Paul Oakenfold

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Image:Oakenfold@Nation.jpg 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, Italo disco, soul and house, Oakenfold produced Happy Mondays' Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, followed by productions of remixes for U2, Massive Attack, Arrested Development, The Cure, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Simply Red, New Order, and The Shamen with production partner Steve Osborne under the collaborative name Perfecto. Many of these remixes 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, and Die Another Day, for which he remixed The James Bond Theme. He later worked on the James Bond video game, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent and contributed to the soundtrack of the Japanese anime film "Appleseed" 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.

'A Lively Mind' is due to be released on June 6, 2006. The first single 'Faster Kill Pussycat' is a collaboration with the actress Brittany Murphy, no release date for this single has been confirmed.

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Discography

Year	Title
2006	A Lively Mind
2005	Perfecto Presents the Club
2004	Creamfields
2004	Perfecto Presents Great Wall
2002	Bunkka
2001	Swordfish Original Soundtrack
2001	Perfecto Presents: Paul Oakenfold in Ibiza
2001	Voyage Into Trance - Re-release
2000	Perfecto Presents Travelling
2000	Perfecto Presents Another World
1999	Essential Millennium with Pete Tong & Fatboy Slim
1999	Global Underground: New York
1999	Resident: Two Years of Oakenfold at Cream
1998	Tranceport
1998	Global Underground: New York
1997	Global Underground Live in Oslo
1996	Perfecto Fluoro
1994	Journeys By DJ