Some Oakenfold gems

[piratepeteofoz]

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Gr8 post thanx

[PartyInGreece]

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Great post indeed. I'm really curious about that 2002 Creamfields Prague set just becuase a good buddy of mine living in Prague at the time HATED Oakenfold, and hated how much attention Oakenfold was getting. My buddy was a techno snob (nothing wrong with that in my opinion by the way....being snobby has always been a part of techno anyway), but when I asked him who played his favorite set at that Creamfields he said, "Surprisingly, Oakenfold. Beautiful psy-trance...nothing cheesy..the guy knows his audience. If he had tried to play in Prague the way he plays in other places, he'd have been booed out...but he brought it."

[chunky]

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I always used to love his proper club sets. I always found at festivals and big gigs he would play lots of anthems. His sets at Home where brilliant.

[ENNISELLIS]

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It's funny - I was on the old Essential Mix Mailing list in 1999/2000 and people constantly moaned about Oakey and R1 having him on the EM all the time! Personally I couldn't get enough Oakenfold (he was my favourite DJ at the time). Even then I thought one day people will look back on that period in hindsight with affection rather than the distain that was shown. You don't always appreciate what you have at the time!

For me personally 1995-2000 was Oakey's peak. He's done some good sets since (his Perfecto Ibiza mix in 2001 for instance), but I don't think it's a coincidence his sets were at their best at the time Perfecto (the record label) were putting out their best stuff (BT, MWNN, Amoeba Assassin, Grace, Transa, etc. etc.) and Oakey had his residencies at Cream (1996-199 and Home (1999-2000).

Playing to a crowd every week meant he tried new things. I recall him saying in an interview that he liked to try to incorporate D&B into his sets which wasn't the done thing at the time. Check out his Cream White (1996) and his GU:007 NY (1997) mixes for how well this could work.

A genuine golden period.

[chunky]

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I never liked the Oakenfold Traveling CD. I thought the Ibiza one in 2002 was a lot better. The Ibiza CD is completely ruined by that awful U2 Beautiful Day track, if he had put the Brothers In Rhythm remix of Staring At The Sun on it, it would be a million times better. i think he just lost direction after that and never got it back.

[ENNISELLIS]

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^ Agreed. The decline really started in 99/00 when he started playing crap like Bullet In The Gun, but a lot of his sets were good to passable, if not up to his on high standards, right up to around 2003/4 for me. I seem to remember the hour he had on the EM Ibiza Special in August 2003 as being pretty good.

The hit to miss ratio of the tracks he plays seems to increase as the years go by sadly. Still a legend for all he's given to the music scene though.

[franc]

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i was at home sydney niteclub that nite.oaky absolutely destroyed the place.it was actually the opening nite 4 home niteclub.great memories.

[bchandler]

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Much thanks for the old school. This was a great time in EDMs history.

[marcj937]

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Nice work I appreciate the link!!!!!!!!

[BureOne]

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Just a side note, I got a hold of the actual producer for UTM - Stream; "Yoda". He's hooking me up with a clean copy of said track! its been 11 years!!

[hashhead]

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im sure the Glasgow set is fake...the way it starts, the way it ends, the tunes....i smell a rat, course, if anyone has listened to it right thru and hears a radio dj then apologies

i think he did play up here @ a club called 'room at the top' that year, and he also played a 'gig on the green' (glasgow green) festival set around the time which may well have been broadcast on the radio, but apart from that there is only one other recorded set i know of oakeys from around the era and that was recorded by me and labelled :

SET - 2001-06-22 Paul Oakenfold Live @ Colours @ The Arches

infact i tell a lie, when checking his folder on my pc i found this as well. If theres anyone that wants it, prolly best to pm me as i wont check this page again

SET - Paul Oakenfold 1999-12-19 Beat 106 Mix, Scotland.mp3

[chunky]

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im sure the Glasgow set is fake...the way it starts, the way it ends, the tunes....i smell a rat, course, if anyone has listened to it right thru and hears a radio dj then apologies

Which Glasgow set are you on about There are more than one listed

[clean-jaw]

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Lovely jovely, Oaky at lush!!!!

[CircleGuy]

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thanks for sharing!

[chunky]

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These is a bloke setting up a Oakenfold website with loads of old footage and info

http://www.wallabyfc.com/pauloakenfold

Theres some old articles on there from Mixmag & Musik Magazine from the 1990's