![]() ![]() People are… not upset exactly but they can’t believe this is the very last time I’ll be playing there. And people are scrambling to go to Space with my residency there ending. Most of all people are concerned about my retirement, which of course has been talked about a lot. So what’s happening right now in Carl Cox world? His last opening DJ set at Space Ibiza, last month: Whatever his next moves, we’re very happy to have his perspective on the world we all operate in, but which he straddles like a grinning colossus. A conversation with Carl Cox is always a worthwhile thing, and this one – taking in drag racing, drug wars and spaghetti bolognese – is no exception. He was also in contemplative mood, ready to weigh up the pros and cons of the modern dance music era, including in Ibiza, and, as we’d hoped, bringing the weight of his accumulated experience to bear on the state of the world today. Sleep deprived and keen to get some rest he may have been, but he was also every bit as genial and engaging as his “nice guy of techno” reputation would lead one to expect. Given all this, Trax really wanted to put his current moves into context and see how they fitted with his ethos as it’s developed over the course of that career, and so we grabbed him just after a show at Fabric in London. Whether playing funk and hip hop before acid house hit, dropping the three-deck mixes at the height of rave madness which remain some of the finest documents of the era, ‘battling’ with Jeff Mills on the turntables as techno went global in the late 90s, or sharing stages with the megastars of EDM, he’s been there, seen it and done it. Whether or not that comes to pass – and as you’ll see from this interview, what exactly retirement might mean is far from clear – it’s a sharp reminder that there have been multiple phases to Cox’s almost 40-year career as a DJ, and there’s no reason he should remain stuck in one role now. Most recently, he’s been raising the topic of retirement: he’s closing down his Ibiza residency at the end of this season, having expressed disquiet at the nature of the Island’s scene, and has even made noises about retiring from DJing entirely. But every so often we are reminded that for all his success and reliability, Cox is also human and changeable himself. ![]()
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