Listening to Stylus magazine’s Stypod show on the Kompakt label, which is so funny, mainly for there attempts to pronounce the names of the tracks and artists. They are much braver than me.

Rex The Dog – Frequency

Loved Rex the Dog since Prototype, Frequency is his second single.

Pushing the pitch wheel of his famous Korg 700S to the max with the glide on or something, giving that lovely wobbly sound at the top.

Warning : this song is grilling some cheese. His site says he bought the Korg cos it was used to make all the noises on Warm Leatherette, and by early Depeche Mode( who he has since remixed Photographic for). Here he uses it make sounds like the The Osmonds.

Frequency makes me whiney and neigh just like fucking Crazy Horses (scroll down at The Tofu Hut for some words and mp3 of Crazy Horses).

Similar in effect to Talking Heads Girlfriend is Better, full of life analogue inaccuracy but used in new school technorocker context (I think thats what we are calling Alter Ego, Tiefschwarz et all these days). That falling over itself drum roll that almost goes out of time, is giving me deja vu. I told you, it’s seriously grilling the cheese.

Not surprising rex got to do the Knife Heartbeats Remix, did they pick him, or he them? Chicken Egg.

The Original Soundtrack has a few musings about the mystery behind who Rex the Dog really is, Daniel Miller? Ewan Pearson?

The real answer can be heard in this lovely interview with him in person.

Woof.

Rex the Dog lives here.

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