Just been knocked out by Rex the Dog

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Not literally of course - although it might make a nice basis for one of his little cartoons. No, while I may be, ooh, several light years behind the curve, I've just heard 'Frequency' and its B-side, and was absolutely floored by it. Haven't heard anything this good since 'Timecode' (and I'm up to date on most of the Get Physical releases from 2005).

So, what other electro-housey records will produce the same rush? (and I've looked through the electro-bobbins threads, but am presuming that those cover a much wider spectrum of sounds). Looking for euphoric tunes with that on-E-without-having-dropped-a-pill feeling....

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I also dug "I look into mid air" very much. For me it was somewhat reminiscent of the mighty Pet Shop Boys, especially their track "Flamboyant".

― Herr Fahrstuhl, Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

have you heard the Rex the Dog remix of "heartbeats"?

― Jack L., Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Apart from the various Rex the Dog remixes of other people, stuff that strikes me as being in a generally similar vein to Rex the Dog:

1) Ada's "Lovelace" (monster monster MONSTER tune!) and "The Red Shoes"

2) Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Richard X Remix)

3) More generally, most Ewan Pearson remixes of the last three years or so (before we knew who Rex the Dog was a lot of people thought he was a Pearson pseudonym).

The above tend to sound more like "Prototype" than "Frequency", which is rave-rushy in a way that the electro-house rarely attempts without going ultra-dark (see Black Strobe's "The Abwehr Disco" for an "already done a bad pill" feeling).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Thnaks for the replies - just been listening to 'Frequency' again, and it's just SO rushy.... merely imagining this being played in a club around 5am brings me out in goose-pimples....THIS is what I listen to 'dance' music for...

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

If you want to hear it mixed, it's on the "Hot Pepper" mix here - http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~sakoivik/mixtapes.html

1. Dominik Eulberg: "Die Rotbauchunken vom Tegernsee" Traum
2. Beeze & Schmitz: "Meander" Liebe*Detail
3. Osborne: "Graphite" Spectral Sound
4. Marc Houle: "Borrowed Gear" Minus
5. Mathew Jonson: "Magic Through Music" Itiswhatitis
6. Luciano & Serafin: "Yaki Soba" Telegraph
7. Noon(at: "Maggot" Treibstoff
8. Sten: "Stalker" Sender
9. Meteo/Thiel: "Moonoverdada" (Peter Grummich Remix) Meteosound
10. Pan/tone: "Smoke Signals" Sender
11. Televerket: "Pretty Girls" Italic
12. Tomas Andersson: "Happy Happy" BPitch Control
13. Rex The Dog: "Frequency" Kompakt
14. Metope: "Libertango" Areal

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:32 (twenty years ago)

I still don't know who the Rexmeister is. FILL ME IN?

― cs, Sunday, 8 January 2006 10:38 (twenty years ago)

It's jx.

― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 8 January 2006 10:44 (twenty years ago)

The Rex dub mix of "Photographic" by Depeche Mode is also quite a rush.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 9 January 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

I really like the 'E-Talking' remix, it sounds like "Rex on Autopilot"® but distills all his qualities.

The remix of Mylo is also pretty good for doing something different with a massively overplayed tune.

Check out the Rex threads here for more tips:

WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)
Mylo Drop The Pressure (Rex the dog remix)

And, finally, while I was in an obsessive Rex The Dog phase a while back, I came up with this tune:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/balaam/Sum0fAPitch/choons/Sum0faPitch-TakeYourSleep.mp3

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)

'Frequency' goes v well before/after/alongside Richard X 'You'd Better Let Me Love You'

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

wow the same thing that happened to the original poster happened to me after hearing that sami koivikko mix. why the hell did i sleep on it when i came out! those tom-rolls! :O

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

For some reason I thought you were talking about Dr. Dog and was very confused about when they'd gone in an electro-house direction. Actually, I think "horrified" is more the word.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

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