BIOGRAPHY & DISCOGRAPHY

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Antoine Clamaran (born 1964) is a French house music artist and music remixer. Clamaran was born in Paris. In the early 90's, his local fame interested Maximum FM, the leading parisian dance radio station at that time. Impressed by his mixing gift, Clamaran gained a huge audience and started to be booked for one off parties. But Palace headquarters (Palace in Paris is the NYC equivalent of Studio 54) asked him to run the mythical Gay Tea Dance every Sunday, instead of French icon Laurent Garnier.

In 1992 Clamaran, eager to get involved into production, teamed up with Laurent Pautrat. Their first Production "I've got music in me" by 400 Hz made him one of the most promising French producers. Released on House Trade Records, this track was licensed by BMG France and sold over 100,000 units.

Then record companies started to flood Clamaran with remixing requests such as : "funky music" by Calvin Stone, "oxygene" by Jean Michel Jarre, "party time" by Gloria Estefan, "you spin me round" by Dead or Alive and "Encore Une Fois" by Euro smash. His own productions under the names of Carayca, 400 Hz, D Plac, LAC, Unchain & House Train were always at the top the DJ playlists but it was not until 1998 was he again to enter the French top 50 best-sellers list.

As a DJ he switched his residency from Palace to the Temple of Dance in Paris: Le Queen.

During 1998 he produced 3 club smashes under the name Omega: "Dreaming Of A Better World", "Peace & Harmony", "The Mission". All these tracks went gold status in France (250,000 units) but didn't make any sales abroad.

By 1999, Clamaran had reached a blockbuster status in France but he chose to come back to house music, leaving behind the commercial path laid out for him. He decided to produce tracks under his own name and oriented for the international markets. His first productions under his name; "Do The Funk", "Get Up" and "After", were written with the now famous "french filtered sound".

These tracks were licensed by US based label Filtered records and released on the Discoland EP. The record became a "must have" for most of the world's key DJs including Boris Duglosch, Erick Morillo, Pete Tong, Danny Rampling and Robbie Rivera. With "We Come To Party" feat. Blue James (Basement jaxx singer), the filtered disco style of Clamaran, became an asset for the house community.

In 1999, a few days before new year's eve, Clap production (Clamaran /Pautrat label) merged into Penso Positivo (firm of another famous DJ in France : Claude Monnet).
Antoine is now managing 4 labels, as producer and a&r, within Penso Possitivo: Academy, North Club, House Trade Records and Basic traxx.
In 2000, he achieved charts success with Vibration INC. Antoine Clamaran is currently the resident in the two biggest parisian clubs: Les Bains Douches and Le Queen.

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Antoine Clamaran, né à Neuilly-sur-Seine en 1964, est un disc jockey et producteur de musique électronique français.
Il a travaillé pour de grandes discothèques parisiennes, pour la radio, et a collaboré à l'élaboration de remixages de tubes internationaux.

Passionné de vinyls depuis son plus jeune âge, c'est au Whisky à Gogo, Paris, en 1982 que l'on découvre Antoine Clamaran en tant que chanteur.

Après quelques passages dans plusieurs clubs de la capitale, c'est le Palace qui, en 1992, lui offre une résidence au côté de Laurent Garnier pour les fameuses " Gay Tea Dance " dominicales. Touché par l'accueil de son nouveau public, il lui dédie son tout premier morceau qu'il baptise sobrement " GTD " (Gay Tea Dance).

Associé à son ami Laurent Pautrat, Antoine multiplie les productions et prend la résidence du Queen où il officie tous les dimanches soirs pour les soirées " Absolutly Fabulous " qui deviendront plus tard les soirées " Overkitsch ".

Le talent d'Antoine en tant que remixer est confirmé par le succès de l'album de remix de Dalida destiné aux clubs et produit par Orlando (1996). Les majors font appel à lui pour remixer de nombreux artistes et, signe évident de reconnaissance, ce sont désormais les autres djs qui le réclament à leur tour, parmi eux Calvin Stone,dj fist, tristan garner, G-Rom, Charles Schilling, Sash! et plus récemment David Guetta et Dave Armstrong. etc.....

