| olivier giacomotto‘s production and djing career began in 1999 through work in recording studios where he learned how to use samplers, mixing desks, effects, computers and music software. from the blues café studio in paris to townhouse studios in london, olivier worked with robert suhas, magnus fiennes, guy pratt, yohad nevo, pete lewis, john themis, bond, lyrics, and various other famous bands, producers, studio musicians and sound engineers from the mainstream music industry.
back in his hometown of bordeaux,france olivier began programming break-beat, drum and bass, triphop, hiphop and lounge through projects like shagshag, dubweisers or uprock massive. in 2002 with shagshag, he won a remix contest organised by news and got his first vinyl release: plastyc buddha - rhodes royce (shagshag remix).
from this point on olivier progressively got deeper into techno and started to play as a dj with the profs system, first edition of finalscratch. his mixing sessions were described as punchy and groovy... involving various kind of fx tools and modules. de-structuring the mix with effects is one of his strengths.
with the release of playground, his first ep signed by lupp (major belgium label who had already produced many big hits from stanny franssen, filterheadz, max walder, dimitri andreas, end-jy...), the e.p. was selected and played by carl cox as one of the ten best releases of april 2004. it was also included in chris liebings top10 for june, july and august 2004.
during 2004 and 2005, olivier produced more than 20 eps, solo or in coproduction with other international artists such as dj preach (canada), stephane signore (belgium), or alec marqx (netherlands). all these releases have been massively played and charted by scores of djs such as misstress barbara, carl cox, chris liebing, umek, marco bailey, christian varela, dave angel, felipe, tonio, and many more...
before the release date of dial t for techno ep on iturnem 017, his tracks had already been charted, playlisted and included in chris liebing‘s new mixed cd. chris described the ep as a „real bomb“ and it climbed to no.4 in his 2005 chart.
2006 has been the starting point of olivier‘s international career: he began by hitting brazil and came back with major feedback and support from one of the best south american techno scenes. olivier is also constantly on the move across europe, playing in famous clubs and events like rex club in paris, heineken city hall in amsterdam, pro-jekt in belgium, fabrik in spain and contact in austria...
recently olivier has also started new projects, producing with new partners and conquering the dancefloors with the finest of the electro sound. with dj manu+ he first provided exclusive bootlegs for djs including felix da housecat, 2 many djs, and tiga. his first electro release came on dietrich schonemann‘s imprint, tora tora tora. ttt-14, entitled jamon y queso ep, and coproduced with damon jee, immediatly got big support from worldwide dj‘s such as john acquaviva, sven vath, steve bug, tony rios, and many more...
summer 2006 started with another smash, this time on john acquaviva‘s imprint; definitive recordings. the 3 tracker, called walking on the moog was co-produced with damon jee and created such a big buzz on the scene that it even opened the doors to the mainroom of privilège, ibiza! |
