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LUCA MAINI's igloomag.com REVIEW ::

Pietro Da Sacco | 05/08/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"LUCA MAINI's igloomag.com REVIEW ::



(06.07.06) Back in 1999 Analog Worms Attack hit me like a baseball bat on my gums, I was still listening to some hip-hop and that record deconstructed pretty much all the musical standards I knew at the time, plus there was the huge surprise hearing an album that was so distant from the huge success of the Flat Eric TV commercial. Moustache (Half A Scissor) is not as striking for me, but only because after a few years I'm used to extreme stuff; I think that an average F Com listener would be very unsettled instead.



This time Mr. Oizo gives his interpretation of disco music, and it's like taking dusty old tapes of Studio 54 music, chopping them into little pieces and then reassemble them randomly. As several interludes reclaim, "this is computer muuuusic!" The result is a noisy hardcore version of Akufen music: intentional glitches everywhere, hiccupping beats, surface noise boosted to the maximum and still this messy demolished disco retains a shadow of rhythmical texture. You could almost dance to tracks like "Latex," "Nurse Bob" and "Square Surf" (if only they would last more than 2-3 minutes), but you can only go nuts when you listen to screwballs such as "Berleef" or "Scum Hotel." Moustache... is the disco/electro equivalent of Bogdan Razcynski or Venetian Snares, so be prepared for catchy bouncing basslines hindered by sudden interruptions, out of tempo beats and screeching samples. There's a tune that stands out on all this oddity, and it's the minimal electro-techno stomper "Stunt," produced with Sebastian Tellier: a kick, a snare, the most baroque synth melody you can imagine and a thick layer of surface noise smearing everything. Moustache... --it's a forty minute long floor-clearer, it would be an excellent death blow to disco and electro revival, but I fear that the musical market will be continuously submerged by silly compilations that recycle the same tunes."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason Harrington | www.myspace.com/mad_trucker | 04/17/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Oh yeah, slipping in under most peoples radars in Sept of 05, is the maniacal Mr.Oizo. Weighing in at just under ten tons of middle finger and giving all the glitch prudes out there a run for their money. Where Prefuse 73 finds his niche in oddly cut jazz excerpts organized in an angular fashion but ultimately possing no more threat than Mouse on Mars, and where Aphex Twin glitches between better received ambient notions and his singles-passed-off-as-albums mentality, Oizo returns with all the unapologetic belligerence of a broken robot on a rampage to shake the sleepy seeds out of Autechre. He was obviously a tad offended by being labeled a sellout filmmaker raking in Levis money with little more than "minimal house" set to a cute sock puppet video. This time he seems far more rabid for rule breaking. It feels like he took Analog Worms Attack and shoved it into a woodchipper. This whole album is cut into off-the-grid time signatures that start and stop with a herky jerky pace. The reason that works for me is because I never thought Oizo was anything but a sound and video artist with a hilarious sense of humor, and I savor every morsel. I still crack up at the paused bass lines of Analog Worms Attack and the strange scratch passages lent by his now-absent DJ. Reviewers seem to have looked over the fact that Mr.O stiil drops the funk on cuts like "Latex," but he just doesn't give it to you like you want it, instead he surprises the listener with twists and turns that would leave any programmer saying "how the hell did he do that." In this way, Moustache could be summarized as a magic show of apparently ripped-open drum machine wizardry, because at times it seems like he's done something terrible to his computer utilizing techniques like the random dual needle drop beat juggle of DJ Swamp. He seems a little obsessed with producing the effect of two kids fighting over the radio dial, but for those wishing to dive into something truly glitchy as opposed to the illusions of the forerunners of IDM, Oizo has decided to get off the bench and truly break something off. This is more sound sculpture than it is music, but at least he lets the beat play out more than Mike Patton (See Fantomas "Suspended Animation"). What could this guy possibly do next-hopefully shoot some sick new puppet videos for this madness. My wish list of collaborators I would love for Mr.O grows every time I listen: Beans/APC, Quasimoto/Madlib, MF Doom, Kid Koala, Busdriver, Kid 606, Mike Patton, Del (whom I could swear I heard a sample from in here somewhere) you name it-all the most damaged vocalists should know this man well, but probably don't. At moments this tangled knot of blips may seem unlistenable to some, I admit, but at least it doesn't drag like the last three so-called "experimental" albums from Bjork. Oh yeah, and there's still a faint suggestion of "minimal house," but this time it's more like really fast glitch house. It's a little overwhelming actually, but that's how I like my Oizo: greasy and smothered with mayonnaise.

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French kissing cartoons.

J. Jones | USA | 07/14/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Mr. and Miss. Oizo:

I am going to carry the child for them.

My balls are heavy with sweat. Sweat for Oizo.

I THINK GOD HAD A HAND IN THIS.

Here is a list to discribe Oizo-



1. When They Called Him a fake.

2. Bottom Totem

3. Animal Counter-Attack!!!

4. PRESS and HOLD

5. A Tissue For Her Slobber

6. Time To Get Dizzy In The Back Yard!

7. Violent Menace And His Spooky Stare.

8. I Make Stuff Up.

9. Play in the candy fountain.

10. Piano teeth.

...........

Mabe I am going in the wrong direction here.

I like it, It is really nice on the ears. With plenty of things to keep you interested. Sick beats in great harmony.

Buy this album or die in a car fire.

xoxo"