Rex The Dog

Rex the Dog may well be the most well-trained, electronic canine in the world. Although not an actual dog, Rex has been crafting club-ready cuts for a long-time now and more recently he's been on a hot streak.

Over the last decade he's released on Kitsuné, Southern Fried and most notably Kompakt, where last year he dropped 'Sicko' and it shot him back into the spotlight. He's a certified hot dog and we've been in love with the pooch since he remixed 'Heartbeats' by The Knife in 2009 <3.

As summer draws to a close, he heads back to his faithful Kompakt imprint for the 'Teufelsberg' EP and we caught up with Rex to hear his thoughts behind it.

'I’ve been spending time in Berlin recently and one of my obsessions there is the former US/British listening station at Teufelsberg. It was basically a spy station during the cold war, with a load of giant radar type equipment aimed at intercepting transmissions from Russia. It’s been pretty much abandoned since the early 90s but the giant geodesic spheres are still there, and you can occasionally get into the place and explore.

I went there with a friend one Saturday morning and recorded a set of sounds. Inside the giant spheres, you get the most amazing reverbs and it just takes someone to make an innocuous sound, or the wind whistling, and you get a kind of ghostly chaos. When I got back to the studio I loaded up the sounds into my sampler and made a track which became ’Teufelsberg’.'

Now you know the process behind the track, it seems only right that we give you the first full premiere to wrap your ears around. Enjoy.

'Teufelsberg' will feature on Kompakt's upcoming Total 16 compilation as well as on Rex's next EP

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