In the early 1980s, Oakenfold managed Run D.M.C. and the Beastie Boys.

Within 1987, Oakenfold and his friends, Trevor Fung and Ian St. Paul, spent several months in Ibiza, Spain, where they fell in love with the dance club music (see 1987 in music). Applying influences from either Ibiza's healthy, Italian disco, soul and house, Oakenfold produced Happy Mondays' ''Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches'', followed by productions for U2, Massive Attack, Arrested Development, The Cure, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Simply Red, New Order, and The Shamen, many of which were released under his label Perfecto Records.

Non just did Oakenfold green groceries records, however he besides mixed the children. He got 1st DJ'five hundred as a adolescent, & his go to to DJ'ing in the mid-1990s, after the short spell as a member of the band Grace, culminated in his tenure when Cream's resident DJ from 1997 to 1999. When you took this period, he began to concentrate in building an American audience, which led to the release of the US release of Tranceport in 1999. A album was super easily-received by Our contries trance music fans, and possibly garnered him mild acceptance in the mainstream U.s. music scene. Oakenfold followed Tranceport by owning arguably his virtually all successful album Perfecto Presents Another World which introduced millions to his mixing skills. A few sources report this album when a greatest merchandising dance recording ever. His popularity through a Atlantic is slowly growing thanks to his work on the movie soundtracks of Swordfish, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and Die Another Day, for which he remixed The James Bond Theme.

Inside 2002, Q magazine named Oakenfold in their list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die".

In the equivalent season, Oakenfold freed his number 1 solo album, known as Bunkka featuring some creative person such as Nelly Furtado ("The Harder They Come"), Ice Cube ("Get Em Up") & Shifty Shellshock, the lead singer of Crazy Town ("Starry Eyed Surprise"). His latest effort is 2004's Creamfields, a double album.

Discography
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! Season !! Title !! Notes |- | 2005 || Perfecto Presents the Club || |- | 2004 || Creamfields || |- | 2004 || Perfecto Presents Great Wall || |- | 2002 || Bunkka || |- | 2001 || Swordfish Original Soundtrack || |- | 2001 || Perfect Presents: Paul Oakenfold inside Ibiza || |- | 2001 || Voyage Into Trance - Re-release || |- | 2000 || Perfecto Presents Travelling || |- | 2000 || Perfecto Presents Another Globe || |- | 1999 || Essential Millennium with Pete Tong & Fatboy Slim || |- | 1999 || Global Underground: Just released York || |- | 1999 || Resident: Two Years of Oakenfold at Cream || |- | 1998 || Tranceport || |- | 1998 || Global Underground: Up to date York || |- | 1997 || Global Underground Sleep in Oslo || |- | 1996 || Perfecto Fluoro || |- | 1994 || ''Journey's By DJ'' || |}