LÀ-EAU
A new piece for the Undertown's 30th anniversary
Some fifteen minutes following water from the mountain down into the city, sung in yodel through autotune, the same “yo” coming back later as a scratch.
Timeline
2005-2026From 2005 to today: the stages, releases, projects and encounters that made OXSA.
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2026
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LÀ-EAU -
ASTROSPORA
Album, 12 tracks, ADESIV
Twelve tracks that close a first chapter. Mastered by Nick Burchall (AudioAnimals).
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Trame de vie
Music and voices from patients' life stories, performed live at the opening with Daniella Favre
Commissioned by the Therapeutic Patient Education Centre at Geneva University Hospitals (ArtHUG, artist Benoit Billotte). Music and recordings of patients telling their life stories, then a live performance at the opening.
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MASSOKA
Single
MASSOKA Massoka comes out again as a single, before taking its place on ASTROSPORA.
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Future Roots
Single, feat. Ludiane Pivoine
A new version of Future Roots, with Ludiane Pivoine on vocals. The extended mix closes ASTROSPORA.
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OVERCOME
Single
Fourth single ahead of ASTROSPORA, where it sits at track six.
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Courir
Ô Débit EP, mixing
2025
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Liana
Single
Third single in the run leading to ASTROSPORA.
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SuperSynco
Jungle rock and drum & bass
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SuperSynco
Jungle rock and drum & bass
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Anastasis
Single
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SuperSynco
Jungle rock and drum & bass
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LURK
Single, the saga picks up again after five years
Lurk sets the saga going again. A year later it opens ASTROSPORA.
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SuperSynco
Jungle rock and drum & bass
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Joie sauvage
Nicolas Fraissinet album, arrangement and mixing
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Dope Slamming MC
DRIX RIKS feat. OXSA, instrumental composed by OXSA
The only track in the Drix Riks series that he produced from start to finish. Mixed in the studio by DROP.
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Intergalactic Zen
Drix Riks feat. OXSA & Ludo Lagana, scratching
2024
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Late
SuperSynco single, keys and vocals
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Amours polaires
Nicolas Fraissinet single, arrangement and mixing
Fraissinet's most streamed track.
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The Sound of Your Drums
SuperSynco single, keys and vocals
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Mérite meyrinois
Award from the City of Meyrin
Meyrin, the town where he has his studio, gives him its Mérite meyrinois award.
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Arte Ilegal
Drix Riks feat. CARDIAC & OXSA, scratching
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El Mundo Es Tuyo
Drix Riks feat. OXSA & Ludovic Lagana, scratching
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More than Friends
SuperSynco single, keys and vocals
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Cœur avec les doigts
Ô Débit x Nivu single, mixing
2023
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SuperSynco
Jungle rock and drum & bass, at 11 pm
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Tout va bien
Ô Débit single, mixing
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SuperSynco
Jungle rock and drum & bass
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Pura Life
Drix Riks album, OXSA scratching on three tracks
EGO DE KING KONG, LA DROGA EN MI BARRIO, CORTO Y CAMBIO.
2022
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La Mélodie des gens
Sound sculpture: stories from long Covid patients, set to music
Commissioned by Geneva University Hospitals with Cie Zappar, supported by the Leenaards Foundation. The stories are composed and recorded in front of the patients, then housed in a metal sound sculpture. It was later shown at the 2023 Geneva Book Fair.
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SuperSynco, first gig
Marcos Rojas (guitar), OXSA (keys and vocals), Léon Monnot (bass), Waidi Itas (drums), Andy Huguet (saxophone and vocals)
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Em
Joëlle Mauris's second album, mixing
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L'Usine PTR
OXSA feat. Marco Rojas, live set with guitar
L'Usine PTR The set already carried several tracks that would end up on ASTROSPORA, four years before the album came out. The best recording of OXSA's live show from before the modular setup.
