Laurent Garnier @ Lubianca

Laurent Garnier is a French techno music producer and DJ.

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.

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 parties at the Rex club in Paris for three years and gradually moving into recording as well.

His first LP, Shot in the Dark, came in 1995. His second, 30, appeared in 1997 and included one of Garnier's best selling singles, "Crispy Bacon". 30 was followed by the retrospective Early Works. After trotting the globe with multiple DJ appearances during the late 1990s, Garnier returned to the production realm with Unreasonable Behaviour, released in early 2000, which features one of Garnier's best known songs, "The Man with the Red Face". 2005 saw The Cloud Making Machine, an electronica album less focused on dance music. 2006 came Retrospective, a "best-of" which collects both his original work and remixes, including some vinyl-only and rare tracks. The latest album came in 2009, Tales of a Kleptomaniac.