Luxxury

American DJ and record producer
Luxxury
Birth nameBlake Robin
OriginUS
GenresDisco, funk, synth-pop
Occupation(s)DJ, musician, producer, songwriter, podcaster, TikTok creator
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, turntables
Years active2003–present
LabelsKitsuné, Manimal Vinyl, Boogie Angst, Future Disco, Deep&Disco, Super Weird Substance, Atlantic Records, Reinhardt Records, Razor & Tie, RCRD LBL, IAMSOUND, Nolita, Paperclip
Websiteluxxury.com
Musical artist

Luxxury (birth name Blake Robin),[1] formerly known as Baron von Luxxury,[2] is an American producer, songwriter, DJ and artist. His best known songs include "Be Good 2 Me" (as heard in the Xbox game Forza Horizon 4), "Feels So Good" (as heard exclusively in the Xbox game Forza Horizon 5), "Breathe (Again)" and "Feel The Night"; earlier songs include "Drunk", which was used in commercials for Pontiac; "Sweet and Vicious", which was used on The Hills; and "I Know There's Something Going On", a cover of a song by Anni-Frid Lyngstad from ABBA. In addition to being the sole songwriter and producer for that band, he is a touring DJ as well as being an in-demand producer, remixer and songwriter formerly under contract with Razor and Tie Music Publishing[3] for whom he has cowritten songs for artists including Vanessa Daou and Little Boots, as well as the song "If That's Love" (co-written with Jesse Owen Astin and Bonnie McKee), which was featured on the CSI: Miami episode, "Show Stopper".[4] He was also a co-founder of the now defunct MP3 blog Disco Workout. Luxxury's 2012 full-length album "The Last Seduction"[5] was released on Manimal Vinyl[6][7] and featured songs about his friends[8] Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.[9] The album received strong[10] reviews[11] and made it to several "best of 2012"[12] lists,[13] including that of Duran Duran's John Taylor.[14]

In 2013 he began releasing a series of unofficial remixes called "LUXXURY Edits" using "(mostly) only original multitrack stems"[15] for a number of famous songs including Eagles' "Hotel California",[16] Duran Duran's "Girls on Film", and various others. As a result of the attention received he began to get commissioned remix work from artists including Greg Wilson, Melanie Martinez, Fitz and the Tantrums, and others.

A series of original singles moving away from "the synths and Moroder-y stuff from my earlier records" to "1979-style Rhodes piano, funky bass, vintage sounding beats and dreamy floaty vocals: Bee Gees meets Todd Terje" was announced in late 2015;[17] the first single "Take it Slow" premiered on January 19, 2016, [18] followed by a number of singles in a similarly vintage funk/disco vein. As a DJ, Robin performs a mix of live, on-the-fly remixes and sings his original material, often accompanied by one or more other musicians. Sometimes this includes a full live band, with whom he has performed opening for Giorgio Moroder, Escort and The Juan Maclean, including a performance on Last Call with Carson Daly.[19]

In July 2020 Robin began posting short videos deconstructing the musical origins of popular songs, and quickly amassed over 300,000 followers on TikTok and 100,000 on Instagram. In 2023 he signed to Kevin Hart's Hartbeat Network[20] to create and co-host the podcast One Song along with writer, producer and actor Diallo Riddle. He also signed with Oxford University Press to write a yet-to-be-titled book about musical borrowing, which will be published in 2025

Luxxury discography

  • Perfect Forever (2023) Nolita Records
  • Alright LP (2022) Nolita Records
  • Just Like It Was Before (feat. Jill Lamoureux) (2021) Boogie Angst Records
  • Let's Stay Together (2021) Nolita Records
  • Don't Give Up (I Believe in You) (2021) Nolita Records
  • Set Me Free (2020) Nolita Records
  • It's Not Funny LP (2019) Nolita Records
  • Change Yr Mind (ft. Adeline) (2019) Kitsuné
  • Another Lifetime with Scavenger Hunt (2019) Nolita Records/AWAL
  • i wanna be EVERYTHING (2018) Nolita Records
  • Keep it Together with Kraak & Smaak (2018) Future Disco
  • Be Good 2 Me (EP) (2018) Nolita Records
  • Pleasure! (single) (2017) Nolita Records
  • I Need You (single) (2017) Nolita Records
  • Feel The Night (single) (2017) Nolita Records
  • How to be Good (EP) (2016) Nolita Records
  • Breathe (single) (2016) Eskimo Recordings
  • What Do Ya Really Want (single) (2016) Plant Music
  • Hold On/Take it Slow (EP) (2016) Deep&Disco
  • Luxxury Edits Vol. 1 (2014) Exxpensive Sounding Music
  • The Last Seduction (2012) Manimal Vinyl[21]
  • Sweet and Vicious: The Remixes (2007) Nolita Records
  • Rock and Roll (is Evil) (2006) Razor & Tie/Nolita Records
  • The Dirty Girls (Need Love Too) EP (2004) Nolita Records
  • The Drunk EP (2004) Nolita Records

