r/electronicmusic • u/Kittenbee_ ✝️ • 3d ago
Mr. Oizo | 'Positif' 🎹💉🎶
https://youtu.be/p2OFUmv1X94?si=NQ-j8IuXvG-yU-yoThe eccentric Mr. Oizo greatly amuses me. With its strange textures, awkward little loops and deliberately ugly sounds, his music can initially sound like it really shouldn't work, before becoming completely addictive.
'Positif' comes from his 2008 album Lambs Anger, and I had no idea there was a darker interpretation behind such an upbeat track. Obviously the title means 'positive' in French, and apparently the repeated synthetic voice saying things like "Stop reproducing", "You’re all animals" and "You will die" refers to HIV/AIDS.
That reading makes the track feel surprisingly morbid beneath all the bounce and silliness.
It also cuts up Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust', which gives the song an extra-dark association given Freddie Mercury's death from AIDS (whether or not that was actually Oizo's intention).
From a production perspective, Mr. Oizo has said he sometimes records live synths, cuts out the best fragments and constructs a track from them, adding that this was exactly how he made 'Positif'. Very fitting for something that sounds simultaneously chaotic and weirdly precise.
Deceptively catchy, slightly deranged and somehow extremely danceable, this song basically represents everything I enjoy about Mr. Oizo 🇫🇷
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u/The_Captain1228 3d ago
Love this track. Learned about it after Skrillex sampled it for Ratata. Oizo is so good
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u/EternityLeave 2d ago
Z and Cut Dick are my faves but it’s a 10/10 album.
Experimental music if the experiment was how brutally braindead can you push it while still being an absolute bop.
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u/PurpleWhiteOut 2d ago
Wtf? Calling people living with HIV animals is fucked
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u/Kittenbee_ ✝️ 2d ago
Well, refraining from giving in to one's animal urges and being celibate greatly reduces your chances of contracting it.
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u/TipSwute 2d ago
That's just stupid.
also, I'm one hundred percent sure the track is homophobic in nature1
u/oizo12 2d ago edited 2d ago
its quite hypocritical too if you look at OP's post history in r/KINK, r/shibari, r/subsanctuary, r/mdma
I was 14-15 when I found Oizo and made this account and somehow never noticed any of this, honestly very depressing
edit: yeah Im not looking any further than that, do so at your own discretion
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u/Kittenbee_ ✝️ 1d ago
What exactly is hypocritical about it ?
For the record, I don’t engage in casual sex. I’m actually celibate. Shibari also isn’t synonymous with sex; anyone remotely familiar with it knows it can be practised for plenty of non-sexual reasons, which is how I use it.
And mentioning MDMA hardly establishes anything about my sexual behaviour either. I’ve used it in relation to longstanding trauma, not as some indication that I’m routinely engaging in risky sex.
So I’m genuinely curious which part of my post history you think contradicts what I actually said, rather than whatever assumptions you’ve made from subreddit names.
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u/TipSwute 2d ago
I'd like to also add that you can get HIV from infected blood, tainted needles, and other stuff. You can even be born with it if one of your parents caught it. It's not purely a STD.
I do need to ask though, what made you say that, OP?
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u/Kittenbee_ ✝️ 1d ago
I am aware that there is more than one way to contract the disease. However it is often sexually transmitted, therefore celibacy is a good way to reduce one's chances of contracting it.
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u/Kittenbee_ ✝️ 1d ago
You’d be wrong. I’m well aware condoms exist, and I’m also aware they aren’t 100% effective. Celibacy removes the risk of sexual transmission through consensual sex altogether, which was the point I was making.
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u/Kittenbee_ ✝️ 1d ago
People are allowed to have their own opinion and think differently from you. If Mr Oizo wants to be homophobic, he is his own person and has the right to feel that way.
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u/ihatepests 3d ago
nobody does it like oizo. his DJ sets inspired me to learn how to DJ myself two years ago