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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/MSO PR
MR. OIZO
REVEALS ALL-STAR SELF-DIRECTED
‘ALL WET’ ALBUM TRAILER
WITH FLYING LOTUS & FLAT ERIC
WATCH IT HERE: HTTPS://YOUTU.BE/QCQAYTMF61I
‘ALL WET’ IS SET FOR RELEASE TOMORROW, SEPTEMBER 30
VIA ED BANGER RECORDS/BECAUSE MUSIC
‘ALL WET’ RECORD RELEASE PARTY
SET FOR TOMORROW AT THE FONDA THEATRE IN LOS ANGELES
 With his sixth studio album ALL WET due out tomorrow, September 30, the inimitable producer and filmmaker MR. OIZO aka Quentin Dupieux today (9/29) presents a weird and wonderful short film featuring some of the many guests on the album (or a close approximation of them).
Eagle-eyed viewers might notice Flying Lotus–on whose Brainfeeder label OIZO released his Moustache (Hald A Scissor) album in 2011–playing super producer Skrillex, who featured on recent single “End of the World.” Other ALL WET guests Boys Noize and Peaches are also represented along with OIZO’s erstwhile partner in crime, FLAT ERIC. Not to mention a rubber-faced, blood-spattered Donald J Trump.
Speaking to DAZED about the video, DUPIEUX commented, “I need to make all these random ideas work together and create some logic inside the random. Collecting ideas in the air, like Donald Trump. There’s no comment on him- I don’t give a shit-this is just pure nonsense, joy, and fun.”
DUPIEUX’s filmmaking career began when he picked up a camera and starting making movies at age 12, and shortly after began composing electronic music as a means to soundtrack his films. His teenage movies were bought by Canal+ and his first EP under the name of MR. OIZO was released in 1997. In 1999 DUPIEUX was asked to make a TV commercial for Levi’s and FLAT ERIC was born, a furry yellow character he created for the occasion. The track “Flat Beat” which was featured in the commercial topped the charts in Europe the first day it aired and FLAT ERIC instantly became an electro superstar and a pop culture icon of the ’90s.
Since then, DUPIEUX has directed 6 full-length films (Nonfilm, Steak, Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops, Reality), released 5 MR. OIZO LPs (Analog Worms Attack, Moustache (Half A Scissor), Lambs Anger, Stade 2 and The Church), 4 original soundtracks (Steak with Sebastien Tellier & SebastiAn, Rubber with Gaspard Augé, Wrong with Tahiti Boy, and Wrong Cops), and a number of EPs and remixes for the likes of Justice, Air, Calvin Harris, Tiga, Kavinsky, Scissor Sisters, Jamie Lidell and Boys Noize.
On ALL WET, MR. OIZO has invited friends to collaborate, ranging from the aforementioned Skrillex, Boys Noize and Peaches to pop hook genius Charli XCX and Siriusmo to name but a few. This isn’t a features album per se, it’s wall to wall OIZO production with a few curveballs thrown in. Irresistible.
VIDEO CREDITS:
Director/DP/Editor: Quentin Dupieux
Producer: Raffi Adlan
Exec. Producer: Laura Jones
Production Co: Partizan
Prod Designer: Zachary Bangma
Prop Master: Russell Thomas
Puppeteer: Andrew Massey
Assistant Camera: Chelsea Babcock
Post Production: Noodles
Costume Designer: Erica Rice
Make-up Artist: Eva Seltzer
Prod Supervisor: Bretanya Dubin
Prod Assts: Robin Day, David Gritchen, Trevor Hugle, Theodore Keffer
Prod Interns: Austin Gillespie, Colin Trubee
CAST
Fake Skrillex: Flying Lotus
Fake Boys Noize: Dennis Depew
Fake Peaches: Linda Brent
Camcorder: Guy Mocky
Flat Eric: Himself
“Edgy yet consistent, odd yet easy to embrace, it’s electronic music you’d kill to have your drunken libidinous uncle dance to at upcoming Christmas parties”
– Resident Advisor
“Brimming with first-degree sonic battery, it is compulsively listenable”
– Drowned in Sound
“The Parisian puppeteer can be stupendously juvenile, a bearer of killer riffs fidgeting through a revolving door” – Clash Magazine
“Fuck you never goes out of fashion, and it’s assuring to see that Oizo’s still pushing the same obnoxious agenda” – FACT
MR. OIZO will appear at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles
tomorrow, Friday, September 30.
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