Mr. Oizo

blasthaus, Whatever|Forever, & 1015 Folsom present

MR. OIZO
ED BANGER RECORDS

+ MORE TBA!

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21ST / 10P-3A / 21+

Tickets: https://oizo1015-lastfm.eventbrite.com/

MR. OIZO
oizo3000.com

Legendary French producer Mr. Oizo returns to SF in celebration on his newly released album, The Church! Mr Oizo, aka Quentin Dupieux was born in 1974. At the age of 12, he found a camera and shot anything and everything. At 17, he began to play music to illustrate his images, and bought his first synthesizer. In 1997 he released his first long-player, on FCOM and invented the silly pseudo: MR OIZO.

In 1999, the brand Levi’s asked him to make 6 ads with a character he had just created : Flat Eric. The track he composed for these commercials "Flat Beat' (reached the top of the charts in Europe on the day of release. At the same moment he recorded 'Analog Worms Attack', an experimental album. This record scared away most of Flat Beat’s fans, but seduced another, more spécialist audience.

Following that, he searched for a way to spend his money and decidesd to produce 'Nonfilm' (2001), an incongruous average length movie in which Sébastien Tellier also plays. Satisfied with this, Quentin decided to not release the movie and put it away after few projections in Paris. In 2004, he discovered the joy of computers and totally changed his style of producing music with the recording of his second album, 'Moustache' (Half a scissor). In 2006, he met the ed banger crew and starts producing with DJ Feadz some beats for the young Uffie, an ingenue female rapper. He writes and produces 'Steak', his first feature-length film in which he makes his friends act (SebastiAn, Kavinsky, Eric & Ramzi), and composes with Sebastien Tellier and SebastiAn the soundtrack of the film and makes it into an album He released, in 2007 his first 12 inch for Ed Banger, the famous 'Transexual', and produced a collection of remixes for different artists (Calvin Harris, Scissor Sisters, Cassius, Jamelia.. ). Then in 2008 he created on a new album 'Lambs Anger', on Uffie’s album and feature-length film 'Realite' tin 2009.

Now on the heels of the fresh release, The Church, the album is hailed as a lavish foray into unexpected sonic dimensions. Limber and chaotic, The Church swerves from gasping intensity to minimal rapture. It is a loose cannon, a bold experiment that provokes outbursts of energy and dance. “Bear Biscuit” crashes through the skull, a forceful debut of Oizo’s audio weaponry. Delusional undulations inhabit “Ham”, while “Mass Doom” flips from an industrial beginning into an elastic sonic swim. “Machyne” is wickedly alluring, a synthetic tightrope crossing the wild high of technology. “Torero” drops into a thunderstorm, dabbling in the eye of an electrical tornado with a breakdown of flashing lights, shredded walls and colored confetti: pure swirling madness. Built with broken windows on a cavernous bassline, title track “The Church” closes the album with a luscious, geometric melody. Unpredictable and assertive, leaden yet light - Mr. Oizo’s unique style and aerobic beats offer listeners an exhilarating aural excursion.