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About|Stuart Price, also known as Thin White Duke|David Bowie, who originally used this title|The Thin White Dukeother personsUse British English|date=May 2011Use dmy dates|date=May 2011BLP sources|date=November 2010Infobox musical artist|image= | | name = Stuart Price| image =| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Stuart David Price| alias = Les Rythmes Digitales Zoot Woman Paper Faces Adrien Brody Man With Guitar Thin White Duke Jacques Lu Cont Pour Homme S.D.P. Crystal Pepsi| Born = Birth date and age|1977|9|9|df=y North Yorkshire, England | origin = London, England| genre = French house Electro music|Electro Synthpop Electroclash | occupation = DJ, Record producer, Songwriter| years_active = 1996–present| label =| associated_acts = The Killers , Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna , Kylie Minogue , Seal (musician)|Seal , Pet Shop Boys , Zoot Woman , Take That , Scissor Sisters , Hard-Fi | website =| current_members =| past_members = Stuart Price (born 9 September 1977) is a three time Grammy -winning British electronic musician, songwriter, and record producer whose remix ing and production skills are in demand by musician|artists including New Order , Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna , Kylie Minogue , Take That , Missy Elliott , Scissor Sisters , The Killers , Pet Shop Boys , Brandon Flowers , Gwen Stefani , Seal (musician)|Seal , Keane (band)|Keane , Frankmusik and Hard-Fi . His acts include British electronic pop/rock band Zoot Woman (with Adam Blake and Johnny Blake ), Les Rythmes Digitales , Paper Faces , Man With Guitar , Thin White Duke , and the parodic French moniker Jacques Lu Cont , though he actually grew up in Reading, Berkshire|Reading , England.Allmusic. Allmusic|class=artist|id=p278066|pure_url=yes Les Rythmes Digitales – Stuart Price Biography .The DJ List. http://www.thedjlist.com/djs/JACQUES_LU_CONT/ Jacques Lu Cont (Stuart Price) Biography .
Career
sections|date=December 2011Price's use of the names Jacques Lu Cont and Les Rythmes Digitales was initially a reference to the then current vogue for French house in the United Kingdom; artists such as Daft Punk , Etienne de Crécy , Dimitri from Paris and Air (French band)|Air were all experiencing popularity. Price even went as far as to conduct interviews with British journalists in French via an interpreter. In interviews from around this time, Price also claimed that he had grown up listening exclusively to classical music, until one day encountering the album Dare (album)|Dare by the Human League . He also claimed to be a huge Pet Shop Boys fan, since he got his first synthesiser making him able to play songs such as " West End Girls ". Certainly, Price was heavily influenced by music from the 1980s, and all his records and sideprojects bear a heavy debt to the 80s sounds of synthpop bands.
His song "Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)" was originally released in 1996, then again in 1999, achieving limited success (#60 on the UK Singles Chart ).Cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher=Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 318 However, the song was later used on a Citroën C4 car advertisement and has since been re-released, reaching #9 on the UK chart in 2005.
His album Darkdancer was released in 1999 under the band name Les Rythmes Digitales following his 1996 solo debut Liberation . He has also released a DJ-mix album, FabricLive.09 , under the name Jacques Lu Cont.
Price also successfully released three albums with his rock band, Zoot Woman , 2001's Living in a Magazine , 2003's Zoot Woman and 2009's Things Are What They Used To Be .
Price has produced, and at times co-written, numerous songs for popular artists. Price has also remixed and re-produced numerous songs under his own name as well as the names Thin White Duke (originally used by David Bowie ), Jacques Lu Cont, and Les Rhythmes Digitales. Other aliases include Man with Guitar and Paper Faces (an alias for him and Adam Blake of the band Zoot Woman ). Price's remixes are characterised by club-lead beats with arpeggios, riffs, and vocal lines faded and filtered throughout the song for a climactic effect.Citation needed|date=February 2009 He favours keeping the original vocal arrangement of songs and re-contextualizing the lyrical content in creating his new versions.Citation needed|date=February 2009 Price is best known for his work with Madonna which spanned almost a decade culminating in Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna 's tenth studio album Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005). He began collaborating with Madonna as musical director for her 2001 Drowned World Tour after remixing some of the tracks on her Music album via Mirwais. He reprised the role for her 2004 Re-Invention World Tour and 2006 Confessions Tour . Price created remixes for the album's singles " Hung Up ", " Sorry (Madonna song)|Sorry " (under the Man with Guitar alias), " Get Together (Madonna song)|Get Together ", and " Jump (Madonna song)|Jump ", as well as the album tracks "I Love New York" and "Let It Will Be" (under the Paper Faces alias). Price co-wrote the song "X-Static Process" for Madonna's 2003 album American Life . Price has also remixed the Madonna songs " Hollywood (Madonna song)|Hollywood " from American Life and " Miles Away (Madonna song)|Miles Away " from the album Hard Candy (Madonna album)|Hard Candy . Madonna chose his remix of "Hollywood" for her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards with Britney Spears , Christina Aguilera , and Missy Elliott .
