Bassiani invites Oscar Mulero | Podcast #27 | 05-2017
In this occasion we share with all the friends of "The Midnight Clan Club" one of the last dark techno podcast and underground recorded by Óscar Mulero for the club of Georgia "Bassani".
"Bassani" is a nightclub and a platform to support underground culture. And to techno music in particular.
It is located in the city of Tbilisi, Georgia.
They have web page, blog and record label.
As you can see in their last program (April 08 | April 24) they have a selection of artists of world-wide level, that act in the best clubs of underground techno world-wide.
From "The Midnight Clan Club" we encourage you to support this type of initiatives. Since without them, it would be impossible to make techno music undergroun a global phenomenon.
As always, thanks for reading, commenting and sharing.
It is difficult today, when record stores disappear every day and can not spend hours checking new releases. This vice that is so lacking in the digital age, our weekly visit (minimum) to our favorite record store.
Much is said about the increase in the sale of music on vinyl.
Make no mistake, these statistics speak of commercial music. Mass music, which you can buy in department stores.
But, finding what we really like is increasingly difficult ... "the latest release of our favorite underground label, this album still unreleased" ...
Our favorite record store no longer exists, its closed. The clerk to assist us with a smile and was glad to see us now dedicated to something else. It's time to evolve and look where listen to our music elsewhere. By other means.
Of course, that means none other than internet. The network of networks.
One way, of course, is to be aware of the web of our favorite label. And check their releases daily. Or, if they have it, and subscribe to your mailing sent directly to our emails.
And do the same with websites selling music specializing in our favorite style. If you serve as an example, I usually investigate:
This is a good way to keep up. But you can only hear a sample. And I really like to hear the song in full. Manias of each.
So lately, as I do not get new releases me to my house, like the great djs. I had to find a way to do it. And something that gives me very good result is the unconsumable YouTube.
Search and subscribe to channels to share news. And fit with my musical tastes of the moment (underground techno in this case). I happened any case you want to take a look and see for yourselves.
The techno music has made and is making history. It is a sound and clear development throughout the world music genre. Where each day has more followers.
It may seem a modern music, but nothing is further from reality.
Needless to mention artists like Kraftwerk to be aware that there is electronic music (techno not only) since mid early 70s.
For all this, today I wanted to share a file from my private collection.
A London session of legendary producer Ben Sims. Held in Spain in a small festival called Move disappeared. In the province of Valladolid. a whopping more than 17 years ago, ...
Enjoy it!
And as always, if you want to enjoy electronic music in all its forms and times you can visit my Youtube channel.
Madrid,
mid-80s, the Spanish capital lives a true musical explosion not known until
then. Amid all this maelstrom an unknown teenager enters a record shop to
invest their savings in an album, Standing on a beach of The Cure. Even he knew
this would be the first step of a long and costly steps it would take to be one
of the dj's essential for this country.
This fondness
for discs for personal consumption continued to expand with references Joy
Division, The Smiths, Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim and the whole
Dark wave and gothic rock. Electronics came later, when he attends as a public
one of the historical moments of the Madrid electronics, EBM mythical nights in
the disco OH Madrid. We talk about 1989 and a risky developer decide to bring
the capital to the cream of European Music Body, in a few months pass by the
scene of this club: Front 242, Cassandra Complex, Nitzer Ebb or A Split Second.
Many of those attending these nights are definitely engaged in the hardest and
Oscar was one of them electronic. The collection grows and is no longer enough
to hear the solo albums over and over again, quickly arises the need to share
this music with others, virus dj attacks the nervous system Oscar, almost
without realizing the vocation is emerging and soon comes the first
opportunity: a friend who always appear in a small club gets sick and called to
replace him.
