Agoria & Oxia

AGORIA
Just out of his teens, Sebastien Devaud - not yet Agoria, but already a music lover - stamped his feet in front of the counter of a record shop specialised in electronic sounds (or house music as it was then known). He was waiting for improbable American or German vinyl that would forge a culture and a well-defined willpower to engage permanently in an eccentric/electric lifestyle...

A true education in parallel to the countryside family nest, where his fairly artistic parents (his father is the architect of the bubble-house on the cover of his debut album, and his mother teaches music) give him a taste for music and real life, where childhood friends are friends for life, and where his radio serves as a musical matrix....

When he discovers the first techno tracks and raves, it was a true electroshocks that will lead this young man to give life to what could have been a mere childhood dream, mark of the passionate worker with an insatiable curiosity and eternal smile.

OXIA
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.