Oxia Biographie

Olivier Raymond, born 1971 in Grenoble (France), got into "black music"
(disco & funk) in his early teens. During the collage years Olivier
befriended Stephane Deschezeaux, another young man passionate about this
music. They made their debut on a local radio station broadcasting a radio
show dedicated to Funk. Olivier, only 15 years old, started mixing.
Olivier's mixes were influenced by a large spectrum of music styles:
electro-funk (Afrika Bambaata...), italo-disco, new-wave (Depeche Mode, New
Order... ) and the early Chicago and New-York house scene.

1991 Olivier & Stéphane bought their first bits of equipment and started to
compose music.

1993, Olivier became resident dj in Grenoble. Only a year later the live
act 'Oxia' (Olivier & Stéphane) was born.

1995, Olivier and Stéphane meet Michel Amato (The Hacker), Alex Reynaud and
Kiko in Grenoble, the electronic city in France. Together with Kiko,
Olivier creates Ozone records on which Oxia released their first EP which
was influenced by American techno. Also on this label Olivier co-produced
the first releases of Jack de Marseille and made a couple more EP's with
Stephane before splitting up though as good friends. Oxia became Olivier
his solo project while Stéphane is now one part of Human Body.

1998 Oxia created a new label with The Hacker (Michel Amato) and Alexandre
Reynaud. They baptized it 'Goodlife' in homage to the mythical Inner City
track.

Both personality and sound evolved, giving birth to a series of EP's &
remixes on Goodlife but also on other prestigious labels (such as Intec,
Monoïd, Terminal M, Missile, Scandium, ...) leading to a busy worldwide dj-
diary.

A page still unfolding, in 2004 Oxia released his debut solo album '24
HEURES' on Goodlife. His first full album floats between groovy melodic
techno & electro. Oxia got more and more into an eclectic trip mixing
electro influenced house & techno, minimal, atmospheric 'techno'...

His new approach is very visible on his recent productions: 'Traces' remix
he did for The Hacker (January 2006), his ep on Kompakt Extra/Speicher
(March 2006), with the track Domino one of the most track played from the
year. 'Picture of Now' mix-cd on Scandium (April 2006) or Tsuba Records
release under his real name Olivier Raymond and produced together with
Swiss dj/producer Eric Borgo.