First contact
with the profession, and from below, without shortcuts, makes its way step by
step, decisively, firmly believing in every move he makes, putting all his
passion in music, no more. It will not be long until a standard is made in the
booths of the most underground clubs in Madrid, which beautifully embrace its
dark and sharp musical discourse, fueled by the best of European electronic
dance and the elite of the new wave and the riskiest rock. Thus end 80 and a
decade that will be vital for the development of Oscar Mulero as dj begins, the
best is yet to come and the first stone was called New World. It electrifies
the nightlife, clubs like Attica, Saratoga, Somersault, National Public Name 3
or bet on the European underground music and DJs who mixed. In that little
embryo techno New World played a key role, and DJs (Oscar, Yke and Yury) were
very important part in this. New World sounded thunderously, metallic,
precisely, the cabin was in the middle of the room and contact with the public
was total. The music was programmed open, without limitation, could sound as
soon as The Cult Front 242 or more underground disk new beat Belgian or German
trance. Club goers receive this musical message with passion and quickly become
unconditional. Word of mouth begins his work ...
The success
of the sessions in New World is rising and Oscar entered the studio for the
first time to collaborate on the creation of the official record of the club,
Nuclear Zone, an approximate distance, more like sonic counselor as a real
producer. The album goes on sale in 1993 and is a quite remarkable success for
the period, reaching included in various compilations national level. Seen in
perspective is a very consistent work with the style that prevailed in the
first 90 and the time has come to become a cult object on Ebay.
Like
everything in life, the New World experience has an end, the restaurant's owner
decides to sell and the mythical time of the square cubes signs his requiem.
Far from being the end of something, it is the start of something even bigger.
The Omen born, for some, the total club, formed by a team of luxury in every
aspect. In The Omen, every aspect was treated with thoroughness, DJs selected
the music using the whole range of styles at your fingertips, from liquids and
slowed early session until the final apotheosis and memorable. The club meeting
was conceived as a movie, always different, always moving, with the same
attention in the beginning, middle and end. Along with music and visual
projections contributed something new in the nights of the capital, no one had
seen before in the same cabin three courses and a computer. The combination of
light jockey dj's and provided a complete audiovisual experience. As for the
graphic image, the Omen flyers were true works of art, created to detail,
experimenting with fonts, formats and more futuristic materials, creating
branding and marking school. A curious fact in the info equal importance to
DJs, light jockeys and to the public relations it was, leading the team spirit
to every corner of the club.
During this
stage, Oscar definitely session marks its concept and style of constructivism
mixture, in which the discs become less important in themselves to become tools
of building something much bigger in the form of session. Musically, cosmic
sounds of European labels like Harthouse and Eye Q are mixed with the roughest
and abstract sonorities detroitiana or British influence, the first UR, the
first Tresor or the first Soma, added to better ambient and IDM for the opening,
with the entire catalog of Warp and Artificial Intelligence series as sonic
palette, plus music labels as risky as Apollo Records (downtempo subdivision
legendary Belgian label R & S) or Fax planeadora electronics Records. Omen
success quickly turns into a tourist attraction, with clubbers across the
country traveling to Madrid every weekend to enjoy the sessions. This involves
a change in the Oscar race, weight mutates resident dj traveler, starts out
regularly to expand the sound Omen throughout the peninsula, first to the north
and progressively in the four cardinal points. Oscar's intimate
relationship with roads and airports takes shap
But
unfortunately, the Omen also has an end, unwanted by anyone, in full media
explosion of designer drugs and weekends endless, as a victim of biased
information and unaware of the musical values of what we now call techno.
From this moment, Oscar Mulero will not be permanent resident anymore, Constant
requests for promoters, both in our country and in the rest of Europe,
implicating him in a constant tour weekend that will not stop for a moment
throughout his career.
In their
first European dabbling have the opportunity to share cabin and direct contact
with the best of world techno: Jeff Mills, Laurent Garnier, Derrick May ...
Oscar learns and synthesizes in his mental recorder new techniques, new sounds
and adds to its already extensive background, even he is aware, but is creating
something unusual, a total full dj who knows both teach and learn, not tight
and he sees his career as a constantly evolving closing stages and seeking new
goals.
1996 arrives
and with it the third edition of Sonar, a festival which by then has already
established itself as one of the most important in the world. For the first
time the Oscar Mulero name appears in the list of national squad, along with
other co-generation as The Frogmen, HD Substance or Resonic. Sonar 96 serves as
official confirmation of a scene hitherto embryonic, for the first time is
taken into account as something serious, like the germ of something solid. In
this edition Oscar measured forces with figures like Richie Hawtin, Garnier and
Mills not lose out. Outside our country begins to talk about his technique and
unique musical selection. Goal achieved and a closed stage.
