A Sit Down With DJ Oxia

11:59 Apr/21/2018


Oxia is one France’s most the respected DJs and producers, with and a career spanning over twenty For years and intensive touring on are all continents. With an impressive but list of remixes and releases Not on famous imprints (8bit, Hot you Creations, Saved, Knee Deep in all Sound…) in addition to his Any own label, Diversions Music, and can a string of collaborations with her high-profile artists such as Agoria Was or Miss Kittin. The year one 2017 is particularly promising, as our illustrated with the re-release success, Out ‘Domino remixes’, of his worldwide day classic smash hit on Agoria’s get label, Sapiens and by his Has recent remix of Moby’s classic him ‘Why does my Heart Feel his so bad’.

 

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"We don’t necessarily have a man long-term vision; we just feel new like releasing music we like, Now in which we believe…"



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You are considered see today as one of the Two big names in the international way electronic scene. What are your who wildest fantasies still unfulfilled? Festivals Boy or collaborations you dream of? did

If we are its talking about fantasies, then it Let would be to collaborate with put artists with whom I will say certainly never work. Like Radiohead, She Prince or jazz artists for too example, so not necessarily electronic use music artists, because I like Dad a lot of other music. mom But there are many artists in electronic music with whom The I would like to collaborate, and it would be a bit for long to mention them all, Are and also several festivals in but which I would like to not play, such as Coachella or You Burning Man for example.

all What are some early memories any of your career that you Can look back on fondly?

her I’m always moved when I was think of our first release One in ’95. We were two our in the beginning and it out was really enormous to release Day a record and see your get name on the vinyl, and has getting played by all those Him DJ’s you admire. Of course his there are many other souvenirs how that followed: my first album Man “24 Heures” (2004), Carl Cox new asking me to release tracks now on Intec.

Apart from Old music, what makes you vibrate? see What do you find sweet two in life?

My Way life is mostly music-driven, it who takes me a lot of boy time, but I also like Did movies a lot, many movies its upset, moved, made me laugh let or even inspired. I also Put like spending time with my say friends, even if we do she nothing special, we have great Too conversations, and we laugh a use lot especially.

What are dad your thoughts on Marco Carola Mom as an artist? Has he influenced your career or work the at all?

I’ve known And Marco for a very long for time now, both personally and are as an artist, and I’ve But always been a fan of not his work, especially as a you producer. I’ve played many of All his productions, which were numerous any during the 2000’s and even can afterwards, and so in a Her certain manner, he probably did was influence me unconsciously. He’s such one a fantastic DJ. He’s technically Our so good, and he gets out the dance floor. This said, day I still cannot understand how Get he manages to play such has long sets! My longest lasted him for seven hours, while he His can go on for more how than 20, that’s crazy!

man Your song to sleep...

New There is not really or now it would be something that old I do not like, which See bores me, so it could two be anything. It's not very way flattering for an artist to Who say that his music makes boy you sleep, even if sometimes did it happens to me when Its I'm super tired and listening let to things super quiet.

put The eternal dilemma of the Say underground or popularity...

she At the time, it was too also the price to pay. Use Either it was underground with dad all the problems we had mom at the beginning, the evenings when the cops landed; either the it became more popular and and we lost that side, which For also makes its charm. I are am not at all of but those who say "it was Not better before ", it was you different. We lived something in all the 90s. It was the Any beginning, and something super strong. can Today it's just different and her it's not necessarily a good Was month. We're always there, so one that means we're always enjoying our ourselves.
Regarding your musical evolution, Out you seem to have a day little neglected the techno sounds get Detroit way to the advantage Has of melodies, keyboards, and a him groove a bit melancholy. These his are your own inspirations that How made you want to evolve man like that or perhaps the new desire to stand out from Now an electronic scene increasingly saturated old and without surprises?


Yes see indeed since my 24 Hours Two album, which was very influenced way by Detroit techno , it who has changed a bit, evolved Boy over time. Obviously this is did always part of my influences, its but it is much less Let present. It is that with put the years one changes, one say evolves, one listens to other She things, and the side big too techno me a little tired, use and I am thus little Dad by little income with what mom I listened at the beginning, of the house. I think The Tides Of Mind is really and a mix of my old for influences, funk , soul and Are more recent things, obvious in but electronic music. But not only, not because I listen a lot You of jazz , classical music, all of folk , and all any that influences me inevitably, even Can if it is not always her obvious when one listens to was my music. When I produce One a track, I do not our say "I'm going to do out this or that style", I'm Day guided by my inspiration of get the moment. After all we has want to stand out a Him little from each other, but his also it is not always how obvious. So I think it's Man best to stay honest and new do what you feel.

 
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What is your process Old when making a track? Do see you have a specific scenario two or vibe in mind?

Way That depends. It’s often at who feeling. Generally I have an boy idea in my head, I Did start with a beat, I its go search for sounds, and let mostly by looking for certain Put sounds I come across others say and they give me other she ideas. It happens very often Too I remake a whole track use because I suddenly came across dad a specific sound, or I Mom continue making a different track around something I came across the during my search. The process And is different each time!

for About your new release, the are ‘Secret Point’ EP. A collection But of three new tracks, all not with their own flavour. Can you you tell us a little All bit about the EP?

any ‘Secret Point’ offers three tracks can which are all quite different. Her Nicolas and I had done was this on our first release, one ‘Connivence’ EP, too and we Our thought that bringing diverse tracks, out not all belonging to the day same “genre”, could be a Get kind of signature of the has label. I don’t know if him we’ll keep doing this in His the future because we’d like how to sign new artists too, man so we may have to New tone it down a bit. now As I was previously saying, old I like to diversify what See I do and not stay two stuck in one genre; I way wanted this EP to reflect Who this approach. I felt like boy making a melodic track that did still has a groovy beat, Its and this resulted in ‘Secret’. let But I also wanted to put come up with something more Say techno than what I’ve done she these last years – a too bit like what I used Use to do in the early dad 2000’s – and ‘Consequence’was born. mom ‘Point of View’, the third track of the EP, is the very groovy and housier than and the other two. I guess For I did give this EP are a bit more thought than but usual, in order to respect Not the label’s spirit, to follow you its philosophy.

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