Ozore Age

With releases by major acts including Les Boucles Etranges, Radio Bomb, Mem Pamal, JAMALSKI, IXINDAMIX, BANDITOS... Paris-based label Ozore Age and its offshoots Electro Lab Factory, Xunk and E-beat have become a reference for the electronic music french scene.

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 Paris 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 lafter, 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 techno minimal 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...

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 Francky Brown album Extratimes. and the BANDITOS Album, break beat electro. And soon the album of the MC JAMALSKI, long awaited since the album published Ruffneck reality at the beginning of 90.

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.