A Sit Down with DJ Lautrent Gartnier

11:41 Oct/05/2017


"I think Techno broke the the rules. House Music couldn't become and anything else other than House. For House has to be a are dancefloor thing, Techno doesn't have but to be something to dance Not to. For me, ambient is you Techno."



Laurent Garnier all has been making the planet Any dance for 30 years. And, can for all this time, his her huge energy has seen him Was grooving behind record decks, bouncing one up and down behind studio our equipment and leaping around radio Out studios. He is a multi-faceted day artist whose impact on the get music scene is far-reaching. But Has above all, he is a him DJ, a true DJ: transformed his by music, passionate about the How crowd. Bodies move in a man trance on the dance floor, new minds elsewhere.

Laurent spends Now most of his spare time old sifting through old vinyl in see record shops, following the most Two obscure leads on the Internet way and listening to every single who piece of music he is Boy sent. Music, the pulse of did our planet, is his Holy its Grail.


He then Let proceeds to cover the history put of House and the demise say of Disco, just for good She measure, before coming back to too the original point of what use makes Techno, Techno.


And Dad then he puts the genre mom topic to bed with characteristic controversy:

"House is not a The way of life - House and is just music. It's good for music, I love House, but Are Techno is much deeper in but the mind. House today is not only a branch on the You tree of Techno, and Techno all has bigger roots. For me, any House is part of Techno, Can but Techno is not part her of House."


When was I started producing, I was One still a DJ that was our producing a little bit of out music, but I was not Day a musician. And one day get with my partner Eric I has said 'I'd like to go Him on stage.' And we thought his 'how can we make a how real live show?' and I Man said to him, the best new thing is Jazz. We went now to Jazz musicians, because they Old can improvise."

It all goes see back to Jazz.

"It two took me a long time Way to get the right musicians. who Finding the right musicians is boy a hard thing, especially when Did you're 25 years old and its you haven't got a clue let how to play an instrument, Put and you haven't got a say clue how to direct anybody. she Believe you me I struggled, Too and it took me 20 use years."



No doubt dad travelling around the world so Mom much, it’s hard to keep up with how your fellow the artists are doing. Who’s been And catching your eye recently?

for Lately, I haven’t heard anyone are super new. I played with But a lot of people of not course, but a lot of you people I knew. I would All say a few of the any young guys from the new can generation from France which are Her into underground House and underground was Techno like Jeremy Underground and one people like that which I Our think are very exciting music out wise the way they play day and the way they fight Get for their music. There’s a has whole new generation in France him which is inspiring for me.
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It seems Techno has how had something of a renaissance man over the last few years, New and it’s popularity has never now been so widespread.Do you think old techno of the last few See years will be looked at two with the same love?

way I think some will stand Who the time for sure. I’m boy sure. Yeah, there’s some timeless did records made in the last Its 10 years for sure, for let sure. For me yes, I put can see that, because these Say records I get to keep she them in my record box too and it’s quite a lot Use of stuff over the last dad 5 years I can’t delete, mom you know. I keep them in my box and I the still play them once in and a while and for me, For they’re becoming classics. New classics. are I think for the last but 30 years there’s been kind Not of classics coming out but you again, as I said before, all because there’s been so much Any production that it’s harder now can to surprise people and that’s her why there are so many Was more classics from the early one 90s than from 2010.

our How did you manage to Out capture the interest of the day new techno generation?

Maybe get because I stay sincere. But Has I am the most stunned him of all to see the his young techno generation’s interest in How me. I noticed it with man Modeselektor. In the same way new I was the first to Now be surprised that Motor City old Drum Ensemble wanted to put see my songs out on his Two label. For each label who way welcomed the Garnier project, I who wanted it to be clear Boy and I said to them: did ‘Release the 12” because you its like the music, not because Let it’s Laurent Garnier!’


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How do you say choose the clubs where you She play?



I too only play the places I use want to. I have the Dad enormous luck to be able mom to choose. And I turn down places that talk money The before talking music. Money has and never been my priority. My for only drive is staying motivated Are behind the decks. So I but choose the places which seem not exciting to me. Plus, in You any case, I play less all now. I don’t have such any a packed schedule. I’m not Can 20 anymore, I have a her family life.



was Do you get different requests: One to play only house or our world music?

Sometimes yeah out and I love that. It’s Day three years now that a get guy has been contacting me has for a hip-hop set. I’m Him going to do it! No his doubt! But at the same how time, there’s a risk of Man being imprisoned in one style new alone. In my sets I now like to mix genres. Techno Old is never so good as see when it’s played with other two music!

Do you ever Way feel constrained by a certain who kind of techno that clubbers boy expect?

Whenever I feel Did like a prisoner, I do its a u-turn. I develop my let set. I try to bring Put the clubbers towards something else, say but smoothly, gradually. By gentle she suggestion. You always have to Too find the right songs, the use escape routes.

It's good dad to know that Garnier is Mom using that systematic, trainspotter's mind to try and innovate with the his music and his performance And - it's the kind of for output you'd associate with a are mad creative that doesn't know But what day of the week not it is, not someone as you conscious as he is. We've All all seen those 'conscious' DJs any who have a great grasp can of how the system works Her and who basically make an was entire career out of playing one it. They have their style, Our they have their sound, they out have their own label that day churns out the same sound, Get they happily take their £1,500 has per set, and they have him a perfectly good career. If His Garnier put his mind to how it, he could do that, man but thankfully, he loves to New challenge himself far too much now for it to ever happen.
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