Other Articles

The A Loop Theory

The epic album is almost upon us, dates have been set..find out more

Sarah Love

Miss Love delivers a BIG show once again! with her UK spotlight on Asaviour.

Sir Smurf Lil & Savvy

Sir Smurf Lil & Asaviour up something very special indeed.

Fly 53

The good people at Fly 53 are feeling Asaviour & Dj IQs banger "Beefy"

Jack Flash

Jack Flash Crowned End Of The Weak (EOW) UK Battle Champion

Asaviour

Asaviours is a featured artist on the Diesel U:Music Site .

Asaviour

The A loop Theory sound system coming to a town near you..

A Loop Crossing bounderies


Reported by Tony B on 27th March 2009

Now we can't lie we dont know masses about dance music, let alone its pioneers but when we got an email through from the living legend Laurent Garnier we were totally suprized. He dropped us a line to lets us know he's really loving the new A Loop Album. He bought a copy and is now spinning tracks from it while he's on tour, how crazy is that!?!

For those of you how done have any idea who this guy is check out this biography, it might help give you a better picture of what a shock it was.

A former staffer at the embassy in London, Frenchman Laurent Garnier began DJing in Manchester during the late '80s and became by the following decade one of the best all-around DJs in the world, able to span classic deep house and Detroit techno, the harder side of acid/trance and surprisingly jazzy tracks as well. He added production work to his schedule in the early '90s, and recorded several brilliant LPs with a similar penchant for diversity.

One of the first Europeans to begin mixing American house music in Britain, Garnier was one of the prime cogs in the late-'80s Madchester scene. His DJing at Manchester's legendary Haçienda club provided a major inspiration for the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays to begin adding house rhythms to rock music. Garnier shifted his attention back to France in the early '90s, running the Wake Up club in Paris for three years and gradually moving into recording as well. For the FNAC label, Garnier released "French Connection" and the Bout de Souffle EP; after the label went under, though, he formed the F Communications label with Eric Morand (a friend who had also worked for FNAC). He had amassed quite a discography by the mid-'90s, but his first LP Shot in the Dark wasn't launched until 1995. His second, 30, appeared in 1997, followed by the retrospective Early Works. After trotting the globe with multiple DJ appearances during the late '90s, Garnier returned to the production realm with 2000's Unreasonable Behaviour and 2005's Cloud Making Machine. He also put together a handful of mix albums: Excess Luggage, Life: Styles, and The Kings of Techno (a two-disc set shared with Carl Craig).

Bookmark and Share