St Germain

St Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French DJ and musical artist from Boulogne-Billancourt. Working under a range of credited variations of the name, including St. Germain and Saint Germain, Navarre has also used aliases such as Hexagone and Modus Vivendi.

Navarre’s music has been described as a combination of house and nu jazz, a blend that aligns with the downtempo, electronica, jazztronica, and nu jazz tags often applied to his work. His productions and DJ identity are typically framed around electronic club structures while drawing on jazz-derived elements, placing St Germain in the lineage of late-20th-century French electronic artists who incorporated live-instrument idioms and improvisational references into dance music.

In addition to his core St Germain moniker, Navarre’s catalog appears under multiple spellings and formats, including St-Germain and St-Germain-en-Laye, as well as non-Latin renderings such as サンジェルマン and 聖日耳曼. These credit variations reflect the way his name has circulated across different releases and markets rather than a single fixed branding. His work has been associated with labels including Parlophone (France) and All Day I Dream.