Laolu was born out of the love of a Nigerian father and a Swiss mother who, most appropriately, met in record store in Berlin . He spent his first years in Nigeria where his parents owned “The Gallery”, a club dedicated to Jazz and Soul. And so began his musical education.
After relocating to France , he attended music school in order to learn saxophone and music theory, but upon discovering Detroit techno pioneers Derrick May and Carl Craig at the age of 18, he sold his saxophone to buy his first drum machine.
