BIOGRAPHY
Stuart Price (born 9 September 1977) is a three-time Grammy-winning British electronic musician, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with artists including Madonna, The Killers, New Order, Kylie Minogue, Example, Take That, Missy Elliott, Scissor Sisters, Pet Shop Boys, Brandon Flowers, Gwen Stefani, Seal, Keane, Frankmusik , Hard-Fi, Hurts and Everything Everything. 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 (not to be confused with David Bowie's earlier persona of the same name), and the parodic French moniker Jacques Lu Cont (though he actually grew up in Reading, England)
HISTORY
Price's use of the names Jacques Lu Cont and Les Rythmes Digitales was initially a reference to the explosion in demand for French house in the United Kingdom during the 1990s; artists such as Daft Punk, Etienne de Crécy, Dimitri from Paris and Air were all experiencing surges in 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. 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". Price later went on to produce an entire album with Pet Shop Boys – "Electric", released in 2013, which was the duo's most successful album in their home country in twenty years. Certainly, Price was heavily influenced by music from the 1980s, and all his records and side projects bear a heavy debt to the 1980s sounds of synthpop bands.
DISCOGRAPHY
Albums:
Libération (1996)
Darkdancer (1999)
Singles, EP's:
Kontakte / Tropicano 1996
Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat) 1997
Darkdancer (Album Sampler) 1998
(Hey You) What's That Sound? 1998
Music Makes You Lose Control 1998
Sometimes 1999
MORE INFO https://www.discogs.com/artist/1593-Les-Rythmes-Digitales
