Mr. Oizo
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Mr. Oizo (ˈməsjø ˈwazo) is the stage name of French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 electronic musician and film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 Quentin Dupieux. His pseudonym is a corruption of the French
French language
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 , meaning "bird". He is currently signed to French electro
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 record label, Ed Banger Records
Ed Banger Records
Ed Banger Records is a French electronic music record label run by Pedro Winter. It was founded in 2002 as a division of Headbangers Entertainment. The label is home to French electronic acts Justice, SebastiAn, Daft Punk, Cassius, Uffie, Krazy Baldhead, DJ Mehdi, Mr Oizo, Mr...

.

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. 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".

"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
Flat Eric
Flat Eric was a low-tech, yellow puppet character from Levi's commercials for Sta-Prest One Crease Denim Clothing, built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. His name comes from an idea for a commercial that included having a car run over his head and flattening it. The idea was not used but the name stuck...

 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.

Analog Worms Attack

Analog Worms Attack
Analog Worms Attack
Analog Worms Attack is French techno musician Mr. Oizo's first full-length album, released in 1999. It was available on 10", 12", and CD. The album is mostly instrumental and minimal, taking cues from French House and early American Hip Hop...

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
Feadz
Feadz is a French music producer, DJ and songwriter currently signed by French music label Ed Banger Records. He combines the genres of hip hop, electronic, techno and French house in his music and is perhaps best known for his collaborations with label-mate and former girlfriend...

. "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)
Moustache (Half a Scissor)
Moustache is Mr. Oizo's second album which was released in 2005 on CD. This was the infamous record that lead to Dupieux to leave the F. Com label and form an alliance with French label Ed Banger Records. The first and only single off of Moustache was "Stunt"...

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). 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
Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus, is an experimental multi-genre music producer from Winnetka, California. His debut album, 1983, was released on Plug Research Records in 2006...

' label Brainfeeder.

Ed Banger Records

Mr. Oizo's first EP released on Ed Banger Records
Ed Banger Records
Ed Banger Records is a French electronic music record label run by Pedro Winter. It was founded in 2002 as a division of Headbangers Entertainment. The label is home to French electronic acts Justice, SebastiAn, Daft Punk, Cassius, Uffie, Krazy Baldhead, DJ Mehdi, Mr Oizo, Mr...

 is called "Transsexual
Transsexual (EP)
Transsexual is an EP from electronic musician Mr. Oizo. It was released June 11, 2007. This was the first record released by Oizo on the Ed Banger Label. The voice in this album is the Macintosh system voice "Junior", who claims to be the reincarnation of Michael Jackson.- Track listing :*A1....

". The EP features a re-working of the 1979 disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 track "Do It at the Disco" by Gary's Gang
Gary's Gang
Gary's Gang was an American funk/soul/R&B/disco group who just missed having a U.S. Top 40 hit, when their lone Billboard Hot 100 entry, "Keep on Dancin'", reached #41 in 1978...

. The track appeared on Mr. Oizo's MySpace
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 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
Lambs Anger
Lambs Anger is the third album by Mr. Oizo. Although this album contains many of Mr. Oizo's trademark avant-garde elements, it also has many elements of Electro and French House not previously heard in his albums, most notably French electro-rapper Uffie's guest track, "Steroids"...

is the first studio album released by Ed Banger Records
Ed Banger Records
Ed Banger Records is a French electronic music record label run by Pedro Winter. It was founded in 2002 as a division of Headbangers Entertainment. The label is home to French electronic acts Justice, SebastiAn, Daft Punk, Cassius, Uffie, Krazy Baldhead, DJ Mehdi, Mr Oizo, Mr...

, the label Mr. Oizo chose after his split with F Communications
F Communications
F Communications, also known as FCom, is a French record label based in Paris. It was founded in 1994 by Eric Morand and Laurent Garnier. It produces dance and electronic music like Avril, Laurent Garnier, and Mr. Oizo amongst many others...

, who notoriously referred to Moustache (Half a Scissor) as "unlistenable". "Positif" and "Pourriture" were chosen as the album's singles. It includes a track, "Steroids" which features label-mate, Uffie
Uffie
Anna-Catherine Hartley , better known by her stage name Uffie , is a Paris-based underground electronic musician, rapper, fashion designer and socialite signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs, and is known for working with...

.

Collaborations with Uffie

Mr. Oizo and Uffie
Uffie
Anna-Catherine Hartley , better known by her stage name Uffie , is a Paris-based underground electronic musician, rapper, fashion designer and socialite signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs, and is known for working with...

 first collaborated on her second single, "Ready to Uff
Pop the Glock/Ready to Uff
"Pop the Glock / Ready to Uff" is the first release from French/American electro artist Uffie. The release includes "Pop the Glock" and "Ready to Uff", her first two singles. "Pop the Glock" started out as a Myspace demo and ended up gaining Uffie international fame...

