Stuart Price

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Stuart David Price (born 9 September 1977) is an English

In 2020, Price served as a co-producer and additional producer for four songs on Dua Lipa's second album Future Nostalgia, three of which became singles: "Hallucinate", "Levitating", and "Love Again". "Levitating" has since achieved diamond certification.

Price also contributed to Japanese-British singer-songwriter Rina Sawayama's second studio album Hold the Girl, which was released on September 16, 2022, and peaked at number 2 on the UK charts.

Additionally, Price co-wrote and produced

He produced Jessie Ware’s album That! Feels Good, which reached the top 5 in the UK charts and received a Mercury nomination in 2023.

Price's production work extended to Romy's album Mid Air, which featured the single "Strong", a significant hit on UK radio, and received a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic Record at the 2024 ceremony.

Furthermore, Price co-wrote and co-produced four new songs on

Price has also been involved in various film projects and soundtracks in 2022 and 2023, including producing key records for Elvis, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and Argylle (Electric Energy). In 2023, he produced the highly acclaimed Celebration Tour for Madonna, which received worldwide recognition.

Solo and group work

Price was born in

Zoot Woman released their debut album, Living in a Magazine, in 2001, following it up in 2003 with an eponymous album. The same year, Price released DJ mix album FabricLive.09, part of a series of mix releases from London club Fabric, under his Jacques Lu Cont moniker. He made his first original release under the name the following year; "...And Dance" was a single featuring General Degree. Another Zoot Woman album, Things Are What They Used To Be, was released in 2009, and further Jacques Lu Cont singles followed, released both in physical formats and as free downloads from SoundCloud.

As producer

Price has produced, and at times co-written, numerous songs for popular artists. Price has also remixed and re-produced numerous songs under his own name as well as the names Thin White Duke (originally created by David Bowie), Jacques Lu Cont, and Les Rythmes Digitales. Other aliases include Man with Guitar and Paper Faces (an alias for him and Adam Blake of the band Zoot Woman). Price's remixes are characterised by club-led beats with arpeggios, riffs, and vocal lines faded and filtered throughout the song for a climactic effect.^{[citation needed]} He favours keeping the original vocal arrangement of songs and re-contextualizing the non-lyrical content in creating his new versions.^{[citation needed]}

Madonna

Price is best known for his work with Madonna's tenth studio album Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005). He began collaborating with Madonna as musical director for her 2001 Drowned World Tour after remixing some of the tracks on her Music album via Mirwais. He reprised the role for her 2004 Re-Invention World Tour and 2006 Confessions Tour. Price created remixes for the album's singles "Hung Up", "Sorry" (under the Man with Guitar alias), "Get Together", and "Jump", as well as the album tracks "I Love New York" and "Let It Will Be" (under the Paper Faces alias). Price co-wrote the song "X-Static Process" for Madonna's 2003 album American Life. Price has also remixed the Madonna songs "Hollywood" from American Life and "Miles Away" from the album Hard Candy. Madonna chose his remix of "Hollywood" for her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Missy Elliott. In 2023 Madonna invited Price again (17 years after their last collaboration) as musical director for her first retrospective tour.^[5]

The Killers

Price's work with The Killers began with his remix of their hit single "Mr. Brightside", released under the Thin White Duke name. Subsequently, Price remixed the song "When You Were Young", the first single from The Killers album "Sam's Town". Price produced two of the tracks re-recorded for the release of The Killers' B-sides album, Sawdust: "Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf" and "Sweet Talk". His remix of "Mr. Brightside" appeared as a bonus track on that release. Price went on to produce The Killers' third studio album, "Day & Age", released on 24 November 2008.^[6] He also created an extended remix of the lead single "Human" released under the Thin White Duke name. Price also worked for The Killers vocalist Brandon Flowers' debut solo album Flamingo, producing most of the songs on it, including the second single "Only the Young". The album was released on 6 September in the UK and Ireland and 14 September in the US and Canada.

The Killers' album, Battle Born, contains two tracks that Price produced, as well as a Jacques Lu Cont remix of the album's first track, "Flesh and Bone".^[7]

Price also produced the song "Just Another Girl", a new track on the Killers compilation album Direct Hits.

In the deluxe version of The Killers' 2017 album, Wonderful Wonderful, Price did a remix of the album's single, "The Man".

Pet Shop Boys

Price was the musical director on the Pandemonium tour, and produced their 2013 album

Price is the executive producer for Kylie Minogue's 11th studio album titled Aphrodite which was released on June 30, 2010. On 11 June, the hit single "All the Lovers" was released, and later "Get Outta My Way", which was remixed by Price into an extended version.

