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Biography

Mr. Oizo ( born 14 April 1974) is the stage name of France|French electronic musician and film director Quentin Dupieux . His pseudonym is a corruption of the French language|French , meaning "bird". He is currently signed to French Electronic music|electro record label, Ed Banger Records .

Beginning

Quentin Dupieux was born on 14 April 1974 in Paris , France . 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 synthesizer. 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 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 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) . 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.. Trebuchet Magazine (2010-12-18). Retrieved on 2011-03-21.

Ed Banger Records

Mr. Oizo's first EP released on Ed Banger Records is called " Transsexual (EP)|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". "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, " Pop the Glock/Ready to Uff|Ready to Uff " in 2006. Since then he has produced the following tracks for Uffie: "Dismissed", " Hot Chick/In Charge (EP)|Hot Chick ", " F1rst Love " (which charted at number 18 in Belgium . ultratop.be. Retrieved on 2011-03-21.), "Steroids" and " MCs Can Kiss ".

Mr. Oizo provided both production work and songwriting for Uffie|Uffie's 2010 debut album, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans . He worked alongside Feadz , SebastiAn , Mirwais Ahmadzaï|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 . Billboard (magazine)|Billboard . Retrieved 2010-07-10.. lescharts.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-21. 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., IMDb.com 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 (French band)|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 (2010 film)|Rubber , which has a United States Video on Demand release.

His new film, entitled Wrong , will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.. FirstShowing.net (2011-12-01). Retrieved on 2012-04-16.

Discography

Studio albums

Title	Details	\| Peak chart positions
Title	Details	FRA
Analog Worms Attack Release date: October 11, 1999 Label: F Communications Formats: Compact disc\|CD
Moustache (Half a Scissor) Release date: October 4, 2005 Label: F Communications Formats: CD, music download
Lambs Anger Release date: November 17, 2008 Label: Ed Banger Records Formats: CD, music download
Stade 2 Release date: November 11, 2011 Label: Ed Banger Records Formats: CD, music download
Stade 3 Release date: April 26, 2012 Label: Ed Banger Records Formats: music download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions										Album
Year	Single	AUT	BEL (Vl)	BEL (Wa)	FRA	NED	NOR	NZ	SWE	SUI	UK cite book	Album
1999	" Flat Beat "	1	1	2	5	5	2	12	4	4	1	Analog Worms Attack
2000	"Last Night a DJ Killed My Dog"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Analog Worms Attack
2004	"Stunt"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Moustache (Half a Scissor)
2008	"Positif"	—	—	—	90	—	—	—	—	—	—	Lambs Anger
2009	"Pourriture"	—	—	—	73	—	—	—	—	—	—	Lambs Anger
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

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 film) " (2010)

"Where's the money, George? " (2010) , Vimeo , Uploaded 2010-01-02, Retrieved 2010-04-09

" Wrong (2012 film) " (2011)

"Reality" (20? ? )

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