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The Synchopaths, Fête de la musique
Project, 2021-2022
The Synchopaths play Geneva's Fête de la Musique, with OXSA on keys and turntables.
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Perle du Lac
OXSA & Joëlle Mauris (cello), exhibition opening, 6 pm
The first try-out of yodel through autotune, which came back four years later in LÀ-EAU.
Press
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Testa Dura
Drix Riks feat. OXSA, scratching
2021
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Sangre
Single
Sangre “Sangre la vida.” Over six minutes, with a music video. The track comes back in 2026 on ASTROSPORA.
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Upload Yourself
Single
Upload Yourself Psytrance for the dancefloor. Comes back in 2026 on ASTROSPORA.
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Le Cadre
Ô Débit's second album, 15 tracks: arrangement, recording and mixing
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Future Roots
Single
Future Roots Psystep, the half-time blend of psytrance and dubstep he named himself.
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Des étoiles dans les yeux
Nicolas Fraissinet album, arrangement and mixing
Des étoiles dans les yeux An instrumental piano album with the same title had come out in 2020.
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Nuit and La sève
Two Nicolas Fraissinet singles, arrangement and mixing
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M. Malchance
Ô Débit single, mixing
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The Synchopaths
Jungle rock, on keys, scratching and third voice
As lockdowns end, he joins this jungle rock band and gets back to playing fully live with other musicians. He also does the mixes and some of the visuals.
2020
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Massoka
Single
Between dubstep and psytrance, with a music video released in January 2021.
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Mon plus bel héritage
Joëlle Mauris's debut album, mixing
Mon plus bel héritage Sixteen tracks, forty-nine minutes. The crowdfunding campaign on wemakeit closed on 24 June 2020. The single Pas de chanson d'amour came out the same year, and the single Piacelli, Cello & Piano (Joëlle Mauris & Lee Maddeford) on 7 August 2020.
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Shine
Single, with Ludiane Pivoine and Joëlle Mauris
Shine Ludiane Pivoine on vocals, Joëlle Mauris on cello. Comes back in 2026 on ASTROSPORA.
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In Vivo
Single, released on the Eling The Strange label
In Vivo His most streamed track on Spotify.
2019
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Model Me
Single, lyrics by Ludiane Pivoine
Model Me Posted on SoundCloud on 15 November, then on streaming platforms on the 21st. The only track from the 2019-2021 Psystep series to get a proper release; the others stayed on SoundCloud and were later reworked for ASTROSPORA.
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Fête de la musique
Electronic live set, at midnight
Fête de la musique Booked right after pop singer Alenko, in an edition with 529 concerts on 32 stages.
2018
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Hollywood
Ô Débit single, arrangement and mixing
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Advent and Ritual // Audiography Live
Two staged live recordings
Advent and Ritual // Audiography Live Made with the AudioGraphy association and filmed like a TV show, with extras and dancers. They came out alongside Divinity.
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Divinity
Album
The album where his half-time blend of psytrance and dubstep takes its final shape.
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Impro Rap Challenge
Improvised rap: OXSA on synths and scratching, with Ô Débit, Keumart and Sentin'L
Impro Rap Challenge Built like improv theatre: the audience sets themes, styles and challenges, and everything is made up on stage. A run of nights from January 2018 to May 2019. Marine joined the team for the last dates.
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Taj Mahal and Histoires d'un soir
Two Ô Débit singles, arrangement and mixing
Artwork published under ADESIV.
2017
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Prise d'en tête
Ô Débit single, recording and mixing
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Public launch of the ADESIV collective
26th Fête de la musique, at midnight
The first time all fifteen members of the collective appeared together.
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Phoenix
Single, the first release on ADESIV
Released on the opening day of the Fête de la musique, the day before the collective's launch gig.
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Golem
Single, OXSA & DirtyMadSound
Golem With DirtyMadSound, artwork by Naïma Pasche and a music video by Yann-David Urbanovicz, Joshua Preiswerk, Léo Felder and Julien Donzé.
