At the age of 12, the parisian native began Djing in his bedroom. In 1992, he took up his first residency at Le Queen on the Champs-Elysées, and in the same decade he launched his first EP. Now based in California, Laurent Wolf has become an international figure. Disco, funk, new wave, techno and dance vinyl collector, today talks to us about eight rare gems from his private collection.

Roy Ayers / Don't Stop The Feeling (Polydor – 1979)

To me it was the beginning of my training mixing as a deejay in my bedroom. Funky music at that time was like disco music, very difficult to mix due to the fact that music was played and recorded live with a band, so the BPM was always unstable but very fun to mix with a real deejay turntables. Funky and Disco music are the roots of dance music and the beginning of clubs and deejays. This song reminds me of the quality of this groovy music.

Boris Duglosh / Keep Pushin (Peppermint Jam records  - 1996)

This song was epic here in France when I was deejay resident at the famous club Queen, in Paris, on the Champs Elysées, Boris Duglosh came for a live play one night and the Drag queens phenomena was just starting in France. All the drugs were crazy with this song, it was a big hit here in Paris in 1996, I was 26 and my national career as a famous deejay was just starting.

Joe Smooth / Promised Land (mBOP Record – 2006)

That song always brings hope to my heart, I can feel his message, not just hearing the harmonics. Everytime the keyboards start then the lyrics, it's a nice take off to the sky, brothers, sisters, one day we will be free... No need to add more !

Carl Kennedy & Tommy Trash / Blackwater feat Rosie Henshaw (Subliminal – 2010)

One of my favorite old school house music tracks that I still play sometimes when a breeze is needed on the dance floor. A great and positive message in the lyrics and a beautiful voice from Rosie Henshaw. Nice Production from Carl Kennedy & Tommy Cash. I still love very much today.

Gat Decor / Passion (SBS production – 1996)

That song is very original, a beautiful piano progression and then a techno bassline,whoua when I heard that vinyl for the first time I knew it would be a big hit worldwide and it was. Rare is to find that type of house today, a diamond to keep in your house playlist.

Quakerman / Schlam Me (Work Records – 1995)

If pure energy was needed at 3AM on the dance floor, Quakerman - Schlam me, was a bullet to play, happy, pumping and progressive, a very good vinyl in 1995 when the light of the party was rising. A classic at that time in London and Paris. All my deejay friends were playing it every night that year.

Clivilles and Cole / Pride (Columbia – 1991)

When that song was released, it was a huge change, a new direction for house music productions. The rhythm programming was new and the sound quality was starting to improve. House music was accessing the greatest studio recording in the world equipped with an SSL mixing Table. The pressing and the sound of this vinyl was different. Clean and dynamic. The structure of that song is very progressive and each element arrives at the right time.

Cajmere feat. Dajae / Brighter Days (Cajual Records – 1992)

The master at work and Tood Terry were delicious when they came to play at the club "Queen Paris" where i was resident. And they came many times. Garage music was important like the house music in 1992, that song was a hit in Paris and was playing a lot on electronic radios. Even today this hit is refreshing when the sun is shining, coffee time...

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