Remixes & Re-edits

  • Matti Charlton – A Rocket Ship to the Moon (LUXXURY vocal edit remix) (2021)
  • Goldroom – Guess I'm Jaded (LUXXURY remix) (2020)
  • Gavin Turek – Whitney (LUXXURY remix) (2019)
  • The Ramona Flowers – Strangers (LUXXURY remix) (2018)
  • Hall & Oates – Maneater (LUXXURY edit) (2017)
  • The Ramona Flowers – If You Remember (LUXXURY remix) (2017)
  • Terrace – Tribeca (LUXXURY remix) (2017)
  • New Order – Blue Monday (LUXXURY edit) (2016)
  • Michael Jackson – Rock with You (LUXXURY edit) (2016)
  • Valida – Stars (LUXXURY remix) (2016)
  • Fitz and the Tantrums – HandClap (LUXXURY remix) (2016)
  • Antenna Happy – Body (LUXXURY edit) (2016)
  • Blue Öyster Cult – (Don't Fear) The Reaper (LUXXURY edit) (2016)
  • Petula Clark – I'm Not in Love (LUXXURY edit) (2015)
  • Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love (LUXXURY edit) (2015)
  • Melanie Martinez – Soap (LUXXURY remix) (2015)
  • Greg Wilson – Summer Came My Way (LUXXURY remix) (2015)
  • The Doors – Riders on the Storm (LUXXURY edit) (2015)
  • Donna Summer – Bad Girls (LUXXURY edit) (2015)
  • The Controversy – Two Voices (LUXXURY remix) (2015)
  • Slow Knights – Candy Sugar Rush (LUXXURY remix) (2015)
  • Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime (LUXXURY edit) (2015)
  • Kiss – I Was Made for Loving You (LUXXURY edit) (2015)
  • Duran Duran – Girls on Film (LUXXURY edit) (2014)
  • Blondie – Rapture (LUXXURY edit) (2014)
  • Eagles – Hotel California (LUXXURY edit) (2014)
  • The Clash – Rock the Casbah (LUXXURY edit) (2013)
  • Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon (LUXXURY edit) (2013)
  • David Bowie – Golden Years (LUXXURY edit) (2013)
  • Bee Gees – Night Fever (LUXXURY edit) (2013)
  • Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (LUXXURY edit) (2013)
  • Foreigner – Urgent (LUXXURY edit) (2013)
  • Madonna – Vogue (LUXXURY edit) (2013)
  • Daisy O'Dell – Never (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2013)
  • Louise Burns – Paper Cup (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2013)
  • Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon (Luxxury Re-edit) (2012)
  • Trust – Dressed for Space (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2012)
  • Cameras – June (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2012)
  • Austra – Spellwork (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2011)
  • The Child – Boomerang (Baron von Luxxury Totally Goth Remix) (2011)
  • Cocteau Twins – Lazy Calm (Luxxury Re-edit) (2010)
  • Health – Eat Flesh (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2010)
  • The Burning Hotels – Stuck in the Middle (Baron von Luxxury Controls Everything Remix) (2009)
  • Del Marquis – Runaround (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2009)
  • The Secret Handshake – All for You (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2009)
  • Little Boots – Meddle (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2008)
  • Glass Candy – I Always Say Yes (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2008)
  • Sunny Day Sets Fire – Brainless (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2008)
  • Robots in Disguise – The Sex Has Made Me Stupid (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2008)
  • Robots in Disguise – We're in the Music Biz (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2008)
  • Marianne Faithfull – Broken English (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2008)
  • Dirty Sanchez – Really Rich Italian Satanists (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2008)
  • CSS – A La La (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2007)
  • Scissors for Lefty – Ghetto Ways (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2007)
  • Luxxury – Drunk (Lovesick Vocoders at Night Remix) (2007)
  • Hilary Duff – Stranger (Baron von Luxxury Remix) (2007)

References

  1. ^ Colin, Chris (June 24, 2008). "For every Britney and Lindsay". The San Francisco Chronicle.
  2. ^ Parvini, Sarah (December 14, 2014). "Musician Blake Robin creates his own life of Luxxury". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ^ Paoletta, Michael (July 7, 2007). "Making the Brand: More Than Meets the Ear". Billboard. p. 14. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
  4. ^ "Show Stopper – CSI: Miami". TV.com. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  5. ^ "All Music Guide review of "The Last Seduction"". Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  6. ^ "Baron von Luxxury profile at Manimal Vinyl". Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  7. ^ "Discogs entry for "The Last Seduction"". Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  8. ^ "Baron Von Luxxury on His Friends' Double-Suicide, Five Years Later". LA Weekly.
  9. ^ "Making Sense of a Double Suicide Through Tumblr". Buzzfeed.
  10. ^ "Baron von Luxxury's The Last Seduction". Electronic Rumors.
  11. ^ "Baron von Luxxury's Sci-Fi Glass Candy Video". Spin.
  12. ^ "Best Albums of 2012". The Pop Sucker. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
  13. ^ "Top 20 Albums of 2012". Electronic Rumors.
  14. ^ "Duran Duran names Baron von Luxxury's song "The Lovely Theresa" among his top 20 songs of 2012".
  15. ^ Karp, Hannah (July 10, 2014). "Classic Song 'Stems' Inspire Remixes". The Wall Street Journal.
  16. ^ Ray, Josh (May 12, 2015). "Luxxury Talks". The Ransom Note.[permanent dead link]
  17. ^ Magnier, David (August 2015). "Luxxury – House of Disco Guestmix". House of Disco.
  18. ^ Brodsky, Rachel (January 2016). "LUXXURY Soundtrack a Couple's Lazy Day in 'Take it Slow' Video". SPIN Magazine.
  19. ^ "Zack Snyder/Luxxury/Melissa Rauch". Last Call With Carson Daly. March 2016.
  20. ^ "Kevin Hart's HartBeat Inks Multi-Year Deal with SiriusXM". Vibe.com. March 15, 2023.
  21. ^ Weiss, Jeff (December 7, 2011). "Premiere: Baron Von Luxxury's 'Rosebud Was the Name of His Sled'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 14, 2012.

External links

  • Luxxury Web site
  • Discogs entry for Luxxury'
  • Luxxury at Razor and Tie Publishing
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Interview with Baron von Luxxury at Pulse Radio
  • SF Gate
  • Review of Rock and Roll (is Evil)

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