Carl Cox

Carl Cox

Carl Cox, 2005
Background information
Birth name Carl Cox
Born (1962-07-29) 29 July 1962
Origin Oldham
Genres House, techno, tech house, minimal techno
Occupation(s) Producer, DJ
Years active 1980s–present
Labels Intec Digital
Associated acts DJ Relentless (Holt Norfolk) (Clubstyle Parties)
Website Carl Cox

Carl Cox during his opening party of Music is revolution in 2014 in Space, Ibiza

Carl Cox (born 29 July 1962, Barbados)[1] is a British house, techno, DJ and producer.[2] In the 1980s Cox was a hardcore/rave DJ, and eventually became a mainstay DJ in the electronica industry. He performed at numerous clubs and also served as a monthly DJ for BBC Radio One's Essential Mix. Cox formed two record labels and now performs on his own stage yearly at various music festivals. He was voted the No. 1 Rave DJ in 1992 and No. 1 DJ in the World in 1996 and 1997 by DJ Magazine. He is an eleven time DJ Awards winner, three time International Dance Music Awards winner and an NME Award winning artist. He is currently ranked the No. 1 Global Techno and Techno House DJ by the DJ List.[3]

Career

Cox began his career as a hardcore/rave DJ in the mid-1980s.[4] He has performed at clubs such as The Eclipse, Edge, Shelly's, Sterns Nightclub, Heaven, Sir Henry's in Cork, Ireland and Angels and The Haçienda, as well as raves for Fantazia, Dreamscape, NASA and Amnesia House. He now spearheads two record labels, Intec Records and 23rd Century Records. He also has his own stage every year at Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland, Global Gathering and Electric Daisy Carnival called Carl Cox & Friends. In the film, "Can U Feel It?", a documentary about Ultra as a music festival, Carl explains that the concept of Carl Cox & Friends came about as a result of not only wanting to play longer sets at festivals, but to also give festival goers an experience within the festival, as Carl has far more creative control over his own stage. The stage is wildly popular with festival goers, and for the 2014 edition of Ultra, Carl Cox & Friends celebrated their ten-year anniversary for being a stage at Ultra. During the two days, Carl was joined by the likes of Pete Tong, Dubfire, Marco Bailey, UMEK, Luciano, and Loco Dice.

He ran Ultimate Base at the now defunct Velvet Underground club on Charing Cross Road in the mid- to late 1990s. Cox also played the Millennium (1999 to 2000) New Year's Eve twice by performing in Sydney and again in Hawaii after flying back over the International Date Line.[5] He has had shows on Kiss FM and was a monthly live, global resident for BBC Radio One's Essential Mix in 1998–99, as well as over a decade's worth of Ibiza live mixes broadcast from Club Space in Miami. Cox's performances in Ibiza in Residence and Club Space included Kryoman.[6][7]

Discography

Albums

Hannah's mixtape volume 2

Singles

Compilations

Remixes

DJ Rankings (current)

The DJ List Ranking

The DJ List has approximately 1 million members who rate DJ's in different EDM genres, these are the statistics for The DJ List as of May 16, 2015.[12]

Year DJ Country Genre Ranking Source Rank
2015 Carl Cox United Kingdom Top Global Techno The DJ List 2nd
2015 Carl Cox United Kingdom Top Global Tech House The DJ List 9th
2015 Carl Cox United Kingdom Top UK DJ The DJ List 1st
2015 Carl Cox United Kingdom Top Global DJ The DJ List 41st

Top Deejays Ranking

Topdeejays is a global DJ database founded and operated by FM Agencija it uses an algorythm that measures general social media influence of a DJ by combining their Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, SoundCloud, MySpace, Last.fm and YouTube fans, subscribers and followers TDJ calculates and applies TDJ points to in order rank artists global, national and by genre influence. These are the statistics for topdeejays as of 6 November, 2015.

Year DJ Country Genre Ranking Source Rank
2015 Carl Cox United Kingdom Top Global Techno Topdeejays List 4th

DJ Rankings The Official Global DJ Rankings is calculated according to an advanced algorithm, compiled to give an accurate, independent and fair ranking of all DJs it considers the following criteria DJ earnings.Media presence, Chart data from music releases and remixes, Airplay data from radio stations. Public data about royalties collected from copyright associations, Followers on major social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter etc and Polling and rating data from various polling agencies and rating sites, such as dj-rating.com and djmag.com.

Year DJ Country Genre Ranking Source Rank
2015 Carl Cox United Kingdom Top Global Techno The DJ Rankings List 2nd
2015 Carl Cox United Kingdom Top Global Tech House The DJ Rankings List 2nd

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ↑ "Carl Cox Discography at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
  2. ↑ "Carl Cox Bio, Music, News & Shows". DJZ.com. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Carl Cox Artist Profile". thedjlist.com. The DJ List Global Rankings. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  4. ↑ IMO Records. "Carl Cox Biography", London, 25 January 2012. Retrieved on 25 January 2012.
  5. ↑ "Carl Cox Q&A". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 Sep 2014.
  6. ↑ "Kryoman: Steve Aoki’s Secret Weapon". 303 Magazine. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  7. ↑ "Audio Interview // Steve Aoki and Kryoman // Are You Ready to Be Caked?". Hear Magazine. Retrieved 21 Nov 2013.
  8. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 124. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  9. ↑ "Chemistry – with DJ Carl Cox". Shelley Segal. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
  10. ↑ "ARIA Report 571" (PDF).
  11. ↑ "Carl Cox – The Latin Theme". Djshop. 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  12. ↑ "Statistics The DJ List". thedjlist.com. The DJ List Rankings. Retrieved 6 November 2015.

External links

Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Judge Jules		 DJ Magazine Number 1 DJ
1996,1997 		Succeeded by
Paul Oakenfold


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