Лоран Гарнье

Лоран Гарнье
Также известен как	Выбор диджей Педро
Рожденный	( 1966-02-01 ) 1 февраля 1966 г. Булонь-Бийанкур , Франция
Жанры	электроника , дом
Род занятий	Диск-жокей, продюсер, композитор
Годы активности	1987 – настоящее время
Этикетки	F Связь , Немой , Жаждущее ухо

Лоран Гарнье (родился 1 февраля 1966 года), также известный как Choice , — французский продюсер электронной музыки и ди-джей. Гарнье начал заниматься диджеингом в Манчестере в конце 1980-х. В начале 1990-х он стал продюсером и записал несколько альбомов.

Ранние влияния

В 1984 году Гарнье начал работать официантом в посольстве Франции в Лондоне. Он начал играть с DJ Nelson, он же DJ Stan, во французском клубе. Он пробыл там полтора года, прежде чем переехать в Манчестер в 1986 году. Живя в Англии, он открыл для себя бурно развивающуюся британскую хаус-сцену и начал заниматься диджеингом, в том числе в Hacienda .

Карьера

В 1987 году он открыл для себя The Haçienda в Манчестере и встретил Майка Пикеринга , постоянного диджея. Чикагский хаус и детройтское техно стали популярными, и Гарнье начал там микшировать под именем DJ Pedro.

В 1988 году он вернулся во Францию ​​для выполнения своих военных обязательств . Он также провел некоторое время в Нью-Йорке, где встретил Фрэнки Наклза . 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 venue, Sir Henry's. 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).

His first album, Shot in the Dark, was released in 1995. 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

Title	Year	Peak chart positions
		FR	BE	BE (V)	BE (W)	UK
Shot in the Dark	1994	—	—	—	—	87
30	1997	42	—	—	—	92
Early Works	1998	66	—	—	—	—
Unreasonable Behaviour	2000	42	11	—	—	94
My Excess Luggage	2003	139	—	—	—	—
The Cloud Making Machine	2005	73	—	—	—	—
Tales of a Kleptomaniac	2009	45	—	28	74	—
La Home Box	2015	98	—	98	111	—
33 tours et puis s'en vont	2023	—	—	—	41	—

Charted singles

Title	Year	Peak chart positions
		FR	UK
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)	2000	100	98
Mega Single: Techno	2003	95	—
The Sound of the Big Babou (with F Communications)		—	92
Man with the Red Face (with F Communications)	2005	—	65
Gnanmankoudji	2009	99	—
Greed/The Man with the Red Face (with F Communications)	2009	—	36

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 (compilation) (2006), F Communications/PIAS (includes a track with Håkon Kornstad)
• Public Outburst (2007), F Communications, live album with Bugge Wesseltoft, Philippe Nadaud, Benjamin Rippert
• Tales of a Kleptomaniac (2009), PIAS
• la HOME box (2015), F Communications
• De Película (2021), with The Limiñanas, Because Music
• 33 tours et puis s'en vont (2023), COD3 QR

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
• "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" (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

• 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)

External links

• Laurent Garnier – official site
• Laurent Garnier discography at Discogs
• Laurent Garnier profile at club The End's website
• Laurent Garnier interview on HarderFaster
• Laurent Garnier biography from RFI Musique (in French)
• Laurent Garnier Essential Mix 2009
• Laurent Garnier DJ mix