Laurent Garnier on House, The Haçienda and Radio

Laurent Garnier on House, The Haçienda and Radio | Red Bull Music Academy

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French institution Laurent Garnier discusses everything from approaching techno like a jazz musician to the role of radio in his early musical discoveries in his 2015 RBMA Lecture. #RBMA #house #DJ
TOPICS:
05:54 - The role of radio
15:22 - The Haçendia
21:24 - House in Manchester
30:21 - Long sets
44:16 - Video
54:04 - A jazz approach
VIDEOS:
44:14 - Laurent Garnier - Flashback (Directed by Quentin Dupieux) • Laurent Garnier - Flas...
49:57 - Laurent Garnier - Acid Eiffel (Les Victoires de la Musique '98) • Laurent Garnier - Acid...
One of the forefathers of modern French electronic music, Laurent Garnier grew up fascinated by American black music culture. Lucky enough to have an older brother who would sneak him into nightclubs, it was in those gay French establishments that Garnier first caught the disco bug. From there, he moved to Manchester, and fell under the spell of house music at the famed Haçienda nightclub. If Mike Pickering’s Friday nights at the Hacienda were a baptism, hearing Farley “Jackmaster” Funk for the first time was a legitimate miracle, and Garnier came away from the club a true zealot of house. It was at the Haçienda Garnier first began to DJ in earnest, eventually leading to a well-earned reputation for eclectic, marathon sets as well as establishing himself as a legitimate producer/A+R in his role at F Communications.
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@ronanmoriarty3224 8 жыл бұрын

Props the interviewer. Excellent line of questioning!

@djmikevieira 8 жыл бұрын

+ronan moriarty Was thinking the same! Wonderful skill.

@diseasefire 4 жыл бұрын

but the people asking the questions at the end are embarassing ahah

@bazedjunkiii_tv 8 жыл бұрын

one of the most elaborate, well-spoken and interesting electronic music artists of all time. totally relatable in his approach towards the whole culture.

@theoriginalevilprincess1386 6 жыл бұрын

AMAZING!!!! GARNIER is an absolute LEGEND & I’ve been blessed to have raved with him for 30 YEARS!

@stalwarthk 8 жыл бұрын

This is just perfect. Laurent was, is and will alwys be the best for me. Still as humble, pasionnate and true to his art as he was more than 25 years ago. Much respect Laurent, this should be a bible for the newer generation !!!! And for some of the odest too ;) !

@TRICELLxGAMER 7 жыл бұрын

Hey guys you have to read this guy's autobiography ! It's called *ELECTROCHOC* . Easy to read, fascinating, I got hooked on it since the first two lines of text!

@n1knak 7 жыл бұрын

I hate it when people think house and techno is a drugs thing. It was an African American dance thing, the British turned it in to a drug/rave scene, people don't realise that and this deep and soulful music with a lot of heart just gets forgotten.It's good to hear someone who was there before that and after to explain this. Garnier you're a legend and continue to rock the world!

@n1knak 7 жыл бұрын

bookmarkthis Disco music, Soul and Jazz for house. Techno is more complex, aspects of industrialisation in society in Detroit, futuristic themes from technological innovation and capitalist society. Giving techno it's mechanical aesthetic. As house, acid and techno spread to the uk. It was in the late 80s the second summer of love turned new electronic dance music in to a rave/drug thing and it spread to the rest of Europe and blew up in America. Ironically considering that's where it's roots were. At its start house and techno music was about creativity and making new beats, regardless of aspirations of being in the main stream and as far as the current scene goes it still is. But I'm British and can tell you the uk is the worst country to rave in and has the druggies crowd. It's just the society I live in and Britain has always been a society of excess. Sex, violence, skin head culture, drugs, money. This music is all I've got.

