Biography
French electro producer Jean-Baptiste de Laubier operates under the alias Para One and first gained notice through his longstanding ties to the French rap outfit TTC, whose sound he helped shape. His own work draws deeply from the golden-age hip-hop era. Born in Orleans, France, in 1979, de Laubier discovered hip-hop in the late ’80s through Public Enemy, N.W.A, and the Native Tongues, experiences that sparked an enduring passion. He entered his first rap group in 1993, yet his productions did not reach wider audiences until 2000, when tracks began appearing on various mixtapes. Around that period he linked up with TTC and supplied beats for their debut album, Ceci N’est Pas un Disque, issued by Big Dada Recordings in 2002.
De Laubier launched his solo career as Para One in 2003 on the Institubes label with the Beat Down EP, whose title track featured TTC. He maintained his connection to the group by handling the bulk of production on their follow-up Bâtards Sensibles, released in 2004 via Big Dada Recordings in association with V2 Music France; the project included the hit single “Dans le Club” and marked the crew’s commercial breakthrough. On the solo front he issued the EP Clubhoppn in 2005 and the album Epiphanie the following year, both on Institubes. The latter contained the hit single “Dudun-Dun,” later reworked by MSTRKRFT and Boys Noize.
Beyond his own releases, de Laubier fielded remix commissions from artists such as Daft Punk (“The Prime Time of Your Life”) and Ellen Allien (“Down”). He also contributed to TTC’s third album, 3615, which appeared in 2006. Earlier, between 2003 and 2005, he and fellow TTC associate Tacteel—a co-founder of Institubes and an established hip-hop and electro producer—developed the live performance project FuckALoop, whose output was later compiled on the digital-only retrospective The Early Aughties in 2007. In addition, de Laubier composed the soundtrack for the film Naissance des Pieuvres, released by Institubes in 2007.
De Laubier launched his solo career as Para One in 2003 on the Institubes label with the Beat Down EP, whose title track featured TTC. He maintained his connection to the group by handling the bulk of production on their follow-up Bâtards Sensibles, released in 2004 via Big Dada Recordings in association with V2 Music France; the project included the hit single “Dans le Club” and marked the crew’s commercial breakthrough. On the solo front he issued the EP Clubhoppn in 2005 and the album Epiphanie the following year, both on Institubes. The latter contained the hit single “Dudun-Dun,” later reworked by MSTRKRFT and Boys Noize.
Beyond his own releases, de Laubier fielded remix commissions from artists such as Daft Punk (“The Prime Time of Your Life”) and Ellen Allien (“Down”). He also contributed to TTC’s third album, 3615, which appeared in 2006. Earlier, between 2003 and 2005, he and fellow TTC associate Tacteel—a co-founder of Institubes and an established hip-hop and electro producer—developed the live performance project FuckALoop, whose output was later compiled on the digital-only retrospective The Early Aughties in 2007. In addition, de Laubier composed the soundtrack for the film Naissance des Pieuvres, released by Institubes in 2007.
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