Electro Lab Factory
With releases by major acts including Les Boucles Etranges,
Ozore Age was founded in 2000 by techno heads Yann Ichbiah and Christophe Martin. Yann had been involved in the free party circuit since the early nineties, promoting nights in XXXXX such as Bass doom doom, Jokers... A graphic designer, Christophe had his techno epiphany when Yann took him to a Castle of Illusion night in 1993. From then on, he moved onto digital graphics, djing and production. The pair founded Ozore Age a few years later, with Christophe as Artistic Director. They were soon to be joined by Henri Collet, who had made a name for himself djing on the party circuit in the south of france aka LeRiton.com
Embracing the whole spectrum from hardcore to belgian trance via electro, Ozore Age’s original artistic line was as eclectic and wide-ranging as its founders’ taste in electronic music, and purposedly hard to pigeon-hole. As the label grew in importance however, a more elaborated release policy had to be defined to make life easier for distributors and retailers alike. Ozore Age’s sister-labels were born...
Electro Lab Factory has been a platform for artists coming out of the free-party circuit, with an output ranging from hard techno to pure electro. Major releases to date include the critically-acclaimed Third Type Party LP by FKY (2003), mythical duo Les Boucles Etranges’s album P.S.I., and Longueur d’Ondes, which propelled Mem Pamal at the forefront of the techno scene
Born out of a collaboration with Les Zavatta, aka Blood Brothers, Xunk is home to furious hardcore releases by Radium, Empatysm, Armaguet Nadainsi, and to atypical act Revision 1.1.’s first album De l’Autre Cote des Oreilles.
E-beat is more geared towards techno and electro with established artists David Caretta, Doctor L. & Dom Farkas (aka Da Linck) on the roster, as well as newcomers such as Nuwerk or Feukx.
Ozore Age remains the core organisation, promoting regular parties and club nights in western France and at major parisian venues such as Elysee Montmartre, Batofar, Folies Pigalle, Nouveau Casino. It is still an outlet for less dancefloor-friendly, more experimental releases such as Polaaroid’s latest EP or Francky Brown’s album Drum’n Bass Jazzy.
A laboratory for research into sounds, Ozore Age and its sister-labels have now become familiar names to techno music fans. With an ever growing target audience, the label continues to give wider exposure to artists from the free-party circuit while keeping its artistic integrity intact.
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