Artist: Paul Oakenfold Genre(s):
Trance
Other
Electronic
Dance
Rock
Discography:
Essential Mix Live on BBC Radio 1 (04-30-2006) Year: 2006
Tracks: 1
Essential Mix on Radio 1 Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Creamfields (Mixed By Paul Oakenfold) CD2 Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Essential Mix (Live From Ibiza) 10-08 Year: 2003
Tracks: 1
Elvis Presley Remixes Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Live Cable (cd2) Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Live Cable (cd1) Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
In The Mix (Party 931) (31.03.2002) Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Bunkka Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Voyage Into Trance Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Travelling (Cd2) Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Travelling (Cd1) Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
The Album Sword Fish Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
Ibiza (Cd2) Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Ibiza (Cd1) Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
A Voyage Into Trance Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Global Underground 002: New York (CD 2) Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Global Underground 002: New York (CD 1) Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Resident Two Years Of Oakenfold At Cream Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Live In Oslo (Cd2) Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Live In Oslo (Cd1) Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Tranceport Year:
Tracks: 11
Live In Concert Year:
Tracks: 7
Paul Oakenfold is the DJ, remixer, and producer wHO did more than than anyone else to break firm medicine in Britain during the late '80s. During 1987-1988, Oakenfold hosted a series of essential club nights that introduced thousands of Brits to house music. Just a few years later, he helped push the modern dance crosswalk into the charts by masterminding make productions by Happy Mondays (among others) and forming one of the nearly successful dance labels of the nineties, Perfecto Records. Even well o'er a decennary after his emergence, Oakenfold remained, rather simply, dance music's most popular DJ.
Born in London in 1963, Oakenfold began mixing at the eld of 16, and hooked up with friend Trevor Fung to play soulfulness and rare groove at a basement bar in Covent Garden. He as well spent some time in New York during the late '70s, working for Arista Records and soak up the discotheque scene through Larry Levan's genre-spanning sets at the Paradise Garage. Back in England by the early '80s, Oakenfold worked as a golf club promoter and British agent for the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C. He continued DJing as well, and eventually over up at the Project in 1985-1986, one of the number one venues for house music in England. With Fung and another friend named Ian St. Paul, Oakenfold was introduced to the exploding golf club scene on the vacation island of Ibiza (penny-pinching the glide of Spain) during 1987 and imported the crucial shuffle of house, soul, Italian disco, and alternative music later dubbed the Balearic panache.
During 1988-1989, star sign music and the Balearic panache gestated at several Oakenfold-run golf club nights (Future at the Sound Shaft, and so Spectrum and Land of Oz at Heaven) ahead emerging higher up terra firma as a distinctly British entity. Oakenfold and Steve Osborne had been working with new dance converts Happy Mondays, and their production for the 1989 Happy Mondays individual "(W.F.L.) Wrote for Luck" was voted Dance Record of the Year by the NME. The duo's production for the Happy Mondays' break uncut,
Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, placed them forthrightly in the vaunted soil of other new dance producers like Andrew Weatherall (world Health Organization achieved similar winner with Primal Scream's
Screamadelica from the same year). Soon, major labels were lining up to have Oakenfold and Osborne remix their biggest pop stars, including U2, Simply Red, New Order, the Cure, Massive Attack, M People, Arrested Development, the Shamen, the Stone Roses, and even Snoop Doggy Dogg (some as Perfecto, the combination remix service and RCA-connected criminal record label founded by the pair off in 1990). The Oakenfold/Osborne team were nominative by BPI as Best Producers from 1990 to 1993.
By the mid-'90s, dance music had reached the mainstream of British radio and culture, with Oakenfold at the presence of a new wave of globe-trotting DJs; he toured with U2 and supported live gigs by INXS, the Orb, Simply Red, Boy George, and Primal Scream. On Britain's ever-growing golf club circuit, he inaugurated the London superclub Ministry of Sound early in the 1990s and became a house physician at Britain's other superclub, Liverpool's Cream, rather of taking large money for autonomous gigs. He likewise cut down his remix agenda to less than five-spot per year, concentrating rather on the liberation of sextet mix albums, including several volumes in the
Journeys by DJ series. Oakenfold left Cream in 1999, after which Virgin commemorated the occasion with the button of
House physician: Two Years of Oakenfold at Cream.
Perfecto Presents Another World arrived the following year. A monumental U.S. tour and the invigorated
Voyage into Trance appeared in early 2000, as did
Xiphias gladius: The Album, a soundtrack Oakenfold constructed for the sci-fi film of the same cite. In 2002,
Bunkka became his first base album of new productions. Mix albums like
Creamfields (2004) and
Perfecto Presents...The Club (2005) appeared ahead his arcsecond production endeavor,
A Lively Mind, landed in 2006.
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