Paul Oakenfold when asked about whether he is aware of the resistance and scepticism within the underground directed towards big-name British trance DJs playing in Detroit/the US:
"Not with the DJs, but I'm sure it goes on. I've had it with a magazine... Listen, I'm no bigger or better than anyone, if I do a gig and the gig is no good, then the magazines write about it, then fair enough, but when this magazine got really personal and started saying that me and The Chemical Brothers were coming to America and trying to take over - I mean, how can one or three people go to a country and take over the country? We don't even live there, and the magazine was saying that we're taking work away from the American DJs, which was so unfair and so wrong - we're there to support a scene and to help a scene flourish, not to come over and try and take it over. No one person can do that. So I've had that from a magazine, but not at the moment from any other DJ. I like Detroit and I like the music that comes out there. There's a track Knights Of The Jaguar which I found - [it's] over a year old - and I'm still playing it, it's one of my biggest records in Ibiza and it's fantastic. I tried to license it for my label [Perfecto] and Underground Resistance - who I respect - didn't want to do it. They were offered a lot of money by bigger record companies than mine - I mean, I'm a small independent - but they decided they didn't want to do it. And that's cool. Their outlook on dance music is their outlook. I don't think any one can change that and I certainly don't want to. I like to embrace all kinds of music and they've a good scene there, so why not?"
