Carl Cox Reflects On Horrific Shooting Incident In Tell-All Autobiography – [Read]

Manchester’s rave icon shares triumphs and sorrows with faithful fans

Although the word “legend” has become somewhat ubiquitous in pop culture, rap culture, and Twitter’s fake-wokeism, Carl Cox supersedes, surpasses, and circumvents all inferior references to the rhetoric of what it means to be legendary. Now tenuously approaching the epoch of his 60’s, Cox has seen the best and the worst of humanity, which he outlines in his autobiography, “Oh Yes, Oh Yes!”

From the highs of being one of the most celebrated DJs of all time, to the lows of watching a gang-related shooting unfold on his dance floor, there isn’t much that hasn’t befallen Cox’s witness. When reflecting on the shooting from 2007, Cox perennially mourns the four lives taken that day. “Mentally, it took a lot to pull through that and continue what I’m doing today,” comments Cox. “The music has kept me going through everything.”

Cox furthers the concept of seasonality with, “It was hard in some places because my father died, my mother died, I’ve had my house broken in to, relationships up and down… If I was still playing to the same people that I grew up with, they’d be 40, 50, and 60 years old now. So, my stories are about that generation and, of course, where we are now.”

All his musings beget the question, “But where is Cox now?” As much as he ruminates on the past, his thoughts are with the future, of growing wizened and transitioning from front-house to back-house so he may champion the stories of brighter, younger stars. His thoughts are with carrying forward Ibiza’s infamous, now-posthumous, Space, an immersive club Cox compares to a place of worship with, “People saw Space as their church. They came from everywhere to be on that dance floor. It’s a distant memory now. If you didn’t go to Space, you didn’t go to Space…”

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Original content from Gemma Ross via MixMag.