Carl Cox

Carl Cox (born 29 July 1962) is a British house and techno club DJ, as well as radio DJ and record producer.

He is based in Frankston, Victoria, Australia.

Cox has won and been nominated for numerous awards.

He has performed at numerous clubs and electronic music or dance events worldwide.

In the 1980s, Cox became a mainstage DJ in the electronica industry.

He eventually became known as one of the founders of that sound and was part of the emerging British rave scene, and became renowned for the uncommon practice of three-deck mixing.

He played at the first night of Danny Rampling's Shoom night after his return from Ibiza in the summer of 1987, a Balearic / Acid House night in London.

In the early 1990s he released his debut single for Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto label, "I Want You (Forever)".

Cox continued to create music, eventually embracing techno music that would soon become popular.

He ran Ultimate Base at the now defunct Velvet Underground club on Charing Cross Road, London in the mid-to late 1990s.

In 1997, DJ Magazine chose Cox as the first #1 DJ for its first top 100 poll.

He runs the record label, Intec Digital, which was founded around 1998 as Intec Records.

He was also global resident DJ for BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix in 1998–99.

Cox also played the Millennium on New Year's Eve 1999, by performing in Sydney, Australia, and again in Hawaii after flying back over the International Date Line.

He has hosted a residency known as "Music is Revolution" every summer season at the Space Ibiza nightclub, from 2001 to 2016.

He has featured his own "Carl Cox & Friends" stage at many festivals, such as Ultra Music Festival, The BPM Festival and Tomorrowland.

Cox has also served as a monthly DJ for BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix.

He broadcast over a decade's worth of Ibiza live mixes from Space, specifically from 2001 to 2016.

In 2001, Cox began a yearly residency at Space Ibiza, a nightclub in Ibiza, Spain.

He began playing on the terrace for Space's "We Love... Space on the Terrace".

Following that, he played on Thursdays inside the club.

For fifteen years, Cox built his residency entitled "Music is Revolution".

In 2004, Cox debuted the Carl Cox & Friends arena at Ultra Music Festival, which has since taken place for twelve years.

In the film Can U Feel It?, a documentary about Ultra Music Festival, Cox explains that the concept of Carl Cox & Friends came about as a result of not only wanting to play longer sets at festivals, but also to give festival goers an experience within the festival, as Carl has far more creative control over his own stage.

The stage is popular with festival goers, and has featured artists like Laurent Garnier, Nic Fanciulli, Loco Dice, Marco Carola, Maceo Plex and many more.

Since he created the Carl Cox & Friends concept in 2004, this curated stage has taken place at other festivals and events including Awakenings, EDC Las Vegas, The BPM Festival, Ultra Europe, Tomorrowland, Amsterdam Dance Event and many others.

Cox has performed at clubs such as the Eclipse, Shelley's Laserdome, Sterns Nightclub, Heaven, Sir Henry's, Angels and The Haçienda, as well as raves for Fantazia, Dreamscape, NASA and Amnesia House.

The final season of Cox's residency was entitled "The Final Chapter" and took place every Tuesday during the summer of 2016.

Cox finished the residency on 20 September 2016 by playing a vinyl and CDJ, ten-hour set.

Artists who joined Cox on his final night included tINI, Popof, Nic Fanciulli and DJ Sneak.

Cox also played at the closing night of the club itself on 2 October 2016.

Cox also had his own radio show and podcast, entitled Global, which he ran until February 2017.

While it was speculated that he would retire in 2017 after he finished his residency at Space Ibiza, Cox has continued to announce festivals and events for 2017 including three showcases at The BPM Festival, his stage at Ultra Music Festival, and two appearances at the Social Festival in Mexico and Colombia.

In 2017, Cox was also named the global ambassador of Ultra Music Festival's techno and house music concept, Resistance.

In 2018, he founded Awesome Soundwave, a record label focused on live electronic music artists, with live artist and producer Christopher Coe.

Cox spent his early life in Carshalton, south London and moved to Brighton in his late teens.

, he is living in Hove but also spends time in Melbourne, where he owns a house in Frankston.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Cox opted to return to his home in Frankston rather than Hove.

At age 15, Cox began working as a mobile DJ, finding a passion for disco music.

He began his music career around the same time that Chicago house music found its forefront in the world of dance music.