Saturday marked the conclusion of the third annual OohLaL.A. French music festival, and the most jam-packed night in terms of lineup: masterful electro composer Etienne de Crecy, old-school remixer Feadz, DJ Cam, and synth-pop foursome Chateau Marmont all graced the El Rey stage.

The night started slowly, with most attendees sitting along the perimeter of the theatre. It wasn't until Chateau Marmont tuned up and invited the crowd closer that people ventured onto the main floor.

"You can come closer, you know," the lead singer joked. "This is a between-French event." 

On that note, the band launched into their 45-minute set and didn't stop until the curtain went down.

Starting with an eery synth-and-drums beat, they mesmerized the audience with songs from their latest album, 2008-2009-2010, letting each tune drag into the next with improvised interludes. "One Hundred Realities" and "Heliochrome" both got the crowd grooving, with their midi-mixed  melodies and dystopic dance pulse.

Chateau Marmont's music drew in the night crawlers like moths out of the dark, their heavily synthed lyrics understood only by the bodies swaying back and forth. The band's onstage antics drew the crowd's attention too, as the drummer threw his stick at the guitarist, then nonchalantly pulled a spare from his shoe and drove the beat to a fever pitch. The ice was broken, and the night underway.

Up next was DJ Cam, pioneer of abstract hip hop and French Touch mainstay since the 90's.

He was an instant crowd pleaser, getting the older set to "Jump Around" as he weaved a saxophone solo into the mix. From the top-rockers near the stage to the booty poppers in the back, the whole house was on its feet as he spun old-school tracks peppered with jazz samples-- the kind of mixing that has made him famous in the worlds of trip-hop and down-tempo electro.

Cam's set transformed the festival into more of a club atmosphere, highlighting the diverse attendees as people began letting loose. There were the children of the eighties hoping to rekindle French New Wave; the painfully cool young concert-goers, all somehow connected to the label Dim Mak; and of course the swarm of clubsteppers that follow transcontinental spinners like DJ Cam wherever he goes.

But the differences faded to nothing once Etienne de Crecy took the stage.

Unlike Cam, he pushed his massive DJ booth to the very lip of the stage, where the intense lights made him a larger-than-life silhouette. If you couldn't see his face, you knew it was him by the beats that shook the room.

His No Brain mix was just the start; the hardcore house spinner wrought ecstasy from his shrieking machines as the crowd pulsed together as one. People were pushed up against the stage wall for the first time all night, and the dramatic light show made the world disappear, leaving no room for pause or self-awareness. For Day Three of the festival, de Crecy was definitely the highlight. 

The show closed up with Feadz of Ed Banger Records, most known for working the turntables alongside former girlfriend Uffie on Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans.  

Riding on the energy high of the night, Feadz kept dancers going well into the wee hours of morning with acid-house remixes of Boys Noize and selections from Let The Children Techno. His experimental combinations, reminiscent of German 70s electronic group Kraftwerk, have marked him as definitely one to keep an eye on.

The Ooh La La Festival ended with a resounding bang this year, bringing some lesser-known acts like Chateau Marmont as well as longstanding legends like Etienne de Crecy to audiences stateside. Expect the lineup to only get better next time around. 

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