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JOACHIM GARRAUD
F**K ME I’m Famous! Something that’s “People can go on my website and select
certainly true for David Guetta, but the the tracks they want and personalise the
French superstar’s co-producer and fellow artwork so every copy is unique,” he
label owner is a much less familiar face in explains.
the limelight. Which, as Joachim Garraud
explains, is just the way he wants it. He’s also a mean DJ in his own right, the
“I decided to be more of a producer and only European to have played at the
engineer so I could work on lots of Burning Man festival in Nevada every year,
different projects,” he says. “I write a lot with a number of massive gigs in Ibiza, at
of classical fi lm scores as well, and I didn’t the Berlin Love Parade and its French
want what I do with David to become equivalent Techno Parade under his belt.
everything I did.” And next year should see his solo profi le
climb even higher as his ‘Invasion’ tour
It’s not just Guetta who’s picked Garraud’s lands in cities across the world, complete
studio brains either, for the Parisian DJ with a customised metallic fl ying saucer in
and producer has also worked with Daft the DJ booth.
Punk, Justice and Kylie Minogue. Not that “I love sci-fi stuff because techno is the
he always gives his best ideas away, as this music of the future,” Joachim enthuses. “It
year saw his debut artist album ‘Invasion’, has no religion, sex or colour and making
whose marketing was almost as innovative everybody smile is universal.”
as the techno club tracks on the CD. PAUL CLARKE
First record you ever bought? Herbie Hancock ‘Rockit’
Weirdest thing you’ve seen all year? My gig in the middle of the desert
during the Burning Man festival.
Style: Electro techno Best known for: Live performance mixing Top gadget of 2008? iPhone
between keyboard and CDs. Tune of 2008: Joachim Garraud ‘The Your year in fi ve words... Spaceship, invasion, solo, album, live.
Rock’ (Gum Prod) Producer of 2008: Fedde le Grand Most important thing you’ve learned recently? We are not alone!
BOBINA
RUSSIA has been a dance music nation for show, which has just been syndicated to a
some time now but it’s never embraced major FM station here in Russia,” Bobina
club-twisting beats with such rabid reveals.
intensity — until now. And it’s not just DJs But there’s no rest for the wicked and he’s
from abroad that are making waves there. already getting his teeth into some brand
Bobina — one of two Russian DJs to enter new refi xes of cuts from the album.
this year’s poll — is rapidly becoming a “I‘m hard at work on special new mixes of
superstar in Russia, and beyond, with his some tracks from the ‘Again’ album, adding
icy new trance confi gurations. a completely different angle to the
versions that currently feature on there.”
It’s been a particularly strong year for the
Russian contender, aka Dmitry Almazov, With regular gigs all over Russia and
with the release of his album ‘Again’ prestigious guest slots at the likes of
catapulting him to fame in his native land Amnesia, Ibiza, Bobina’s diary is already
and piquing the interest of trancers chockablock with 2009 shaping up to be
worldwide. even bigger.
“It’s been a very good year and very busy. “I’ve got a new single ‘Spinning’ out on
‘Again’ has sold around 40,000 copies in Maelstrom/Newstate UK now and the
Russia to date and I’m starting the new album ‘Again: Remixed’ is out early in
phase of my Russia Goes Clubbing radio 2009,” says Bobina. BEN MURPHY
First record you ever bought? Armin van Buuren’s ‘Communication (Part II)’
Weirdest thing you’ve seen all year? Russia not winning Euro 2008.
Top gadget of 2008? “Sony Rolly, of course — the dancing robot MP3 player!
Both me and my girlfriend are big, big fans of that thing!
Style: Progressive house and trance Best known for: My singles
Your year in fi ve words... Looks. Like. A. Successful. One.
‘Lighthouse’ and ‘Go Get Vodka’ plus my remix of Morandi’s ‘Angels’.
Most important thing you’ve learned recently? It’s better to walk than run
Tune of 2008: Rank 1 vs Jochen Miller ‘And Then...’ (High Contrast)
sometimes.
Producer of 2008: Gareth Emery
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