# Laurent Garnier — Every Record We Rank Laurent Garnier appears 3 times in our Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records list. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick. They also curate a list here. - **Ranked entries:** 3 - **Appears on:** Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records - **Years:** 2000–2009 - **Curates:** 21 picks - **Updated:** 2026-08-29 - **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/artist/laurent-garnier/ ## Appears on ### [The Cloud Making Machine](https://waxonia.com/track/laurent-garnier--the-cloud-making-machine/) *2005 · F Communications · Picked by [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/)* What Bashung's turn gave me. I did not want to make another techno album — I wanted to write for choreographers and for cinema. I listened to this one thousands of times while making it, and it opened those doors. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Laurent%20Garnier%20The%20Cloud%20Making%20Machine) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzk0FjgZSv0) ### [The Man With The Red Face](https://waxonia.com/track/laurent-garnier--the-man-with-the-red-face/) *2000 · F Communications · Picked by [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/)* My way into jazz. I cut it with my saxophonist during a stretch when I was deliberately pushing at the edges of what I already knew how to make. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Laurent%20Garnier%20The%20Man%20With%20The%20Red%20Face) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KJkoBH68njQ) ### [Dealing With the Man](https://waxonia.com/track/laurent-garnier--dealing-with-the-man/) *2009 · PIAS · Picked by [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/)* A blues of my own. Played live with the band, at Pleyel or anywhere else, it brings something human and sweaty into the concert that I would not want to do without. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Laurent%20Garnier%20Dealing%20With%20the%20Man) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kug_fz5xdaU) ## Their picks Selected, not ranked — the order is the curator’s, and carries no claim about which is best. ### A general selection Twenty-one records picked and talked through one at a time: Gainsbourg to Bach, La Piscine to the Haçienda, and a seventeen-year-old son's drill playlist. The reasons are his. *21 picks · updated 2026-08-29* #### [Serge Gainsbourg](https://waxonia.com/artist/serge-gainsbourg/) — [Histoire de Melody Nelson](https://waxonia.com/track/serge-gainsbourg--histoire-de-melody-nelson/) *1971 · Philips* One of the two records I buy compulsively. Every time a flea market has a clean copy I take it, and there must be five of them at home by now, purely in case the first one ever wears through. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Serge%20Gainsbourg%20Histoire%20de%20Melody%20Nelson) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OXUrl3fGknM) #### [Donna Summer](https://waxonia.com/artist/donna-summer/) — [I Feel Love](https://waxonia.com/track/donna-summer--i-feel-love/) *1977 · Casablanca* The other record I buy on sight. I have played it so many times that I want pristine copies waiting behind the one that is in the bag. Also on: [Disco](https://waxonia.com/genre/disco/), [Roots](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-desk-roots/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Donna%20Summer%20I%20Feel%20Love) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yEbaeLv-aOo) #### [Alain Bashung](https://waxonia.com/artist/alain-bashung/) — [Samuel Hall](https://waxonia.com/track/alain-bashung--samuel-hall/) *1998 · Barclay* Bashung mattered enormously to me, and Fantaisie Militaire is where he went somewhere darker and more electronic than anyone expected of him. It is the record that told me to break my own routines and take the risk. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Alain%20Bashung%20Samuel%20Hall) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=THrsHPSRcS0) #### [Laurent Garnier](https://waxonia.com/artist/laurent-garnier/) — [The Cloud Making Machine](https://waxonia.com/track/laurent-garnier--the-cloud-making-machine/) *2005 · F Communications* What Bashung's turn gave me. I did not want to make another techno album — I wanted to write for choreographers and for cinema. I listened to this one thousands of times while making it, and it opened those doors. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Laurent%20Garnier%20The%20Cloud%20Making%20Machine) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzk0FjgZSv0) #### [New Order](https://waxonia.com/artist/new-order/) — [Blue Monday](https://waxonia.com/track/new-order--blue-monday/) *1983 · Factory* The classic of classics. I first danced to it at sixteen at La Piscine, a new wave club in Paris; two years later I was in England playing the Haçienda and hanging around with the band. A whole chapter sits in it. Also on: [Madchester](https://waxonia.com/genre/madchester/), [The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-both-rooms/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/New%20Order%20Blue%20Monday) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9GMjH1nR0ds) #### [The Sugarhill Gang](https://waxonia.com/artist/the-sugarhill-gang/) — [Rapper's Delight](https://waxonia.com/track/the-sugarhill-gang--rappers-delight/) *1979 · Sugar Hill* The first hip-hop record I ever heard, at thirteen or fourteen. It opened a door onto a music that has not once left my life since. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Sugarhill%20Gang%20Rapper's%20Delight) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCK99wHrk0) #### [Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force](https://waxonia.com/artist/afrika-bambaataa-and-the-soulsonic-force/) — [Planet Rock](https://waxonia.com/track/afrika-bambaataa-and-the-soulsonic-force--planet-rock/) *1982 · Tommy Boy* Where electro begins, for me. Those enormous synthesizers carrying a rhythmic energy that lands like a rock record — I had heard nothing put together that way before. Also on: [Electro](https://waxonia.com/genre/electro/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Afrika%20Bambaataa%20%26%20The%20Soulsonic%20Force%20Planet%20Rock) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=SqS8X-5aIns) #### [Dizzee Rascal](https://waxonia.com/artist/dizzee-rascal/) — [I Luv U](https://waxonia.com/track/dizzee-rascal--i-luv-u/) *2002 · XL* I am a serious fan of English music, and this is grime at the moment it arrived — something new that owed nothing at all to what the rest of us were doing. Also on: [Grime](https://waxonia.com/genre/grime/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Dizzee%20Rascal%20I%20Luv%20U) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YH0KWX2a8zY) #### [Gazo & Freeze Corleone](https://waxonia.com/artist/gazo-and-freeze-corleone/) — [Drill FR 4](https://waxonia.com/track/gazo-and-freeze-corleone--drill-fr-4/) *2020* My son, who is seventeen, played me this. I make a point of staying open: listening to what the younger generation is on is how you learn the codes of French drill rather than guess at them from outside. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Gazo%20%26%20Freeze%20Corleone%20Drill%20FR%204) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lbeUyW6axeA) #### [DJ Rolando / Underground Resistance](https://waxonia.com/artist/dj-rolando-underground-resistance/) — [Jaguar](https://waxonia.com/track/dj-rolando-underground-resistance--jaguar/) *1999 · Underground Resistance* A monument. Chicago house felt like a natural continuation of disco; Detroit techno broke the rules altogether and sounded like the future. And this one everybody played — house DJs and techno DJs alike. Also on: [Detroit Techno](https://waxonia.com/genre/detroit-techno/), [The Waxonia Desk — Detroit, Heard in Europe](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-detroit-in-europe/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/DJ%20Rolando%20%2F%20Underground%20Resistance%20Jaguar) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gw7vrBSBQwk) #### [Serge Gainsbourg](https://waxonia.com/artist/serge-gainsbourg/) — [En Melody](https://waxonia.com/track/serge-gainsbourg--en-melody/) *1971 · Philips* I like throwing a curveball into a set, and this is what stays in the crate for it: two minutes of psychedelic guitar that takes a floor out of its comfort zone and starts telling it a different story. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Serge%20Gainsbourg%20En%20Melody) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9xRzCH8T8) #### [Front 242](https://waxonia.com/artist/front-242/) — [Controversy Between](https://waxonia.com/track/front-242--controversy-between/) *1983* EBM, and exactly the kind of rock-adjacent electronic record I like to drop into a set. It sits at a techno tempo without any help, and it is part of the foundation of this music rather than a novelty beside it. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Front%20242%20Controversy%20Between) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=j9sW556IBjo) #### [The Stooges](https://waxonia.com/artist/the-stooges/) — [I Wanna Be Your Dog](https://waxonia.com/track/the-stooges--i-wanna-be-your-dog/) *1969 · Elektra* I cut my own edits and loops of rock records like this one so they can live in a club without falling apart. It is there to put raw punk energy into the room, so that nobody in it ever gets comfortable. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Stooges%20I%20Wanna%20Be%20Your%20Dog) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3gsWt7ey6bo) #### [Bérurier Noir](https://waxonia.com/artist/berurier-noir/) — [Porcherie](https://waxonia.com/track/berurier-noir--porcherie/) *1985 · Bondage* I played this the night before an election to say one thing to the floor: do not vote for shit. A dancefloor can be a political place, and a DJ can hand a crowd its own feeling back to it, amplified. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/B%C3%A9rurier%20Noir%20Porcherie) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ5YOxwY8tI) #### [Fela Kuti & Africa 70](https://waxonia.com/artist/fela-kuti-and-africa-70/) — [Zombie](https://waxonia.com/track/fela-kuti-and-africa-70--zombie/) *1976 · Coconut* This one is Radio Nova. I had come out of a very Anglo-Saxon club world in England, and the people there kept putting African and Brazilian records in front of me until my ears were open to all of it. Also on: [Afrobeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/afrobeat/), [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/), [Dancing to Bad News](https://waxonia.com/theme/dancing-to-bad-news/), [Martin Solveig — What His Father Left Him](https://waxonia.com/selection/martin-solveig-what-his-father-left-him/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Fela%20Kuti%20%26%20Africa%2070%20Zombie) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSg31Ignw4) #### [Laurent Garnier](https://waxonia.com/artist/laurent-garnier/) — [The Man With The Red Face](https://waxonia.com/track/laurent-garnier--the-man-with-the-red-face/) *2000 · F Communications* My way into jazz. I cut it with my saxophonist during a stretch when I was deliberately pushing at the edges of what I already knew how to make. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Laurent%20Garnier%20The%20Man%20With%20The%20Red%20Face) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KJkoBH68njQ) #### [Miles Davis](https://waxonia.com/artist/miles-davis/) — [So What](https://waxonia.com/track/miles-davis--so-what/) *1959 · Columbia* While recording The Man With The Red Face I could not tell the jazz musicians what I wanted, because I did not have the words. A friend handed me Kind of Blue and said: study this, learn the vocabulary. Also on: [Jazz](https://waxonia.com/genre/jazz/), [Mac Tyer — What the House Was Playing](https://waxonia.com/selection/mac-tyer-what-the-house-was-playing/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Miles%20Davis%20So%20What) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXk1LBvIqU) #### [The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion](https://waxonia.com/artist/the-jon-spencer-blues-explosion/) — [Skunk](https://waxonia.com/track/the-jon-spencer-blues-explosion--skunk/) *1996 · Matador* The best door into the blues I know — electric, furious, nothing polite about it. Hearing it sent me down an internet hole for months, pulling down every blues record I could find. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Jon%20Spencer%20Blues%20Explosion%20Skunk) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9gj_8ZDFlPI) #### [Laurent Garnier](https://waxonia.com/artist/laurent-garnier/) — [Dealing With the Man](https://waxonia.com/track/laurent-garnier--dealing-with-the-man/) *2009 · PIAS* A blues of my own. Played live with the band, at Pleyel or anywhere else, it brings something human and sweaty into the concert that I would not want to do without. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Laurent%20Garnier%20Dealing%20With%20the%20Man) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kug_fz5xdaU) #### [Nina Simone](https://waxonia.com/artist/nina-simone/) — [Love Me or Leave Me](https://waxonia.com/track/nina-simone--love-me-or-leave-me/) *1959 · Bethlehem* Her story is the thing. A Black woman in a segregated country, refused the concert-pianist career she had trained for, who took that training and put it straight into jazz and blues instead. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Nina%20Simone%20Love%20Me%20or%20Leave%20Me) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dAvQ-ltLGdk) #### [Johann Sebastian Bach](https://waxonia.com/artist/johann-sebastian-bach/) — [Brandenburg Concerto No. 5](https://waxonia.com/track/johann-sebastian-bach--brandenburg-concerto-no-5/) *1721* The bridge to Nina Simone, and why it is here at the end. Listen to Bach and you hear the exact classical piano she is playing inside her jazz records — which is the whole argument: it is all one music. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Johann%20Sebastian%20Bach%20Brandenburg%20Concerto%20No.%205) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_V7oujd9djk) ### About the curator French DJ and producer, resident at the Haçienda in Manchester before returning to France, where he became the central figure in the country's electronic music scene and co-founded the F Communications label. Elsewhere: https://www.laurentgarnier.com/ --- Hand-curated by Waxonia. We host no audio; all links point to streaming platforms.