In 1987, Paul Oakenfold brought a crate of imported records back to London from a summer vacation in Ibiza, and acid house was born—the rest is history. A former soul DJ and hip-hop A&R, the dance pioneer has spun his eclectic tastes into a long-running career that spans the breadth of EDM. With "Barber's Adagio for Strings," he weds classical gravitas to heart-in-mouth thrills, setting the standard for uplifting trance, while on "Touch Me," he flirts with weightlessness. On Bunkka cuts like "Southern Sun" and "Hypnotized," he launches progressive breaks into the pop stratosphere.