2016
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Le Débile
Ô Débit single, recording and mixing
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ADESIV is founded
A collective of some fifteen digital media professionals
Musicians, sound engineers, video makers and stage designers coming together to produce, publish and distribute without middlemen, and to train newcomers. With Mika Ventura, Pylone, DirtyMadSound, Third2Second, Marko Kekic, Boris Poget and Germain Umdenstock.
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Borealis
Soundtrack, Happy City Lab
He writes the music for Borealis, Happy City Lab's performance created at EPFL and later shown in London and Sydney.
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Ma liberté de dire, with Cie Zappar
Mobile studio with Germain Umdenstock, 2016-2021
Several years of composition commissions: participants write, OXSA composes on the spot in twenty minutes while they sing, chant or rap, then mixes it at the studio that evening. Over a hundred classes and institutions, with end-of-year concerts.
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Tornado
Composition and sound design, Studio Corium
An immersive installation: holographic video mapping that simulates a tornado on LED structures.
2015
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Vertical Horizon
Original music and sound design
Vertical Horizon An immersive piece by Adrien Boulanger (Staminart) and Mika Ventura (Studio Corium), conceived as a journey through light. OXSA was in charge of its sound world.
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Exoplanets
Music for the film “La Vie Ailleurs”, Exoplanets exhibition
A film made for the museum's exhibition. Produced by Point Prod, art direction by Studio Corium, directed by Laurent Graenicher. Credited as “Musique Oxsa”.
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Montreux Jazz Festival
OXSA & DirtyMadSound, Montreux Jazz Lab, aftershow
The 49th edition. Lab aftershows are free to get in.
Press
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Racer
Single
2014
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Le Purgatoire Électronique
OXSA & DirtyMadSound, Halloween night
Put on by Trash Family and Inkel Production. The duo's only show outside Europe.
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Jungle Mapping
Sound creation, with Mika Ventura
Jungle Mapping Music and sound design for a large-scale Studio Corium projection mapping on a Geneva façade.
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Remix for Rootswords
A remix by OXSA
Remix for Rootswords A drum & bass remix of All Good for Rootswords.
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Fête de la Musique 2014
St-Léger stage, Saturday 11 pm
Live set on the St-Léger stage of Geneva's Fête de la Musique.
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Le Zoo
Live at L'Usine
Live at Le Zoo, the club inside L'Usine, which introduced him as a pianist and scratcher breaking the usual mould of the electro producer.
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Volcano
Sound creation, Studio Corium
An immersive installation and video mapping on a giant structure designed by Mika Ventura: six minutes of visuals and sound for The Uniparty 5 and the Fête du Printemps. The mapping video went online on 24 March 2014, the making-of on 27 August. OXSA is tagged in both videos, alongside Catherine Baroni and Mika Ventura.
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Helios
Single, OXSA & DirtyMadSound
Premiered by the Canadian label Kannibalen Records in November 2014.
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Velociraptor EP
EP, first released on SoundCloud
It held Velociraptor, Post Age, Post Age (D&B Extended) and Singularity. Only some of the tracks later made it to streaming platforms. Error A came out the same year.
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Epidemic
OXSA & DirtyMadSound
It stayed on the duo's SoundCloud, which later became ADESIV's.
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Helios, Error A, Post Age, Velociraptor
Four singles, Helios with DirtyMadSound
Error A, Post Age and Velociraptor are collected on the Velociraptor EP, between drum & bass, drumstep and techno.
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Bourask Festival
OXSA & DirtyMadSound
The duo with DirtyMadSound at Bourask Festival, at a quarter to one in the morning: bass music, electro and dubstep.
2013
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Biubstock
OXSA solo live
A punk and hardcore bill: an odd one out in his career, and a good one.