" in 2006. Since then he has produced the following tracks for Uffie: "Dismissed", "Hot Chick", "F1rst Love" (which charted at number 18 in Belgium
Belgium
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), "Steroids" and "MCs Can Kiss".

Mr. Oizo provided both production work and songwriting for Uffie's
Uffie
Anna-Catherine Hartley , better known by her stage name Uffie , is a Paris-based underground electronic musician, rapper, fashion designer and socialite signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs, and is known for working with...

 2010 debut album, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans
Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans
Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans is the debut studio album by French-American recording artist Uffie. It was released June 14, 2010 in Europe and June 22, 2010 in the United States by Ed Banger Records, Because Music and Elektra Records. Produced by Feadz, J-Mat, Mr...

. He worked alongside Feadz
Feadz
Feadz is a French music producer, DJ and songwriter currently signed by French music label Ed Banger Records. He combines the genres of hip hop, electronic, techno and French house in his music and is perhaps best known for his collaborations with label-mate and former girlfriend...

, SebastiAn
SebastiAn
SebastiAn is a French electro house artist whose reputation started with his first releases on Ed Banger Records in 2005 entitled 'H.A.L.' and 'Smoking Kills '. He's also known for his remixes for artists such as Annie, Daft Punk, Klaxons, The Rapture, Cut Copy, Revl9n & label-mate Uffie...

, Mirwais, J-Mat and Uffie
Uffie
Anna-Catherine Hartley , better known by her stage name Uffie , is a Paris-based underground electronic musician, rapper, fashion designer and socialite signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs, and is known for working with...

 to produce and write the album. He produced the first single from the album, "MCs Can Kiss", which peaked at number 48 Japan
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 and 97 in France
France
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. 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. 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. 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 2 CDJ's.

Filmmaking

Mr. Oizo's first feature film, Steak was released in France on 20 June 2007. On 25 September, Oizo wrote on his Twitter
Twitter
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 feed that his next film would be titled Rubber. Shooting started 27 October 2009. In the November 2009 issue of Mixmag, Justice
Justice (French band)
Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay . The duo is one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter...

 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
Rubber (2010 film)
Rubber is a 2010 French comedy film about a tire that comes to life and kills people with its psychic powers. It was directed and written by Quentin Dupieux. The film was shown at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

, which has a United States Video on Demand release.

His new film, entitled Wrong, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 in 2012.

Albums

  • Analog Worms Attack
    Analog Worms Attack
    Analog Worms Attack is French techno musician Mr. Oizo's first full-length album, released in 1999. It was available on 10", 12", and CD. The album is mostly instrumental and minimal, taking cues from French House and early American Hip Hop...

    (1999)
  • Moustache (Half a Scissor)
    Moustache (Half a Scissor)
    Moustache is Mr. Oizo's second album which was released in 2005 on CD. This was the infamous record that lead to Dupieux to leave the F. Com label and form an alliance with French label Ed Banger Records. The first and only single off of Moustache was "Stunt"...

    (2005)
  • Steak
    Steak (album)
    Steak: Music From The Motion Picture is a 2007 album by Sébastien Tellier, Mr Oizo and SebastiAn. It is the soundtrack to the film directed by Quentin Dupieux .-Track listing:# SebastiAn - Arrival# Mr. Oizo - Skatesteak...

    (2007)
  • Lambs Anger
    Lambs Anger
    Lambs Anger is the third album by Mr. Oizo. Although this album contains many of Mr. Oizo's trademark avant-garde elements, it also has many elements of Electro and French House not previously heard in his albums, most notably French electro-rapper Uffie's guest track, "Steroids"...

    (2008)
  • Rubber
    Rubber (soundtrack)
    The official soundtrack for the film Rubber, by Gaspard Augé and Mr. Oizo, was released on November 8, 2010 on Ed Banger Records.-Track listing:...

    with Gaspard Auge (Justice) (2010)
  • Stade 2
    Stade 2
    Stade 2 is the fourth full-length album by Mr. Oizo. The album was released on iTunes only on November 11, 2011 on Ed Banger Records, and will be released both physically and in other music stores on November 18.- Track listing :...

    (2011)

Singles and EPs

  • "#1" (1997)
  • "M-Seq
    M-Seq
    M-Seq is an EP by French house musician Mr. Oizo, released in 1997 on CD and 12" vinyl.-12":*A1. Intro *A2. M-Seq *A3. Shortkut *B1. Tweeter Trouble *B2. Oizo's -CD:...

    " (1997)
  • "Flat Beat
    Flat Beat
    "Flat Beat" is a single released by French house musician Mr. Oizo in 1999, featured as a bonus track on his debut album Analog Worms Attack. An accompanying music video was released on VHS. The music video features Flat Eric, a puppet, head banging to the track...

    " (1999) UK
    UK Singles Chart
    The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

     #1
  • "Last Night a DJ Killed My Dog" (2000)
  • "Stunt" (2004)
  • "Nazis EP" (2006)
  • "Transsexual
    Transsexual (EP)
    Transsexual is an EP from electronic musician Mr. Oizo. It was released June 11, 2007. This was the first record released by Oizo on the Ed Banger Label. The voice in this album is the Macintosh system voice "Junior", who claims to be the reincarnation of Michael Jackson.- Track listing :*A1....

