Global

How do you measure a DJ's popularity? By club bookings, remix credits, solo releases and mix CDs? By branding, sponsorship and endorsements? Through glamour quota and celebrity status? Or by radio, TV and movie appearances? By any of these criteria, Carl Cox would claim he's got the love. Ultimately though, it's the paying public that makes or breaks and more importantly, maintains, a DJs popularity. And in that case, Carl Cox absolutely has got the love.

Across the globe, when club crowds are asked who they most want to have spin, it's Carl Cox they request. Promoters who need an arena to go off at 3pm, or a club to stay full until the early hours, know that Carl's their man. He may not be a household name, but in the scene he's a living legend, as big as they come. Quite simply, Carl Cox is the People's DJ.

With this mix compilation, Carl Cox has spread out across two jam-packed discs a showcase of the music he has played and collected from around the world. His assured and intelligent selection shows the versatility and sheer amount of differing styles of house and techno that can all come under the one umbrella of "dance" music.

Featuring 27 upfront house and techno tracks across 2CDs, Carl Cox takes us on a jacking, tech-house groove across the world. From underground techno anthems to the next big house tunes in waiting, this is 'Coxy' doing what he does best.

A musical ambassador since he was in short trousers, a professional DJ since his early teens, a veteran of acid house and a champion of techno, Carl Cox emits a love of his work that is dangerously infectious.

You name it, Carl Cox has been there and done it, but he's never lost sight of the point of it: playing music, breaking tunes, spreading love and celebrating life. Welcome to the Global revolution!