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Paléo Festival
OXSA & DirtyMadSound, under the Argent Sale label
Paléo Festival The 38th edition, 230,000 festivalgoers over six days.
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Montreux Jazz Festival
OXSA solo, Montreux Jazz Lab, aftershow
The 47th edition, the first after Claude Nobs died. A free Lab aftershow, alongside BTK and Kenhobiz.
Press
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Positive Action (OXSA Remix)
Remix for Najavibes
A bright dubstep remix for the reggae band Najavibes, mastered in Washington by Mike Caplan.
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Les Sentinelles
A giant interactive instrument, winner of the “À vous de jouer” competition, 22nd Fête de la musique
Les Sentinelles Three five-metre towers covered in touch zones, built for several people to play at once without knowing any music, over three days. More than two thousand people played them. Interactive music system and sound design by OXSA; produced by Studio Corium & 42(prod), built by Lumens8.
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Get Money
Single, OXSA & DirtyMadSound
Get Money With DirtyMadSound, given away as a free download.
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Geneva Sublime Ska Orchestra
“Ska D'Anathole” feat. OXSA, Winter Live Music Festival
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Entropie
EP
Four tracks between breakbeat and drum & bass, artwork by Naïma Pasche.
2012
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Case à Chocs
Argent Sale night
On the bill of the Argent Sale collective's night at Case à Chocs, for the Loccomotion release party.
Press
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The OXSA & DirtyMadSound duo is born
With Youri Ortelli
The OXSA & DirtyMadSound duo is born They met through the Argent Sale label. Youri on the mix, Patrick scratching, then producing electroclash together.
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Shake Them Hips (Killer Cut Edit)
Edit, OXSA & DirtyMadSound
A drum & bass edit made with DirtyMadSound, released the same day as the duo's teaser.
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Paléo Festival
OXSA solo live, Détour stage, with IVY's VJ
Paléo Festival His setup back then: a laptop sequencing in Ableton, and a scratch turntable on a second laptop running Serato.
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A trip with my self
A single-shot music video: piano, scratching and MPC
A trip with my self He plays alongside himself three times over. The most literal demonstration of how he makes music, fourteen years before it became the line in his bio.
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Lausanne Transat Festival
Argent Sale showcase, with DirtyMadSound
The Argent Sale collective's showcase at Transat Festival, with DirtyMadSound.
Press
2011
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Red Bull Thre3style
Finalist in the Swiss final
Red Bull Thre3style Six DJs qualified for the Swiss final: Certified, Bowser, Bazooka, Larry King, OXSA and Kermit. The winner went on to the World Finals in Vancouver. Filmed by StarTV. He had qualified at Case à Chocs in Neuchâtel.
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D&B in your Face
Scratching over the drum & bass DJs' sets, all night long
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Neurology (OXSA Remix)
Remix for Syncretic
A breakbeat remix of a metal track, a bonus on Syncretic's album Signs of Misfortune.
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Monniati festival
Electronic live set
On the Friday bill of a young festival born out of a final-year student project, between Hell's Kitchen and Delaney Davidson.
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Electron Festival
OXSA Live Band, ten musicians on stage
Electron Festival The 21 to 24 April 2011 edition, with 96 artists on the bill.
2010
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Dirty Place
EP
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The Argent Sale label
Set up around him by André Joy and Nicolas Donnet
He made its first release.
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The Oxsa EP
EP, Argent Sale era
2009
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Les Saturnales
Electro live
An electro live set at Les Saturnales 2009.
Press
2008
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Background
Album
Made with Reason 4, Logic Audio and Ableton 2.
2006
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IN-VISION
Album, made entirely in Reason
He played it live at the time, solo or with Tim Janin on bass and Adrien Quinodoz on drums, as Disable and Beautiful.
2005
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2001 l'odyssée d'OXSA
Debut album
Somewhere between a Cut Killer-style turntablist mixtape, breakbeat and young rappers over his beats. Produced from 2000-2001, released four years later.