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Quentin Dupieux

Mr. Oizo (French pronunciation: [ˈməsjø ˈwazo]), a pseudonym of French record producer and film director Quentin Dupieux,[1] is a successful French techno[2] musician, mostly known for his 1999 track, "Flat Beat". His pseudonym is a corruption of the French [oiseau] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), meaning "bird". He is currently signed to French electro record label, Ed Banger Records.

Beginning

Quentin Dupieux was born in 1974. At the age of 12, he found a camera and started taking photographs. At 17, he began to play music to illustrate his images, and bought his first synthesiser. In 1997, Laurent Garnier of F Com bought a car from Mr. Oizo's father.[3] Garnier then found out about Dupieux's talents and let him direct the music video for his song "Flashback". Later Dupieux was signed by F Com Records where he released his first EP, "#1".[citation needed]

"Flat Beat"

"Flat Beat" was a track with a repeated bass loop. As stated in an interview with XLR8R magazine he said that it took him two hours with a Korg MS-20 to make. Dupieux is however most known for this track, which became a hit throughout Europe in 1999 and was featured in a series of Levi's jeans TV commercials. Dupieux also directed the advertisement, which featured a yellow puppet named Flat Eric nodding his head to the sound of the track while riding in an old beat-up car. After "Flat Beat", Oizo spent two months creating his first full album, Analog Worms Attack. The Flat Beat EP has sold over 3 million copies.[citation needed]

Analog Worms Attack

Analog Worms Attack was Oizo's first album, released in 1999. The album's namesake was derived from the album's production – it was composed entirely using analog equipment. The record scratching effects were provided by Mr. Oizo's friend, Feadz. "Flat Beat" appeared as a bonus track, after the five minutes of silence following the final track "Analog Wormz Sequel". There are a total of three singles off of this album. A version of "No Day Massacre" without any record scratching exists on the Flat Beat EP, titled "Monday Massacre".

Moustache (Half a Scissor)

Moustache (Half a Scissor) was Mr. Oizo's second studio album. Released in 2005, the album was composed exclusively using computers as he had by that time decided to eschew the use of analog equipment. The extensive time it took to remodel his studio and master the use of computers in composing electronic music is cited as the reason for the long hiatus between Analog Worms Attack and Moustache (Half a Scissor).[citation needed] Before its public release, a promo CD was released onto the internet featuring three tracks not on the original release: "CPU","Nazis", and "A Nun".

Some songs on the promo differ from the released album versions. For example, "Nurse Bob" is much longer on the final release whilst the promo version splices vocal samples into a much shorter version. This is his only album not to have its debut release on vinyl; in January 2011 it was released through Flying Lotus' label Brainfeeder.[4]

Ed Banger Records

Mr. Oizo's first EP released on Ed Banger Records is called "Transsexual". The EP features a re-working of the 1979 disco track "Do It at the Disco" by Gary's Gang. The track appeared on Mr. Oizo's MySpace page in 2006 under the title Patrick122. On 16 October 2008, a video appeared on Mr. Oizo's MySpace page, a promo for his upcoming album, Lambs Anger. The first single off the Record was "Positif", which was released 3 days after Lambs Anger. On 15 March 2009, the second EP off the album is released, Pourriture, featuring some self reworked titles by Oizo himself, and a remix of Erreur Jean, by Arveene & Misk.

Lambs Anger

Lambs Anger is the first studio album released by Ed Banger Records, the label Mr. Oizo chose after his split with F Communications, who notoriously referred to Moustache (Half a Scissor) as "unlistenable".[citation needed] "Positif" and "Pourriture" were chosen as the album's singles. It includes a track, "Steroids" which features label-mate, Uffie.

Collaborations with Uffie

Mr. Oizo and Uffie first collaborated on her second single, "Ready to Uff" in 2006. Since then he has produced the following tracks for Uffie: "Dismissed", "Hot Chick", "F1rst Love" (which charted at number 18 in Belgium[5]), "Steroids" and "MCs Can Kiss".

Mr. Oizo provided both production work and songwriting for Uffie's 2010 debut album, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans. He worked alongside Feadz, SebastiAn, Mirwais, J-Mat and Uffie to produce and write the album. He produced the first single from the album, "MCs Can Kiss", which peaked at number 48 Japan and 97 in France.[6][7] He also produced the tracks "Art of Uff", "F1rst Love", "Our Song" and "NeuNeu".