Price's work with The Killers began with his remix of their hit single " Mr. Brightside ", released under the Thin White Duke name. Subsequently, Price remixed the song " When You Were Young ", the first single from The Killers album " Sam's Town ". Price produced two of the tracks re-recorded for the release of The Killers ' B-sides album, Sawdust (album)|Sawdust : "Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf" and "Sweet Talk". His remix of " Mr. Brightside " appeared as a bonus track on that release. Price went on to produce The Killers ' third studio album, " Day & Age ", released on 24 November 2008. http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/24024293/review/24196095/day age Rollingstone.com He also created an extended remix of the lead single "Human" released under the Thin White Duke name. Price also worked for The Killers vocalist Brandon Flowers ' debut solo album Flamingo (Brandon Flowers album)|Flamingo , producing most of the songs on it, including the second single "Only the Young". The album was released on September 6 in the UK and Ireland and September 14 in the US and Canada.
Price was the album producer on Seal (musician)|Seal 's fifth studio album System (Seal album)|System , which was released in November 2007. He also co-wrote several of the album's songs. Price was among the producers of Keane (band)|Keane 's album Perfect Symmetry (Keane album)|Perfect Symmetry , which was released in October 2008. http://www.keanemusic.com/archive-comment.php? rnd=vb3DEZLw4EyoDPMazOPKe3yY8dN1dQFWD5KxmXwVg78%3D Keanemusic.com
Price remixed Coldplay 's single " Viva la Vida ", released on the band's website as the Thin White Duke remix. Price has also produced and mastered tracks for Frankmusik 's debut album, one of which is "3 Little Words". This track was released as a single on the "3 Little Words" Extended play|EP . He recently provided two new Thin White Duke remixes for the release of Depeche Mode 's latest single, " Wrong ".
Price won his first Grammy Award in 2004 for his remix of No Doubt 's It's My Life (Talk Talk song)|"It's My Life" produced under the moniker Thin White Duke. In 2005, he was nominated for two Grammys: one for his production of New Order 's "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion" and a second for his remix of The Killers ' " Mr. Brightside ". He won a second Grammy in 2006 for his remix of Coldplay 's "Talk" (as Thin White Duke). He was also nominated in 2007 for Best Dance Recording with Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna on the single "Get Together" from the album Confessions on a Dance Floor . Price won his third Grammy in 2007 for Best Electronic / Dance Album for Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna 's Confessions on a Dance Floor .
In 2009, Price remixed " It's Not My Problem " for Sneaky Sound System under the Thin White Duke alias, as well as doing remixes for Depeche Mode 's " Wrong ", Friendly Fires' " Jump in the Pool ", Röyksopp's " This Must Be It " and, most recently, Muse's " Undisclosed Desires ". Producing the tour arrangement for the Pandemonium Tour by the Pet Shop Boys, Price fulfilled a personal dream. He also produced an exclusive arrangement for the Pet Shop Boys' Brit Awards performance in February. Both older hits and brand new songs were all put together to create a ten minute long mash up that closed the 2009 Brits.
Price was also reported to be working with New Order's Bernard Sumner on a "synthesiser album". http://pitchfork.com/news/36573-bernard-sumner-talks-bad-lieutenant-album-new-order-breakup/# Pitchfork.com However, it appears the project has been shelved http://www.spinner.com/2010/04/15/bernard-sumner-album-stuart-price-scrapped/ Spinner.com
Price co-produced the new Scissor Sisters album, released on 28 June 2010, http://www.popjustice.com/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=3977& Itemid=206 Popjustice.com entitled Night Work (album)|Night Work . The first track to be released from the album is "Invisible Light", which can be previewed at the Scissor Sisters website. The first official single off the album was "Fire With Fire", followed by "Any Which Way".
Price is the executive producer for Kylie Minogue 's 11th studio album titled Aphrodite (album)|Aphrodite which was released on 5 July 2010. On 11 June, the hit single " All the Lovers " was released, and later " Get Outta My Way ", which was remixed by Stuart itself into an extended version.
He mixed and remixed Miike Snow single "The Rabbit", then produced Take That 's album Progress (Take That album)|Progress , featuring their reunion with Robbie Williams, later working again on their first EP, Progressed , released in summer 2011. Meanwhile, the band promoted their Progress Live which featured Price as musical director. Stuart mixed and co-produced several tracks on Duffy (singer)|Duffy's album Endlessly (album)|Endlessly , including first single " Well, Well, Well (Duffy song)|Well, Well, Well ".