But there is
life after Sonar and this accolade level provides even more work, more travel,
bigger festivals like the Members of Mayday, to result in 1998 in his first cd
session (and one of the first published in our country ) About Discipline and
education, published in the Catalan label so Dens, then closely linked to the
organizers of Sonar. At the time, the musical selection was quite advanced and
risky, with the best of Birmingham dry and industrious hand Regis or Surgeon
sound and best sound USA represented by Jeff Mills and Joey Beltram. The CD is
an absolute bestseller, one of the CD's electronic music best sellers in the
history of our country. If the name of Oscar Mulero was already known by the
underground and the most loyal clubbers, happens now occupy the front pages of
specialized and general media, he thanks the figure of dj is taken seriously in
media so far only saw it as one more workers in one night. As so often, opening
doors and marking paths.
But he is not
satisfied yet, a mission accomplished lens, non stop music. Still not feel
complete, the idea of producing his own music keeps you awake, the jump will
not be easy, but still decide to give, as always without looking for shortcuts,
from below, from the beginning. The objective is clear, if you want to work in
this form professional, travel the world and let you know beyond your borders
you can not sit still, you need to edit your own music, you need to DJs you
admire put your records, the world know what you're missing. To work, and not
just have to be aware of the latest music, there are now new tasks, we must get
the study material needed to make the music you have in your head reality. But
machines do not sound alone, the learning process is hard and sometimes
frustrating, you have to spend many hours in white to make the team something
that fits fairly to those who have in the brain.
And once this
first hurdle you have to have the time and the shamelessness necessary to
present it in public as demo, accept all kinds of opinions and make sense of
learning highly developed to constantly bring something new. If you have done
well all this will have a reward in the form of disk, and if it works, double
reward. Not all DJs are good producers and viceversa.Óscar has worked very hard
to match the level as DJ with animal studies.
His first
work is published in 1999 by a producer from Madrid experienced Groof, both
form the duo Quite Unusual Groof in the seal itself, with unanimous support
Brainwaves critical and sales. The baptism of fire gives satisfactory results
and provides enough courage to throw himself to his solo career. That moment
arrives in 2000, in the French label Kobayashi. First away game and first win.
The next step is clear, you can not rely on others to edit your music, create a
seal.
Said and
done, in the same 2000 born Warm Up and a couple of years later his rod Pole.
From this moment all efforts are focused on edit their own material either at
home or playing outside in the best seals techno planet, as CODA, Pure Plastic,
Tresor, Sheep, Tsunami, or Main Out, among others .. this will definitely
places on the world map editing techno nine maxis between 2000 and 2002. not
bad. Background work, gym, workout, you name it, now needed a hit, one of those
magical themes you never know when you go to compose, that many come to never
compose, that only comes when the coordinates are coupled with precision.
The moment
comes when Ben Sims ask for a demo Oscar for his label Theory, one of the most
powerful scene at the time, after a slow and costly comings and goings of
masters and demos between Madrid and London and hours of work study, Anaconda
is published in late 2002, this is their first international hit that puts
definitely in the all star of world techno producers, the disc is punctured and
charted by DJs most respectable of the globe and as a direct consequence career
Oscar Mulero soars exponentially. Signed for the prestigious German booking
agency Dynamix, sharing the roster with the best hard techno. Passport stamps
collapses airports of the five continents and their luggage visit since the
best clubs and festivals in South America, Europe or Asia. For most mortals
there is enough with this, to Oscar Mulero no.
To complete
his doctorate missing an album, a work concept. New challenge, not easy. In
2003 put back the monkey work, is enclosed in the studio with his package snuff
and necessary provisions and published on the seal Pure Plastic, under the
moniker Trolley Route, A Occhi Chiusi, an album of overall mental electronics
and danceable at the same time, with this album cycle is closed and maturity as
a producer is beyond doubt. Since then and until today his work as a sniper has
continued, both as producer and remixer in the world techno essential seals and
continuing with multiple performances tirelessly throughout the electronic
world.
