Paul Oakenfold

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Paul Mark Oakenfold (born 30 August 1963), also known as Oakenfold, is an English record producer and trance DJ.

He has received three Grammy Awards and two-time World Music Awards nominations.

He was voted the No. 1 in the United States. DJ Magazine named one DJ in the world twice in 1998 and 1999.

Over 100 remixes have been produced by Oakenfold, including U2, Madonna, Britney Spears, Massive Attack, The Cure, New Order, The Rolling Stones, and The Stone Roses.

Early life

Oakenfold was born in Mile End Hospital on August 30, 1963. The London Evening News was delivered by his father. He lived in Highbury, Greenhithe, then Croydon, then attended Archbishop Lanfranc School, then moved to Croydon, where he spent four years as a chef and spent time at the Army and Navy Club.

In a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, Paul Oakenfold reveals his early years as a "bedroom DJ" who grew up listening to The Beatles.

When Oakenfold met Trevor Fung and began playing soul music in a Covent Garden wine bar, he began helping him with DJ Soul. He also performed in Rumours, where he appeared on Earth, Wind and Fire, and well-known British bands.

In 1981, an 18-year-old Oakenfold and his companion Ian Paul immigrated to New York City. In West Harlem, Oakenfold worked as a courier. Hip-hop was overtaking dance music as the most popular genre in the region at the time (see 1984 in music). Oakenfold and Fung used fake identities to sneak into various dance clubs, including Studio 54, where they met members of the band Maze, Bobby Womack, and Bob Marley, whom they also interviewed, claiming to be NME and Melody Maker journalists.

Oakenfold, who migrated to London, has made a name for himself as an A&R man for Champion Records. He signed DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, as well as Salt-n-Pepa. Oakenfold appeared on a breakdancing crew on the Blue Peter BBC show for children. He worked as a promoter and British agent for the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C. Since then, he appeared at The Project in Streatham, performing soul and jazz music.

In 1987, Oakenfold travelled to Ibiza for a week to commemorate his birthday. Trevor Fung, Nicky Holloway, Ian Saint Paul, Danny Rampling, and Johnny Walker accompanied him. After-hours, Oakenfold persuaded the owner of a hotel in England to stage a "Ibiza Reunion" party. He had made an attempt before, but it fell on because the audience wasn't yet prepared for the acid house style until 1987, when the party was popular. The night became a hit and became one of the United Kingdom's biggest acid house nights, known as Spectrum at Heaven in Charing Cross. More than 1,500 people attended on Monday nights than the "theatre of Madness" party, but the party's name was changed to the "Land of Oz" due to the financial difficulties. Artists like Alex Paterson DJ'd performed in the VIP chillout zone where Oakenfold was given more free time, and later on, he began recording music under the name "Electra" in 1988. Members included Nick Divaris, John "Johnny" Rocca, and Micky. The Balearic beat band Electra (FFRR Records), as the duo's name Perfecto emerged and operated, the pair released only four singles as the Balearic beat band Electra (FFRR Records) was established and operated by Radio 1's Pete Tong. He also decided in 1988 that he wanted to create a place for new artists to develop their careers. Perfecto Records was born at the time.

On several projects, he collaborated with his buddy Steve Osborne. He appeared on two remixes for Happy Mondays in 1990, including Terry Farley, Andrew Weatherall, and Osborne. The remixes of "Rave On" and "Hallelujah" were released on the Madchester Rave On EP, as well as "Step On," a fully adapted version of John Kongos' 1971 hit "He's Gonna Step On You." The song debuted in the United Kingdom at number five. He was invited as a guest DJ to Spike Island, a performance with The Stone Roses. The Happy Mondays gave Oakenfold and Osborne the opportunity to produce their third studio album, Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, which is to blame for the last single. With pre-sales of 150,000, the album climbed to the top of the UK charts. Both Oakenfold and Osborne received the 1991 Brit Award for Best Producer, according to NME's "1990 Album of The Year."

Massive Attack's "Safe From Harm" was remixed by the company in 1991 as well as several others.

The Perfecto remix reached a much higher charted position in 1992, when U2 released their song "Even Better Than the Real Thing." With the success of his last remix as Perfecto, he was hired by U2 to bring the warm-up sonics to their Zoo TV world tour in 1993, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, with more than fifty shows in Zooropa 93 and Zoomerang from 7 May to October of the same year.

Oakenfold and Osborne's 1993 work Grace was released as State of Grace with Patti Low as the lead vocalist, but by the time Grace charted a number of singles in the UK charts (around 1996), it had become a'solo fronted project' with jazz singer Dominique Atkins as the lead vocalist. In 1997, the project was discontinued as Oakenfold was touring as a performance DJ more often and couldn't commit to recording, but a redesigned version of "Not Over Yet" was released under the Planet Perfecto branding Grace name in 1999.

