Biography
Born in the suburbs of Paris in 1966, Laurent Garnier was fascinated from a very young age with the world of the night; but he went in the direction of a hotel career on the advice of his parents.
Two years later, however, he became the DJ for Hacienda, a mythical night club in Manchester.
He worked in Europe, Australia, the United States and Japan. Since 1991 he has involved in the production of mini-albums for techno and house music. His works became increasingly successful, in
France and abroad. In addition to his own samples, he remixed the works of famous artists, such as Moby or Jean-Michel Jarre.
His first album Shot in the Dark came out in 1994. It was followed up in 1997 by a second opus with the plain title of 30; which earned him a Victoire de la Musique in the
following year. During this year, Laurent Garnier also became the first DJ to introduce techno music to the Olympia. In 1998 he released Coloured City, followed by The Sound of
the Big Babou in 1999, and by Unreasonable Behaviour, A bout de souffle EP and As a French Connection in 2002.
Having spent more than a year at the head of programming with Radio Nova, Laurent Garnier launched PBB, Pedro’s Broadcasting Basement, his first net radio; and It is what it is, a weekly
program covering several European radio stations, which allowed him to share the wealth of his collection of discs.
In October 2003, he published a book, co-written with David Brun-Lambert, called Electrochoc, devoted to the odyssey of techno music of the past 15 years. This year, he released a box-set
called Excess Luggage. He also composed original music for a number of films. In 2004, Laurent Garnier started up Music – Expect the unexpected, a European tour which he performed
with Jeff Mills. The Cloud Making Machine, his first studio album, came out during the same year. In 2006, he developed the Duos Ephemeres for the Louvre auditorium. At the same
time, he released the best of Restrospective. Public Out Burst, composed of unedited samples created during meetings with several musicians, came out in 2007. This was followed by
the release of the maxi Back to my roots with the German label Innervision, in 2008, which shook up DJ sets, for its modernity aspect. In 2009, he released the album Tales of a
kleptomaniac, covering part of the tour he made with his group.
Over these last years, he has worked with artists from different horizons, including the jazz pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, the Tunisian singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef, the choreographer
Marie-Claude Pietragalla, and Angelin Preljocaj in the framework of the Pavillon Noir’s official opening in Aix-en-Provence in 2006.
Print page
