Laurent Garnier born in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France on February 1, 1966, is a DJ and techno music producer who also goes by the moniker “Choice”.
Garnier started DJing in Manchester, England throughout the late eighties. By the ’90s he covered a wide-ranging stylistic variety. His musical span was broad enough to cover jazz, trance, Detroit techno and deep house music. Additionally, he incorporated production work to his program in the early 1990s, and captured numerous records.
However, it was in the late ’70s that Garnier found nightclubs with his brother in Paris. He adored disco but in addition followed the other modern musical styles such as punk, reggae and funk. When he was just 16, Garnier began mixing and recording songs on tape recorders.
In ’84, Garnier began a job as a server for the French Embassy located in London. He remained there for annually as well as a half before relocating to Manchester in ’86. Residing in England he found the thriving United Kingdom house arena and began DJing.
In ’87, Garnier found a club called “The Hacienda” which was located in Manchester, and crossed paths with the resident DJ at the time, Mike Pickering. Detroit techno and Chicago house became well-known, and Garnier began blending there beneath the moniker “DJ Pedro”.
In ’88, he returned to France to meet his army responsibilities. Also, he invested some amount of time in NYC where he encountered Frankie Knuckles. Garnier switched his focus back to France in the early 90s, operating the Wake Up bashes at the Rex Club in Paris for 3 years, while back in ’92 he competed a 3-nighttime long Weekender place at the Cork site, Sir Henry’s.
His first record entitled “Shot in the Dark”, was launched in ’95. His 2nd record entitled “30”, came out in ’97 and comprised 1 of Garnier’s best-selling tracks called, “Crispy Bacon”. 30 was accompanied by the retrospective Early Functions. After showing globally with DJ shows throughout the late 90’s, Garnier went back to generation with Unreasonable Behavior, launched in early 2000, which among of his most common tunes, “The Man with the Red Face”.
He additionally combined in nightclubs like le Palace or le Boy, DJing in rave events and slowly stepping into record at the same time. Working with the FNAC label, Garnier unveiled “French Connection” and also the A Bout de Souffle album. Next label folded, he shaped the F Communications label together with Eric Morand (a pal who’d likewise been an employee of FNAC). He regularly additionally DJed at “Open all-hours” at London’s Ministry of Sound on Friday evenings, in the first and mid 90’s, and was a resident DJ at a club called “The End” before it reached its end in January of 2009 and closed its doors for good.
In ’05, “The Cloud Making Machine”, was launched, adopted another year by Retrospective. This is a very best of collection record, which had equally his first work and remixes, together with some introduced on vinyl-only, plus unusual songs. His newest record was Tales of a Kleptomaniac which was released in ’09.