@freestyle1775 5 жыл бұрын

@@n1knak Could you stop always think about race when you talk about music ? Techno and house are not an "african american" thing. Without Kraftwerk, which is a "white german" group, or even white EBM and New Wave bands, there isno techno in the first place. Enough with your bullshit, the british developed a lot more the techno and house scenes than the "african american". Thanks to the german and the british, these genres have spread around the world. The UK rave scene was also a fight against the government, it is much more than a "drug shit" thing.

@WillyJunior 5 жыл бұрын

@@n1knak This is why British culture is great.

@abee2714 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah sure....this must be why they didn't serve drinks at the Paradise Garage back in the days....😂

@n1knak 2 жыл бұрын

@@freestyle1775 LOL, people that believe kraftwerk came up with techno are delusional AF. You obviously have no idea who the Bellevue three are, nor do you understand what the term ‘jacking’ comes from. House music was a part of the African American community and gay community before it arrived at the hacienda in Manchester. I’m not looking through this genre with a racial eye or agenda. The vast majority of my favourite current dj’s and producers are white. The issue I have is that druggy subculture of dance music has overtaken the dancey culture of electronic music. People stand at clubs gurning their faces off till the cows come home and punch the air like kooks with no rhythm. British rave culture was the biggest catalyst to spreading electronic music across the globe and I’m thankful for it as it created numerous unique sounds, however of the last two decades or so the music became less about dancing and more about ‘seshing’. PS: no, the uk rave scene was never about fighting thatcher, fool. It was about hedonism, albeit it was probably the only time you would find rival football fans wearing rival team T-shirts hugging due to the ecstasy they were taking, but at least they were dancing or trying to; unlike the kids nowadays

@aidanjohnkelly 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent interview, his comments about the future are interesting too and whether contemporary house and techno is genuinely pushing the genre forward or overly deferential to what came from Chicago, New York and Detroit originally. Personally, I still hear DJs that blow my mind - Motor City Drum Ensemble being my personal favourite at the moment, musically I guess his sound is quite traditional but he puts it together in a forward looking, slick and danceable way - I just love hearing him play. Laurent has always been a favourite of mine, I must admit I never really felt techno music until I heard him DJ for the first time, he made me understand what it was all about, and I'll be forever grateful to him for that gift. What's more, anytime I saw him DJ he always looked as if he was having as much fun as the crowd, but more than anything else as a DJ and a producer he was never scared of taking risks or trying new things. It's true it's left people confused at certain points, but he's never been staid or boring. A true pioneer of electronic music - European techno and house owes him an enormous debt.

@Etalex77 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't expect Garnier to have such a clear, almost British, accent, and almost no trace of a French accent. Impressive.

@luxomars4049 3 жыл бұрын

He begun in Manchester 😅

@kaitracid75 8 жыл бұрын

J'ai découvert comme beaucoup Laurent au milieu des années 90 quand ma grande soeur achetait ses albums à la FNAC... c'était encore une époque de grande découverte comparé à maintenant où la musique électronique n'a plus beaucoup de nouveaux genres, à mon grand regret.

@ntrnlgrv 8 жыл бұрын

I agree with Laurent on much of what was talked about in this interview. I'm glad to hear that there are others feeling the way I feel dance music has become and what direction it may be going.

@jean-marcherard9216 7 жыл бұрын

23:40 in the beginning there was Jack, and Jack had a groove, and from this groove came the groove of all the grooves

@julianabotero 3 жыл бұрын

This is delightful! Just to be able to travel in time with his stories & knowing a bit more about the history of this magic music is quite a treat. This guy is a total class act. Same with some of the old schoolers, we owe them respect because they were the pioneers of a movement that has reached amazing heights today. Long live electronic music 🙏🏻❣️.

@D0CT0RS0UL 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent talk ! Thanks to Laurent for sharing his experience with the crowd !

@garethelliot 8 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed the interviewers questions along with Laurents answers.

@boloiide 8 жыл бұрын

Laurent Garnier est le meilleur représentant français de la musique électronique dans le monde . Une personne passionnée,intéressante ,ouverte qui sait parler de lui et de sa musique... pour une fois on peut etre fier d'etre français ...longue vie à toi Laurent !!! Guetta sucks,Garnier is amazing ...