He collaborated with Steve Osborne and Ben Hillier in September 1994 and 1998 to remix the Rolling Stones' You Got Me Rocking and Duran Duran's song Out of My Mind. He began composing his own songs as well as remixing songs from famous artists. He began using Goa music, something he discovered on the beaches of Goa, India, where he mixed it with similar-sounding European songs to produce his own distinct sound. In 1994, he introduced this to the mainstream by creating two-hour sets for BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix. The first of these was broadcast in the early hours of Sunday, with the second being the legendary "Goa Mix" broadcast on Sunday 18 December 1994. Perfecto Fluoro, Bah's Traveling Without Moving, became Boston Beat's most popular dance set in 1996.

Paul Oakenfold, Live in Oslo (GU004), September 9th, 1997; Oakenfold's first work for GU was released on June 9, 1997. The mix was live at Cosmopolite Club in Oslo, Norway, as part of the Quart Festival's official launch. The collection showcases Oakenfold's eclectic taste in music at the time, as the collection features various forms of dance music. Oakenfold produced just one disc of the double album Fantazia Presents the House Collection 6, a UK house music compilation series. From 1997 to 1999, Oakenfold was Cream's resident DJ. He began focusing on the 1998 launch of Tranceport.

Oakenfold took first place in "DJmag's Top 100 DJs" in 1998 and 1999. Resident was fired in 1999 after being on a two-year service in Liverpool's Cream. At Cream, two years of Oakenfold. Virgin is a site that publishes information about the Virgin. Due to this Global Underground 007: Paul Oakenfold, New York (GU007) was the United States only on Thrive Records, the US distributor for early Global Underground albums. The collection was released on May 25, 1998, with the United States' release on January 19th 1999. This was Oakenfold's second production with GU, and it featured trance, drum and bass, progressive house, progressive house, progressive trance, hip hop, and Downtempo. This was his last job with GU.

He became the first DJ to appear on the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival for 90,000 people in 1999, which he describes as his first DJing gig. He travelled to the United States in the same year as a student, where he went on tour.

He created fourteen tracks of jazz, soul, house, and goa-based styles with Mitchell Oakenfold in 2000. Twenty-four FX and scratches loops and sounds were also included, each with six seconds; the album cover says, "Only for DJs and Producers," and was released on Music of Life.

In March 2000, Moby teamed up with Steve Osborne, Andy Gray, and Bruno Ellingham to remix Moby's song Natural Blues. He made a Trance remix.

He collaborated with Andy Gray to write and produce the theme for Channel 4's reality show Big Brother, which he referred to as Elementfour. The series premiered on July 18, 2000, with the theme subsequently released as a single. From 18 August 2011 to 5 November 2018, the programme and theme shifted to Channel 5's channel 5 in New York.

With a live mix from the famous London club, he launched the Ministry of Sound Radio in September 2000.

Oakenfold appeared in an intro scene of EA's Euro 2000 video game, in which he could control several players and activate the video game. He also produced the game's soundtrack, which featured 7 tracks, including a remix of the tournament's official anthem.

Fresno, California's Cyberfest, one of Oakenfold's first major events in America, followed his triumph in Europe. The 500-acre indoor and outdoor central California location had the biggest dance capacity in America. On that day, an estimated 80,000 dancers and music enthusiasts from Seattle, Reno, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Diego were welcomed. Chemical Brothers, BT, and Carl Cox were among the "Festival Of The Future" DJs on Cyberfest 2000, which was also known as the "Festival Of The Future." The Internet Café in Los Angeles in 2010 pioneered other big events in the area, such as the Electric Daisy Carnival in 2010.

Oakenfold was on the first Area Festival tour in 2001. Incubus, Carl Cox, The Orb, OutKast, and The Roots were among the stops on the tour. Perfecto Presents: Ibiza, he's later released a new compilation album.

Frequency, a video game for which Oakenfold produced one track, "See It" in 2001, was also released.

The last Global Underground, owned by the United Kingdom, sold over 150,000 copies of Oakenfold's book The Global Underground, New York. According to a spokesperson for the brand, demand for UK dance music has grown in the last two years, and the label's revenues have increased by more than two-thirds. On Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, the Global Underground New York office opened. During August and September, the Mekka Electronic Music Festival, also known as the "electronic Lollapallooza" took place in ten cities around the United States and Canada, including New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, and San Francisco. Paul, Armand van Helden, De La Soul, LTJ Bukem, Josh Wink, Derrick Carter, Roni Size, BT, The Crystal Method, Carl Craig, and Überzone were among the debuted performers. Oakenfold continued to Los Angeles to work on film soundtracks and to focus on DJing stateside. Swordfish, Swordfish: In 2001, he converted "Planet Rock" into a seven-minute breakbeat trance anthem. The bulk of the songs are collaborations with Andy Gray, the N.E.R.D.'s remix. The 'Lapdance' album, which attracted complete inability from other artists. The soundtrack was released by Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. and was distributed by London-Sire Records.

