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The Technics 1210 website offers a 30 year timeline of dance music and the Technics 1210 turntable heritage - including interviews and testimonials for some of the worlds top djs, including dj paul oakenfold who is, quite simply, the world's most popular DJ. paul oakenfold is the DJ, producer and remixer who did more to break house music in Britain during the late '80s than anyone else.
paul oakenfold hosted crucial club-nights which introduced thousands of Brits to house music during 1987-88, helped push the style into the charts by master-minding hit productions by Happy Mondays and others, and formed one of the most successful dance labels of the 1990s, Perfecto Records. Born in London in 1963, paul oakenfold began DJing at the age of 16, and hooked up with a friend named Trevor Fung to play soul and rare-groove at a basement bar in Covent Garden. paul oakenfold spent some time in New York during the late '70s, working for Arista Records and soaking up the disco scene through Larry Levan's genre-spanning sets at the Paradise Garage.
Back in England by the early '80s, paul oakenfold worked as a club promoter and British agent for the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C. He continued DJing as well, and eventually ended up at the Project in 1985-86, one of the first venues for house music in England.
With paul okenfold, Fung and another friend named Ian St.Paul, paul oakenfold was introduced to the exploding club-scene on the vacation island of Ibiza (near the coast of Spain) during 1987 and imported the crucial mix of house, soul, Italian disco and alternative music later dubbed the Balearic style.
Technics 1210 offer the latest online dj magazine. News about paul okenfold, dj lisa lashes, dj sasha, and john digweed. See history time line featuring dj craze and paul van dyke.
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