Laurent Garnier
Since his debut at Manchester’s Hacienda in 1987, the beginning of the Acid House explosion, Laurent Garnier has played a key role in the development of the electronic music scene. Over the last ten years he has built up his international reputation by playing at all the major clubs and festivals worldwide. During this time he has been voted best international DJ by the music press and has built up a very special relationship with his public. Laurent Garnier is very different from your average DJ. You only have to witness the queues of enthousiasts in front of the Rex Club in Paris or L’Anfer in Dijon where he held long-term residencies.
Laurent Garnier is respected by both the godfathers of techno in Detroit, with whom he has built close links, as well as by the younger generation of producers and DJs to whom he has given a taste for electronic music through his DJ sets and radio shows…
Aside from his successful DJ career, Laurent Garnier has always produced his own music. In 1991, he released a series of Eps on the Fnac Dance Division label. This work continued with the creation of his own record label F Communications in 1994, with Eric Morand. The release of tracks such as ‘Acid Eiffel’ and ‘Wake Up’ on FNAC Dance Division served as a springboard for a new French electronic scene. Rarely before had French music been so easy to export.
In effect, Laurent Garnier became the first ambassador for French house and techno abroad. In October 1994, he released his first album ‘Shot in the Dark’ and subsequently became one of the first French artists to be invited to perform on the prestigious ‘Peel Sessions’, broadcast on BBC Radio 1.
The release of his second album ‘30’ was another turning point in Laurent Garnier’s career. From here on, Garnier decided to slow down his hectic DJ schedule in order to concentrate on producing more of his own music. However, this did not prevent him Djing on the main stage at the first Techno Parade in Paris in September 1998, in front of an audience of 100,000 people. That same year he won the ‘Victoire De La Musique’ award for his album ‘30’ ;a great honour as this was the first year that there was a category for Dance music. During the award ceremony at the Olympia in Paris, he performed ‘Acid Eiffel’ live, accompanied by violin and percussion. As a result of this performance being broadcast live on French national prime-time TV techno, which had previously been misunderstood finally began to gain recognition from a wider French public.
He fine-tuned his live show whilst performing at several of the major European festivals (Sonar, Borealis, T in The Park, Creamfields…) before returning that same year to the stage of the Olympia accompanied by 14 musicians and dancers. The experience of this performance and the full European tour that followed , including the Montreux Jazz Festival, proved to be a very important influence for what was to follow.
With the release of “Unreasonable Behaviour” in 2000 Laurent Garnier produced his most accomplished and personal album to date. This surprising record does not shy away from exploring more diverse and tormented sounds than we have previously been accustomed to in his work, resulting in praise from the press as well as the public with over 250,000 copies sold and one undeniable hit “The Man With The Red Face”
This album also enabled Laurent to continue to explore his fascination with the visual element and young directors. Following the succes of videos such as “Flashback” directed by Quentin Dupieux, Laurent called on Vito Rocco, Siraj Jhaveri and César Vayssié to create videos for several tracks on the album keeping true to the same off beat humour and mixed up emotions.
When “Unreasonable Behaviour” had been completed Laurent Garnier embarked on a tour of over 60 dates across Europe and USA. Whether playing sold out gigs at the Elysée Montmartre in Paris or headlining at the Werchter festival in Belgium in front of over 70,000 people, Laurent’s charisma and the generosity of his music seduced a large public.
The best is yet to come… Following a tour of Asia in winter 2001, Laurent Garnier will start work on a new album.
L.B.S
With the “Tales of a Kleptomaniac” tour recently at its finish, Laurent Garnier is going back on the road with a new tour entitled “L.B.S”. Read on…
L.B.S – Only three letters but several different meanings: ‘Laurent + Ben + Stephane’/ ‘Live Booth Sessions’ / ‘Loud Bass & Samples’…
This is only the beginning for this new, very club orientated project, which will bring together
Laurent Garnier (DJ & machines), Benjamin Rippert (keyboards) and Stephane “Scan X” Dri
(machines), to quite literally create before your eyes and ears.