At the end of the year, Oakenfold performed a track with Crazy Town vocalist Shifty Shellshock on his new album. Shellshock said in an interview with Rolling Stone that the track "Starry Eyes Surprise" was born after the pair met at a Crazy Town show.

Bunkka's first official studio album was released in 2002 after he signed to Maverick. Bunkka appeared in Peter Gabriel's UK studio, where the album was recorded. An extended play was produced that featured live interpretations of four songs from Peoplesound Records. It's also Oakenfold's best-selling album to date, with worldwide sales that have surpassed 1 million (1 million) copies.

The album features vocals from Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell's "Time of Your Life" and Shifty Shellshock of Los Angeles' rock and rap band Crazy Town on "Starry Eyes Surprise"; Ice Cube on "Get Em Up"; and Tricky and Nelly Furtado on "The Harder They Come." "Ready Steady Go" is Asher D of So Solid Crew, and Grant-Lee Philips, the founder of the 90's Los Angeles rock band Grant Lee Buffalo, is also included in Carmen Rizzo's version of his song "Motion." Carla Werner on "Southern Sun," Tiff Lacey on "Hypnotized" and Emiliana Torrini on "Hold Your Hand" got off the show, and Bunkka welcomed three new artists, Carla Werner, to begin with "Southern Sun." "Nixon's Spirit" is Hunter S. Thompson's spoken words. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's composition was based on an electronic version of the song "Zoo York." Oakenfold was included in Q magazine's list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die" in 2002. Oakenfold admitted that he had struggled with dyslexia as an infant and that he planned to help dyslexic children.

Oakenfold reimagined David Arnold's "James Bond Theme" in 2002, the album's first two singles after "Starry Eyes Surprise," "Ready Steady Go" and "Southern Sun" were released. Carla Werner's "Southern Sun" was first released as a B-side of "Ready Steady Go" before it was included on Tisto's In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama compilation with his own remix of the song. "Southern Sun" became a smashing hit in mid-2002, as the A-Side of "Ready Steady Go" was announced in Saab commercials, EA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003, THQ game Juiced, the pilot for the television show Las Vegas, and as the NASCAR theme tune for 2006. It appears in the Xbox 360 game "Dogtown" and Alias' "Snowman" and the Alias episode "Snowman." UpVenue also ranked Ready Steady Go as the top 1 song that makes you fly faster. He also remixed another hit song for 'Elvis Presley' in 2003, which soared after his 2003 remix of "Rubberneckin'" made the top three in Australia and top five in the United Kingdom. This remix influenced the Elvis of the 21st century. Travis Strong DJed to the song, as if it were his own, in a previous episode of "The Imposter," of Radio Free Roscoe, a 2005 series on The N. The song has also been used in Anthony Horowitz's book Stormbreaker, The Bourne Identity, and it was also included in the film Collateral's execution (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker), but it was also used during the performances of extreme freestyle water ski jumpers. On Perfecto, an EP of "The Harder They Come" was released, which featured other artwork from Oakenfold and other artists. On the Creamfields Festival, Dave Clarke, Seb Fontaine, Paul van Dyk, and Dave Clarke performed alongside Steve Clarke, Jon Carter, Richie Hawtin, and Felix Da Housecat, among other live appearances from Basement Jaxx, All Saints, Death in Vegas, and Moloko. "Perpetro Presents: Great Wall", Kevin Brown's fourth single, as well as tracks such as "As the Rain Comes," Björk's "Mega Mantra"), and Ian Brown's "Perpetuation" collection included the Deepsky remix of the song as well as "British"'s "Perpetue.R" and "Becarton's "Perpetu." Paul's latest remix of Madonna's "Hollywood" song. Pourvu qu'elles soient douces, a French pop icon Mylène Farmer's 1988 smash, was released in 2003.

Oakenfold unveiled a collection of songs he performed during the festival in 2004, as well as songs inspired by the weather and the style of deejays such as Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Judge Jules, Fergie, Tall Paul, Matthew Sheridan, Shand, and Alex Kidd at the Cream/Goodgreef and Mixmag Arena.

Oakenfold was approached by Toyota in 2005 to produce a free promotional CD marketed by aygoo.com to advertise a new Toyota vehicle. The CD contained just seven songs on which he worked with Ian Green; the album was titled Feed Your Mind.

Oakenfold has remixed a number of Madonna songs, including "What It Feels Like for a Girl," "American Life," "Sorry," "Sorry," "All About Me," and "Give It 2 Me" later in 2008, when the Confessions Tour opened in Dublin, Ireland, he had previously supported her in 2004. His sets lasted an hour and a half, followed by Madonna's two-hour performance.