Production and equipment

In his early years, Mr. Oizo used a Korg MS-20, an Akai S1000, and an Atari 1040 computer.[citation needed] Mr. Oizo is known currently for strong use of computers in his music. As he stated in an interview with XLR8R, he started using computers to avoid having to plug in four different appliances, and because the result of music is more or less the same.[citation needed] His first album to switch to all computers was Moustache (Half a Scissor). In Lambs Anger, Mr. Oizo used a Macintosh G5 running Logic Pro to compose all of the songs. During his DJ sets, he uses a Macbook for the music alongside two CDJs for mixing.[citation needed]

Filmmaking

Mr. Oizo's first feature film, Steak was released in France on 20 June 2007.[8][9] On 25 September, Oizo wrote on his Twitter feed that his next film would be titled Rubber. Shooting started 27 October 2009. In the November 2009 issue of Mixmag, Justice stated that they would be working on the soundtrack for Rubber, saying they had to 'finish working on the soundtrack for Mr. Oizo's new film before we start recording for the new album'.

He directed the absurdist thriller Rubber,[10] which has a United States Video on Demand release.[11]

Discography

Albums

Singles and EPs

  • "#1" (1997)
  • "M-Seq" (1997)
  • "Flat Beat" (1999) UK #1[1]
  • "Last Night a DJ Killed My Dog" (2000)
  • "Stunt" (2004)
  • "Nazis" (2006)
  • "Transsexual" (2007)
  • "Positif" (2008)
  • "Pourriture" (2009)
  • "Rubber EP" with Gaspard Auge (Justice) (2010)

Remixes

Year Artist Title
1999 Techno Animal "We Can Re Build"
1999 Demon "The Nod Factor"
1999 Alex Gopher "Time"
1999 Ark "Punkadelik"
2001 Ark "Sucubz"
2001 Herbert "Back to the Start"
2002 Air "Don't Be Light"
2004 Feadz "Go On Beef"
2006 Jamelia "Something About You"
2006 Cassius "Toop Toop"
2006 Kavinsky "Testarossa Autodrive"
2006 Biz Markie "Ahh Ah (Remix of 'Vapors')"
2007 Scissor Sisters "Kiss You Off"
2007 Calvin Harris "Merrymaking at My Place"
2008 Jamie Lidell "A Little Bit of Feel Good"
2008 Busy P "To Protect & Entertain feat. Murs"
2009 Mr. Oizo "Steroids feat. Uffie"
2009 Tiga "Shoes"
2009 N.A.S.A. "Strange Enough feat. Karen O, Ol' Dirty Bastard and Fatlip)"
2010 Boys Noize "Transmission"
2010 Squarepusher "Cryptic Motion"
2011 Ryskee "Horrors of Love"
2011 Justice "Civilization"

Music videos and filmography

  • "Kirk" (1997)
  • "M-Seq" (1999)
  • "Flat Beat" (1999)
  • "Analog Worms Attack" (1999)
  • "Inside The Kidney Machine" (1999)
  • "Nonfilm" (2001)
  • "Stunt" (2004)
  • "Steak" (2007)
  • "Making Lambs Anger" (2009)
  • "Rubber" (2010)
  • "Where's the money, George?" (2010) [12]
  • "Wrong" (2011)
  • "Reality" (20??)

References

  1. ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 371. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mr-oizo-p299882/biography
  3. ^ "Flat Eric's cruise to the top". BBC News. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  4. ^ Mr Oizo – Moustache (Half A Scissor) re-release | Reviews. Trebuchet Magazine (2010-12-18). Retrieved on 2011-03-21.
  5. ^ Uffie – First Love. ultratop.be. Retrieved on 2011-03-21.
  6. ^ MCs Can Kiss – Uffie Billboard. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
  7. ^ Uffie – MCs Can Kiss. lescharts.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-21.
  8. ^ Steak (2007), IMDb.com
  9. ^ [1] [dead link‍]
  10. ^ Second Rubber Clip Rolls Out
  11. ^ Discover The Source Of Robert The Tire's Rage In The New RUBBER Clip!
  12. ^ "WHERE'S THE MONEY GEORGE ?", Vimeo, Uploaded 2010-01-02, Retrieved 2010-04-09

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