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Paul Oakenfold (born August 30, 1963 in London, England) is a record producer and one of the best-known DJs worldwide.

In 1987, Oakenfold and his friends, Trevor Fung and Ian St. Paul, spent several months in Ibiza, Spain, where they fell in love with the dance club music (see 1987 in music). Using influences from Ibiza's sound, Italian disco, soul and house, Oakenfold produced Happy Mondays' Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, followed by productions for U2, Massive Attack, Arrested Development, The Cure, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Simply Red, New Order, and The Shamen, many of which were released under his label Perfecto Records.

In addition to producing records, Oakenfold has also mixed them. He had first DJ'd as a teenager, and his return to DJ'ing in the mid-1990s, after a short spell as a member of the band Grace, culminated in his tenure as Cream's resident DJ from 1997 to 1999. During this time, he began to concentrate on building an American audience, which led to the US release of Tranceport in 1999. The album was well-received by American trance music fans, and even garnered him modest acceptance in the mainstream American music scene. Oakenfold followed Tranceport with arguably his most successful album Perfecto Presents Another World which introduced millions to his mixing skills. His popularity across the Atlantic is slowly growing thanks to his work on the film soundtracks of Swordfish, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and Die Another Day, for which he remixed The James Bond Theme. He later worked on the James Bond video game, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent in 2004.

In 2002, Q magazine named Oakenfold in their list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die".

In the same year, Oakenfold released his first solo album, called Bunkka featuring artists like Nelly Furtado ("The Harder They Come"), Ice Cube ("Get Em Up") and Shifty Shellshock, then the lead singer of Crazy Town ("Starry Eyed Surprise"). His latest effort is 2004's Creamfields, a double album.

In 2004, Oakenfold's famous song, "Ready Steady Go" was reproduced with some Korean lyrics for the movie Collateral. This song was also included in the film soundtrack.

Discography

Singles

Electra

as part of 'Balearic House' group 'Electra'

JIBARO (FFRR Records - 1988) # 54 UK

IT'S YOUR DESTINY / AUTUMN LOVE ( FFRR Records - 1989] # 51 UK

Solid Gold Easy Amex

remix of former Red Box b-side

Enjoy (EastWest Records - 1990)

Paul Oakenfold

as Paul Oakenfold presents Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force:

Planet Rock (Tommy Boy Records - 2001) # 47 UK

as Oakenfold:

Southern Sun / Ready Steady Go (Perfecto - 2002) # 16 UK

Starry Eyed Surprise (Perfecto - 2002) # 6 UK

as Oakenfold with vocals by Keisha White and Tricky:

The Harder They Come (Perfecto - 2003) # 38 UK

as Oakenfold:

Hypnotised (Perfecto - 2003) # 57 UK

as Oakenfold ft Brittany Murphy

Faster Kill Pussycat (Perfecto promo - 2006)

Paul Oakenfold with Steve Osborne

as Rise:

The Single (Perfecto / EastWest Records - 1994) # 70 UK

as Perfecto Allstarz:

Reach Up (Perfecto - 1995) # 6 UK

as Virus:

Sun (Perfecto - 1995) # 62 UK

Moon (Perfecto - 1997) # 36 UK

Paul Oakenfold & Andy Gray

as Element 4

Big Brother Theme (Channel 4 Music - 2002)

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