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Mr OizoFlat BeatM-SEQ
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.[2] 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" 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 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) 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.[3] 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 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. 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[4]), "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.[5][6] He also produced the
tracks "Art of Uff", "F1rst Love", "Our Song" and "NeuNeu". 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
2 CDJ's. Mr. Oizo's first feature film, Steak was released in France on 20 June 2007.[7][8] 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,[9] which has a United States Video on Demand release.[10] His new film, entitled Wrong, will premiere at
the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.[11] Analog Worms Attack (1999) [edit] Singles and EPs "#1" (1997) [edit] Remixes "Kirk" (1997)
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