Stuart Price

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]

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".

Price was the musical director on the Pandemonium tour, and produced their 2013 album Electric which was very highly acclaimed by critics and reached No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart – their highest-charting album since 1993.[8] He also toured with them on at least several shows in the Electric tour (Las Vegas and Oakland). Price went on to produce their albums Super and Hotspot released in 2016 and 2020 respectively. Both albums received positive reviews and reached No. 3 on the UK Album Chart.[9]

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.

Price was the album producer on Seal's fifth studio album System, which was released in November 2007. He also co-wrote several of the album's songs. Price was among the producers of Keane's album Perfect Symmetry, which was released in October 2008.[10]

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 Take That's studio album Progress which saw Robbie Williams return to the band. Progress was the biggest selling album of 2010 and the second fastest selling British album of all time. In 2011, he worked as a producer on Hard-Fi's 2011 album Killer Sounds. He worked with the band for second single "Fire in the House". In May 2012, the fourth Scissor Sisters album Magic Hour was released with two tracks produced by Stuart Price: "The Secret Life of Letters" and "Somewhere".

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 on the Dua Lipa "Future Nostalgia" album, in 4 songs, where 3 of them: "Hallucinate", "Levitating" and "Love Again" became singles. He also produced the release of Aussie rockers DMA's third studio album The Glow (DMA's album) that has been met with positive reviews.

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

Price is also one of the listed producers on Japanese-British singer/songwriter Rina Sawayama's second studio album Hold the Girl, which was released on September 16, 2022.

In 2011, Price won a Music Week Award for Best Producer of the Year.[19]

June 2015, saw Price inducted into Pete Tong's Hall of Fame.[20]

Les Rythmes Digitales

• Libération (1996)
• Darkdancer (1999)

Jacques Lu Cont

• Blueprint (2000)[21]
• FabricLive.09 (2003)
• Palindrome (ambient album) (2013)

Tracques

• Tracques Volume 1 (2013)

Zoot Woman (with Adam Blake and Johnny Blake)

• Living in a Magazine (2001)
• Zoot Woman (2003)
• Things Are What They Used to Be (2009)
• Star Climbing (2014)
• Absence (2017)
• Redesigned (2018)
• Maxidrama (TBC)