rex the dog



	Depeche Mode: Photographic Our remix is included on the new album Remixes 81...04. and all the time we were making it, we were paralysed with fear and honour The song Photographic is from Depeche Mode's first album Speak And Spell which was first released in 1981 when we were children. The music on Speak And Spell is one the greatest things of all time.
	The Knife: Marble House The Knife are back and they are even better than before, their album Silent Shout is full of pleasing things and we love them. Check out this album, especially 'We Share Our Mother's Health' and 'Like A Pen'. And of course 'Marble House'! With this remix we tried to support the song but make it work for dancing.
	Mylo: Drop The Pressure This tune is so well known that we were feeling a bit wobbly all the time we were making it. We tried 5 million different ways of remixing the tune and we thought that maybe it was the end of Rex. In the end we went on holiday for 3 days and came back and started again. A guy on an internet forum said of it: 'You can tell Rex is on autopilot already' . Yay! Success! (And now we plan to do a tune called AUTOPILOT).
	Client: Radio Client are 2 mysterious electronic ladies who dress like air-hostesses. Client have a web page too. A guy in a magazine said this remix is disappointing and 'too much like Jan Hammer'. We do not understand this, to sound like Jan Hammer can only be a positive ?
	The Sounds: Tony The Beat It's big and it's clever. This song is the greatest thing we heard in 2006. We played a show with our friend Spencer Product and when he played this, we came running: 'WHAT IS THIS!!! ???' The band allowed us to interfere with it and we are lucky that they are now planning to release our remix. We didn't change much, we just made it synthy. Here is a clip of the track, performed by Rex and his friend Punk Monkey after a few too many banana daiquiris...
	The Prodigy: Girls I saw The Prodigy play in concert 3 times before Rex was born and at night I tell him of those days. In my main memory I stayed too close to the Prodigy speakers and I had to see the doctor, because my hearing did not return for 2 weeks. Our remix is on the B-side of the single Hotride.
	Soulwax: E Talking This tune was super difficult to remix because the vocals were mega-distorted and there were exactly 100 tonnes of guitars present. We did a mix that used all the vocals and guitars but it did not really work and the band did not care for it. So, we turned the synthesizers on and did a second mix and tried to make it disco-shiny. This time the band said yes. We were relieved!
	The Knife: Heartbeats This was Rex's first remix. The Knife are a kick-ass band from Sweden. Their album Deep Cuts is full of emotion, melody and electrical sounds. It is our favourite album since the 90s. When you realise that your favourite albums are all from 1980s and early 1990s it is renewing to find new songs like these in 2004. You can see The Knife at their website.
	Royksopp: Beautiful Day Without You We started to make this remix as a very acid experiment thing, but we had to throw it in the dust cart because it went wrong. It surprised us by turning out to be quite a tricky one. In the end we managed to cram lots of TB303 and zaps into it, and it goes wibble wibble biggle doo bip.