The Transformers theme song for the TV show Transformers Cybertron was remixed by Oakenfold. He also contributed to the FIFA Football 2005 video game with his single "Beautiful Goal." Juiced's single "Ready Steady Go" was created for the 2005 video game Juiced. On June 6, 2006, A Lively Mind, his second studio album, was released. The first single "Faster Kill Pussycat," a collaboration with actress Brittany Murphy, was not well-received; "Sex 'n' Money" was released on May 2, 2006; the second single was "Sex 'n' Money." Both songs stand out from the rest of the pack, as the majority of the album has a more trance-like feel. Gregory Jeffries of AllMusic said the album may have been in the nominated albums of dance music in 1997 but not in 2006, since the album has guitars with disco sounds that might only be appealing to trance enthusiasts.

He appeared live at the Boston Pops in 2007, when he performed a piece of orchestral music with electronic music. He created a piece of music for 10,000 people with a 75-piece orchestra in Miami. 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) was nominated for two International Dance Music Awards (IDMA). Paul Oakenfold's first official biography, written by Richard Norris of The Grid and Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve fame, was released in 2007. Authorized Biography of Paul Oakenfold was published by Bantam Press on September 24, 2007. Chelsea F.C. is a self-professed supporter of association football clubs Chelsea F.C. FC Los Angeles and Los Angeles FC. In the movie 28 Weeks Later, it was assumed that he appeared in the film as a zombie but that it was not so generous. He also produced the soundtrack for the 2007 Japanese CGI anime film Vexille.

Vol. & Remixes, October 2007, vol. 1 – which showcases his best show songs. Oakenfold was a judge for the sixth and seventh annual Independent Music Awards. "Gimme More," Birmingham's number one hit "Gimme More," was a lead remix off the release in October 2007. Oakenfold has produced more than a hundred remixes and has sold over 5,000,000 (5 million) long plays. He toured in British universities to promote his latest album and autobiography. In November, the tribute album was released in the United Kingdom on a 2-CD set and a 3 CD version with the same number of songs. It was also released in the United States with only 20 tracks on a CD; it included some remixes from the original version, as well as Justin Timberlake's "My Love" song and his remix of Hans Zimmer's "Jack Theme Suite" which was used in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Exclusive 2008 remixes from Oakenfold, Mark Ronson's "Stop Me" album, Radiohead's "Everything in Its Right Place," Eisbaer from Grovezone, "Missing" by Everything But The Girl, and a remix of Paul's own "Southern Sun." Catalog# 1602-2 was released as a result of a DVD of live shows and documentary. The compilation contains songs that inspired his career and musical persona, with musicians including The Cure, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Massive Attack, U2, Olive, Madonna, and Underworld.

Not Over is his last single from his last studio album, and it was released in 2008. This was a new version of "Not Over Yet" that he created while working with Osborne as Grace and in collaboration with Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic. Klaxons sang "It's Not Over Yet" on the song. Oakenfold worked on film scores for many films and television shows, including Californication, The Heavy, Fever, The Bourne Identity, and Speed Racer in 2008. Oakenfold's world tour debuted his greatest hits album in mid-July. He also appeared in Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour in London, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and So Paulo. He began his residency in Las Vegas on August 30 after touring. He began his first Resident DJ gig in the United States in the fall of 2008. "Paul Oakenfold Presents: Perfecto Las Vegas" was specially designed for Rain Nightclub, the 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) nightclub and concert venue at the Palms Casino Resort that is best known for its special effects and international headliner performances. Madonna's concerts on the Sticky & Sweet Tour in Europe spanned August to August 2009. Pop Killer, not Decade of Dance, was revealed in 2009 as Paul's third studio album was announced, not Decade of Dance, according to the Sun's article.

He appeared on Madonna's third greatest hits collection, Celebration, and her final release with Warner Bros. Records. The first single was released on August 3rd, 2009, it's also titled "Celebration" and was produced by Oakenfold. He also remixed a previous demo "It's So Cool" from American Life, which is also included as a bonus track on iTunes.

Oakenfold remixed "Firefly" from Matt Gossy's album Gossy's "Stymie" to a song. Oakenfold performed at Rain Nightclub in the United States in 2010.

At the famous Tall Trees venue in the United Kingdom in February 2012, Oakenfold headlined a one-off event for club brand Goodgreef. Later this year, he appeared alongside the Californian train at the Google I/O I/O June 2012 After Party at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Oakenfold's "Come With Me" was a remixed A3's hit song in 2014.

"Woman's World" co-wrote a song for Cher's twenty-fifth studio album Closer to the Truth. It was announced on June 18, 2013 as the album's lead-single.

Oakenfold remixed a song by British pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor and up-and-coming new electronic band DedRekoning on their single "Only Child," which was released on September 8th, 2014 by Oakenfold's label Perfecto Records.

Paul has been with Isina, a worldwide talent search and development academy, since May 2015. Oakenfold released "The Perfect Song," a bilingual electronic single starring Mexican pop icon Fey, on September 25, 2020, to commemorate her career's 25th anniversary. Shine On's album Shine On is expected to be released in 2022.

