Ici D'ailleurs
2004
Oumupo 2
About This Album
In the 1960s, French surrealists Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais started the literary movement Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or OuLiPo (which translated means Workshop for Potential Literature), and which was designed to foment the creation of new forms of writing by imposing limits upon it. From that came other branches for painting, film, music, cartoons, and even cooking. Two of these spinoffs, Ouvroir de Musique Potentielles (OuMuPo, for music) and Ouvroir de Bandes Dessinées Potentialles (OuBaPo, for comic strips), were used together in the French label Ici d'Ailleurs' OuMuPo series. The guidelines that Ici d'Ailleurs imposed insisted that the end of the 42-minute album would be the same as the beginning (so that the whole thing could be listened to continuously), that the music of at least six artists on the O1O1 electronic division of the label would be used, that there would be a short musical passage acting as the theme, and that the producer would choose a personal constraint. The 16-page accompanying booklet also had its own set of restrictions. Former X-Ecutioner DJ Rob Swift and artist Étienne Lécroart worked together for OuMuPo, Vol. 2. Swift chose a segment of a song from French rapper Gravité Zero to act as the theme of the album, and imposed upon himself the rule of having his mother choose the titles on the record and to never mix before midnight.
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4,5 and 7)

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