Stuart Price

Stuart David Price (born 9 September 1977) is an English electronic musician, DJ, songwriter, and record producer.

His acts include his own band Zoot Woman (with Adam Blake and Johnny Blake), Les Rythmes Digitales (, literally "The Digital Rhythms"), 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).

Price is known for his work with artists including Madonna, Dua Lipa, The Killers, New Order, Kylie Minogue, DMA's, Example, Take That, Missy Elliott, Scissor Sisters, Pet Shop Boys, Brandon Flowers, Gwen Stefani, Seal, Keane, Jessie Ware, Frankmusik, Hard-Fi, Hurts, Everything Everything, Rina Sawayama, and Darin.

Romy (Mid Air Album), Mimi Webb (Ghost of you), George Ezra (Green Green Grass), Jess Glynn (What Do You Do?), Cat Burns (People Pleaser, Live More Love More)

Other production work:

Greatly influenced by 1980s dance music, Darkdancer would later be included in Vice magazine's 99 Greatest Dance Albums of All Time list.

Initially choosing the name as a reference to the explosion in demand for French house in the United Kingdom during the 1990s, 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 formed Zoot Woman with Adam Blake and Johnny Blake, and their debut 12-inch, Sweet to the Wind EP, was released in 1995.

Around the same time, under the pseudonym Jacques Lu Cont, Price was making music as Les Rythmes Digitales.

The first Les Rhythmes Digitales album, Liberation, was released in 1996.

A single, "Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)", followed the next year.

It was re-released in 1999, reaching #60 on the UK Singles Chart, and was included on that year's album, Darkdancer.

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.

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.

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.

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 is best known for his work with Madonna's tenth studio album Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005).

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.

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.

He favours keeping the original vocal arrangement of songs and re-contextualizing the non-lyrical content in creating his new versions.

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 George Ezra’s platinum hit single “Green Green Grass”, which emerged as one of the biggest hits of 2022.

The song reached number three on the UK Singles Chart and was nominated for the Brit Award for Song Of The Year at the 2023 Brit Awards

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 The Killers' 2023 chart-topping album release Rebel Diamonds, including the singles “Boy”, “Spirit”, and “Your Side of Town”.

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.

Price was born in Paris but grew up in Reading, England.

His musical career started with two acts working simultaneously, releasing music on London-based label, Wall of Sound.