In September and October 2022, Oakenfold will be the opening act for the Pet Shop Boys and New Order Unity Tour.

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Early career: 1980–1984

In a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, Paul Oakenfold discusses his childhood as a "bedroom DJ."

Oakenfold's musical career began in the late 1970s when he met Trevor Fung and began assisting him with DJ soul music in a Covent Garden wine bar. He also went to Rumours, where he performed Earth, Wind and Fire, and well-known British bands.

In 1981, 18-year-old Oakenfold and his buddy Ian Paul migrated to New York City. In West Harlem, Oakenfold served as a courier. Hip-hop was overtaking dance music as the most popular music in the region during this period (see 1984 in music). Oakenfold and Fung used fake names to sneak into various dance clubs, such as Studio 54, where they interviewed members of the band Maze, Bobby Womack, and Bob Marley, who later revealed themselves to be NME and Melody Maker journalists.

As an A&R man for Champion Records, Oakenfold returned to London to break into the mainstream. He also signed DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, as well as Salt-n-Pepa at the time. Oakenfold appeared on the Blue Peter BBC's children's programme as part of a breakdancing crew. He worked as a promoter and British agent for the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C. Since then, he appeared at The Project in Streatham, playing soul and jazz music.

Oakenfold celebrated his birthday on the Greek island of Ibiza in 1987. Trevor Fung, Nicky Holloway, Ian Saint Paul, Danny Rampling, and Johnny Walker accompanied him. After-hours, Oakenfold convinced the owner of a pub in England to hold a "Ibiza Reunion" party. He had previously attempted but it didn't work out because the audience was not yet accustomed to the acid house look until 1987, when the party was unsuccessful. The night became a hit and became one of the UK's top acid house nights, Spectrum at Heaven in Charing Cross, became a hit and became a main acid house night. On Monday nights, the party was best known for the "Theatre of Madness" because more than 1,500 people were present before the party was canceled; due to financial difficulties, it changed its name to the "Land of Oz" to the land of Oz." Artists like Alex Paterson DJ'd lived in the VIP chillout area of "The White Room," which gave Oakenfold more free time, and later on, he began recording under the name "Electra" in 1988. Nick Divaris, John "Johnny" Rocca, and Micky were among the participants. The Balearic beat band Electra, a full spectrum range recorder, is the same as they continue releasing only four singles, as the Balearic beat band Electra (FFRR Records) was formed and operated by Radio 1's Pete Tong. He also decided in 1988 to establish a home for new artists to develop their careers. Perfecto Records was released at that time.

Steve Osborne, his uncle, has collaborated on several projects with him. On two remixes for Happy Mondays, Terry Farley, Andrew Weatherall, and Osborne performed on 1990. On the Madchester Rave On EP, the remixes of "Rave On" and "Hallelujah" as well as "Step On" and "Step On," a fully edited version based on John Kongos' 1971 hit "He's Gonna Step On You." In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at #5 on the charts. He was invited as a guest DJ to Spike Island, a concert with The Stone Roses. Pleased with the last single, the Happy Mondays gave Oakenfold and Osborne the opportunity to record their third studio album, Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches. With pre-sales of 150,000, the album debuted at number one on the UK charts, putting the album at number one on the charts. Both Oakenfold and Osborne received the 1991 Brit Award for Best Producer, and the album was named NME's "1990 Album of The Year."

Massive Attack's "Safe From Harm" was remixed by the 1990s as well as many others.

The Perfecto remix reached a higher charted position in 1992, when U2's "Even Better Than the Real Thing" was released. With the success of his last remix as Perfecto, he was recruited by U2 to bring the warm-up sonics to their Zoo TV world tour, and he 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.

Grace was initiated by Oakenfold and Osborne in 1993 as State of Grace and featuring vocals by Patti Low, but by the time Grace had charted a few singles in the UK charts (around 1996), it had become a'solo fronted project' with jazz singer Dominique Atkins as the lead vocalist. The project was cancelled in 1997 as Oakenfold was touring as a live DJ more often and could not commit to recording, but under the Planet Perfecto branding Grace's name in 1999, a remixed version of "Not Over Yet" was released.

In September 1994 and again in 1998, he collaborated with Steve Osborne and Ben Hillier to remix the Rolling Stones' song You Got Me Rocking and Duran Duran's song Out of My Mind. He started making his own albums as well as remixing hits from famous artists. He began using Goa music on Goa's beaches, in India, and blended it with similar-sounding European songs to create his own unique sound. In 1994, he brought this popular music to a new audience, delivering two-hour sets for BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix. The first of these was broadcast in the early hours of Sunday, with the second being the legendary "Goa Mix" broadcast on Sunday 18 December 1994. During 1996, Perfecto Fluoro, Boston Beat's most popular dance collection, became the best-selling dance collection of Boston Beat, according to Jamiroquai's Travelling Without Moving.