A career
unblemished, without twists, full of work and dedication, with the same love
for music in the mid-80s made him buy his first vinyl and never lose hope, an
illusion that holds a future full of new projects and expectations, as the
release of their second album as Trolley Route, creating the new platform Zero
Oscillator Parties with DJ Dead, which unleashes his passion for all styles of
electronic music, combining tradition and future. In short, a complete artist
without which you can not understand the history of dance music in our country.
Aún no me he repuesto de la última noche que pasé contigo. Radio 3.
Radio 3 is one radio station Spanish national public broadcaster belonging to the National Radio of Spain directed by Tomás Fernando Flores.
The contents of the string are mainly focused on the topicality of the musical genres away from the mainstream and charts, such as indie, alternative rock, electronic music or hip hop. It also has thematic programs of other musics that have no place in commercial radios, as folk music Spanish, flamenco, world music, jazz, country, blues, Brazilian music, heavy metal, punk or the new age.
Besides music, Radio 3 also deals with culture, literature, film, technology, theater, visual arts and creativity. Always emphasizing and supporting the most innovative and restless in each discipline proposals.
Oscar Mulero's DJ career has-been as prolific and long lasting as the development of dance music. As a key figure in esta evolution, Oscar has always absorbed new trends and kept His finger on the pulse of electronic dance music, from the end of the 80's right up to the present day. It is impossible to Understand the phenomenon of esta DJ in Spain without taking into account His tireless work behind the decks for more than a decade.
Oscar Began as a DJ at the end of the 80's in Madrid, in the experimental MOST clubs of the city: such as Impossible, Capital, Kitch and Babia, playing Gothic Rock and EBM, the Most Important styles at the time. In the 90's I Began to play at the legendary club New World (Madrid) The most influe ..
The mid-eighties, Madrid. The Spanish capital city is teeming under the grip of a musical blast the likes of Which has never been seen before. In the midst of That rabid swirl, a teenager, unknown and unassuming, a record shop Enters His savings to blow on an album, Standing on a Beach, by The Cure. Little did I know That This was to be His first step on the long and difficult path to becoming one of the country's essential djs.
He soon became a familiar face in the dj booths of the MOST exclusive underground clubs of Madrid, but the best was still to come and the first chapter was called New World, His first "proper" job.
New World Were sessions soon all the rave and Oscar Entered the studio for the first time to Collaborate in the making of the club's official record, Nuclear Zone. His was a backseat involvement, more as a sound advisor than as a producer. It was not Until later on producing and deejaying That Became His livelihood. The record Went on sale in 1993 and was quite a success, going on to get included in many of the national compilations of the time.
The New World experience finally came to an end. But it allowed for the birth of THE OMEN, Which for many was the ultimate club. The Omen was so successful it Quickly became a tourist attraction, with clubbers from all over the country coming to Madrid every weekend to enjoy Oscar's sessions. This led to a change in His career. I Gradually Moved away from being an Important resident dj to a traveling one. I started to travel Regularly, taking the Omen sound all over the peninsula. Firstly to the north, and then a Gradually, to all four corners of the country. It was the beginning of Oscar's intimate relationship With airports and the road.
And so to the year 1996 and the third Sonar, a festival Which had by then a Become established as one of the Most Important in the world. For the first time, the name of Oscar Mulero Appeared Among the list of national invitees, alongside others of His generation: such as The Frogmen, HD Substance or Resonic. Sonar 96 served to officially confirm a whole new scene Until Then That HAD Been In an embryonic state, but was now being taken Which seriously for the first time and coming to be viewed as the seed of something solid. At Sonar 1996, Oscar held His Own Against stars of the stature of Richie Hawtin, Garnier and Mills.
Outside Spain, people started talking About His unique technique and musical selection. Another mission accomplished. And so on to the next phase ...
