Bio: Das Glow— real (Frenchified) name Damien Granier— was born in Moscow in 1982. He now lives and works in Paris. A newborn Damien was found by one of the priests ... (more)
Bio: Das Glow— real (Frenchified) name Damien Granier— was born in Moscow in 1982. He now lives and works in Paris. A newborn Damien was found by one of the priests of the Cathedral of
St. Michael the Archangel, burial place for the Tsars. He was adopted by a modest but loving young couple of clerks from the Soviet Patent Office and, at the age of ten, got apprenticed to one of the most revered jewelers in Moscow. Music is banned from the large, monastic
workshop, for "only the jewel suits the soul of a well-born gentleman." Strangely enough, this is where the first elements of his musical
consciousness will coalesce: the motorik steadiness of the workshop sounds, the unexpected lining up of two streams of jingling and jangling, the miraculous synchronicity emerging from the racket. 1998: Damien embarks on a grand tour of the jewelry capitals of
Europe. Prague, Berlin, then Paris, where he ends up staying for good. At this point in his life, he hates music. With one crucial exception: techno, which he discovered by listening to snippets of albums on display at big, well-heated department stores. Then it gets less quixotic: the French Touch (Daft Punk, Mr. Oizo, Air, Motorbass, Etienne de Crécy & Cassius), then Bpitch via Feadz and Perlon thanks to Akufen and Ricardo Villalobos, Matthew Herbert, Matmos, Björk, Institubes, Robag
Whrume, Pantytec, and the German minimal empire: Kompakt, Musik Krause, Freude Am Tanzen, Milnor Modern, Trapez/Traum... Damien buys his first pair of turntables on April 14th 2001.
One year later, he asks Alex from the record shop Katapult, pioneer of all things minimal in France, how one gets to play in clubs: "You have to have a record out!" So production is the next step. All the money his grandmother has been saving for him since forever is used to buy a
computer, and a year of his own savings goes into a decent soundcard. At the first "Alors les Filles" party thrown by Institubes, Damien
discovers the incredible mixing style of (TTC DJ) Orgasmic and realizes he has found a home. In September 2004, we get a strange soundfile in
our inbox. Two years later, we give you Das Glow – "Weiss Gaz EP".
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