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Stuart Price

(Redirected from Jacques Lu Cont)

Stuart David Price (born in Paris, 9 September 1977) is a British electronic musician, songwriter, and producer whose remixing and production skills are coveted by artists including Coldplay Madonna, Missy Elliot and The Killers. His acts include British electronic pop/rock band Zoot Woman (with Adam and Jonny 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, UK.

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Career

The 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 UK; artists such as Daft Punk, Etienne de Crécy, Dimitri from Paris and 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 by the Human League. Certainly, Price was heavily influenced by music from the 1980's, and all his records and sideprojects bear a heavy debt to the 80's 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). However, the song was later used on a Citroën C4 car advertisement and has since been re-released, reaching #9 on the UK charts in 2005.

His album Darkdancer was released in 2000 under the band name Les Rythmes Digitales. He has also released a DJ-mix album (Fabric Live 09) under the name Jacques Lu Cont.

Price won his first Grammy award in 2004 for his remix of No Doubt's "It's My Life" produced under the moniker Thin White Duke (originally used by David Bowie). 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 2006 for his recording production with Madonna on the single "Get Together" from the album Confessions on a Dance Floor. 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. He favors keeping the original vocal arrangement of songs and re-contextualizing the lyrical content in creating his new versions.

Price co-wrote and co-produced most of Madonna's eleventh studio album Confessions on a Dance Floor after being the keyboardist on her Drowned World Tour in 2001 and the musical director for her 2004 Re-Invention Tour, a role which he reprised for the 2006 Confessions Tour. He also co-wrote the song "X-Static Process" for her 2003 album American Life.

Price has also successfully released two albums with his rock band, Zoot Woman, 2001's Living in a Magazine, and 2003's Zoot Woman.

Stuart Price has used the following monikers:

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Albums

Zoot Woman (with Jonny and Adam Blake)

Les Rythmes Digitales

Jacques Lu Cont

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Songwriting

Price receives songwriting credit for the following songs:

from the single Let's Get Ill featuring Kelis (2003)
from the album American Life (2003)
from the album Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)
from the album Random Order (2005)
from the album Waiting for the Sirens' Call (2005)
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Remixes

from the album Aloud (2004)
from the album Nympho (2005)
from the single Mixed Bizness (2000)
from the single Eurodisco (1998)
available on the bonus disc on the limited edition of Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (2004)
from the album B in the Mix: The Remixes (2005)
from the album 1999 (1999)
from the album She's In Control (2004)
from the single Talk (2006)
from the single Sleep On The Left Side/Brimful Of Asha (1998)
from the single Payback Time (2003)
from the album Playing the Angel (2005)
from the album Fire (2003)
from the album Danse Macabre Remixes (2003)
from the album Kittenz and Thee Glitz (2002)
from the album Devin Dazzle & the Neon Fever (2005)
from the album Odyssey (2005)
from the album When Young Terrorists Chase The Sun (2001)
from the single Twist (2003)
from the album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004)
from the album The Sweet Escape (2006)
from the album Random Order (2005)
from the single Me Plus One (2007)
from the album Hot Fuss (2004)
from the single When You Were Young (2006)
from the album American Life (2003)
from the single Hung Up (2005)

"from the single Jump CDM (2006)

from the single Sorry (2006)
from the single Get Together (2006)
from the album Production (2000)
from the album The Cookbook (2005)
from the EP Bleed from Within (2004)
from the single Jetstream (2005)
from the album The Singles 1992-2003 (2003)
from the album Without You I'm Nothing (1998)
from the album The Understanding (2005)
from the album Scissor Sisters (2004)
from the album Ta Dah (2006)
from the album Silence Is Easy (2003)
from the album Red Book (2005)
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External links

Retrieved from "http://www.wiki.coldplaying.com/index.php/Stuart_Price"

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