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).
