Laurent Garnier (born 1 February 1966), also known as Choice, is a French
electronic music
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producer and DJ. Garnier began DJing in
Manchester
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during the late 1980s. He became a producer in the early 1990s and recorded several albums.
Early influences
In 1984, Garnier started working as a waiter for the French Embassy in London.
[Johnson, Miles (2007)]
Profile – Laurent Garnier
, '' The List'', Issue 591, 29 November 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2012 He started to play with DJ Nelson a.k.a. DJ Stan in 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.
Career
In 1987, he discovered
The Haçienda
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The club opened in 1982, eventually ...
in Manchester, and met
Mike Pickering
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Career
Pickering was a DJ at The Haçienda's Nude and Hot nights, and later Shine. He worked for Factory Records, where he signed Happy Mondays, To Hell with Burgundy and ...
the resident DJ.
Chicago house
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and Detroit techno became popular, and Garnier started mixing there under the name of DJ Pedro.
In 1988, he went back to France to fulfill his
military obligations.
He also spent some time in New York City where he met
Frankie Knuckles.
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,
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
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venue,
Sir Henry's
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. 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
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).
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Label Profile: F Communications
, ''CMJ New Music Monthly
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'', November 2000, p. 15. Retrieved 16 March 2012
His first album, ''Shot in the Dark'', was released in 1995.
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France
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'', 20 January 1996, p. 53. Retrieved 16 March 2012 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,
"The Man with the Red Face".
Selected discography
Charted albums
Charted singles
Albums
* ''Shot in the Dark'' (1994),
F Communications
* ''Raw Works'' (US only compilation) (1996), Never Recordings
* ''30'' (1997), F Communications/
PIAS France
* ''Unreasonable Behaviour'' (2000), F Communications
* ''Early Works'' (compilation) (1998), Arcade
* ''The Cloud Making Machine'' (2005), F Communications/PIAS
* ''Retrospective 1994 – 2006'' (compilation) (2006), F Communications/PIAS (with
Håkon Kornstad
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)
* ''Public Outburst'' (live album) (2007)
* ''Tales of a Kleptomaniac'' (2009), PIAS
* ''HOME box'' (2015), F Communications
* ''De Película'' (2021), with
The Limiñanas
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, Because Music
Singles and EPs
With Ed Banger records
* "Timeless EP" −2012
With FNAC Music Dance Division
* "French Connection" (with Mix Master Doody) – 'as French Connection' (1991)
* ''Stronger By Design EP'' (1992)
* "Join Hands" (remixes) – (1992)
* ''Paris EP'' – 1993 – as 'Choice' (also published by
Fragile Records
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See also
* List of record labels
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)
* ''A Bout de Souffle EP'' – (1993) (also published by
Warp Records
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)
* "For House Music Lovers" – 1993
* "Lost in Alaska" – 'as Alaska' – 1993
* ''Planet House EP'' – 1993
With F Communications
* Dune (with Pascal Feos) – ''Alliance EP'' – 1994
* "Astral Dreams" – 1994
* Alaska – ''Deuxième EP'' – 1995
* ''Club Traxx EP'' – 1995
* "The Hoe" – 1996
* "Crispy Bacon Part 1" – 1997 –
UK No. 60
* "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
* "Greed" / "The Man with the Red Face" – 2000 – UK No. 36
* "Sambou" – 2002
* "Returning Back to Sirius" – 'as Alaska' – 2003
* Marl Chingus (with Ludovic Llorca) – "6 Months Earlier" – 2004
* "The Cloud Making Machine" (reworks vol 1 & 2) – 2005
With Innervisions
* ''Back to My Roots EP'' – 2008
DVDs
* ''Greed'' – DVD single – F Communications, Film Office, TDK Mediactive – 2001
* ''Live à l'Elysée Montmartre'' – F communications – 2002
Compilations and DJ sessions
* ''X-Mix – Destination Planet Dream'' (Studio !K7 – 1994)
* ''Mixmag Live Vol. 19'' (1995)
* ''Laboratoire Mix'' (2xCD, React, 1996)
* ''Early Works'' (2xCD, 1998)
* ''Fashion TV: Spring – Summer 2001 Collection''
* ''Classic And Rare : La Collection Chapter 3'' (
F Communications, 2002)
* ''Excess Luggage'' (3xCD,
F Communications, 2003)
* ''The Kings of Techno'' (Rapster Records, 2006)
* ''Mixmag 25 Years Anniversary '' (2008)
References
External links
Laurent Garnier– official site
Laurent Garnierdiscography at
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The End
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's website
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(in French)
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1966 births
Living people
Mute Records artists
French DJs
Audiogram (label) artists
Thirsty Ear Recordings artists
French house musicians