In 2011, Price won a Music Week Award for Best Producer of the Year. Indie rock band Hard-Fi confirmed Stuart Price as producer on their new album Killer Sounds , and on their second single " Fire in the House ". He is also known to be featured on the debut of Queen of Hearts. Stuart Price is currently performing live DJ sets under his stage name 'Jacques Lu Cont'.
It was announced on November 18, 2011 that Stuart would return with new material as Les Rythmes Digitales. The single "Reload" would be made available on Soundcloud by the end of November with a new album to follow in 2012. http://www.mixmag.net/words/news/les-rythmes-digitales
Albums
Zoot Woman (with Adam Blake and Johnny Blake )
Living In A Magazine (2001)
Zoot Woman (2003)
Things Are What They Used To Be (2009)
Les Rythmes Digitales
Libération (album)|Libération (1996)
Darkdancer (1999)
Jacques Lu Cont
Blueprint (2000)All Music entry for Blueprint. Allmusic|class=album|id=r516257|pure_url=yes All Music
FabricLive.09 (2003)
Songwriting and production
Wikify section|date=March 2011Price receives songwriting or production credit for the following songs:
Zoot Woman
*"Fly to Sangeetha" (A.Blake, S.Price)
*"Stevanus" (A.Blake, S.Price)
*"A Time That's Closer" (A.Blake, S.Price)
*"Listen to the Wind" (A.Blake, S.Price)
: from the EP Sweet to the Wind (1995) http://www.discogs.com/Zoot-Woman-Sweet-To-The-Wind-EP/release/2043122
*"It's Automatic" (A.Blake, J.Blake, S.Price)
*"Living In A Magazine" (A.Blake, J.Blake, S.Price)
*Slave To The Wage (Les Rythmes Digitales New Wave Mix)
Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band
*Casino (Zoot Woman Remix)
Royksöpp
*What Else Is There (Jacques Lu Cont Radio Mix)
*What Else Is There (Thin White Duke Mix)
*What Else Is There (Thin White Duke Edit)
*This Must Be It (This Could Be Thin White Duke Mix)
*This Must Be It (This Could Be Thin White Duke Edit)
Scissor Sisters
*Comfortably Numb (Paper Faces Mix)
*Filthy / Gorgeous (Paper Faces Main Mix)
*Filthy / Gorgeous (Paper Faces Vocal Edit)
*Laura (Paper Faces Mix)
*I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Paper Faces Mix)
*Invisible Light (Stuart Price 12" Remix)
Seal (musician)|Seal
*Amazing (Thin White Duke Main Mix)
*Amazing (Thin White Duke Dub)
*Amazing (Thin White Duke Edit)
Sneaky Sound System
*It's Not My Problem (Thin White Duke Mix)
*It's Not My Problem (Thin White Duke Mix Radio Edit)
Snow Patrol
*Just Say Yes (Thin White Duke Remix)
*Just Say Yes (Thin White Duke Club Remix)
Starsailor (band)|Starsailor
*Four To The Floor (Thin White Duke Mix)
*Four To The Floor (Thin White Duke Mix – Short Version)
*Four To The Floor (Thin White Duke Radio Edit)
*Tell Me It's Not Over (Thin White Duke Mix)
*Tell Me It's Not Over (Stuart Price Remix)
*Tell Me It's Not Over (Stuart Price Remix) (feat. Brandon Flowers)
Steve Bug
*Drives Me Up The Wall (Les Rythmes Digitales Mix)
Texas
*What About Us (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
*What About Us (Jacques Lu Cont Dub)
*What About Us (Jacques Lu Cont Edit)
The Dysfunctional Psychedelic Waltons
*Payback Time (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)
*Payback Time (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix Edit)
The Faint
*The Conductor (Thin White Duke Remix)
The Killers
*Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Remix)
*Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Dub)
*Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Short Version)
*Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Short Version With Intro)
*When You Were Young (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Edit)
*When You Were Young (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)
*When You Were Young (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Dub)
*Human (Thin White Duke Club Mix)
*Human (Thin White Duke Dub)
*Human (Thin White Duke Edit)
The Hidden Cameras
*In the NA (Crystal Pepsi Remix) Remix by Jake Shears and Stuart Price
The Music
*Bleed From Within (Thin White Duke Mix)
*Bleed From Within (Thin White Duke Dub)
The Ones
*Flawless (Les Rythmes Digitales Remix)
U2
* AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered|Even Better Than The Real Thing (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
Themroc
*Gold Is Your Metal (Paper Faces Mix)
We in music
*Now That Love Has Gone (From: Hapiness To: Loneliness Mix by Les Rythmes Digitales)
Whirlpool Productions
*Disco II Disco (Les Rhythmes Digitales Mix)
Zoot Woman
*Gem (Paper Faces Mix)
*Grey Day (Paper Faces Mix)
*It's Automatic (Paper Faces Mix)
*Living In A Magazine (Paper Faces Remix)
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.zootwoman.com/ Zootwoman.com Zoot Woman Official Site
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