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This article is about Stuart Price, also known as Thin White Duke. For David Bowie, who originally used this name, see The Thin White Duke.
Press Release photo of electronic musician Stuart Price.)
Press Release photo of electronic musician Stuart Price.)

Stuart David Price (born in Paris, 9 September 1977) is an electronic musician, songwriter and producer whose remixing and production skills are coveted by artists including Madonna, Missy Elliot and The Killers. His acts include British electronic pop/rock band Zoot Woman with Adam Blake and Jonny Blake, Les Rythmes Digitales, Paper Faces, Man With Guitar, and the parodic French moniker Jacques Lu Cont, even though he actually grew up in the UK.

The use of the Les Rhythmes Digitales and Jacques Lu Cont names was initially a reference to the then current vogue for French house music in the UK (artists such as Daft Punk, Motorbass/Etienne de Crecy, Dimitri from Paris and Air). He even went as far as to conduct interviews with British journalists in French via an interpreter. In interviews from around this time he also claimed that as a child he had grown up listening only to classical music, until encountering the album 'Dare' by the Human League; certainly all his records bear a heavy debt to the 80's sounds of synthpop bands.

His song "Jacques Your Body (Makes Me Sweat)" was originally released in 1999, achieving limited success (no. 60 on the UK Singles Chart). However the song was later used on a Citroën C4 car advert, and it has been re-released in 2005, reaching no. 9 in the UK.

His album Darkdancer was released in 1999. He has also released a dj-mix album ("Fabriclive.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." He's nominated for two 2005 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", under the moniker Thin White Duke (originally used by David Bowie). Price's remixes are characterized by club-lead beats over which main riffs are faded or filtered in to climactic effect. He favours keeping the original vocal arrangement and re-contextualizing the lyrical content to make the new version.

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

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

Albums

Zoot Woman (with Jonny and Adam Blake) Zoot Woman Official Site

  • Living In A Magazine (2001)
  • Zoot Woman (2003)

Les Rythmes Digitales

Jacques Lu Cont

Songwriting

Price receives songwriting credit for the following songs

  • Madonna
    • "X-Static Process" (Madonna, Price)
from the album American Life (2003)
    • "Hung Up" (Madonna, Price, Andersson, Ulvaeus)
    • "Get Together" (Madonna, Bagge, Åström, Price)
    • "Sorry" (Madonna, Price)
    • "I Love New York" (Madonna, Price)
    • "Let It Will Be" (Madonna, Ahmadzaï, Price)
    • "Forbidden Love" (Madonna, Price)
    • "Jump" (Madonna, Henry, Price)
    • "Isaac" (Madonna, Price)
    • "Push" (Madonna, Price)
from the album Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)
from the album Random Order (2005)

Remixes

  • Aloud
    • Sex And Sun (Thin White Duke Remix)
  • Beck
    • Mixed Bizness (Nu Wave Dreamix)
from the single Mixed Bizness (2000)
  • Bis
    • Eurodisco (Les Rythmes Digitales Remix)
from the single Eurodisco (1998)
from the album In The Zone (2003)
    • Breathe On Me (Thin White Duke Mix)
from the album B in the Mix: The Remixes (2005)
  • Cassius
    • Feeling For You (Les Rythmes Digitales Dreamix)
from the single Talk (2006)
  • The Dysfunctional Psychadelic Waltons
    • Payback Time (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)
from the single Payback Time (2003)
from the album Playing the Angel (2005)
from the album Fire (2003)
  • The Faint
    • The Conductor (Thin White Duke Remix)
from the album Danse Macabre (2001)
from the album Kittenz And Thee Glitz (2002)
    • Ready 2 Wear (Paper Faces Mix)
from the album Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever (2005)
from the album Odyssey (2005)
  • Gerling
    • Dust Me Selecta (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
from the album When Young Terrorists Chase The Sun (2001)
  • Goldfrapp
    • Twist (Jacques Lu Cont's Conversion Perversion Mix)
from the album Black Cherry (2003)
from the album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004)
  • Juliet
    • Avalon (Jacques Lu Cont Versus Remix)
    • Ride The Pain (Jacques Lu Cont Thin White Duke Mix)
from the album Random Order (2005)
  • The Killers
    • Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)
from the album Hot Fuss (2004)
from the album American Life (2003)
    • Hung Up (S.D.P. Extended Vocal)
from the single Hung Up (2005)
    • Sorry (Man With Guitar Mix)
from the single Sorry (2006)
    • Let It Will Be (Paper Faces Mix)
from the single Sorry (2006)
  • Mirwais
    • Naïve Song (Les Rythmes Digitales Remix)
from the single Naïve Song (2000)
    • Miss You (Thin White Duke Remix)
from the album Production (2000)
from the album The Cookbook (2005)
  • The Music
    • Bleed From Within (Thin White Duke Mix)
    • Bleed From Within (Thin White Duke Dub)
from the album Welcome To The North (2004)
from the single Jetstream (2005)
  • No Doubt
    • It's My Life (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)
from the album The Singles 1992-2003 (2003)
  • Röyksopp
    • What Else Is There? (Thin White Duke Mix)
from the album The Understanding (2005)
from the album Scissor Sisters (2004)
    • Laura (Paper Faces Mix)
from the album Scissor Sisters (2004)
    • Filthy/Gorgeous (Paper Faces Mix)
from the album Scissor Sisters (2004)
  • Starsailor
    • Four to the Floor (Thin White Duke Mix)
from the album Silence Is Easy (2003)
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