Imagine someone, after having started his time machine, flies over the mountains and valleys of music history with bright sunlight and his dog snatching at everything that looks somehow interesting.
Rex the dog has had meteoric rise since the E.P Frequency arrived in 2004, some have suggested that his production sounds like a drunk daft punk – this may a little unfair but, without a doubt he is a man, a dog or machine, who is very much stuck in a 80’s time machine with his lovable dog Rex.
It is rumoured that Rex is an alias of Jake Williams who had a slew of top ten hits in Europe in the early ’90s. Others claim Rex is a German electro/techno producer. Others claim he is a super intelligent mutant dog.
Regardless of his exact identity, Rex the Dog is a reference to the Rex the Wonder Dog cartoon series that was created by DC Comics in the ’50s.
His recent back catalogue includes remixes for The Knife, Depeche Mode, Mylo, The Prodigy and Soulwax making wacky analogue stomping electro!
Rex has just released his first studio album ‘The Rex The Dog Show’ which has been released on his newly formed label Hundehaus.
This album has a lot of Rex’s earlier productions that were released on German techno label Kompakt; but it has been spiced up with a few new songs notably ‘Bubblicious’ and ‘I Can See You, Can You See Me?’
The album draws from many influences from the last 20 years ranging from Boy George, Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode.
This album is very much a throwback the late 80’s and early 90’s with Rex’s ability to create music that doesn’t take its self too seriously,
Rex has been a firm advocate of ‘Old School’ Synthesizers which has feature predominantly in a lot of his productions.
Rex said: “the Korg 700S, is our favourite synthesizer. It was built in 1974 (so was I…) and it is totally awesome. Every sound on the first Rex single and most of the sounds on the second single were made only with this keyboard.”
He tracked this synthesizer down with crazy determination because he heard it was used on Depeche Mode’s first album and also to make all the sounds on ‘Warm Leatherette’ by The Normal.
Rex the dog is on his Tour for his new album – Check out His Web Site at www.rexthedog.net
Here we have Rex’s latest remix and it’s a 80′s synth bad boy !