@taxipopeye 8 жыл бұрын

is one of the best and mu fave globally

@bazedjunkiii_tv 8 жыл бұрын

i don't get the french part in your post and i don't like guettas music either, but: at least - coming down to what i know - he's one of the few famous EDM guys that actually originated from the real club scene and started out as dj in small underground clubs before, for whatever reason, he found his home in the super commercial bigroom stuff. so i think he potentially could do proper dj sets still because he learned his craft from scratch.

@Smile555ify 8 жыл бұрын

You can't share if you don't feel . :) Magnifique Laurent ! Tu as aura tout compris

@TOMMEEH2 8 жыл бұрын

What a clever plan and it worked, sending the records back.

@vdsw9166 8 жыл бұрын

one of the many things that is Jack is the cable that runs from the mixer to the sound system

@bazedjunkiii_tv 8 жыл бұрын

and 'jacking' was the name of the dance style they had in chitown for house music back in the days. just like footwork is just the dance moves performed to juke these days

@NinoJoy 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe we're talking an another story here, but I think Spiral Tribe, and free partys were at the time, and still, very important for the recognition of techno music in france

@NinoJoy 4 жыл бұрын

oh he talked a little about it, my bad

@sebastianbonde1551 8 жыл бұрын

Great interview. Great work!

@johnkowalski_ 8 жыл бұрын

super enjoyable, thank you

@wild-siren 8 жыл бұрын

i enjoyed his sets @Timewarp so much ! :o 30:35 He is soooo right, i love long dj sets.. You just get in the mood to dance the whole fucking night. God i cant wait for timewarp 2016..

@technoddict7920 8 жыл бұрын

+freakydomi10 If you like long DJ Sets, I recommend this: www.mixcloud.com/michael-hammer/a-billion-seconds-the-longest-journey-tech-house-techno/

@bazedjunkiii_tv 8 жыл бұрын

this is why i've enjoyed playing on the radio so much in the past... doing 3 hour shows was good already but there were time when i could stretch to 5 or 6 hours on FM radio, taking people on a long journey.

@kukubau77 7 жыл бұрын

"IT'S ABOUT SHARING"

@iamandynewton 8 жыл бұрын

please increase the sound !

@cristobalv 8 жыл бұрын

+Andy Newton add more gain from your mixer board !! :)

@TheLeesmith73 8 жыл бұрын

Awesome talk must watch!!

@lippamimi 8 жыл бұрын

mammamia.............Numero uno!!!!!!!!

@jackuhuru 8 жыл бұрын

great energy Laurent. if today people don't come to see you after a set to find out what is the music you played, it's not because they are not interested in, it's just because the can use shazam or internet to get the info.

@LaRouchesupport 5 жыл бұрын

I suspect you are missing the point here. He said he doesn't get to have that feeling for the last 5 years or so. Now, did his mind happen to go find the music on the internet anonymously you think ? I don't know about that.. But I know the reason why this is so, It has to do with mass cultural pessimism which is literally booming in the west during that period... i.e. people don't tend to see the light at the end of the tunnel any longer. The Political/economic policies used in the west are so doomed and anti human in their essence, and people tend to feel that without even knowing... But, I can assure you that in China you will have no problem finding such feeling today. Cause there is no such thing as cultural pessimism there as we speak, they have an environment of cultural optimism due to proper human like political/economic system in place.. They call it a WIN-WIN economical system being spread around the world slowly, as we speak. While in the West we have a WIN-LOSE economical system I hope you get the Idea...

@VanezArt 2 жыл бұрын

@@LaRouchesupport ahh China with its social credit system and communism, how tempting.

@clivejefferies 3 жыл бұрын

The coolest man alive. Would love to hang out with him.

