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 went his own musical way.
1998 Oxia created a new label with Michel Amato aka The Hacker 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 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 melodic techno & electro. Though Oxia got more and more into an eclectic trip mixing atmospheric techno & house, minimal, electro, ...
His new approach is also very visible on the slamming productions & remixes of the last years [Giant Wheel, Kompakt ‘Speicher’ Extra (‘Domino’ which became a world hit admired by the whole electronic scene from progressive to techno over minimal), Tsuba Records, Confused…
2007 was an extremely busy year for Oxia touring major festivals and clubs, not only solo but also together with his good friend Agoria for an amazing batlle 'Oxia vs Agoria'!
Oxia is one of the best selling artists at this very moment!!!
DISCOGRAPHY
ALBUM
GOODLIFE GLCD/GLP04 “24 Heures” – January 2004
MIX CD
SCANDIUM28 " Picture of Now" - 2006
MONOID "Oxia on Monoïd"- 2002
HUMAN08 "Vital Session"- 2001
TRAX Magazine CD Sampler- 2000
RELEASED MAXI VINYLS
KOMPAKT SPEICHER 50 ‘Not Sure’ - June 2007
CONFUSED 67 Gino’s & Snake vs Oxia ‘The Message’ - June 2007
NOTORIOUS ELEKTRO 09 Oxia vs Gino' s & Snake " Seven " Ep – February 2007
TSUBA RECORDS 10 Eric Borgo vs OXIA " Another Man " (+ Daniel Stefanik remix) – March 2007
KOMPAKT EXTRA/SPEICHER 38. "Futur" - July 2006
KOMPAKT EXTRA/SPEICHER 34. "Change Works" / "Domino" - April 2006
TSUBA RECORDS 03 Eric BORGO & Olivier RAYMOND "Jackin Me" + KIKI remix - March 2006
VERSUS 03 Oxia vs Leandro Gamez - 2005
GOODLIFE 22 "Reflexion remix" by Deetron, The Hacker, Kiko - 2004
OMEGARITAM 03 (various artists) "Nuits blanches" - 2004
INTEC 27 (various artists "Pure Intec " ep) "Wait" - 2004
TERMINAL M 30 "Bald boys" ep (Oxia & Tom Pooks ) - 2004
GOODLIFE 20 "Special" ep - 2003
PHONT 27 "Before the change"ep- 2002
MONOID 30 "Delay"ep- 2002
IN-TEC 14 "Finally"ep- 2002
PORNOGRAPHIC 04 (various artist) "Again"- 2001
GOODLIFE 10 "GoodLife"ep- 2001
MONOÏD 1003 - 2001
IN-TEC 08 "Influence"ep- 2000
GOODLIFE 04 "Etat d'esprit"ep- 2000
GOODLIFE 02 "Body"ep- 1999
UMF 04 (Various artists) " Static "- 1999
OZONE.004 (various) "The Mother Ship"ep- 1997
OZONE.005 "Time"ep- 1997
OZONE.002 (various) "The Groove of our caravan"ep- 1996
OZONE 001 - 1995
REMIXES
INITIAL CUT 22 Noirdegout ‘Late Night Cities’ OXIA & Eric Borgo Remix - January 2008
GREAT STUFF 0536 Butch ‘On The Line’ OXIA Remix & Dub – September 2007
CRAFT MUSIC 11 Markus Lange 'Ruhestörung Plattenbau' Oxia remix - Sept2006
GIANT WHEEL H-Man "Manga" Oxia remix - 2006
GOODLIFE/DIFFERENT The Hacker feat. Mount Sims "Traces" - 2006
VERSUS 03 Leandro Gamez "U should change" - 2005
MB ELEKTRONICS 18 Sam Ostyn & Trish Van Eynde "Juice" - 2005
CALME 12 Electric Rescue aka D.Jedi "Ghosts are coming" - 2005
STAKATTO 01 The Undeejay "Dark matters" - 2004
FONKTION 02 Flo "City life" - 2004
BULLYTT Leandro Gamez "No es otra cosa" - 2004
GOODLIFE 16 Millimetric "Naked body"- 2003
UMF 17 Agoria-"Radio City"- 2003
TERMINAL M Redhead "Dark ceremony"- 2002
MISSILE 49.5 "Over the Hill"- 2002
SYMBOL02 White "In da little"- 1999
MISSILE 46.5 The Hacker "Nothing last"- 2001
GOODLIFE 11 Arno Riva & Dj Speep "Kbab"- 2001
GOODLIFE 07 The Hacker "Fadin'away"- 2000
LEITMOTIV Lab Insect- 2000
SCANDIUM 01 Ultracolo "Up Town" remix- 2000
COLLABORATIONS
UWE "Morning" Dj Tonio & Oxia - ("Connection" Tonio Album) - 2003
GOODLIFE 14 "Last test part1" Oxia & The Hacker-2002
GOODLIFE 14 "Freaky game" Eric Borgo & Oxia- 2002
OZONE 9.5 "The Positive" Ep Jack de Marseille & Oxia 1999
GOODLIFE 01 "Another Side " The Hacker & Oxia 1998
OZONE 07 "Kalymba " Jack de Marseille & Oxia-1998
INTERFACE 03 " Raw stuff from G " The Hacker & Oxia- 1997
MENTAL GROOVE " Dj RUSH" Remix by The Hacker & Oxia- 1998
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