“And one day with my partner Eric I said ‘I’d like to go on stage.’ And we thought ‘how can we make a real live show?’ and I said to him, the best thing is Jazz. We went to Jazz musicians, because they can improvise” said Garnier later. “Again, my connection with Jazz and Techno is so strong… the whole frame of mind for making this music is the same, exactly the same. It took me a long time to get the right musicians. Finding the right musicians is a hard thing, especially when you’re 25 years old and you haven’t got a clue how to play an instrument, and you haven’t got a clue how to direct anybody. Believe you me I struggled, and it took me 20 years.”

Laurent Garnier

Garnier thought it would be disrespectful to the public if he played pure techno at a jazz festival. This is why the noisy percussion and throbbing beats were diluted by a thematical thing played almost impromptu with a saxophonist he barely knew (With Finn Martin.) Laurent doubted if he should include such a thing on his third album, but decided to risk it after all and for the saxophone solo he invited a person from his team, who he had toured around the earth with performing live for the last three months. He invited Philippe Nadaud.

“We were in the studio and we put a pair of headphones on his head so we could speak to him while he was playing. He was playing and we were going ‘nah, this is shit, this is really shit’. But it wasn’t actually shit. No no, it was great, I just really wanted to piss him off”.