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Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)
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About Les Rythmes Digitales
Les Rythmes Digitales captured the precise moment when late-1990s club music began looking backward to the synthetic textures, drum-machine punch and pop architecture of the 1980s without losing its contemporary dancefloor force. Stuart Price’s project remains a compact but unusually influential bridge between house, electro, synth-pop and the sleek production language that would dominate the following decade.
Retro-futurism before it became a formula
A short-lived alias with a long afterlife, Les Rythmes Digitales distilled Stuart Price’s early production identity into two albums and a run of sharply designed singles.
Les Rythmes Digitales is a performance name used by British musician, DJ, songwriter and producer Stuart Price. The project emerged during the 1990s as Price was developing a musical language built from programmed drums, clipped basslines, bright synthesizers and an unusually affectionate understanding of early-1980s pop production.
The name itself, French for “the digital rhythms,” played with the period’s fascination with French house. Yet the music was never a straightforward imitation of that scene. It combined house and electro mechanics with synth-pop songwriting, funk-derived rhythm and the polished artificiality of new wave.
The 1996 debut album Liberation established the project’s club-oriented foundations. Its follow-up, Darkdancer, arrived in 1999 and became the definitive Les Rythmes Digitales statement: more melodic, more vocal-led and more obviously connected to the pop grammar of the 1980s.
Tracks such as “Music Makes You Lose Control,” “(Hey You) What’s That Sound?” and “Sometimes,” featuring Nik Kershaw, demonstrated how Price could treat nostalgia as raw material rather than as costume. The records sounded recognisable, but their sequencing, compression and rhythmic precision pointed forward.
Price subsequently became better known through work under other names and through production for major artists, but Les Rythmes Digitales remains the clearest document of his early instincts: disciplined arrangements, immaculate sound design and a fascination with the point where club music becomes pop.
Key moments
The project’s core catalogue was created in a concentrated period, but its songs continued to circulate through reissues, compilations and renewed club attention.
Liberation
Les Rythmes Digitales released the debut album Liberation through Wall of Sound, establishing the project’s mix of house, breaks, techno and electronic pop.
“Kontakte”
The early single “Kontakte” expanded the project’s club profile and reinforced its machine-driven, continental presentation.
“Jacques Your Body”
“Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)” appeared as a major standalone single and later became one of the project’s most recognisable tracks.
Darkdancer singles begin
“Music Makes You Lose Control” and “(Hey You) What’s That Sound?” introduced the more polished synth-pop and electro direction that defined the second album.
Darkdancer
The second album Darkdancer was released by Wall of Sound, combining house, electronica and synth-pop in the project’s most complete work.
“Sometimes” with Nik Kershaw
The collaboration with Nik Kershaw made the project’s 1980s connection explicit while preserving its contemporary club production.
Expanded Darkdancer edition
A two-disc edition of Darkdancer returned the album and additional material to circulation.
A new club-era connection
Ben Sterling released a contemporary reworking of “(Hey You) What’s That Sound?” featuring Les Rythmes Digitales, bringing the catalogue back into current dance music circulation.
Essential releases
The core Les Rythmes Digitales catalogue is compact: two studio albums and a small group of singles that define the project’s sound.
Essential tracks
Six recordings that show the project moving between club pressure, synthetic funk and highly controlled electronic pop.
A blueprint for polished electronic pop
Les Rythmes Digitales helped legitimise a form of 1980s revivalism that was neither parody nor simple reconstruction. The project treated synthetic timbres, gated drums, funk bass and pop melodicism as flexible production tools for contemporary club music.
Its influence is easiest to hear in the seamless relationship between dancefloor engineering and radio-ready arrangement that later became central to Stuart Price’s production career. Darkdancer remains the pivotal record: compact, stylised and unusually predictive of the electro-pop resurgence that followed.
Stuart Price’s wider production world
Les Rythmes Digitales is one branch of a broader career built around aliases, remixes, collaborative projects and high-level pop production.
Jacques Lu Cont
A closely related Price alias used for DJ work, releases and remixes, extending the French-coded identity first associated with Les Rythmes Digitales.
Thin White Duke
One of Price’s best-known remix aliases, associated with long-form club reinterpretations and sleek, propulsive electronic production.
Zoot Woman
Price also worked as part of Zoot Woman, a project that explored synth-pop, electronic rock and songwriting from a band-oriented perspective.
Producer and songwriter
The precision already audible in Les Rythmes Digitales became a defining feature of Price’s later work as a producer, songwriter, mixer and musical director.
Official destinations
Verified artist profiles and catalogue destinations for listening and discographic reference.
Editorial profile prepared using MusicBrainz, Apple Music, Spotify and verified release metadata from Wall of Sound-era catalogue records.
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