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He was the pioneer of French house with “Up & Away,” a garage-style track with vocals by Robert Owens released in 1994 – really made a
name for himself in the mid-90s as one of the key catalysts of Parisian nightlife by promoting evenings at such renowned Paris hot spots as
Folies Pigalle, Queen, Bataclan, Palace and Les Bains, where he invited DJ legends like Little Louie Vega, David Morales, DJ Pierre and
Roger Sanchez to join him on the turntables. In 2001, however, he went back to his first love: making music.
Launched by the single “Just A Little More Love”, an electro- ...read more
He was the pioneer of French house with “Up & Away,” a garage-style track with vocals by Robert Owens released in 1994 – really made a
name for himself in the mid-90s as one of the key catalysts of Parisian nightlife by promoting evenings at such renowned Paris hot spots as
Folies Pigalle, Queen, Bataclan, Palace and Les Bains, where he invited DJ legends like Little Louie Vega, David Morales, DJ Pierre and
Roger Sanchez to join him on the turntables. In 2001, however, he went back to his first love: making music.
Launched by the single “Just A Little More Love”, an electro-funk-house cocktail featuring Chris Willis of the band Nashville on vocals,
David Guetta’s first album was released by Virgin in June 2002 and went on to sell 250,000 copies. This resounding success carried
through in the album’s second, even more devastating single, “Love Don’t Let Me Go”, a track reminiscent of Moroder’s techno-disco style
crossed with Depeche Mode’s new-wave sound.
Like fellow Frenchman Laurent Garnier, David started off his career in the gay clubs around Paris. Les Halles district in the mid-80s, going
on to make a name for himself in acid-house and hip-hop. His first album heralded the beginning of a new DJ career – this time on a global
level. Named after the parties he hosts on Ibiza, the fabled isle of techno, David’s “F*** ME I’M FAMOUS: IBIZA DJ MIX”, which featured
his remix of David Bowie’s Heroes, went gold: no small feat for a compilation CD. For the last three years, David has been invited to mix
throughout Europe on a regular basis and, more and more often, in the United States, Australia, Japan, Singapore and Israel as well. He is
also resident DJ at The Cross in London, Barcelona ‘s Discoteca and the Lausanne club Mad.
Propelled by the rock guitars of the single Money, David’s second album, GUETTA BLASTER, is even gutsier. David and Joachim Garraud
(the first album’s co-composer and co-producer) applied themselves to creating real songs modeled on electro-pop classics of the 80s by
such masters as Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Dead Or Alive and New Order, to name the most prominent influences. All the tracks on this second
album are original compositions. The gospel sounds of Chris Willis and the stylings of guest vocalists JD Davis (lead singer of Sinema),
James Perry (alias Jimmy Polo, renowned singer/producer on the Chicago scene) and Britain’s Stereo MCs give the tracks a unique luster,
while the production skills of Guetta and Garraud lift the album to new – and always spectacular – heights.
From GUETTA BLASTER’s opening salvos, Money and Stay, we get beats that are cranked up a notch beyond the hard-dance formula of Just
A Little More Love. Without an ounce of hesitation, the album launches itself at the experimental roots of house music and cold-wave,
displaying an unexpected stylistic versatility, then oscillates between powerful mixtures of hot & cold and black & white. The result is 100%
addictive.
Used To Be The One, with vocals by Willis, owes a debt to both Yazoo’s Don’t Go and garage music. Similarly, the counterpoint of Time
evokes Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams, blending the best of English pop and dance culture – something David has mastered like no one else.
Open Your Eyes, a track tailor-made for the Stereo MCs, is built on a rubbery break beat and an acid sequence, with a rap that brings their
classic Connected to mind. The abrasive AC/DC, clearly a future hit on the underground/rave circuit, is like the missing link between Jeff
Mills and Ministry of Sound.
Two velvet-smooth cuts neatly crown the album: In Love With Myself, a track that could hold its own against Moroder & Oakey’s Electric
Dreams any day, is followed by Higher, on which Chris Willis pays homage to the style of phrasing and embellishment popularized by Stevie
Wonder, an approach that has proliferated in both R&B and garage/house music à la New Jersey duo Blaze. GUETTA BLASTER drives its
point home with the metronomic Movement Girl, featuring James Perry, and the killer Get Up, on which macho riffs, the hysterical falsetto of
Chris Willis and screaming guitars swirl around a punchy beat.
On GUETTA BLASTER, David Guetta has not only successfully avoided the pitfalls of second albums – he has truly launched himself into a
new dimension.
The song “Just A Little More Love” appeared in the film The Football Factory, was sung in the Gospel version at the 2006 Victoria’s Secret
Fashion Show.
On New Year’s Day 2007 he appeared at Big Beach Boutique 3, a concert held on the beach of Brighton, UK, put together by and headlined
by Fatboy Slim.
His forth album is “Pop Life” released in France on 23 April, 2007 with the leading single
“Love is gone”.
24. August 2009. he released his last album for now named “One Love”. He introduces this album with hit singles “When Love Takes Over”
feat. Kelly Rowland and “Sexy Bitch/Chick” feat. Akon… He wanted to make a new music stream named House Pop or Hip House. In this
album he done some realy amasing job with verry known vocals,producers and DJs like Chris Willis,Estelle,Kid Cudi,Novel, Ne-Yo,Will I Am
& Apl De Ap from The Black Eyed Peas,Lil` John,DJ Chuckie,Abel Ramos,Koen Groenveld,Afrojack,DJ Footloose,Joachim Garraud…and
many,many more…
He is now rocking the place of Patcha at Ibiza every Thursday where he does some F*** Me I Am Famous show.
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