LAURENT WOLF
Sound, mix, nightclubs… Laurent Wolf has been dedicating his life to
electronic music since the age of twelve. He was discovered in 1992 as he
was doing his first sets in Paris: he was proposed to hold a weekly mixer party
at the Queen, the mythical nightclub of the Champs Elysées. Laurent Wolf has
worked for the Queen for 10 years, mixing up to three nights a week. The
Queen was a real stepping stone for his DJ career.
Thanks to his effective remixes, Laurent Wolf has established himself as an
inventive DJ, dynamic and attentive to his public. After non-stop producing
remixes for record companies, Laurent decides to create his own record label.
In 1995, he releases “House Train”. The single quickly becomes a number one
and shows Laurent’s undeniable gift for house music production, often tinted
with more avant-gardism electro music.
But the success is even greater with the hit “Saxo” which becomes a dance
floor triumph all over the world, along with “Calinda”. These two singles
appear on the first album, a 2 CD set on which Laurent Wolf puts his own
distinctive stamp: rhythmical music in which elaborate drums and peppy
percussion prevail. His label manager remembers the night when Laurent
played “Saxo” for the first time:
“The audience went crazy. Laurent and I looked at each other in the booth. We
knew it was the beginning of something huge.”
“I still test my instrumentals in the clubs today, even tracks that aren’t
finished, to see if people like them. When it works like with “Saxo” and
“Calinda”, then you know it’s good”-says Laurent.
Even the radio stations, generally hostile to electro music, play Laurent Wolf,
now one of the French music scene’s rising stars. He has sold 250,000 vinyl
maxis in 50 countries. “Saxo” and “Calinda” can be found on hundreds of
compilations worldwide. At the same time, he has been consolidating his
discography structures: after the creation of the Darkness label in 2001,
Afrodynamic and Ritmodynamic were the logical follow-up. For each album,
Laurent invests in new machines to change his way of working and create new
sounds. He now composes his records from A to Z: beats, bass and vocals. In
2004, he released his first album “Sunshine Paradise”, “Positive Energy” the
year after and then “Hollyworld”. He also released the first compilation under
the Afrodynamic label. So, is Laurent Wolf a star DJ? Not really.
“I don’t care about being a star. I’m only interested in my studio work being
recognized by the public. When someone tells me he/she likes the way I
work, I’m far more pleased than when a guy asks me for an autograph for his
younger sister.”
Yet Laurent’s reputation continues to grow, in particular thanks to his
reluctance to act like a star. Hard worker, he set up a studio at home so that
he could record anytime he wants, and he continues to tour the nightlife
world, stopping over in Taiwan to mix in front of 2000 people at a flying-
saucer-shaped club, in Russia at the “Zima”, performing for a New Year’s eve
in Chile for 15,000 dancers, on a beach in Colombia with a crowd of 25,000
people, in Mexico City at the legendary Living room, at the Pacha in Barcelona
…
“I happened to fly twenty hours forth and twenty back just to perform a set of
two hours”- he remembers.
Laurent is now coming back with his new album « Wash my World ». A
concentrate of the last électro tendencies and definitively dance floor. His
Opus is like the man : surprising and committed.
His first single NO STRESS is now release in more than 30 countries. His
collaboration with prestigious labels such as Ultra Records, Armada, Blanco y
Negro and Time Records, ensures that NO STRESS is an international hit.
Number 1 the main European countries’ charts and airplays, it tends to be the
electro house 2008 track. Recently Laurent has remix Beyonce (If I were a boy)
and Celine Dion (I’m Alive).
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