Someone even convinced a 60-something-year-old Hunter S. subsidiary co-founded by Madonna-the LP frequently veered away from the trance and progressive house sounds for which Oakenfold was primarily known, venturing into pop, hip-hop and trip-hop with a motley crew of all-star collaborators that included Ice Cube, Nelly Furtado, Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, Tricky and rapper Shifty Shellshock (of Crazy Town). Released in the US by Maverick Records-a Warner Bros. Although Oakenfold was already one of electronic music’s most well-known figures-he’d previously nabbed the #1 spot in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs list in both 19-the album was a clear attempt to cross over into the mainstream. ![]() Most people don’t remember Bunkka, and for good reason-it wasn’t very good. ![]() Headlining the stage that afternoon was none other than superstar DJ Paul Oakenfold, whose debut solo album, Bunkka, was due to be released just a few weeks later. The Subsonic stage, named after the station’s Saturday-night electronic music program, included trance DJs from the Bay Area rave scene (Mystrë, Dyloot, Tom Slik, Thomas Trouble), along with LA prog duo Deepsky, drum & bass stalwart Dieselboy and NYC hip-hop turntablists The X-Ecutioners. (Even looking through the lens of today’s playlist-driven, “genres don’t matter” climate, it seems bizarre that all of these acts were all in rotation at the same radio station, but 2002 was a very weird time for the “alternative” format.) and The Strokes, not to mention alt-rock filler like The Vines and Hoobastank, breakout emo acts Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional, pop-punkers No Use for a Name, New Found Glory, Unwritten Law, Face to Face and Goldfinger, UK rock outfit Ash and Icelandic rap-rockers Quarashi. That year’s lineup was a real hodgepodge headlined by nu-metal acts P.O.D., Rob Zombie and Papa Roach, the bill also featured Cypress Hill, N.E.R.D. ![]() It was San Francisco’s alternative rock outlet, and every summer it staged a big concert called BFD. Back in 2002, I was working at a radio station called Live 105.
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