Paul Oakenfold, Live in Oslo, 1997. This is the first work he produced for GU, and it was compiled and mixed by Oakenfold. As part of the official opening of the Quart Festival, the mix was captured live at Cosmopolite Club in Oslo, Norway. The collection showcases Oakenfold's eclectic taste in music at the time, as the collection includes several styles of dance music. Oakenfold produced one disc of the double album Fantazia Presents the House Collection 6, a UK house music compilation collection series. From 1997 to 1999, Oakenfold became Cream's resident DJ. He began to concentrate on the 1998 release of Tranceport.

Oakenfold took first place in "DJmag's Top 100 DJs" in 1998 and 1999. It was 1999 that Resident was granted Resident's two-years as a resident of Liverpool's Cream. At Cream, two years of Oakenfold have passed. Virgin is a Virgin. Due to this Global Underground 007: Paul Oakenfold, New York, New York (GU007) was the sole US distributor for early Global Underground albums, Thrive Records, the US distributor for early Underground albums, had a different numbering system for the Global Underground albums. The collection was published on May 25, 1998, with the United States launching it on January 19th 1999. This was Oakenfold's second show in the United Kingdom, and it featured trance, drum and bass, progressive house, progressive house, progressive trance, breakbeat, and Downtempo. This was his last work with GU.

In 1999, he became the first DJ to perform on the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival for 90,000 people, which he describes as his first gig. He travelled to the United States, where he went on tour for the fifth year in that year.

With Mitchell Oakenfold, he recorded fourteen tracks of jazz, soul, home, and goa based styles in 2000. Twenty-four FX and scratches loops and sounds were also included, each consisting of six seconds; the album cover reads, "Only for DJs and Producers" and was released on Music of Life.

In March 2000, he collaborated with Steve Osborne, Andy Gray, and Bruno Ellingham to remix Moby's song Natural Blues. He made a Trance remix.

He collaborated with Andy Gray to write and produce the theme for Channel 4's reality show Big Brother, which was branded Elementfour. The series debuted on July 18, 2000, with the theme later released as a single. From 18 August 2011 to 5 November 2018, the show and theme changed to Channel 5.

With a live mix from the famous London club, he launched Ministry of Sound Radio, a new digital radio station.

Oakenfold appeared in the intro scene of EA's Euro 2000 video game, in which he could switch on the video game and control several players. He also produced the game's soundtrack, which featured 7 tracks, including a remix of the tournament's official anthem.

Fresno, California's Cyberfest, one of Oakenfold's first major events in America, was following his success in Europe, one of his first major events in America. The 500-acre indoor and outdoor Central California location had the largest dance capacity ever in America. On the day, an estimated 80,000 dancers and music enthusiasts from Seattle, Reno, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Diego were welcomed. Other DJs, including Chemical Brothers, BT, and Carl Cox, were among the many "Festival Of The Future" at Cyberfest 2000. Cyberfest 2000 opened the way for other major events in the area, like the Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles in 2010.

Oakenfold was one of the first Area Festival tours to take place in 2001. Incubus, Carl Cox, The Orb, OutKast, and The Roots were among the tour's highlights on this tour. Perfecto Presents: Ibiza is a new compilation album by the artist.

Frequency, a 2001 video game in which Oakenfold created one track, "See It," was released.

Oakenfold's previous Global Underground: New York, over 150,000 copies of his oldest World Underground: New York. Demand for UK dance music had been on the rise in the United States for the past two years, according to a spokesperson for the brand, and now accounts for over two-thirds of the label's sales. On Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, the Global Underground New York office opened. During August and September, the Mekka Electronic Music Festival, also known as the "electronic Lollapallooza" took place in ten cities around the country and Canada, including New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, and San Francisco. Paul, Armand van Helden, De La Soul, De La Soul, LTJ Bukem, Josh Wink, Derrick Carter, Roni Size, Deep Dish, Carl Craig, and Überzone were among the performers on the evening. Oakenfold then travelled to Los Angeles to work on film soundtracks and to concentrate on DJing stateside. Swordfish, Swordfish, 2001 He made the album's soundtrack. The album turned "Planet Rock" into a seven-minute breakbeat trance anthem. The majority of the tracks are joint projects with Andy Gray, which is the remix of N.E.R.D. The "Lapdance" album, which gained complete unability from other tracks, received complete disregard from others. The soundtrack was released under the name of Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. and was distributed via London-Sire Records.

Shifty Shellshock, a songwriter from Crazy Town, was on track with Oakenfold for his new album at the end of the year. Shellshock said in an interview with Rolling Stone that the track named "Starry Eyed Surprise" was developed after the pair met at a Crazy Town display.

