Prior to his Ibiza trip, Paul had been running a successful soul/jazz night at The Project in Streatham. The Vogue in Indianapolis is one the most popular and storied music venues in the Midwest. Ever keen to push himself further and harder, Paul decamped in 1999 to become Director of Music at home, the multi-million pound superclub built defiantly – and, as it turned out, problematically – in Leicester Square, the heart of London’s West End. This artist doesn't have any upcoming events at The Vogue.Request Paul Oakenfold Play at The Vogue. In 2002 he released Bunkka, which featured the hit single ‘Starry-Eyed Surprise’. The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 under the high patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and is based in Monte-Carlo. [16] In 2007 he was nominated to 2 International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) at the Winter Music Conference (WMC), Best Underground Dance Track for "Faster Kill Pussycat" and Best Full Length DJ Mix CD for "A Lively Mind". Elsewhere, the residency spawned Oakenfold’s 2009 Perfecto: Vegas mix album, which became the highest-selling DJ compilation in American history at the time of its release, with over half a million sales. Also in 1988 he decided to create a place where new artists could develop their careers. Be the first to know about our exclusive events! Back in Ibiza at Cafe del Mar and Mambo, the gentler sound of chill-out music was synchronously happening too.. in mainland Europe, in came Belgian ‘New Beat’. Paul Oakenfold @ Kiss FM, London - Live And Direct 1985. Hailed as the “Godfather of electronic music,” he’s been voted the world’s best DJ twice by DJ Mag, named the most influential DJ of all time by the London Evening Standard and recognized as the world’s most successful DJ by Guinness World Records. 2016: Garrix | Members included Nick Divaris, John "Johnny" Rocca and Micky. 1", "Oakenfold to open for Madonna at Wembley", "New Cher Album Information: Two Song Titles Revealed! It’s this attitude that saw him leave a huge fanbase in Britain to start all over again in the U.S.; that has seen him play to crowds in the low hundreds in isolated Alaska; and that led him to take a pair of Technics with him when he went on holiday to Cuba, and organise a free, unpromoted and not strictly legal party, purely to spread the word of great, life-affirming music and good, good times. Releases with Catalog#: UL 1602-2 included a DVD of live show and documentary. Weeks of high altitude, low oxygen training helped out, plus this was where Paul first partnered with Denon DJ, taking our MCX8000 DJ controller along for this historic gig. With the event of Creamfields that took place in 2004, Oakenfold released a compilation of songs he played during the event as well as tracks influenced by the environment and the vibe of deejays such as Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Judge Jules, Fergie, Tall Paul, Eddie Halliwell, Chris Lawrence, Adam Sheridan, Shan, and Alex Kidd at the Cream/Goodgreef and Mixmag Arena.[36]. Perfecto celebrated its 25-year anniversary in 2015 with the release of 25 Years of Perfecto Records, a compilation album, mixed by Oakenfold himself, that traces the label’s history and sonic evolution. In 1990, he worked with Terry Farley, Andrew Weatherall and Osborne on two remixes for Happy Mondays. Awards are presented to the world's best-selling artists in the various categories and to the best-selling artists from each major territory. began helping him DJ soul music in a Covent Garden wine bar. So eventually I felt it was time to make that record. Residency DJing however gave Oakey the chance to develop the room (sound/lighting), establish and dictate the musical direction and crowd, plus have the opportunity to play records, created specifically for ‘that crowd in that room’, six-months in advance of release so that the buzz alone resulted in an instant crossover hit (‘Bullet in the Gun’ for example). In March 2000 he teamed up with Steve Osborne, Andy Gray and Bruno Ellingham to remix Moby's song Natural Blues. [citation needed] In the fall of 2008, he started his first Resident DJ position in the United States. Indianapolis Music Performances, 6259 N. College Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46220, United States. [28] The world-renowned Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's composition was adapted in an electronic version on the tracks "Zoo York". And sure enough they did. He was in his comfort zone playing on the MoS’s rotary UREI mixer, as Paul himself had one in his bedroom! ISINA Academy Unveiled at Holiday Party", Journeys By DJ, Vol. He produced the original soundtrack for Swordfish (2001), which won him a BMI Film Music Award in 2002, as well as the music score production for the 2007 Japanese CGI anime film Vexille. This remix contributed to the Elvis of the 21st century. [17] In 1997, Oakenfold mixed one disc of the double album Fantazia Presents the House Collection 6, a UK house music compilation series. [38], Oakenfold remixed the Transformers theme as the theme song for the TV series, Transformers Cybertron. He counts two GRAMMY nominations for his solo work—twice nominated for Best Electronic/Dance Album for Creamfields (2005) and A Lively Mind (2007)—with an additional third nomination (Best Dance Recording, 2010) for his production work on Madonna’s international hit “Celebration.”. This tour featured Incubus, Carl Cox, The Orb, OutKast, and The Roots. Trevor Fung, Nicky Holloway, Ian Saint Paul, Danny Rampling and Johnny Walker accompanied him. [42] 2007 saw the publication of the first official biography of Paul Oakenfold, written by Richard Norris of The Grid and Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve fame. That club’s immediate downturn in popularity after Paul’s departure goes to show the extent of his impact and following. He lived in Highbury, Greenhithe, then Croydon, attending Archbishop Lanfranc School, then studied to be a chef for four years and worked at the Army and Navy Club.[4]. Seine Bekanntheit wuchs durch seine Arbeit an der Filmmusik zu Password Swordfish, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, Die Bourne Identität, Collateral und Stormbreaker. 