“After eighteen months on tour with my musicians, I began to realize that I could get as much pleasure from playing live in a festival as I could from DJing in clubs. Whilst on tour, we developed a very open style of playing: interacting, improvising, and expressing ourselves freely, something that I thought I could only achieve through my DJ sets. It was obvious that after a long period spent touring round some of the biggest festivals, I was going to feel an overwhelming desire to go back to my roots (clubs and records), but the idea of finding myself alone behind two decks was impossible. So why not combine the two? Why not play other people’s records alongside my own tracks, played live? Why not put the two together to make one? After more than twenty years spent DJing, I really wanted to take it a step further. Sometimes, when I see other DJs playing out today I get the feeling that they’re bored, that they don’t get off on what they’re doing anymore. It is very clear to me why the idea behind L.B.S came to life because not only will it give my work a new lease of life, it will also offer a new and very different experience to club goers.” – Laurent Garnier
Straight out of the DJ booths of some of the best clubs on the planet, L.B.S offers the best of both worlds by combining the versatility and flexibility of the DJ set with the ability to experiment tracks live. Two decks, a Rhodes, several keyboards and machines will be used to create organic improvised four-hour sets guaranteed to work the dance floor.
“I especially want to carry on creating and exploring whether through Djing or playing live. But also, get even closer to the public than we can in a festival. During the live sections of L.B.S I will be developing and fine-tuning new tracks in front of (and with) the crowd to create the live of the future, but also to test out new tracks. We’ll be taking our time, something that isn’t really the done thing nowadays!! One thing is sure, the dance floor never lies… Alongside Benjamin and Scan X I’ll be creating tracks live for my next tour and for my future releases.”
In view of the amazing feedback on the net after a couple of “test” dates that L.B.S performed in the spring of 2010, the tour will officially begin at the end of October 2010 with a myriad of dates in Europe. It will continue throughout 2011 around the rest of the world.
This follows on from an 18-month Laurent Garnier tour performing live in festivals all over the world with tracks taken from his album ‘Tales of a Kleptomaniac’, the final date being at the
Grand Palais in Paris on 9th October 2010.
Discography
French Connection – Who Cares EP : Eastern Bloc 1990
As French Connection : FNAC 12/1991
Stronger By Design EP : FNAC 09/1992
Choice – Paris EP : FNAC 01/1993
A Bout de Souffle EP : FNAC 04/1993
For house music lovers : White Label 06/1993
Alaska – Lost In Alaska : FNAC 07/1993
Planet House EP : FNAC 11/1993
Dune – Alliance EP : FCOM 05/1994
Rex Attitude : white Label 06/1994
Astral Dreams : FCOM 09/1994
A Shot In The Dark EP : FCOM 10/1994
Alaska – Deuxième EP : FCOM 07/1995
Club Traxx EP : FCOM 12/1995
Raw Works (US Only) : FCOM 07/1996
Cripy Bacon : FCOM 11/1996
The Hoe : FCOM 12/1996
30 : FCOM 04/1997
Flashback : FCOM 07/1997
Coloured City : FCOM 05/1998
Sound Of The Big Babou : FCOM 08/1999
Unreasonable Behaviour : FCOM 02/2000
The man with the red face : FCOM 04/2000
Greed : FCOM 10/2000
Unreasonable live (DVD) : FCOM 05/2002
Sambou / Psychedelik shack : White Label 05/2002
Alaska – Returning Back To Sirius : FCOM 05/2002
Excess Luggage : FCOM 09/2003
The Cloud Making Machine : FCOM 01/2005
T.C.M.M Reworks Vol1 : FCOM 07/2005
T.C.M.M Reworks Vol2 = FCOM 09/2005
Retrospective : FCOM 06/2006
Public Outburst : FCOM 07/2007
Back to my roots EP : FCOM 06/2008
Gnanmankoudji : PIAS Rec 03/2009
Tales Of A Kleptomaniac : PIAS REC 05/2009
Pay TV : PIAS REC 05/2009
Alaska – It’s Just Muzik / Stargazing 03/2010
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