Laurent Garnier

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Laurent Garnier
Also known as
  • Choice
  • DJ Pedro
Born (1966-02-01) 1 February 1966 (age 58)
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Genres electronic, house
Occupation(s)Disc jockey, record producer, composer
Years active1987–present
Labels F Communications, Mute, Thirsty Ear

Laurent Garnier (born 1 February 1966), also known as Choice, is a French electronic music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJing in Manchester during the late 1980s. He became a producer in the early 1990s and recorded several albums.

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Early influences

In 1984, Garnier started working as a waiter at the French Embassy in London. [1] He started playing with DJ Nelson, a.k.a. DJ Stan, at a French club. He stayed there for a year and a half before moving to Manchester in 1986. Living in England he discovered the booming UK house scene and started DJing, including at the Haçienda. [2]

Career

In 1987, he discovered The Haçienda in Manchester, and met Mike Pickering the resident DJ. Chicago house and Detroit techno became popular, and Garnier started mixing there under the name of DJ Pedro. [1]

In 1988, he went back to France to fulfill his military obligations. [1] He also spent some time in New York City where he met Frankie Knuckles. [1] Garnier shifted his attention back to France in the early 1990s, running the Wake Up parties at the Rex Club in Paris for three years, [1] and in Dijon from 1990 to 1994 at L'An-Fer while in 1992 he played a three-night long Weekender set at the Cork venue, Sir Henry's and an Ibiza Foam Party at The Red Box, Dublin. He also mixed in clubs such as Le Palace or Le Boy, DJing in rave parties and gradually moving into recording as well. For the FNAC label, Garnier released "French Connection" and the A Bout de Souffle EP. After that label went out of business, he formed the F Communications label with Eric Morand (a friend who had also worked for Fnac). [1] [3]

His first album, Shot in the Dark, was released in 1995. [4] His second, 30, appeared in 1997 and included one of Garnier's best selling singles, "Crispy Bacon". 30 was followed by the retrospective Early Works. After appearing worldwide with DJ appearances during the late 1990s, Garnier returned to production with Unreasonable Behaviour, released in early 2000, which featured one of his best known songs, [5] "The Man with the Red Face".

Selected discography

Charted albums

TitleYearPeak chart positions
FR [6] BEBE (V)BE (W)UK [7]
Shot in the Dark1994————87
30199742———92
Early Works199866————
Unreasonable Behaviour20004211 [8] ——94
My Excess Luggage2003139————
The Cloud Making Machine200573————
Tales of a Kleptomaniac200945—28 [9] 74 [9] —
La Home Box201598—98 [10] 111 [10] —
33 tours et puis s'en vont2023———41 [11] —

Charted singles

TitleYearPeak chart positions
FR [6] UK [7]
Astral Dreams

(with F Communications)

1994—85
Crispy Bacon

(with F Communications)

1997—60
Flashback

(with F Communications)

1998—82
Coloured City

(with F Communications)

200010098
Mega Single: Techno200395—
The Sound of the Big Babou

(with F Communications)

—92
Man with the Red Face

(with F Communications)

2005—65
Gnanmankoudji200999—
Greed/The Man with the Red Face

(with F Communications)

2009—36

Albums

Singles and EPs

With Ed Banger records

  • "Timeless EP" (2012)

With FNAC Music Dance Division

  • As French Connection (1991), with Mix Master Doody
  • Stronger By Design EP (1992)
  • "Join Hands" (remixes) (1992)
  • Paris EP (1993), with Shazz, as Choice (also published by Fragile Records)
  • A bout de souffle EP (1993) (also published by Warp Records)
  • "Wake Up!" (1993) ("One year of music for house music lovers" – free to people who went to the first anniversary of the "Wake Up" club in Paris)
  • "Lost in Alaska" (1993), with Nic Britton, as Alaska
  • Planet House EP (1993)

With F Communications

  • Alliance EP (1994), with Pascal FEOS, as Dune
  • "Astral Dreams" (1994)
  • Deuxième EP (1995), as Alaska
  • Club Traxx EP (1995)
  • "The Hoe" (1996)
  • "Crispy Bacon Part 1" (1997) UK No. 60 [12]
  • "Crispy Bacon Part 2" (1997)
  • "Flashback" (1997)
  • "Coloured City" (1998)
  • Club Traxx EP Vol 2 (1998)
  • "The Sound of the Big Babou" (1999)
  • "The Man with the Red Face" (2000) UK No. 65 [12]
  • "Greed" / "The Man with the Red Face" (2000) UK No. 36 [12]
  • "Sambou" (2002)
  • "Returning Back to Sirius" (2003), as Alaska
  • "6 Months Earlier" (2004), with Ludovic Llorca, as Marl Chingus
  • "The Cloud Making Machine" (reworks vol 1 & 2) (2005)

With Innervisions

  • Back to My Roots EP (2008)

DVDs

Compilations and DJ sessions

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  4. ↑ Frater, Patrick (1996) "France", Billboard , 20 January 1996, p. 53. Retrieved 16 March 2012
  5. ↑ "Weekly Classic: Laurent Garnier's 'The Man With The Red Face'". 5 February 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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  7. 1 2 "LAURENT GARNIER | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
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