St. Germain is the stage name

Stage name

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 of Ludovic Navarre, a French

France

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 musician. His style has been described as being a combination of house

House music

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 and nu jazz

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 music.

Career

Navarre's album Boulevard

Boulevard (album)

Boulevard is an album by French DJ Ludovic Navarre, released under the stage name St. Germain. It was originally released in the UK on July 28, 1995, but was later released in the USA March 26, 2002...

was released in July 1995 and has sold over 350,000 copies worldwide. His United States

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 debut, Tourist

Tourist (Saint Germain album)

Tourist is the 2000 album by St. Germain, one of the aliases of French producer Ludovic Navarre. The music style is described by Allmusic as "a synthesis of electronics with jazz soloing".-Track listing:#"Rose Rouge" – 7:02#"Montego Bay Spleen" – 5:44...

, was released in 2000 and sold 300,000 copies in the USA and 4 million copies world wide. Bob Marley

Bob Marley

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, Toots & the Maytals

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, Miles Davis

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 and Kool and the Gang are among Ludovic's early influences. He composed his first work under the name of Sub System with friend Guy Rabiller. He has released EPs under a number of aliases, among them Deepside, LN'S, Modus Vivendi, Nuages and Soofle.

Albums

• 1995 Boulevard
  Boulevard (album)
  Boulevard is an album by French DJ Ludovic Navarre, released under the stage name St. Germain. It was originally released in the UK on July 28, 1995, but was later released in the USA March 26, 2002...
  
  
• 1999 From Detroit to St. Germain, as Ludovic Navarre
• 2000 Tourist
  Tourist (Saint Germain album)
  Tourist is the 2000 album by St. Germain, one of the aliases of French producer Ludovic Navarre. The music style is described by Allmusic as "a synthesis of electronics with jazz soloing".-Track listing:#"Rose Rouge" – 7:02#"Montego Bay Spleen" – 5:44...
  
  

Singles/EPs

St. Germain

• 1993 "French Traxx EP"
• 1993 "Motherland EP"
• 1994 "Mezzotinto EP"
• 1995 "Alabama Blues"
• 1996 "Muse Q The Music" (with Shazz
  Shazz
  Shazz, is a French record producer and remixer.Shazz is the short word for Soul house and Jazz....
  
   and Derek Bays)
• 1996 "Alabama Blues (Revisited)"
• 2000 "Sure Thing"
• 2000 "Rose Rouge"
• 2001 "Sure Thing Revisited"
• 2001 "Rose Rouge Revisited"
• 2001 "So Flute"
• 2002 "Chaos"
• 2004 "Mezzotinto EP" (re-release)

Deepside/D.S.

• 1992 "Seclude EP" (with Guy Rabiller)
• 1992 "Deepside EP" (with Guy Rabiller)
• 1993 "Tolérance EP"
• 1994 "Volume 1 & 2", as D.S.

Sub System

All produced with Guy Rabiller

• 1991 "Subhouse", as Sub System (with Guy Rabiller)
• 1991 "J'Ai Peur", as Sub System (with Guy Rabiller)
• 1991 "III", as Sub System (with Guy Rabiller)

Other aliases

• 1993 "Nouveau EP", as Soofle (with Shazz)
• 1993 "Paris EP", as Choice (with Shazz and Laurent Garnier
  Laurent Garnier
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  )
• 1993 "Modus Vivendi", as Modus Vivendi
• 1993 "Inferno EP", as LN'S (with Shazz)
• 1993 "The Ripost EP", as Deep Contest (with DJ Deep
  DJ Deep
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  )
• 1994 "Burning Trash Floor", as Hexagone
• 1994 "Blanc EP", as Nuages (with Shazz)
• 1997 "Paris EP" (re-release), as Choice (with Shazz and Laurent Garnier)

(Co-)Production for other artists

• 1993 Orange
  Shazz
  Shazz, is a French record producer and remixer.Shazz is the short word for Soul house and Jazz....
  
   - "Quarter EP"
• 1993 Shazz
  Shazz
  Shazz, is a French record producer and remixer.Shazz is the short word for Soul house and Jazz....
  
   - "Lost Illusions"
• 1993 Laurent Garnier
  Laurent Garnier
  Laurent Garnier , is a French techno music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range, able to span deep house, Detroit techno, trance and jazz...
  
   - "A Bout de Souffle EP"
• 1994 Shazz
  Shazz
  Shazz, is a French record producer and remixer.Shazz is the short word for Soul house and Jazz....
  
   - "A View of Manhattan..."
• 1996 DJ Deep
  DJ Deep
  DJ Deep is a German remixer and DJ from Schermbeck. From there, he started his career as one a megamixer. Since 1996, he has created megamixes with his friend Uwe Jagusch using the pseudonym "Studio 33".-Deep Dance:...
  
   - "Signature"
• 2003 Soel - Memento

Remixes

• 1993 Aurora Borealis
  Shazz
  Shazz, is a French record producer and remixer.Shazz is the short word for Soul house and Jazz....
  
   - "Aurora Borealis"
• 1993 Suburban Knight - "The Art of Stalking"
• 1994 Shazz
  Shazz
  Shazz, is a French record producer and remixer.Shazz is the short word for Soul house and Jazz....
  
   - "Marathon Man"
• 1994 Red Nail feat. Noni - "Never"
• 1994 Kid Bravo - "Catch My Soul"
• 1995 Björk
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   - "Isobel"
• 1997 Pierre Henry
  Pierre Henry
  Pierre Henry is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.-Biography:...
  
   & Michel Colombier
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   - "Jericho Jerk"
• 1999 Boy Gé Mendes - "Cumba Iétu"

Note: St. Germain is not associated with the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Café

Saint-Germain-des-Prés Café

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album series.