Bunkka's debut in 2002 as he signed to Maverick. Bunkka came from Peter Gabriel's studio in the United Kingdom, where the album was recorded. Peoplesound Records has produced an extended play based on four songs. It's also Oakenfold's best-selling album to date, with worldwide sales in excess of 1,000,000 (1 million) copies.

"Time of Your Life" by Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell; Shifty Shellshock of Los Angeles rock and rap band Crazy Town; and "The Harder They Come" by Susan and Nelly Furtado. Asher D. Jones of So Solid Crew appears on "Ready Steady Go," and Grant-Lee Philips, the founder of the 90's Los Angeles rock band Grant Lee Buffalo, is also included in Carmen Rizzo's version of his song "Motion." Carla Werner on "Southern Sun" and Emiliana Torrini on "Hold Your Hand" got off to a rocky start for three young artists, including Carla Werner on "Southern Sun," Tiff Lacey on "Hypnotised" and Emiliana Torrini on "Hold Your Hand." "Nixon's Spirit" is Hunter S. Thompson's written words are included. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's composition was based on a digital version of the track "Zoo York." Oakenfold was one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die" in 2002. Oakenfold revealed in 2002 that he had suffered with dyslexia as an infant and that he wanted to help dyslexic children.

Oakenfold remixed David Arnold's "James Bond Theme" on Warner Bros. Records in 2002, and after "Starry Eyes Surprise," "Ready Steady Go" and "Southern Sun," the album's next two singles were released. Carla Werner's "Southern Sun" first appeared on "Ready Steady Go" before being included on Tisto's In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama compilation with his own remix of the song. "Southern Sun" became a smashing success in mid-2002, "Ready Steady Go" was released in Saab commercials, EA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003, THQ game Juiced, the pilot for the television show Las Vegas, and as the NASCAR theme tune for 2006. It appears in the game series Dance Dance Revolution in DDR Ultramix for the Xbox, Fastlane episode "Dogtown" and Alias' episode "Snowman." UpVenue also listed Ready Steady Go as the number one song that makes you drive faster. He remixed another hit song for 'Elvis Presley,' which charted very well after his 2003 remix of "Rubberneckin" made it to the top three in Australia and top five in the UK. This remix made him the Elvis of the 21st century. Travis Strong DJed to the song as if it were his own in a recent episode, "The Imposter," of Radio Free Roscoe, a 2005 series on The N. The song has also appeared in Anthony Horowitz's novel Stormbreaker, The Bourne Identity, and was later replicated with Korean lyrics for the film Collateral, and has since been used during the performances of extreme freestyle water ski jumpers. On Perfecto, an EP of "The Harder They Come" was released, as well as other Oakenfold and other artists' works. In 2002, Speke Airfield DJs such as Oakenfold, Seb Fontaine, Paul van Dyk, Richie Hawtin, and Felix Da Housecat performed alongside Dave Clarke, Jon Carter, Brent Jewtin, and Moloko performed. "Perpetu Presents: The Deepsky remix of the song, as well as tracks such as "As the Rush Comes," Björk's "Perpetro Presents: The West Side" collection of Ian Brown's "Perpetual Presents: Great Wall" appeared on Paul's new compilation of "Perpeto Presents: The Shepherd" was released in 2003, and it was included on Paul's new compilation from "Perpeto Presents..." Madonna's "Hollywood" song was a hit in Paul's latest remix. Pourvu qu'elles soient douces, a French pop icon Mylène Farmer's 1988 hit, was a remix by him in 2003.

Oakenfold's 2004 release of a compilation of songs he performed at the festival, as well as music inspired by the weather and the vibe of deejays like Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Judge Jules, Monty Corsten, Tall Paul, Ashley, Shane, and Alex Kidd at the Cream/Goodgreef and Mixmag Arena.

Oakenfold was asked by Toyota to produce a free promotional CD that could be used by aygo.com to advertise a new Toyota vehicle in 2005. The CD contained just seven songs on which he worked with Ian Green; the album was titled Feed Your Mind.

During Oakenfold's career, he remixed "What It Feels Like for a Girl," "American Life," "Sorry," "Mornography," "Moro," "Good News," "Sorry," "Sorry," and "Better It 2 Me" from her album Hard Candy. Oakenfold toured with Madonna later this year, and later in 2008, he appeared in the Confessions Tour for two months, and she had previously on tour guide His sets lasted an hour and a half, followed by Madonna's two-hour performance.

The Transformers theme song for Transformers Cybertron, by Oakenfold, was reimagined as the Transformers theme song. He also contributed to the FIFA Football 2005 video game by delivering his single "Beautiful Goal." Juiced's single "Ready Steady Go" was released in 2005. On June 6, 2006, A Lively Mind, his second studio album, was released. The first single "Faster Kill Pussycat," a film starring Brittany Murphy, was released on May 2, 2006; "Sex 'n' Money" was the second single, despite poor reviews. Both songs stand out from the rest, as the majority of the album has a more trance-like feel. Gregory Jeffries of AllMusic said the album may have been in the nominated albums of dance music in 1997 but not in 2006 because the album has guitars with disco sounds that might only be appealing to trance addicts.

