Mr. Oizo is a French electrodude who came onto the scene in 1999 with his song "Flat Beat" and it's video's classic headbanging puppet protagonist, Flat Eric. He expounded the song and character into a series of awesome French Levi's ads, but remained fairly underground on the music scene after, but he quietly amassed a quality body of work. Then came Justice. One of the group's first hits was their remix of Oizo's "Nazi's" and they took his distorted electro sound and made it their own. As Justice, Simian Mobile Disco, Soulwax all gained notoriety, so did Oizo, as they frequently included him in mixes and remixes.
Oizo's whole albums are a tad hard to get through from start to finish, so I'll give you the highlights. He's definitely one of those fleeting inspiration guys, and his glitchier stuff is too chopped-up for me. However, what I like, I LIKE. Love, even. Here's a selected discography to getcha goin. All these are winnars.
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MP3- Positif (2008)
MP3- $tunt (Flying Lotus Remix) (2008)
MP3- Flat Beat (1999)
MP3- Nazis (Justice Remix) (2006)
MP3- Trina 700 (2007)
MP3- Patrick 122 (2007)
MP3- Hun (2008)
MP3- Transexual (2007)
MP3- Analog Wormz Sequel (1999)
...and here's the CLASSIC vid for "Flat Beat"
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that video is wonderful
ReplyDeleteI started downloading the song Suzanne by Cohen and then i started watching this video, and I guess the Suzanne song started playing like 30 seconds into the video and I didn't realize, I just thought that was how the song went and I was like "WTF". But it was kinda cool.
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