Antoine Clamaran

Antoine Clamaran is born in Paris.

In the early 90's, his local fame interested Maximum FM, the leading parisian dance radio 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 was similar in Paris as Studio 54 in NYC) ask him to run every Sunday , the mythical Gay Tea Dance, instead of french icon Laurent Garnier.

In 1992 Clamaran , eager to get involve 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 100000 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" Dead or Alive and Euro smash"Encore Une Fois" by Sash. His own productions under the names of Carayca , 400HZ , D Plac , LAC , Unchain & House Train were always at the top the DJ playlists but he had to wait until 1998 to enter again in 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 (250000 units) but didn't meet any sales abroad. By 1999 , Clamaran had reached a blockbuster status in France but he choose to come back ino 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 , Eric 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 .

Lately in 1999, few days before new year's eve, Clap production (Clamaran /Pautrat label) merger 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 already achieved charts success with Vibration INC. Antoine Clamaran is currently the resident in the two biggest parisian clubs: Les Bains Douches and Le Queen . You can tune in to his weekly show on the No.1 house station FG