Stade 2

Who would be a better candidate carrying the scepter of Ed Banger Records than Mr Oizo aka Quentin Dupieux whose seminal 'Flat Beat' released in 1999 would draw all media attention to Paris? France, at the height of bringing forward new house productions that would sound like a draught of fresh air in the music department, was suddenly one of the coolest places around, the French touch, hyped up funk and quirky acid sounds which characterized so many productions in unexpected ways, the sound of the moment. After being massively hyped, thanks to Flat Eric, the muppet starring the Levi´s ad, the seminal flat beat sound was on the brink of being so rinsed out that there was no return for Mr Oizo, and intelligently enough, Quentin Dupieux, was aware of this. But... There was life after 'Flat Beat'. Diving back into the Paris underground, he was moving strings and producing even more analogue worm attack sounds, his twisted little fingers mashing up sweet funky slices of music pie for the likes of Uffie as well as remixing almost every interesting producer hailing from the glamourous capital, amongst them Air, Cassius and Busy P. Since 2008, with the uprise of the nu-electro house scene, his sound has seen a resurrection, mutating and transmutation, fusing familiar elements with new sounds and incorporating new elements: trashy glam and the upright nerve wrecking intensity borrowed from rock music. With Stade 2, he is back at those breath taking heights of Flat Beat, picking up where he left Mr Oizo, and centre staging him in his lab of sounds. The results of the cruel experiments of exposing Flat Eric to acid, rock and house, making him ingest countless voice samples, torturing him with analogue machinery, and crossbreeding the poor little creature with computer game sounds, is a restlessly lysergic freak trip through time and space, its ugly result rearing its head in short, breathless takes. There is currently no antidote.