Courtesy of Paul Oakenfold
Comets don t enjoy the luxury of choosing a landing place or time, instead burning out on their way to an ashy end. Paul Oakenfold, forever onto the next thing, decided to land in Bastrop of all places on this planet.
But how? Why?
Starting in the mid-Nineties and continuing into the early Aughts, the London native became one of the world s greatest DJs. At his white-hot heights, he ranked as the genre s No. 1 practitioner twice, 1998 and 1999, by
DJ Magazine. Michael Jackson, U2, Madonna, Massive Attack, Moby, the Cure, New Order, the Rolling Stones, and the Stone Roses, to name a fistful, all employed remixes by Oakey. He sits at the forefront of several prominent musical revolutions in Europe, from helping break hip-hop in the UK to earning Brit Award nominations for co-producing Madchester-defining 1990 album
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Los Angeles artist Arshia Fatima Haq was thumbing through racks of dusty vinyl at New Yorkâs A-1 Records a few years ago when a title caught her eye:
Disco Se Aagay, or âBeyond Discoâ in Haqâs native Urdu. Peering out from the sleeve was a teenage girl with bouffant â80s hair, a white dinner jacket, and a Mona Lisa smile. The album was billed as âa step further in the field of disco musicâ; the musicians were identified in the credits as a brother and sister, Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh, from Birmingham, England. Nermin, the singer and lyricist, was âstill a school-girl,â according to the sleeve notes. Feisal, a college student, had composed and produced the music, writing some of the songs at just 17. The copyright was dated 1984; there were synthesizers. Naturally, Haq took the record home.