DJ CamParisian hip-hop devotee Laurent Daumail is one of a few but growing number of French artists updating hip-hop for the chill-out crowd, drawing on the beats'n'samples groundwork of producers such as, and and combining it with broad, impressionistic strokes of dub, jazz, and soundtrack-y ambience. Like countrymen and la Funk Mob, is stylistically closest to Mo'Wax artists such as and; minimalist, downbeat instrumental hip-hop built from obscure samples and stomp-box turntable accompaniment, bent and twisted into new, artfully arranged compositions. His debut, 1994's, was released on the tiny French label Street Jazz and was followed by a live recording for the Inflammable imprint (one of only a few 'live' recordings in a genre so reliant on the temporal concessions of the recording studio). Dubbed, the album featured performed extrapolations of many of the tracks from his debut, as well as a few new and improvised tracks. Now nearly impossible to find, those first two albums were reissued in America by Shadow Records, packaged together as the single-CD priced Mad Blunted Jazz (particularly useful since acquiring both on import could run more than 50 dollars!). Although 's music has found little acceptance in his home country, where racial tension has stratified the hip-hop community into rigid definitions of what the music is — and who should be making it ( himself is white) — audiences in the U.K., Japan, and America have begun picking up on his style. In 1996 was featured on, among many others, the sprawling Mo'Wax compilation Headz 2, remixed tracks for such artists as and la Funk Mob, and most recently collaborated on live and in-studio projects with and (he co-wrote a few tracks on the latter's 1997 Mo'Wax release, Mi Sound).
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Released on Inflammable in 1997. The next year, his major-label debut, appeared on Columbia Records. In 2000, he released a three-volume series named. Dropped HoneyMoon, a smooth mix album that combined jazz and underground hip hop, at the close of 2001.
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