1993: Shanti-I | Paul wanted to celebrate the visual crowd and DJ interaction atmosphere of mixing live with actual vinyl records. 2004 brought about the double album ‘Creamfields’, but it was in 2005 that he released the Perfecto Album entitled ‘Perfecto Presents The Club’. In 1993 with the success of his last remix as Perfecto, he was hired by U2 to provide the warm-up sonics to their Zoo TV world tour, and replaced BP Fallon on the 1993 legs in Europe and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, with more than fifty shows in Zooropa '93 and Zoomerang from 7 May to 10 December of the same year. In September 1987, four London club and pirate-radio DJs – Nicky Holloway, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling and Johnny Walker – spent a week on … Sometime before July 2000, he teamed up with Andy Gray to write and produce the theme for the Channel 4 reality show Big Brother under the name Elementfour. Totally enjoyed this. Fortunately, he could later draw some supportive finances from the burgeoning dance music industry as he landed A&R (artist and repertoire) rolls for labels such as Champion (UK), Profile (US) and even as a promoter for early Def Jam records. Along the way however, without even knowing it, he would become a trail/blazing, trend-setting industry professional with a long list of ‘world firsts’ that any Artist could look back on proudly. Let’s take a flavor of some of the time periods he explores and enjoy the video below in its full glory…. In an earlier episode, "The Imposter", of Radio Free Roscoe, a 2005 series on The N, a character Travis Strong DJed to the song, acting as if it were his own. Paul was one of the guest DJs at The Stone Roses’ legendary Spike Island gig, and his work with Osborne on The Happy Mondays’ classic Pills, Thrills And Bellyaches LP (NME’s 1990 Album Of The Year) won the pair the 1991 Brit Award for Best Producer. But at Amnesia you had 7,000 people dancing to … And so the ‘Generations – 3 Decades of Dance’ tour began. you lost the plot in america ! In addition to the album, he will soon release Soundtrek Everest, a brand-new documentary chronicling Oakenfold’s momentous Mount Everest expedition. The CD contained only seven songs which he worked on with Ian Green; the album was entitled Feed Your Mind. Creating a more progressive sound to a fast-rising genre in the late 90s, Paul birthed the Perfecto and Fluoro labels, finding himself in the A&R chair again, this time ensconced in a plush A&R office in West London. 2002 brachte Oakenfold sein erstes Soloalbum Bunkka heraus, bei dem er mit Künstlern wie Nelly Furtado (The Harder They Come), Emilíana Torrini (Hold Your Hand) und Shifty Shellshock, dem Frontmann von Crazy Town (Starry Eyed Surprise), zusammenarbeitete. 2010: van Buuren | But this was a move typical of the man: where others would sit on their laurels and bathe in their hard-won glory, he has always taken the tougher option, sustained by his belief that greater effort means greater rewards. Been thinking about my home town of London these last few months. Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) (B1, CR-200) At that time, more than any other, New York was bursting with musical invention: hip-hop was the freshest street sound around, and Larry Levan – arguably the first ever superstar DJ, inspiring a frenzy in the crowd that some guy playing records had never inspired before – was packing out the Paradise Garage every week with the revolutionary, hypnotic mixing style that would become the acid house DJ’s stock in trade. Although the experience of mixing older, classic club records (sometimes with a non too accurate/consistent BPM) admittedly took some re-learning to bring those skills back to his fingers. He was voted the No. You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud. The album was named NME's "1990 Album of The Year", and both Oakenfold and Osborne won the 1991 Brit Award for "Best Producer".[12]. In September 1994 and again in 1998 he teamed up with Steve Osborne and Ben Hillier to remix the Rolling Stones's song You Got Me Rocking and Duran Duran's song Out of My Mind. Indianapolis Performances Paul Oakenfold describes his early life as a "bedroom DJ" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew up listening to The Beatles. In 1987 he spent several months in Ibiza with a few friends and fell in love with dance club music. Hoping to spread some good vibes to those who live there or visited and love the city as much as we do. With this amount of success, experience and being at the very top of his game, where realistically could Oakenfold go next in his career? Oakenfold won the Film Award for Music the 2001 movie Swordfish. *All ticket holders for original 1/30 show will be honored*, VIP TABLES/PREMIUM UPGRADES: http://bit.ly/PaulOakenfoldPremium. [citation needed] He was invited as a guest DJ to Spike Island, a gig with The Stone Roses. The city that never sleeps also birthed breakdancing and electro-funk too, with a soundtrack that included D-Train’s ‘You’re the One for Me’ and the Peech Boys ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’, unreproducible even with today’s technology! 2006: van Dyk | 2013: Hardwell | Global Underground sold over 150,000 copies of Oakenfold's previous Global Underground: New York. As the writer of this article, and at one of his ‘heights of fame’ moments, opening the ‘Home’ club in London’s Leicester Square, I’d share a wonderful memory of my own if I may? And a new phase in club culture had begun. "Southern Sun" with Carla Werner was first issued as a B-side of "Ready Steady Go" until it was included on Tiësto's In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama compilation with his own remix of the song. His passion for resident DJing gigs is obvious, though he’s firm in the belief that he didn’t want to commit wholly to these, as travel and diversity in gigs and locations is of course important too. Bio:For the past 30-plus years, Paul Oakenfold has remained in the vanguard of the global electronic music community.
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