Carl Cox attended Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden.[citation needed] Cox initiated his career as a hardcore and acid house DJ in the mid-1980s[citation needed] and made a name for himself as the "Three Deck Wizard" in 1988. During that year's Second Summer of Love, he began to play on three turntables at once. He has played at clubs such as The Eclipse, Edge, Shelly's, Sterns
Nightclub, Heaven, Sir Henry's in Cork, Ireland and Angels and The Haçienda, as well as raves for Fantazia, Dreamscape and Amnesia House. He now spearheads two record labels, Intec Records and 23rd Century Records.
He also ran Ultimate Base at the now defunct Velvet Undergound on Charing X Road in the mid to late 90's. Of his many DJ highlights, he also managed to cram in the Millenium NY TWICE by flying and cheating the different time zones. He has had shows on Kiss FM and was a monthly live, global resident for Radio One's Essential Mix in 1998-99, as well as over a decades worth of Ibiza live mixes broadcast from
Club Space