    " (2007)
  • "Positif" (2008)
  • "Pourriture" (2009)
  • "Rubber EP" with Gaspard Auge (Justice) (2010)
  • "Stade 2" (2011)

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
Feadz
Feadz is a French music producer, DJ and songwriter currently signed by French music label Ed Banger Records. He combines the genres of hip hop, electronic, techno and French house in his music and is perhaps best known for his collaborations with label-mate and former girlfriend...

"Go On Beef"
2006 Jamelia
Jamelia
Jamelia Niela Davis , best known mononymously as Jamelia, is an English singer-songwriter, model, entertainer, television presenter and actress. She is most famous for her use of a cappella and prolific work in the R&B genre...

"Something About You"
2006 Cassius
Cassius (band)
Cassius is a French house music duo, consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francart, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass.-History:...

"Toop Toop
Toop Toop
"Toop Toop" is a song by French electronic music duo Cassius. It was released in 2006 as the lead single from the Cassius' album 15 Again. The song combines Clash-style guitar riffs, dance beats and megaphone distorted vocals....

"
2006 Kavinsky
Kavinsky
Kavinsky is a French electro house artist, and has released three EPs on the Record Makers label: Teddy Boy in 2006, 1986 a year later and "Nightcall" in 2010. He has been remixed by SebastiAn and others. He toured alongside Daft Punk, The Rapture, Justice, and SebastiAn in 2007...

"Testarossa Autodrive"
2006 Biz Markie
Biz Markie
Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name, Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, comedian, singer, reality television personality, and commercial spokesperson. He is best known for his single "Just a Friend", an American Top 10 hit in 1989...

"Ahh Ah (Remix of 'Vapors')"
2007 Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters are an American band "spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York" who took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism...

"Kiss You Off"
2007 Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris is a Scottish singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ. His gold-selling debut album, I Created Disco, was released in 2007 and contained the top ten singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls"...

"Merrymaking at My Place"
2008 Jamie Lidell
Jamie Lidell
Jamie Lidell is an English musician and soul singer living in Nashville, United States...

"A Little Bit of Feel Good"
2008 Busy P "To Protect & Entertain feat. Murs
Murs
Murs may refer to:*Murs , American rapper*Multi-Use Radio ServiceFrench communes*Murs, Indre*Murs, Vaucluse*Murs-et-Gélignieux, Ain département*Mûrs-Erigné, Maine-et-Loire département...

"
2009 Mr. Oizo "Steroids
Lambs Anger
Lambs Anger is the third album by Mr. Oizo. Although this album contains many of Mr. Oizo's trademark avant-garde elements, it also has many elements of Electro and French House not previously heard in his albums, most notably French electro-rapper Uffie's guest track, "Steroids"...

 feat. Uffie
Uffie
Anna-Catherine Hartley , better known by her stage name Uffie , is a Paris-based underground electronic musician, rapper, fashion designer and socialite signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs, and is known for working with...

"
2009 Tiga
Tiga (musician)
Tiga is the stage name of Montreal-born DJ/producer Tiga James Sontag . His album Sexor won the 2007 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year.-Career:He graduated from Selwyn House School, a prestigious school in Westmount...

"Shoes"
2009 N.A.S.A.
N.A.S.A. (musical group)
N.A.S.A. is a hip hop music duo, consisting of L.A.-based producers Squeak E. Clean and the Brazilian DJ Zegon. N.A.S.A. stands for North America/South America and, in addition to the two principals, includes approximately three dozen other artists from both coasts of the U.S...

"Strange Enough feat. Karen O
Karen O
Karen Lee Orzolek , better known by her stage name Karen O, is the vocalist for New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs.-Early life:...

, Ol' Dirty Bastard
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Russell Tyrone Jones was an American rapper and occasional producer, who went by the stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard or simply ODB...

 and Fatlip
Fatlip
Fatlip is a Los Angeles-born hip hop musician. He started his career in the hip hop group The Pharcyde.-The Pharcyde:...

)"
2010 Boys Noize
Boys Noize
Boys Noize is the stage name of Alexander Ridha, a German electronic music producer and DJ. It is similar to the name of Ridha's label, Boysnoize Records, which he established in 2005...

"Transmission"
2010 Squarepusher
Squarepusher
Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence....

"Cryptic Motion"
2011 Ryskee "Horrors of Love"
2011 Justice
Justice (band)
Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay . The duo is one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter...

"Civilization
Civilization (Justice song)
"Civilization" is a single by the French band Justice and the first from their second album Audio, Video, Disco.. The single, Justice's first via Elektra Records, was initially set to be released on iTunes on 4 April 2011, before becoming available on other digital retailers on April 11...

"

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)
  • "Wrong" (2011)
  • "Reality" (20??)

External links

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