Artist: Mr Oizo
Genre(s):
Alternative
Experimental
Discography:
Moustache (Half A Scissor)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 17
Stunt
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Last Night A DJ Killed My Dog
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Flat Beat
Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
Analog Worms Attack
Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
Though it's a sure count he'll linger in the minds of most only for his ubiquitous Levi's advert and 1999 European chart-topper "Monotone Beat," music-video managing director Quentin Dupieux turned in some first-class electronic productions as Mr. Oizo. Far from the madding crowds of ad-oriented hippy trance or jungle, "Flat Beat" was a midtempo techno production with hard deformed effects and a playful nature that fit perfectly with the visual focus, a sock puppet. While still a teenager, Dupieux began directional short films for French television system, and off in no less than ashcan School kit and boodle betwixt 1994 and 1998. His associations with the music world began in 1997, when starring French dance citizen Laurent Garnier serendipitously bought a automobile from Dupieux's sire. Dupieux directed the video recording for Garnier's "Flashback" unmarried, as well as the long-form video Nightmare Sandwiches star and featuring music by Garnier. That year, he too affected into music production, with his debut single "#1" coming into court on Garnier's F Communications label. After the video he (naturally) directed for second single "M-Seq" landed on an ad agency desk, he was tapped to engineer the commercial that launched Levi's vaunted non-denim melody of trousers. The eccentric mention -- featuring a marionette named Flat Eric maniacally bobbing his headway to the medicine in the passenger seat of a Chevelle piece a nonplussed human driver saturated on the route -- shortly became celebrated across Europe, and the single (too on F Communications) strike number unmatched all across the continent. (It eventually sold over two meg copies.) The obligatory full-length Parallel Worms Attack followed in October, and earned American dispersion early the undermentioned year. Dupieux also directed the picture for "Party People" by Alex Gopher.
