Before EDM, before techno, heck even before house music was a twinkle in Frankie Knuckles’ left eye there was Carl Cox. The 55-year-old can measure his life in music.
that soundtracked his parents’ house parties in south London. Back then, of course, the idea of making a living out of being a DJ was ludicrous. Only the cool kids understood the critical role DJs – the original sonic curators, lest we forget – had in developing and defining a sound and the attendant youth cultures that accompanied those sounds.
To the regular man and woman on the street, a DJ was one of two things: either a larger-than-life…