Après plus de 10 ans de carrière, Antoine est aujourd'hui résident sur Radio FG (les samedis à 23 heures) et présent régulièrement sur les playlists des grands noms de la scène house tels que Boris Dlugosch, Pete Tong, Erick Morillo, Dj Vibe, Robbie Rivera…

Antoine Clamaran crée également sa propre maison de disques, "Pool E Music" composée de 20 labels différents tel que Congos, Fine-Tune, Ambassade, Vector, Voices, Unick, Discoball, Academy… etc. Chaque label véhiculant son propre style.

En 2002, il sort son premier album " Release Yourself " où il regroupe l'ensemble des productions sorties sous son nom et y ajoute quelques inédits. (ULM). Il fait aussi parti du collectif King of House qui reprend Michael Jackson dans un style house.

En 2003, le premier volume de sa compil MIX Inc. rencontre un grand succès et entraînera la sortie des volumes 2 et 3. La MIX Inc.3 s'est écoulée à plus de 250 000 exemplaires.

Aujourd'hui Antoine joue dans les plus grands clubs internationaux et compte de nouveaux succès avec sa compilation MIX inc 4 et surtout avec ces deux derniers titres : " Let's Get Together " sur Discoball Records / Pool e Music et " Differents Drums (Noize / I Feel Love) " sur Congos Records / Pool E Music, sous licencié et ressorti sur Sondos Records / Subliminal.

Son remix très attendu de Da Hool " Meet Her At The Love Parade " est dans les flight cases des plus grands DJ internationaux depuis Octobre.
Antoine est élu DJ de l'année 2005 en France, le 14 Novembre 2005, aux trophées Paris Nuit 2005. Cette récompense vient confirmer la place qu'il occupe dans le milieu Djing et l'encourage à poursuivre sa passion : faire danser le monde entier.

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Singles
2009. Gold
2008. Cancun Paradise
2008. Gianpula
2008. Get Down
2008. Pereira is Crazy
2008. Minimal Drums @ Bogota
2008. Cali is Burning
2008. National Airport of MEddelin
2007. Dr Drum
2007. Give Some Love
2007. Landing
2006. Dance 2
2006. In My House
2006. Take Off
2006. Get Up
2006. Energy
2006. Zumba E
2006. Keep on Tryin
2005. I Feel Love
2005. Noise
2005. Let's Get Together
2004. Zoo
2004. Fever
2003. Classica
2003. My Old Piano
2003. Cuba Beach (With Laurent Pautrat)
2003. Easy
2003. Feel the Drums
2003. Medellin
2003. Bogota
2003. Choc
2003. Darkust
2002. Alert
2002. In Da Jungle
2002. Feel It
2002. Release Yourself


Remixes
2008. Shampale Cartier - I Got a Man
2008. Fred Pellicherro & Sandy Vee - Welcome to the Jungle
2008. zuHouse Rockers - Power
2008. Big World & Denis the Menace - Me Gusta
2008. Sebastien Drums - I Just Want to Be
2007. Gadjo - So Many Times
2007. John Modena - To The Beat
2006. Marky Star - Buy This Record
2006. Yohanne Simon - Facha
2006. Daktor & Kash - Africa
2006. JD Davis - Bocca
2006. Da Skunk - Hot Box
2006. Bob Sinclar - Love Generation
2006. Cloud9 - How Shall I Rock Three ?
2005. Matteo Dimarr - Freak the Frequency
2005. Julien R - Touch You"r Love
2005. Sebastien Boumati - Frequency
2005. Fedde le Grand - The Vibe
2004. Steve Smooth - The Ride
2004. Hatiras - Money Shot
2003. DJ Flex - Amazing
2001. Aaron Flowers - Fly Away
2000. CZR - I Wat You
1999. Bob Sinclar - The Beat Goes On (With Bob Sinclar)