| Mr. Oizo / Moustache (Half A Scissor) |
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| Album: | Moustache (Half A Scissor) | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Mr. Oizo | Added: | Jan 2006 | |
| Label: | F Communications | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-01-15 | Pull Date: | 2006-03-19 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica |
| Week Ending: | Jan 29 |
| Airplays: | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 23, 2016: | The Pocket Nurse Bob | 4. | Jun 08, 2008: | Undrinkably Bad Oddities Untitled, Stunt | |
| 2. | May 11, 2016: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants! Stunt | 5. | May 04, 2008: | Undrinkably Bad Oddities Nurse Bob | |
| 3. | Nov 30, 2010: | Nothing Rhymes with Purple Nurse Bob | 6. | Sep 16, 2006: | Anywhere Out of the World Latex, The End |
| Album Review |
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| Wicked Child Reviewed 2006-01-11 | ||
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brokebeat, the sound of this album reminds me a lot of Nintendo era action games and 80s action films. Drum machines, kettle drums, 80s synths, vocal samples, broken beats. This is an experimental album, though track 9 & 12 aren't too out there -- Oizo's last album included "Flat Beat" which was a crossover success due to a Levi's commercial. So he can be brought home to Mom & Dad, sometimes. Apparently this album was an attempt to get away from standard song structure, Quentin Dupieux (Mr. Oizo) says "album format & track structure are totally demolished & crushed," Laurent Garnier who produced it and founded the label it's released on said the album was "unbearable, but it's a brilliant idea to release it!" I'm not sure I agree wit hall this -- it's still pretty standard beats, and significantly more melodic than some IDM I've heard. It's also a lot more lively and fun than a lot of stuff in the genre, though more restrained than crazy maximalist producers. Picks: 7, 12, 14. FCC Clean. -David Blackman (Wicked Child) 1) "This is computer music" vocal. Machine-gun pip-paps. Would make a good intro to a hard DnB electronica show. (0:41) 2) Bassy tones explode over clip-clap drums only to end in nearly total atonal arrhythmic drum/synth internal. (1:58) 3) High synth melody throughout, squelchy synth, clipped beats -- fairly melodic, but also repetitive. Cuts out at 2:18, comes back mostly unchanged at 2:30. (3:05) 4) Short brokebeat, music for an stakeout/chase. Lots of cymbals, drums. (1:09) 5) Starts as a simple beat heavy, bounce-your-head left to right while holding a pistol track, until a clipped female vocal and synths start to go totally nuts and it ends abruptly. (1:53) 6) Totally ominous -- satanic headmaster with a staff walking down the hall at midnight. Almost entirely bass + static. (1:06) **7) Intro is same vocal sample as track 1. Boss stage! Get ready for major action! Building drums and a synth melody with occasional cheesy phantom-of-the-opera organ. Cuts at 2:00, into almost a jazz drum solo until you realize it's just a sample (2:45) 8) Speak-and-spell sounding intro. One synth sample throughout with puke-inducing distorted vocal. Boring. After 2:25 it's just noise. (2:45) 9) Very clipped beats. Just a slightly harder take on the sound of this album. (1:42) 10) Weirdest track, most broken samples/loops, clap beat, repeated interview-vocal. Great cut-up work @ 2:20, one cut per beat. Ends super abruptly. (3:15) 11) Squeaks, warbles, drum machine, static, vocal sample. Not a song. Unlistenable. (0:59) **12) Distorted crunchy synth that is so very 80s, with a high trapped-in-the-funhouse-with-only-3-minutes-to-escape counterpoint. Album's single. (3:18) 13) Sounds like a corrupted MP3 or "cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp" for the dorks (0:15) **14) Ominous beats, standard 80s territory, then jungle drums, then tech-house, then all together -- nearly danceable. Ends with a random piano note. (3:03) 15) Slowest, chillest track. Plodding synth with major echo/reverb. At 1:11 Pure feedback/X-Files, then crazy twitchy IDM. Then a horn melody. (2:11) *16) 10 to 1 countdown, with get-ready-to-fight music that sounds like trance a few octaves lower than it's usually rendered. Another 80s chase track. Broken up by a great bassy wah-wah-wah sound. Countdown again at 2:00. One of the most listenable. (2:50) 17) Nearly silent until 0:12, even then, very quiet drums. 80s synth line. Then it's a total freakout of samples. Silent 1:55-3:02. Then the sounds of a mad scientist's lair, someone strangling an oscilloscope while beating a geiger counter to death. (5:27) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Untitled | 9. | Scum Hotel | |||
| 2. | The End | 10. | Drop Urge Need Elle | |||
| 3. | Latex | 11. | (Ee) | |||
| 4. | Vagiclean 2 | 12. | Stunt | |||
| 5. | Straw Anxious | 13. | Moustache | |||
| 6. | (E) | 14. | Half A Scissor | |||
| 7. | Nurse Bob | 15. | 1$44 | |||
| 8. | Berleef | 16. | Square Surf | |||
| 17. | Vagiclean | |||||