Luxxury
Luxxury, formerly known as Baron von Luxxury, is an American producer, songwriter, DJ and artist. His best known songs include "Be Good 2 Me" "Breathe " 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 for whom he has cowritten songs for artists including Vanessa Daou and Little Boots, as well as the song "If That's Love", which was featured on the episode, "Show Stopper |Show Stopper". He was also a co-founder of the now defunct MP3 blog Disco Workout. Luxxury's 2012 full-length album "The Last Seduction" was released on Manimal Vinyl and featured songs about his friends Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. The album received strong reviews and made it to several "best of 2012" lists, including that of Duran Duran's John Taylor.
In 2013 he began releasing a series of unofficial remixes called "LUXXURY Edits" using " only original multitrack stems" for a number of famous songs including Eagles' "Hotel California", Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" and many more. 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; the first single "Take it Slow" premiered on January 19, 2016,
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.
Luxxury discography
- Set Me Free Nolita Records
- It's Not Funny Nolita Records
- Change Yr Mind Kitsuné
- Another Lifetime with Scavenger Hunt Nolita Records/AWAL
- i wanna be EVERYTHING Nolita Records
- Keep it Together with Kraak %26 Smaak Future Disco
- Be Good 2 Me Nolita Records
- Pleasure! Nolita Records
- I Need You Nolita Records
- Feel The Night Nolita Records
- How to be Good Nolita Records
- Breathe Eskimo Recordings
- What Do Ya Really Want Plant Music
- Hold On/Take it Slow Deep&Disco
- Luxxury Edits Vol. 1 Exxpensive Sounding Music
- The Last Seduction Manimal Vinyl
- Sweet and Vicious: The Remixes Nolita Records
- Rock and Roll Razor & Tie/Nolita Records
- The Dirty Girls EP Nolita Records
- The Drunk EP Nolita Records
Remixes & Re-edits
- Gavin Turek - Whitney
- The Ramona Flowers - Strangers
- Hall & Oates - Maneater
- The Ramona Flowers - If You Remember
- Terrace - Tribeca
- New Order - Blue Monday
- Michael Jackson - Rock With You
- Valida - Stars
- Fitz and the Tantrums - HandClap
- Antenna Happy - Body
- Blue Öyster Cult - The Reaper
- Petula Clark - I'm Not In Love
- Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
- Melanie Martinez - Soap
- Greg Wilson - Summer Came My Way
- The Doors - Riders on the Storm
- Donna Summer - Bad Girls
- The Controversy - Two Voices
- Slow Knights - Candy Sugar Rush
- Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
- Kiss - I Was Made for Loving You
- Duran Duran – Girls on Film
- Blondie – Rapture
- Eagles – Hotel California
- The Clash - Rock The Casbah
- Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
- David Bowie – Golden Years
- Bee Gees – Night Fever
- Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
- Foreigner – Urgent
- Madonna – Vogue
- Daisy O'Dell – Never
- Louise Burns – Paper Cup
- Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
- Trust – Dressed for Space
- Cameras – June
- Austra – Spellwork
- The Child – Boomerang
- Cocteau Twins – Lazy Calm
- Health – Eat Flesh
- The Burning Hotels – Stuck in the Middle
- Del Marquis – Runaround
- The Secret Handshake – All For You
- Little Boots – Meddle
- Glass Candy – I Always Say Yes
- Sunny Day Sets Fire – Brainless
- Robots in Disguise – The Sex Has Made Me Stupid
- Robots in Disguise – We're in the Music Biz
- Marianne Faithfull – Broken English
- Dirty Sanchez – Really Rich Italian Satanists
- CSS – A La La
- Scissors for Lefty – Ghetto Ways
- Luxxury – Drunk
- Hilary Duff – Stranger