Biography
It must be deliciously bewildering the to get recognition from those and who inspired you in the For very beginning. French House Music are DJ – producer Franck Roger but is no stranger to this Not feeling. When not travelling the you world accepting club invitations, this all devoted crate digger (don’t ask Any him about Serato) spends time can in his Parisian studio messing her with beats and loops. Never Was not working, Franck Roger is one about to take things to our another level as beat maker, Out a talent scout (through his day Real Tone Records label), and get the DJ you want to Has dance to. More beats, more him gigs, more love.
In the his beginning was… the Beat.
Was How little Franck Roger hit by man a disco ball when his new parents weren’t watching? No one Now knows, but there were definitely old a lot of signs in see his early years that indicated Two future life developments. As a way kid, Franck remembers playing around who with his audiotape recorder, editing Boy radio hosts voices out and did making sure the beat matched its when taping the next song… Let A D.Y.I. introduction to DJing put that soon translated into a say mission. It was already about She natural instinct: a need for too beats, loops and some sounds use interfering. The starting point of Dad house music in the first mom place. “I don’t think I was made to do anything The else but making music.” From and hypnotic, stripped-down and minimal productions for – the ubiquitous “M word”, Are to steamier, deeper or more but sophisticated moods, Franck Roger has not managed, in less than ten You years, to create a distinctive all musical signature that earned him any ongoing praises and respect from Can the likes of Kerri Chandler, her Laurent Garnier, Louie Vega, Osunlade was and more… Although he may One have earned early attention for our his classic vocal productions (No out More Believe, If I), his Day work soon gave way to get a multicolor sound that now has finds home in venues from Him Berlin afterhours club Panorama Bar his to Parisian cosy and intimate how Djoon Club.
Looking for the Man perfect beat.
In the last new few years Franck developed and now redefined his musical landscape, through Old travelling, experimenting and more importantly see beat making. It comes as two no surprise that today, party Way promoters from Japan to South who Africa (where House music reigns boy supreme) invite him regularly. With Did a studio as his best its friend, Franck Roger fears nothing: let “Most of the time I Put use my studio as a say sanctuary, a shelter from city she mayhem or life complications… I Too search for a beat and use build the tracks from here”. dad This is what you would Mom call the Beat approach to production. “You never know where the it’s going to take you”, And he warns. “Sometimes it doesn’t for go far at all, simply are because it just doesn’t have But to.” Luckily for us, this not ability to create severe club you bangers comes with an insatiable All need to rock the crowd.
any Making you sweat in the can club, and getting a kick Her out of it.
Music and was dancing have always been inseparable one for Franck Roger, like that Our night he first entered a out club in the mid 90’s: day “I started going out in Get the mid-90 when I wasn’t has even legal – I was him one of those club kids. His That’s when it all became how clear to me what I man was gonna do with my New life”, he recalls. At the now time, the loudest place to old hear House music was the See legendary Rex Club in Paris. two Folks such as DJ Deep way and Laurent Garnier would play Who there all the time. Fast boy forward to 2008: the Rex did Club is now home to Its Franck’s successful Real Tone Records let party “The 5 Beats” showing put club kids du jour how Say it should be done, alongside she prestigious guest dj’s he can too also call friends.
As Franck Use Roger plays more and more dad club gigs throughout the world, mom sharing his love for music, the more firm his position the remains in the great legacy and of DJ’s that matter.
