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Although the name and work as Les Rythmes Digitales to mislead, Jacques Lu Cont is really called Stuart Price and he was not born in Paris and Montpellier, but in Reading, UK. But that (besides the red hair dye with blue eyes) not only increases the curiosity about someone who for years has begun to assert the validity of the mainstream of the eighties. “Darkdancer” Les Rythmes Digitales is one of those rare albums of dance music clearly influenced by pop that contains a supernatural percentage of hits per minute, and a particular vision of what should be a dance floor. Not in vain Jacques Lu Cont has said on more than one occasion that Phil Collins samplearía prior to any trendy disc 60 or 70. And the legend is that his parents were very strict and not allowed to listen to pop music until she was 14 years. So what could be considered his own kind of rebellion.

After a first album, “Liberation”, for the prestigious English label Wall Of Sound, with one foot in the techno, Lu Cont gave a twist to his career, turning into a powerful bass-laden music, rhythm, synths debtors The Human League and catchy melodies. Topics such as “Jacques Your Body”, “(Hey You) What’s That Sound” and “Music Makes You Lose Control” appeared in thousands of compilations and swept the dance floors around the world, putting in Les Rythmes Digitales people the same league as the likes of Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim and The Chemical Brothers.

Last year, Stuart Price continued to claim the eighties with Zoot Woman, alongside the who plays bass with the Blake brothers whose first album, “Living In A Magazine”, got the attention of the press and to break into the charts with singles that referred to the glamorous hedonism that so many gave results in the eighties. 2001 was a great year for Lu Cont, but not only by the debut of Zoot Woman: Shortly after the departure of “Living in a Magazine” in full promotional tour, Price left the band to play bass during the European tour from none other than Madonna.