Carl Cox

Carl Cox, born in 1962, bought turntables at fifteen and worked as a mobile DJ, moving from disco to rare groove and electro before acid house arrived.

The nickname came from Sunrise in 1988: he hooked up a third turntable for a set at dawn, got fifteen thousand people back on their feet, and has been the three-deck wizard ever since. He ran Ultimate Base at the Velvet Underground on Charing Cross Road through the mid-nineties, and his first single, “I Want You (Forever)”, came out on Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto.

He then held the Music Is Revolution residency at Space Ibiza for fifteen years to 2016, closing the club himself, and has had his own stage at Ultra since 2005 — for many people the only stage there worth queuing for.

He runs Intec and, with Christopher Coe, Awesome Soundwave, which releases live electronic music rather than DJ tracks. He plays techno and house, usually on vinyl, and he has been doing it longer than most of the people booked around him have been alive.

Written from Wikipedia and DJ Mag.