Laurent Garnier


Laurent Garnier, also known as Choice, is a French electronic music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJing in Manchester during the late 1980s. He became a producer in the early 1990s and recorded several albums.
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Early influences

In 1984, Garnier started working as a waiter at the French Embassy in London. He started playing with DJ Nelson, a.k.a. DJ Stan, at a 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, including at the Haçienda.

Career

In 1987, he discovered The Haçienda in Manchester, and met Mike Pickering the resident DJ. Chicago house 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 venue, Sir Henry's and an Ibiza Foam Party at The Red Box, Dublin. 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.
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

Studio albums

Shot in the Dark, F Communications30, F Communications/PIAS FranceUnreasonable Behaviour, F CommunicationsThe Cloud Making Machine, F Communications/PIASTales of a Kleptomaniac, PIASla HOME box, F CommunicationsDe Película, with The Limiñanas, Because Music33 tours et puis s'en vont, COD3 QR

Compilation albums

Raw Works, Never RecordingsEarly Works, ArcadeRetrospective, F Communications/PIAS

Live albums

Public Outburst, F Communications, live album with Bugge Wesseltoft, Philippe Nadaud, Benjamin Rippert

EPs

With Ed Banger records

  • ''Timeless EP''

With FNAC Music Dance Division

As French Connection, with Mix Master DoodyStronger by Design EP Paris EP, with Shazz, as Choice A bout de souffle EP
  • ''Planet House EP''

With F Communications

Alliance EP, with Pascal FEOS, as DuneDeuxième EP, as AlaskaClub Traxx EP
  • ''Club Traxx EP Vol 2''

With Innervisions

  • ''Back to My Roots EP''

Singles

With FNAC Music Dance Division

  • "Join Hands"
  • "Wake Up!"
  • "Lost in Alaska", with Nic Britton, as '''Alaska'''

With F Communications

  • "Astral Dreams"
  • "The Hoe"
  • "Crispy Bacon Part 1" UK No. 60
  • "Crispy Bacon Part 2"
  • "Flashback"
  • "Coloured City"
  • "The Sound of the Big Babou"
  • "The Man with the Red Face" UK No. 65
  • "Greed" / "The Man with the Red Face" UK No. 36
  • "Sambou"
  • "Returning Back to Sirius", as Alaska
  • "6 Months Earlier", with Ludovic Llorca, as Marl Chingus
  • "The Cloud Making Machine"

DVDs

Greed DVD single – F Communications, Film Office, TDK Mediactive Live à l'Elysée Montmartre – F communications

Compilations and DJ sessions

X-Mix – Destination Planet Dream Mixmag Live Vol. 19 Laboratoire Mix Early Works Fashion TV: Spring – Summer 2001 CollectionClassic And Rare : La Collection Chapter 3 Excess Luggage The Kings of Techno