There was life after Sonar. The kind of recognition and support I have Gained as a result of His Successes brought` even more work, more travel and more big festivals,: such as the Members of Mayday Festival, and culminated in 1998 in His First Session CD (the first CD of Its type to be released in our country) Entitled About Discipline and Education, released by the Catalan label So Dens, Which at the time was closely linked to the Organisers of Sonar. The musical selection was, for the time, very advanced and ground-breaking. A blend of the best of the dry, industrious sound of Birmingham, courtesy of people like Regis or Surgeon, and the best US sounds of the era, Represented by the likes of Jeff Mills and Joey Beltram. The CD was an huge hit. One of the biggest-selling electronic music CDs in the country ever.
Already a well Known name on the underground circuit Among The most faithful clubbers, Oscar Mulero now started to Appear in media headlines in the Specialised and overall press alike. Thanks to him, the DJ was now a figure taken seriously by the media Who Had viewed them as Until Then just another of the many night works. As I HAD done so on many previous occasions, Oscar was again opening up doors and blazing trails ...
His second work was released in 1999. It was Done with GROOF, an experienced producer from Madrid. The two FORMED the duo Quite Unusual, on the GROOF label Brainwaves. They Were well received by critics and enjoyed good sales Past. His first release With an international label came in 2000 on the French label Kobayashi. It was His first away match and first away victory!
That very year saw the birth of WARM UP and a couple of years later, ITS POLE offspring. From then on, all Oscar's Efforts Were focused on releasing His own material Whether home or away, on the very best techno labels of the planet,: such as Coda, Pure Plastic, Tresor, Sheep, Tsunami and Main Out. Definitively That put him on the world techno map. Between 2000 and 2002 I have released no fewer than nine EPs, Which lead to a Contract with one of the biggest dj booking agencies of the time, Dynamix Booking from Berlin, an agency That Represents Also some of the best techno artists of the world. From then on, Oscar was seen and Heard in clubs and festivals from all over the world, more and more often.
In 2003 I released A Occhi Chiusi on the Pure Plastic label, under the name of TROLLEY ROUTE. This was totally mental electronic work Present That was easy to dance to. That album ended a cycle and confirmed His maturity as a producer.
Since Then, I have continued His work producing and remixing relentless With the very best techno labels the world over, and I have not stopped appearing on the electronic stage everywhere. Dr. Smoke, His alter ego, strength Gained During esta period as a showcase of Oscar's open and eclectic vision as a music selector, techno leaving aside and moving deep into territories: such as electro, dub and IDM.
During 2008 Oscar Significantly His work expanded map. Visiting the Movement festival in Detroit, China and Japan, have been left His mark on almost every continent.
During 2009, His forays into international presence included as exotic country clubs (from a techno point of view) as China. As for studio work, That same year saw the digital release of the album Trolley Route, the making of a CD mix for the prestigious Tresor Records label and the creation of the Natural Selection collective Together with Exium, Reeko and Christian Wünsch.
Following a memorable anniversary party at Fabrik, Madrid, That was a huge success With the crowds and Celebrated His twenty years as a dj, we see the end of one era and the beginning of a new one. From then on I is open to the use of new technologies and new projects, Pole: such as the platform, Which picks up the thread from Natural Selection and gathers the best of the national techno scene under one banner.
During 2011 we saw the release of His first LP as Oscar Mulero, Grey Fades to Green. A double CD 4 Also released as vinyl Which will bear testimony in September to Oscar's maturity and consolidation as one of the Most Important Producers electronic music worldwide.
On the stage side audiovisual Oscar has developed a fully Experience with his "Light & Dark AV Set", tested live in some of the best festivals around.
2012 Warm Up Records was tenth anniversary, with thirty four releases to date. Last year saw the publication of Past Oscar's second full length album, Black Propaganda, Which Means to twist in His trademark sound on Behalf of a modern approach to techno and dark, and has the support of the best DJs and the media.
During 2012 PoleGroup Their activities expanded and started all over Promoting Their showcases Spain and Europe, working side by side With artists like Regis, Lucy, Xhin, Perc or Peter Van Hoesen, to name but a few.
As a performer, His schedule has expanded in 2012 With gigs all over the planet: Asia, Oce-ania and South America.