He appeared live at the Boston Pops in 2007, which performed a piece of orchestral music with electronic music. He composed a piece of music for 10,000 people with a 75-piece orchestra in Miami. He was nominated for two International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) at the Winter Music Conference in 2007, Best Underground Dance Track for "Faster Kill Pussycat" and Best Full Length DJ Mix CD for "A Lively Mind" in 2007. Paul Oakenfold's first official biography, written by Richard Norris of The Grid and Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve fame, was released in 2007. Authorized Biography of Paul Oakenfold was published by Bantam Press on September 24, 2007. Chelsea F.C.'s self-professed supporter of association football clubs. and Los Angeles FC. In the movie 28 Weeks Later, it was thought that he was a zombie in the film 28 Weeks; however, this was incorrect; he was given the opportunity but turned it down. He also contributed to the soundtrack for the 2007 Japanese CGI anime film Vexille.

Vol. 87. He released his Greatest Hits & Remixes in October 2007. The best show tracks on his website are included in this one. Oakenfold served as a judge for the sixth and seventh annual Independent Music Awards. Oakenfold remixed Britney Spears' number one hit "Gimme More," which became the lead remix off the day. Oakenfold has produced more than a hundred remixes and has produced more than 5 million (5 million) long plays. He toured in British universities to promote his latest album and autobiography. In November, the tribute album was released in the United Kingdom on two CD set and a 3 CD version with the same number of songs. It was also released in the United States with 20 songs in a single CD; it also included two new remixes, including Justin Timberlake's "My Love" song and Hans Zimmer's "Jack theme Suite," which was used for the film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Exclusive 2008 remixes from Oakenfold, Mark Ronson's "Stop Me" album, Radiohead's "Everything in Its Right Place," Eisbaer from Grovezone, "Missing" by Everything But The Girl, and a remix of Paul's own "Southern Sun" were also included in this collection. Catalog# KU 1602-22 was included in the UL 1602-2 series, as well as a DVD of live show and documentary. The collection features songs that inspired his career and musical persona, including artists such as The Cure, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Massive Attack, U2, Olive, Madonna, and Underworld.

Not Over, his last single from his last studio album, appeared in 2008. This was a new version of "Not Over Yet" by Osborne as Grace and in collaboration with Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic. Klaxons' "It's Not Over Yet" was the song. Oakenfold worked on film scores for a variety of films and television shows, including Californication, The Heavy, Fever, The Bourne Identity, and Speed Racer in 2008. Oakenfold's world tour debuted his greatest hits album in mid-July. He has also been in his Sticky & Sweet Tour in London, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and So Paulo. On the 30th of August, after touring, he began his residency in Las Vegas. In the fall of 2008, he began his first Resident DJ gig in the United States. "Paul Oakenfold Presents: Perfecto Las Vegas" was specially designed for Rain Nightclub, the 5,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) nightclub and concert venue at the Palms Casino Resort that is famous for its special effects and international headliner shows. Madonna opened Madonna's concerts in Europe from July to August 2009. As the article in The Sun stated, Paul's third studio album was revealed to be named Pop Killer rather than Decade of Dance.

He also worked with Madonna on her third greatest hits collection, Celebration, and her final release with Warner Bros. Records. The first single, "Celebration," was also released on August 3rd, and Oakenfold produced it. He also remixed a previous demo "It's So Cool" from American Life, which is now available on iTunes as a bonus track.

Oakenfold remixed "Firefly" from Matt Goss' album Gossy's "Gossy." Oakenfold performed at Rain Nightclub in 2010 and returned to the United States as a DJ.

At the famous Tall Trees venue in the United Kingdom in February 2012, Oakenfold headlined a major one-off event for club brand Goodgreef. He appeared with Californian band Train at the Google I/O June 2012 After Party at Moscone Center in San Francisco later this year.

Oakenfold remixed A3's "Come With Me" in 2014.

"Woman's World" co-wrote a song for Cher's twentieth studio album Closer to the Truth. It was announced on June 18th, 2013 as the album's lead-single.

Oakenfold reimagined a song by British pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor and DedRekoning's up-and-coming new electronic band DedRekoning on their single "Only Child," which was released on October 8, 2014 by Oakenfold's label Perfecto Records.

Since May 2015, Paul has been in charge of Isina's department of DJs and EDM vocalists, which is part of the global talent search and development mentorship service. To commemorate her career's 25th anniversary, Oakenfold released "The Perfect Song," a bilingual English-language electronic single starring Mexican pop icon Fey. Shine On's album Shine On is set to be released in 2022.

In September and October 2022, Oakenfold will be the opening act for the Pet Shop Boys and New Order Unity Tour.

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