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Après les Superman Lovers, voici que c'est Jacques Lu Cont (Les Rhytmes Digitales) qui est en train de remixer des chansons de l'album qui sortira au mois de mars...
Bernard Sumner a été assez élogieux du remix de What You Waiting For de Gwen Stefani...
Originally posted by Spotnick Après les Superman Lovers, voici que c'est Jacques Lu Cont (Les Rhytmes Digitales) qui est en train de remixer des chansons de l'album qui sortira au mois de mars...
Je ne suis pas sur qu'il soit vraiment francais. C'est pas juste un pseudo idiot? 
Je crois que c'est un british. Stuart Price. C'est cheesy, un peu non ? Quand j'ai entendu ce remix je me suis dit "quand même Jacques Lu Cont il fait du New Order", et puis au final, New Order remixé par Jacques Lu Cont ça va donner quoi ?
Il est né à Paris au moins...
"Young Parisians are so French", as Adam Ant so unforgettably put it, and they don't come much Frencher than Jacques Lu Cont. Hailing from the excruciatingly hip Paris brainleu of Midiville, the scarlet-haired 22 year old behind Les Rythmes Digitales is the latest reason why French music, especially electronic dance-pop, is enjoying previously unimaginable levels of credibility right now, with the likes of Air, Daft Punk, and Cassius reaping respect and pillaging the charts. But although sharing much in common with his compatriots, there's a willful individualism to Lu Cont's sound that sets LRD apart. In fact, it's almost as if he's from another country altogether...
"I've got maximum respect for the current pioneers of continental house music, but I'm not riding on a wave," he explains in good baccalaureate level English.
Jacques is intensely proud of his nationality, but why the broad Berkshire accent? It all begins to make sense when Jacques reveals that he is born prematurely while his parents were on holiday in Paris, and given a French name out of respect for his birthplace (a tradition Jacques has continued with the name of his band, although it does contain a deliberate grammatical error for linguistic trainspotters: it should be Digitaux). North America will no doubt opt for the simpler "LRD" anyway. Lazy bastards!
Having spent only the first year of his life in Paris, the Lu Conts returned to England and settled in Reading, where his mum and dad, both classical concert pianists, subjected Jacques to an ultra-strict musical upbringing: the lowbrow pleasures of popular music were banned from the household until he was 14. This, perhaps, explains the joyous pop sensibility which informs LRD's work: He's still rebelling against that parental ban! Furthermore, the respect of elitist connoisseurs means nothing to Jacques:
En tout cas, sa photo en page d'accueil du site m'a fait un choc... j'ai cru que le nom de domaine avait été racheté par un site gay. 
Originally posted by Ben En tout cas, sa photo en page d'accueil du site m'a fait un choc... j'ai cru que le nom de domaine avait été racheté par un site gay.
Elle n'a pas fait long feu...
(Vous la comprenez celle-là?)