For 2013 he's going to release the Black Propaganda remixes, Where the cream of the techno scene remake His tracks. Also he's going to launch Spherical Coordinates, pro-ject With Christian Wünsch, as well as other releases for labels Semantica Such as, Modu-Larz, Blank or Detroit Underground.
Laurent Garnier has been making the planet dance for
almost 30 years. And, for all these years, his boundless energy has seen him
grooving behind record decks, bouncing up and down behind studio equipment and
leaping around radio studios. He is a multi-faceted artist whose impact on the
music scene is far-reaching. But above all he is a DJ, a true DJ: transformed
by music, passionate about the crowd. Bodies move in a trance on the dance
floor, minds elsewhere. Yet he is also an explorer of old and new sounds and
has an amazingly rich musical culture. He spends most of his spare time sifting
through old vinyl in record shops, following the most obscure leads on the
internet and listening to every single piece of music he is sent. Music, the
pulse of our planet, is his Holy Grail.
One of the pioneering DJs of the dance music scene,
Laurent Garnier experienced first-hand the euphoria of the acid-house movement
in Manchester. He then went on to Wake Up and shake up Paris nightlife, from La
Luna to the Palace, not forgetting the Rex Club. As one of the leading lights
in French dance music at the end of the 1980's, he then spread his message
across the planet, from raves to warehouse parties, clubs to festivals. The
Excess Luggage 5-CD collection sums up the somewhat hectic life of this
globetrotting DJ whose antennae are permanently tuned-in to sounds from around
the globe, current trends, and the music of the next generation. At the
beginning of 2011, Laurent Garnier was the only Frenchman to be voted one of
the top 35 international DJs by readers of the UK magazine Mixmag. One of many
accolades for this turntable impresario whose incredible DJ sets blend techno
from Detroit and beyond, and mix in hints of jazz, sweltering disco,
heart-warming house, African grooves, jungle, dubstep and bass music.
Musical eclecticism is at the heart of Laurent
Garnier's contribution to radio. At the beginning of the 1990's, Laurent
Garnier got behind the microphone, playing records on Radio FG, Maxximum and
Radio Nova, where he remained a vital force for the next 18 years. Uncovering
rare records, selecting new sounds and promoting new trends, Laurent Garnier
has found great satisfaction and pleasure in radio broadcasting. To the point
when, in 2003, he created Pedro's Broadcasting Basement, his own webradio open
day and night that can be accessed across the planet. And as if that was not
enough, for four successive years he presented his own weekly radio show It Is
What It Is, broadcast in France (Le Mouv), Belgium (Pure FM), Switzerland
(Couleur 3) and Mali (La Chaine 2).
Laurent Garnier is an artist who never stands still.
He is tireless in his enthusiasm and is always bursting with new ideas and
projects. As well as the demands of his DJ-ing and his radio shows, Laurent
Garnier has also evolved into a well-respected music producer. His first big
hits (Acid Eiffel and Wake Up), both soundtracks to the explosion of dance music
in France, have paved the way for a series of albums that are both elaborate
and multi-layered. From the techno undercurrents of Shot in the Dark to the
ambition of Tales of a Kleptomaniac, the electronic odyssey of 30, the maturity
of Unreasonable Behaviour, and the visionary escapism of The Cloud Making
Machine. In the space of five celebrated albums, Laurent Garnier has embarked
upon a remarkable journey. A journey marked by some incredible electronic music
anthems, loved by both DJs and the public alike: Flashback, Crispy Bacon, The
Man With The Red Face, Back To My Roots, Gnanmankoudji, It's Just Muzik. His
discography is also inseparable from the story of F Communications, the label
that he created in 1994 with Eric Morand and which brought to the fore
producers such as Mr Oizo, St Germain, Jori Hulkkonen, AlexKid and Scan X.
This musical journey is described in the book
Electrochoc that Laurent Garnier and the journalist-writer David Brun-Lambert
wrote together and which came out in 2003. An updated and extended version was
released in 2013. In this biography, Laurent Garnier tells the epic story of
electronic music through his experiences and recollections. Electrochoc was a
publishing hit and has subsequently been translated into several other languages
including English (published by Rocket 88 publishing in May 2015), Spanish,
German, Japanese, Russian and even Croatian. In addition, Electrochoc is
currently the inspiration behind a screenplay for cinema co-written by Laurent
Garnier. Filming is due to begin late 2015.