Other production work

Price was the album producer on

Price was also reported to be working with New Order's Bernard Sumner on a "synthesiser album".^[11] However, it appears the project has been shelved.^[12]

Price co-produced the Scissor Sisters album Night Work, released on 28 June 2010.^[13] The first track to be released from the album was "Invisible Light", followed by singles "Fire With Fire" and "Any Which Way".

In 2010, Price produced

For the London 2012 Olympic Games, Price was asked to create a theme song as the keystone of what director Danny Boyle called the "sonic branding" of the games. Intended to be played in multiple venues, Price set out to create a modular piece, "Different elements can layer on top of each other to create a fast-paced version for the velodrome, something slow for the background on TV, or a triumphant version of it for the medal ceremonies."[14]

In 2014, Price produced multiple tracks on Take That's seventh studio album III.

In 2015, Price produced the critically acclaimed studio album Get to Heaven by Manchester-based band Everything Everything which Digital Spy described as "a contender for album of the year". Q also awarded the album 5 stars.

In 2017, Price produced with many different people. His first venture was with Kiesza on her 2017 single, entitled "Dearly Beloved", which is expected to be the lead single on her upcoming second album. He also was credited as Jacques Lu Cont when remixing The Knocks's single "Trouble", featuring vocals from Absofacto. The song became the second single to be released from their fifth extended play, entitled Testify.

In 2019, Price produced British band Sundara Karma's second album Ulfilas' Alphabet.^[15]

In 2020, Price served as a co-producer and additional producer for four songs on Dua Lipa's second album Future Nostalgia, three of which became singles: "Hallucinate", "Levitating", and "Love Again". "Levitating" has since achieved diamond certification. He also produced Aussie rockers DMA's third studio album The Glow, which was met with positive reviews.

In May 2022, the single "Superstar" by Swedish singer Darin was released and produced by Price.

Price also contributed to Japanese-British singer-songwriter Rina Sawayama's second studio album Hold the Girl, which was released on September 16, 2022, and peaked at number 2 on the UK charts.

Additionally, Price co-wrote and produced

He produced Jessie Ware’s album That! Feels Good, which reached the top 5 in the UK charts and received a Mercury nomination in 2023.

Price's production work extended to Romy's album Mid Air, which featured the single "Strong", a significant hit on UK radio, and received a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic Record at the 2024 ceremony.

Furthermore, Price co-wrote and co-produced four new songs on

Price has also been involved in various film projects and soundtracks in 2022 and 2023, including producing key records for Elvis, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and Argylle (Electric Energy). In 2023, he produced the highly acclaimed Celebration Tour for Madonna, which received worldwide recognition.

Remixes

Price remixed Coldplay's single "Viva la Vida", released on the band's website as the Thin White Duke remix. Price has also produced and mastered tracks for Frankmusik's debut album, one of which is "3 Little Words". This track was released as a single on the "3 Little Words" EP. He provided two Thin White Duke remixes for the release of Depeche Mode's 2009 single, "Wrong".

In 2009, Price remixed "

He mixed and remixed Miike Snow single "The Rabbit", then produced Take That's album Progress, featuring their reunion with Robbie Williams, later working again on their first EP, Progressed, released in summer 2011. Meanwhile, the band promoted their Progress Live which featured Price as musical director. Price mixed and co-produced several tracks on Duffy's album Endlessly, including first single "Well, Well, Well".

Under his Jacques Lu Cont alias, he released several massive club remixes including ones for U2, Katy Perry, Miike Snow and Coldplay. Under this alias he also remixed Glasgow band Bis' single Eurodisco.

In June 2012 his remix of Charlie Brown was rejected by Coldplay,^[16] though Price did end up having it released through Annie Mac's show on BBC Radio One on 13 July.^[17]

He also created a remix of Juliet's "Avalon".

Stuart is managed by Lucas Keller and Alex Harrow at Milk & Honey, and published by Warner Chappell for the world.

Awards

Grammy Awards

In 2011, Price won a Music Week Award for Best Producer of the Year.^[21]

June 2015, saw Price inducted into Pete Tong's Hall of Fame.^[22]

Discography

Albums

Les Rythmes Digitales

• Libération (1996)
• Darkdancer (1999)

Jacques Lu Cont

• Blueprint (2000)^[23]
• FabricLive.09 (2003)
• Palindrome (ambient album) (2013)

Tracques

• Tracques Volume 1 (2013)