Yes yes yes I said yes: finally, at long last, like two years after it was hinted at, the full-length album from our favorite ravepuppy, Rex The Dog, is out. We’ll be running an exclusive and fairly silly interview with Rex here soon, but for now chew on this like it was a milkbone:
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If we remove the moments of touching beauty and the remixes, this is my favorite song on The Rex The Dog Show. The Yaz sample fits perfectly into a genius piece of late-80s electroconfection that’s meant for pondering and workin’ it out.
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Not on the album, and an unfortunately way-underappreciated Bee-side Rex vintage synth freakout raveshow…raveout freakshow? Either way, this is meant for those with strong stomachs and stronger desires to hear awesomeness.
It would seem that Resonator tends to unify on a small number of things, Rex The Dog being one of ‘em. The Rex The Dog Show is still set to drop very, very soon (September 8th everywhere, I think), and we’ll have some exclusive content surrounding the release of our favorite blend of Mann/Hund/Maschine.
That said, there’s a video that just released for the first single from Rex’s forthcoming first full-length (and it is, in fact, spectacular, it’s everything you love about Rex, basically all bundled up into a big 80’s warehouse rave), “I Can See You/Can You See Me?”
The mood’s a little somber in this one, with both Rex and his human seeming to remember long-lost halcyon days of rockin’ out. It fits the way The Rex The Dog Show ends, on a pretty-but-melancholy note with a reworking of Rex’s classic mood-anthem “I Look Into Midair” (one of my favorite songs ever).
Then, however, there’s this, on the other side of the mood spectrum: Rex The Dog’s remix of “Happiness”:
She-who-must-not-be-named-for-fear-of-WebSherriff-and-RIAA-threats…PLAYED BY A F-ING MONKEY PUPPET. It’s frightening that Punk Monkey gets Cronefrapp’s mannerisms down perfectly…this is just…spec-freakin’-tacular. Especially when you’ve had the ‘frapp in question threaten you with lawsuits. WTFev, this is how the song should sound anyway.
I freaking love it when a planned Res post is interrupted by something urgent and awesome. Today’s cause of Postus Interruptus? That Rex The Dog album is FINALLY SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY. An entire calendar year…or two… after it was first listed as “available in like a week” from the Kompakt promobot (who has since died an untimely and unfortunate death-if you’re still out there, Kompakt promobot or Forced Exposurebot, holla), Rex The Dog’s Rex The Dog Show is finally due to be available on Hundehaus Records in September. And, in true too-cute-to-rave Rex fashion…there’s a comic about it. Hey, Rex, tell us about your forthcoming album?
Rex also explains it all for you:
You can get yourself up to speed on The Rex The Dog Show (which, hopefully, will do a bit more honest-to-god US touring than the PTR show) by checking out the release comic here.
…..oh yeah, something else.
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She-who-must-not-be-named-for-fear-of-blogsuit has a whisp of a song remixed into a gothtro stomper. I like this one. A lot. It’s how I always thought the original should sound (so shove it, Cronefrappuccino).
Thanks everyone who tuned into WREK for The Mobius this past Weds, it was a blast as usual. I’ve condensed that last hour into a cd-friendly download for everyone –so listen and enjoy!
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And as special treat, here’s the tracklist with direct downloads for some highlighted tunes… PLUS I’ve included some other material hype machine decided it didn’t want to index from earlier in the week (yes, I’m a hit whore).
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Resonator Favorite Rex the Dog comes storming out with a new release on Kitsune this month. Officially released on the 10th, Circulate is wicked little number of techno-pop synth bleepy goodness. Its a 2 track release with “Circulate” on the A-Side, and “Italian Blond” taking up the b-side –both quality and both the Rex The Dog sound that we just absolutely love.
Not gonna drop the original on ya (You should just go out and purchase it) but here’s a JBAG Edit to whet your appetite:
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You may purchase “Circulate” from any of the following: Juno Records Turn Table Lab Kitsune’s frustrating as hell shoppe (seriously, its the “featured new release” yet you can’t click on it, you have to scroll through the hard to read interface before finding it half-way down the list).
I had to bring Wrecks the Dog* in for surgery on Weds, and to honor him I wanted to post up some real Rex the Dog remixes. I realize we here at Resonator have already posted a lot of them at one point or another, but with our server switch in February (amongst other reasons) we lost all our old archive of mp3s. So here are a few of classic ones for your re-listening pleasure:
Classic mix of heartbeats; only topped by the live BBC mix that The Knife themselves did.
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Poptronica? Nice little remix taking the pop sound of The Sounds and then adding the classic Rex the Dog twist to it. I love this remix, though I think you have to not hate The Sounds to enjoy this.
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Used in my ZOMG Deejay Mix (I’ve got another in the works, I promise I’ll stop plugging this one) –its pretty stellar.
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Solid Groove being another moniker of our man Switch , and Walter Meego being a cool trio from Chicago. I first heard the original of this a long while ago, and was totally in love with the silky smooth synths and the uniqueness of their vocal timbre. This remix takes the lushness of the original and mashes it together with a raw and gritty sound that I’m a fan of.
