Monday, 26 April 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I Look Into Mid Air is still amazing.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
new single in April
The A-side goes DUG DUDA DUG DADA DUGaaa and WHOOOooHThe B-side goes NANANANANANANANANANANANANANA...
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEh9pN9bHkI
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 30 March 2013 07:07 (eleven years ago) link
Those vocals are... not good.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 March 2013 09:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1436
According to the sidebar toward the end of the article, Rex the Dog was reading this thread
― I, rrational (mh), Monday, 15 April 2013 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― skip, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
There's a new EP out next month on Kompakt: http://www.kompakt.fm/blog/wZPyEmQgyk8T
Played on beatsinspace last night.
― plazzTT, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link