Rex the Dog

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Rex the Dog (actually Jake Williams, * 1974 ) is a British producer of electronic music from London who also performs live.

Life

Jake Williams was already successful under the pseudonym JX from 1994 and was able to place himself in the charts with singles. Under the pseudonym Jake Williams 2004 remix work for came Depeche Mode , Client and The Prodigy to market and quickly formed a fan base. Who was hiding behind the pseudonym was unknown at the time. The music was distributed by the Cologne label Kompakt . On August 26, 2005, Rex the Dog appeared for the first time at the TOTAL 6 party as part of the c / o pop festival and thus revealed the secret of identity: It was about the London producer Jake Williams, who used to be singles under the name JX had issued. In 2005, new editions of Prototype and We Live in Daddy's Car were released for the market in their home country Great Britain, where the sound carriers were previously only available as imports. The Hundehaus label was founded specifically for this purpose .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Son Of A Gun
  UK 6th 04/02/1994 (18 weeks)
You belong to me
  UK 17th 04/01/1995 (5 weeks)
There's Nothing I Won't Do
  UK 4th 05/18/1996 (13 weeks)
Close to your heart
  UK 18th 03/08/1997 (3 weeks)
Restless
  UK 22nd 03/06/2004 (5 weeks)

Albums

  • 2008: The Rex The Dog Show

Singles

As JX

  • 1994: Son Of A Gun
  • 1995: You Belong To Me
  • 1996: There's Nothing I Won't Do
  • 1997: Close To Your Heart
  • 2004: Restless

As Rex The Dog

  • 2004: Prototype / We live in Daddy's Car
  • 2004: Frequency / I Look Into Mid Air
  • 2006: Maximize / Sequencer
  • 2015: Sicko
  • 2015: You Are A Blade

Remixes (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rex the Dog ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . rexthedog.net. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rexthedog.net
  2. ↑ Chart sources: UK
  3. ↑ a b Rex the Dog at Kompakt.fm . Retrieved March 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rex the Dog
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Jake (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974