Dancefloor

French electronic producer & Dj Damien Almira aka Timid Boy first rose to prominence in 2003, with his Dj residency at the famous Rex Club in Paris for the Ellen Allien’s BPitch Control parties. Spinning along side some of Europe’s top Dj's (Jeff Mills, Paul Kalkbrenner, Booka Shade, Tiga, The Hacker, Sascha Funke, Roman Flügel, DJ Hell, Supermayer, Francois K…), his reputation grew quickly in the Parisian underground scene.

His passionate and zestful elucidation of the deep, hypnotic house & techno sound even seduced Resident Advisor which put his podcast as the MIX OF THE DAY on the RESIDENT ADVISOR HOMEPAGE in January 2011.

 Journalism

Damien was also a very well known French music journalist, specializing in electronic music. In the past ten years, working for well-known French publications Rock & Folk, Technikart or Trax (France’s premier electronic magazine) as Deputy Editor. This enables a deeper understanding and appreciation of electronic music and it’s rich heritage, which illuminates his productions.

 Time Has Changed Records 

He is also co-owner of the Time Has Changed imprint, along with fellow producer, Acumen. The label is fast becoming one of the hottest French house labels with key releases and remixes from Oxia, Carlo Lio, Kiki, Alex Celler, Glimpse, Okain, Mihai Popoviciu, Nima Gorji, Ross Evana, Alessio Mereu, Basti Pieper, Rémi de Montsabert… ; and fantastic supports from electronic luminaries like Richie Hawtin, Luciano, Sven Väth, Dubfire, Laurent Garnier, Raresh, Loco Dice, Carl Cox, Nick Curly, Steve Bug, Ellen Allien, Anja Schneider & many more… In summer 2010, the CD compilation “Overview mixed by Timid Boy” was sold out and repressed in Europe.

Producer… 2009

..In March 2009, Timid Boy released his debut on the label (“Split EP”), than he signed

“Where Is The Bang Bang EP” on 4line Records which garnered universal support and “Hermann Is Speaking” featuring in Trax Magazine’s CD covermount.

 The follow up, “La Nuit” represented an important step for as Richie Hawtin heavily supported & charted the track. His following releases on labels, Percusa and Monique Musique were then supported by Luciano, Laurent Garnier, Loco Dice, Dubfire & Sebo K, and lauded also by the nu-house crew - dOP, Nick Curly, Julien Chaptal & Masomenos. His track “Bop Bap” was one of the highlights of the recent Silicone Soul  “Darkroom Dubs Vol. 2” Mix CD, which gained widespread critical acclaim. His hypnotic, dance floor style also seduced the Spanish/ Italian house gang Circo Loco, (DC 10 Ibiza) whose residents Tania Vulcano & Andrew Grant signed tracks to their Isgud & Barraca labels.

Producer… 2010

In 2010 his recent releases on Time Has Changed, “Chicago Story” (The Oxia Remix was #1 on Juno’s Download Chart) and “On A Cloud With Richard”, or “Budu Bulu EP” (on Jay Haze’s label Tuning Spork) & “You Make Me” (on 2000 and One’s label Bitten) have only served to further enhance his reputation.

In winter 2010/2011, most of his new tracks reach the Beatport charts (“Balloc1 ft Carlo Lio”, “Entreat” on Great Stuff, “All I Want” on Coyu’s label Suara, “Don’t Fret remix” for Kruse & Nuernberg, Alex Dolby “Younde” remix on Carlo Lio’s label Rawthentic).

 2011 …

In February 2011 the world no1 electronic magazine Mixmag contacted him to release an article & to put his track “On a Cloud With Richard” on the Mark Knight’s exclusive Mixmag Mix CD !

In march 2001, his new EP « Madrid » (Barraca) was no3 on Beatport Must Heard tech house Tracks and «La Madarina EP» (Amam) was no1 on decks.de !

In spring 2001, his new releases have great success on the electronic scene, as for example “Bandis and Dangerous Animals + Cesar Vs Disorder Remix” on Dame Music (no1 on Robert Dietz‘s Charts) or “Isis” on Hi Freaks (no1 on Bart Skills‘s Charts) and his new techno release on famous label Great Stuff (“Dark Side”) had big commercial success on Beatport …

At the same time, his DJ career grows up fast with gigs in famous clubs as Bar 25 (old one and new one), Air (Tokyo), The Edge (Sao Paulo), Panorama Bar, Cocoon, Tresor, Rex Club and success tour in Japan, USA, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico…

With more hot tracks on the horizon (collaborations with Marco Resmann, Andre Buljat, releases on Amam, Upon You or Time Has Changed), and with now more than 2200 followers on Beatport, the beautiful adventure of Timid Boy continues…

www.residentadvisor.net/dj/timidboy

http://soundcloud.com/timid-boy

www.beatport.com/artist/timid-boy/101636

SOME LIVE VIDEOS

REX Club TIME HAS CHANGED SUMMERTIME PARTY (2011) http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=254583157905123&

 REX Club with Andre Galluzzi  & Marcus Fix (2011):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qA3mUgVVtk

REX Club with Jeff Mills & Chloe (2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qol-Hc3JBfg

aTRAXion with Booka Shade, MANDY, Heidi (2008): http://dai.ly/9TwrYF

aTRAXion with Supermayer (2008) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x3l6HkDBYQ