Antoine Clamaran 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 400hz
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, 400HZ, 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.