@BOKARD 7 жыл бұрын

Great Interview Thanks

@mattacornley 8 жыл бұрын

Legend :-)

@Shaolin38KTM990 8 жыл бұрын

Génial ! :-)

@gillesfabbri97 8 жыл бұрын

Love this man

@SydPeppa 6 жыл бұрын

1:12:44 He listens to Grime? Woww!

@pegasvsmusic 8 жыл бұрын

Amazing artist, very interesting lecture and good questions but it would have been nice to have a version w/ French subtitles as Laurent has a large audience in France and trust me most French people will not get everything (I know I am French myself). Can someone fix that?

@GlibVolsky 8 жыл бұрын

I - inspiration 😌

@discoverydavid 8 жыл бұрын

I remember him playing in La Luna but he was playing New York garage. If you listen to his first ep it's pretty cheesy. I think he picked up on what Cyril (Deep) was playing circa 91 and changed his style..fair enough. Has he ever acknowledged Eric Rug?!

@cyrilguerin3429 Жыл бұрын

Laurent has never been nonchalant, Miss, I saw him doing marathon at rex club and he was just landing from 2/ 3 same dj sets before , sleeping few hours with all those records to carry from germany or uk ... no usb champagne stuff at that time

@Oooo-bi7bi Жыл бұрын

I thought it was jack your body which meant dancing. Called my Son Jack for same reason. Spin inn Records on the underground Markey was intense. I started going as a schoolboy in the mid to late eighties. It was mainly Hip Hop, they used to display peoples graffiti art drawings on the wall. Manchester had the twisted wheel and the largest Black community after London. So there was plenty of Soul Blues or Shabeen nights. So vocal house is the natural progression after disco from northern Soul.

@Festitribes 8 жыл бұрын

Sound level is soooo low !

@pakovegabsd 8 жыл бұрын

Anyone know who's the girl in the audience who's supposed to be a singer? (as per Garnier's comment about her music)

@laurenmartin6136 8 жыл бұрын

+Pako Vega soundcloud.com/sevdaliza

@Hanselito 8 жыл бұрын

She looks like Scarlett Johanson

@cultgalway4257 8 жыл бұрын

'What comes after E?' F.

@fayaburn2061 8 жыл бұрын

Anyone know who the women is ?

@XavierPaufichet 8 жыл бұрын

+Kilimand Jaro Lauren Martin

@babslive 7 жыл бұрын

Laurent Garnier at Igloofest : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdB3fsKHl9-2k6M.html

@LaRouchesupport 5 жыл бұрын

I know the reason why Laurent is saying he doesn't get that feeling of hearing something new that is just so amazing and all...? It has to do with mass cultural pessimism which is literally booming in the west during that period... i.e. people don't tend to see the light at the end of the tunnel any more. The Political/economic policies used in the west are so doomed and anti human in their essence, and people tend to feel that without even knowing it.. But, I can assure you that in China you will have no problem finding such feeling today. Cause there is no such thing as cultural pessimism there as we speak, they have an environment of cultural optimism due to proper human like political/economic system in place.. They call it a WIN-WIN economical system being spread around the world slowly today as we speak. While in the West we have a WIN-LOSE economical system I hope you get the Idea...

@lustforlow-end6022 5 жыл бұрын

What comes after E? MORE E!

@stretchmc 8 жыл бұрын

bad sound man :(

@jefdamen2977 8 жыл бұрын

20 tracks in 2 hours? Do u even mix bro?

@MrZilbon 8 жыл бұрын

+Jef Damen I don't see any problem here. But hey, who am I, just go ahead and teach him how to mix.

@bazedjunkiii_tv 8 жыл бұрын

back in the days it wasn't all about the next drop and tracks were telling a story of their own so there's tunes that need to run for 5 or 6 minutes to fully unfold their potential. they're still out there and those are the ones i do prefer to repetetive tool stuff tbh. over like 18+ years on the decks i've come down to find myself playing an estimated 12-16 tunes per hour on average and that's defo a good amount to keep crowds busy and excited.

@blackcircle1333 4 жыл бұрын

Jef Damen - Have you seen him mix?