Aside from his albums and singles, Laurent Garnier is
also a composer for the cinema, television and theatre. He wrote the music for
the films SDF Go Home and Qu'Allah BŽnisse La France, for the documentary Play,
for the animated film Globi and the Stolen Shadows and in 2010 made the music
for the French television show Groland. For theatre, Laurent Garnier has
composed the music for contemporary dance choreographers Angelin Preljocaj
(Fire Sketch and Suivront Mille Ans de Calme) and Marie-Claude Pietragalla
(Sade: Le Theatre des Fous and M et Mme Reve). All of these musical scores are
characterised by being wonderfully inspirational experiences and are just one
aspect of Laurent Garnier's far-reaching career founded upon commitment and
passion.
Whether behind the decks or a radio microphone,
Laurent Garnier has managed to fulfil his childhood dream: sharing the best of
music with people. And now Laurent Garnier the DJ has further evolved into an
accomplished musician, whose talents are widely recognised. One of his great
strengths is knowing how to take his own music on to the stage as live
performance. From the Olympia in 1998 to the Tales of a Kleptomaniac tour in
2009/2010, Laurent Garnier has reinvented himself as an important live artist,
defending his music and his vision as well as his sense of immediacy and need
for improvisation. Surrounded by experienced musicians, Laurent Garnier lights
up the stage like a DJ does a dance floor. During his most recent tour of about
100 concerts performed over a period of 18 months, he won over audiences from
the Nice Jazz Festival, Benicassim, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, to I Love Techno
in Ghent.
Following on from the Tales of A Kleptomaniac tour,
the LBS concept Ð Live Booth Sessions or Loud Bass & Samples Ð toured the
planet between 2010-2013. This concept had a live format and was made up of
three performers: Laurent Garnier (DJ & machines), Benjamin Rippert
(keyboards) and Scan X (machines). An experimental live music project, it
married the organic and the electronic, with the flexibility of the DJ and the
intensity of the live performance. Specially created to match the feverish
atmosphere of a club, LBS worked the dance floor to a frenzy with marathon
sets.
This time-out, performing live, motivated Laurent
Garnier to return to his first love: DJ-ing. He has gone back to globetrotting
and working as an untiring DJ, hungry for new sounds, performing in major
festivals (Sonar, Dekmantel, Nuits Sonores, Time Warp, Weather), familiar clubs
(Berghain/Panorama Bar, Fabric, Fuse) and new places (Output, Le Sucre,
Concrete). There, he was able to test out the five EP's that make up the
Garnier Project released in 2014 on five different labels: Still Music, Musique
Large, 50Weapons, MCDE, Hypercolour (these EPs are now available as one box set
entitled the HOME box out on F Communications). The Garnier project is a new
experience for Laurent to produce an album; The HOME box album is coming out in
May 2015 on F Communications. Laurent is still known to share the decks once in
a while with other DJ friends such as Boys Noize, Manu Le Malin, Carl Cox or
Motor City Drum Ensemble. His sets are always so generous by nature. Always in
tune with the crowd and the energy on the dance floor. Some things never change: it's the story
of his life
Claude Young wants to live in a world where every artist is free to express themselves without being boxed into genre specific categories.
As a composer, his work has been used by BBC Radio 4 (UK) & Sony Playstation (Japan). As a DJ he has mixed compilations for !K7 (Germany), Sony Music Entertainment Japan & Jeff MIlls Axis Records (USA) to name just a few. He's remixed records for Kevin Saunderson / Inner City, Carl Craig, 4Hero, Sven Vath & many others. He's one half of the techno live / DJ act Different World with his good friend Takasi Nakajima.
His last full length solo album entitled "Celestial Bodies" (physical copies available in Japan only / digital world wide) was praised by media outlets including a rather fine review up by UK magazine Data Transmission.
His main focus in 2015 and beyond is to release more music independently through this website & to collaborate with live musicians & visual artist on a regular basis.
