WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

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because on another messageboard some dude is trying to tell me that it's Dave Clarke, and that he knows for certain.

I am dubious. Could Dave Clarke ever do a remix like that "Heartbeats" one, that's not a quality thing either, I mean stylistically I can't imagine it.

Another dude on the same board thinks Liam Howlett! Has the world GONE MAD?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Crispian Mills

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Weller?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Rex The Dog is rumoured to be a very well known producer from London who has to remain nameless for now.

His e-mail address is [email protected] so why don't you mail and ask him (her?) yourself?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

RICHARD X

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

haha norman cook

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You can download the video here, by the way.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I just emailed and asked if he was Paul Weller.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Forthcoming remixes: The Knife, Prodigy, Depeche Mode.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Middleton the most plausible one so far still?

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Dubplatestyle: i'm sorry, i still think its ewan pearson
Ronan909: me too
Ronan909: i don't believe mayer
Ronan909: i think it'd be ideal for him too
Ronan909: he doesn't want to make his artist album as
Ronan909: "ewan pearson"
Dubplatestyle: yeah it sounds like he just got caught out needed to make an excuse
Ronan909: so create a new alias and get a buzz
Ronan909: it sounds far too like pearson not be be him

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't get the Pearson thing - 'Heartbeats' remix seems lot more hyper than everything else i've heard him rework (the only remix of his i really like is the Rapture one tho)

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm going to Resfest this weekend so maybe i will meet him!

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rex the Dog -- which is, according to M Mayer, not Ewan Pearson."

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the depeche mode remix is quite good. have people been talking about all the DM remixes somewhere on ilm?

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's Trevor Jackson. The Underdog, remember?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

no chance of it being Lu Cont i suppose

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

on the Blue Room on radio 1 after playing Heartbeats Rob Da Bank said it was, from memory some guy previously know for doing cheesy dance called i think jay e

― marc read, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, could be JX!

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

John Peel! Howard Stern! Rush Limbaugh!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

chewshabadoo otm

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought from day one it was ewan pearson but i'm not quite so sure now. whatever, it is deffo, deffo, deffo NOT dave clarke!

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.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Daniel Miller

(he did do that Kreisel 99 7" with Fehlmann)

― Chester Benetton (Andy K), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

...and "Rex" remixed DM's Photographic...

― Chester Benetton (Andy K), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

...and the new Client single...

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"shrouded in mysetery" in the new ubermarketing

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

*mystery*, even

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Google reveals that he is almost certainly english:

Domain name: REXTHEDOG.NET

Registrant:
Rex The Dog
c/o Get Online
Unit 12D
Adlington Park
Adlington, Cheshire SK10 4PZ
GB

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's Moby!

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

a) same management
b) Mute connection

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It's 'Roadblock' all over again - Pete Waterman proving he's cooler than all of you.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

REX THE DOG sounds like a Moby alias too
and it'd make sense since nobody listens to Moby or even take him seriously anymore

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

c) has remixed The Prodigy before
d) has a history of making up aliases

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

What do I win?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The Moby back catalog!!

lucky you

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Trevor Jackson is the best suggestion so far.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The press blurbs say Rex is from London. Factor in multiple Mute connections. It all points to Miller.

― Chester Benetton (Andy K), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

...and his record bag the past three years has been roughly 25% Kompakt and Kompakt-related.

― Chester Benetton (Andy K), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the Moby thing is closest, if not the answer
people who shroud an alias in mystery like this usually have something (cred) to lose if their real identity gets out
i mean seriously, what self respecting DJ would play a new moby 12" ?

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?

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Rex The Dog turning out to be Moby would make this all so hilariously worth it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think trevor jackson would go near the rex the dog cover artwork

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Röyksopp is also with DEF Management, and they're Scandinavian like The Knife. Possibly based in London as well.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not miller, it's......martin gore!

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i haven't heard rex the dog.

mark bell?

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard D. James!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I know we've got this rumour about the London thing but is it too obvious to suggest that Rex The Dog might be Felix Da Housecat?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Bono!

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

they said he was English, ruling out Moby, Felix, Ewan...not that any sane person would consider it to be any of them for even a second (ok, except Ewan)

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there not any logic in my reasoning?

― Chester Benetton (Andy K), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yes! but i don't know who he is for shame...big name enough?

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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i watched that video twice and i still have no idea what the song sounds like!

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 7 August 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

unless it sounds like that, and sucks

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 7 August 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

from http://www.rexthedog.net/news_2006.htm:

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 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder how hard this album will be hyped by the UK press?

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

Oops. Super Eurobeat compilation.

― Mr. Goodman, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

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 (seventeen years ago)

Seven pre-released tracks including two ancient remixes = LAME.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 27 July 2008 21:48 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

xp ancient is right.... we've been waiting for this for what 5 years????

― winston, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 03:40 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

'prototype' came out start of '04

― haitch, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 05:28 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

the new tracks would seem to indicate "ran out of ideas"

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 08:50 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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

― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:39 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

http://images.zip.ca/zip/en-CA/zip_redesign_v3.0/misc/recommendations/rex_whois2.jpg

― abanana, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 06:11 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

so who IS rex the dog anyway?

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

His "press releases" are hilarious.

― ana, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

1988 "minimix" on his website is pretty cool

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

i don't really understand who's zoomin' who here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JX_(artist)

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

Alright just realized all this has been discussed here 3 years ago. Please ignore me

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

i want that Goldfrapp remix

― blueski, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

I might get it then on a "nice to have it all in one place" basis.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 22 September 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)

That's its purpose for sure, although I do like the new tracks.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 September 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

b-but, didn't Burial out himself?

― I know, right?, Monday, 22 September 2008 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

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 (sixteen years ago)

bubblicious is up there with his best

― NI, Monday, 24 August 2009 09:39 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

copped this record. 'i look into mid air' still sounds sooo good

― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Monday, 26 April 2010 04:46 (sixteen years ago)

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 (sixteen years ago)

I Look Into Mid-Air has a magic that none of his other material quite matches.

― Matt DC, Monday, 26 April 2010 11:41 (sixteen years ago)

― Jack BS, Monday, 26 April 2010 12:00 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

I Look Into Mid Air is still amazing.

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 14:17 (thirteen years ago)

new single in April

The A-side goes DUG DUDA DUG DADA DUGaaa and WHOOOooH
The B-side goes NANANANANANANANANANANANANANA...

― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 10:45 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEh9pN9bHkI

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 30 March 2013 07:07 (thirteen years ago)

Those vocals are... not good.

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 March 2013 09:48 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

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 (eleven years ago)

four weeks pass...

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 (eleven years ago)

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