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Yakuza - Cocaine (Oakenfold, Shasha, Carl Cox mix)

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Uploaded by on Jun 23, 2009

Paul Oakenfolds musical career started from admirably humble beginnings, playing soul and rare groove cuts in a Covent Garden wine bar in the late seventies with mate Trevor Fung. By the early eighties, having decided that NYC was the place, Paul decamped there armed only with the chutzpah to blag his way into a couriers job in West Harlem. At that time, more than any other, New York was bursting with musical invention: hip-hop was the freshest street sound around, and Larry Levan arguably the first ever superstar DJ, inspiring a frenzy in the crowd that some guy playing records had never inspired before - was packing out the Paradise Garage every week with the revolutionary, hypnotic mixing style that would become the acid house DJs stock in trade.

Returning to London, Paul became one of the UKs leading authorities on hip-hop. During his stint as an A&R man for Champion he signed the as-then unknowns Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and Salt NPepa. Oh yeah, and he appeared on Blue Peter with a breakdancing crew who he was looking after at the time.

In 1985 young Paul spent the summer on a beautiful Balearic island called Ibiza. Ever heard of it? Oakey is as much responsible as anyone for making it the clubbers paradise it is today, as two years after that first trip he, alongside mates Trevor Fung, Nicky Holloway, Ian St Paul, Danny Rampling and Johnny Walker, went there for a week to celebrate his birthday. If the first visit had been good, this one changed their lives forever. Dancing in the warm night air beneath stars at the then open-air Amnesia to the oddest mix of music any of them had ever heard, courtesy of island legend Alfredo, Pauls urge to import this incredible experience and the Balearic sound back to England became too great to resist.

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  • nice song

  • geiler Song zum Abfahren:-)

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  • @Eametsa It would be dishonouring to use, so you COULD use it. Noone does it though, might be some kyodai who use drugs though....

  • @SabreSlam using not dealing

  • original song comes from deep dish ;)

  • Lol, "Kusuri o atsukatte inai" (Do not deal drugs) is a very important rule in the Yakuza which everyone has to respect.

    The title of this song, combined with the artist(s) doesn't make sense.

  • timeless tune!

  • can any one help me there is a song that looks a bit like this but the voice says cocaine is a hell of a drug help please

  • fab bit of house trance with a smattering of techno thrown in

  • this is tiesto not those djs dumb fuck and it's called COCAINE

  • this is great

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