Electronic musician and Dance Music Royalty Paul Oakenfold has been a household name for over 30 years in championing the genre and help shape it into the phenom it has become today. Paul’s services to the music industry are undisputed he’s one of the ultimate pioneers of the electronic scene. As a DJ, promoter and as a producer, his love affair with groundbreaking records and landmark soundtracks for Hollywood blockbuster movies has been unprecedented. The three-time-nominated DJ & Producer deservedly received the prestigious Creative Fusion Award at the 2014 BritWeek UKTI Business Innovation Awards in Los Angeles for his extraordinary contributions to the music scene, that has helped bridge cultural gaps.
During his career he has worked with an impressive range of artists that included Perry Farrell, Brittany Murphy, Nelly Furtado, Ice Cube, and Hunter S Thompson, whilst having produced and remixed some music’s biggest hits, which include songs by Britney Spears, Kings of Leon, Elvis Presley, U2, Michael Jackson, The Cure and The Rolling Stones. In recent years Paul has also been responsible for creating some of the most breathtaking film scores and cues for a long list of blockbuster movies – including The Bourne Identity, Matrix Reloaded, Shrek 2, Swordfish and Collateral. Whilst of his 36 Essential mixes for BBC Radio 1, his legendary ‘GOA Mix’, which perfectly fused underground trance with poignant samples taken from film and radio, was voted the ‘Best Essential Mix’ of all time by Radio 1 listeners.
The 5th Annual Business Innovation Awards, presented by Virgin Atlantic, celebrates and presents awards for outstanding achievement & innovation in: Technology, Social Impact, Product Design & Business Services. Paul’s award was perhaps the most prestigious of the lot with Music mogul Simon Cowell being its previous recipient back in 2011. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate this legend, and wish him more success and accolades in the future!
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[…] Britweek’s Creative Award winner Paul Oakenfold returns to the studio with a brand new exclusive Trance venture called Trance Mission – a compilation that will entice purists as much as it will dance-tourists! Released under Oakenfold’s Perfecto Records division of the renowned Armada label, Trance Mission will feature twelve of the biggest Trance releases of all time covered by the man who helped make them favorites in the first place. Here’s what he had to say about the album. […]