Olivier Giacomotto (born 2 February 1976 in Bordeaux, France) is a French electronic music producer and disc jockey (DJ), also known as Superskank,

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, or OG. Born in Bordeaux, France, he started his career in 1999, first entering the world of production by working in recording studios, where he learned the use of samplers, mixing desks, effects, computers and music software. From Blues Café studio in Paris to

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in London, Olivier worked with Robert Suhas, Magnus Fiennes, Guy Pratt, Yohad Nevo, Pete Lewis,

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, Bond, Lyrics, and various other bands, producers, studio musicians and sound engineers. After moving back to

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, he programmed break-beat, drum'n'bass, triphop, hip-hop, lounge, and ambient in electronic projects like Shagshag, Dubweisers or Uprock Massive. During the year 2002 with Shagshag, he won a remix contest organized by News and had his first vinyl release: Plastyc Buddha - Rhodes Royce (Shagshag Remix)Plastyc Buddha - Rhodes Royce (Shagshag Remix) on Discogs Giacomotto progressively found his path into electronic dance music and its sub-genres like

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, electro, house, tech-house, deep house, Melodic House & Techno. He released his work on independent labels such as Definitive Recordings,

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, Noir Music,

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, Great Stuff Records, Suara,

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, Eleatics Records,

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. Meanwhile, he continued to perform around the world as DJ: his mixing sessions can be described as sexy, funky, punchy and groovy. Since 2006, thanks to the success of his productions and remixes such as "Volta", "Gail In The O", "Guacamoli", and "I'll Be OK", his name has regularly appeared in the "Top 10" charts of

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, the biggest

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specializing in electronic dance music. The multinational developer and publisher,

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, licensed four of his tracks for the top-selling video game, ''Midnight Club Los Angeles'': "Wasabi On Top", "Good", "Sofa King", and "Too Cool For Skool". He also produced for pop and reggae artists Terry Lynn and

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. One of his productions for Terry Lynn titled "Stone" was licensed for the soundtrack of Hollywood box office hit ''

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'' with Steve Carell, Tina Fey, and Mark Wahlberg. "Give Me That Love", co-produced with

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, charted for 2 weeks in the French "Top 50", with thousands of singles and albums sold. Between 2006 and 2016, he co-ran the independent label Definitive Recordings with

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, and worked on various kinds of music projects around the world. In 2016, he composed the soundtrack to a full length feature film and multi award-winning horror movie '' The Red Man''.

Notes

References

* http://www.beatport.com/artist/olivier-giacomotto/9368.
Plastyc Buddha - Rhods Royce (Shagshag Remix)

The Red Man

External links

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Olivier Giacomotto Music on Beatport

Olivier Giacomotto Music on Soundcloud

Instagram

Definitive Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Giacomotto, Olivier 1976 births French electronic musicians Living people Musicians from Bordeaux