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Top 12: Badly behaving DJs

Late and loaded in a Scandinavian city, Iranian prog-houser Omid found the club, got on the decks, rocked it, then headed to the promoter for his cash... only to find that while he had indeed rocked it, unfortunately it was in entirely the wrong club.

  • Dave Jenkins
  • 12 August 2012
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4 Seth Troxler

He may have calmed down of late, but young Troxler may never live down the psychedelic interview he gave poolside in Miami early in his career – wearing his girlfriend's knickers and talking about cleansing galactic souls while ducking to avoid imaginary bats swooping from palm trees. Acid house.

3 Sasha

How we love a DJ who walks it like he spins it. The morning after one typically barnstorming gig in Ibiza, Sasha was found upside down in a ditch in desperate need of a cuddle, cash spilling from his pockets and fluttering away on a Balearic breeze. He blamed it on too many shots

2 Fatboy Slim

Teetotal, healthy and carefree he may be now, but as a lad Norman Cook was a poster boy for misbehaviour. Our personal highlight is his tales of late nights banging the white stuff with some close friends – from off a railway line behind his house. Snow on the tracks indeed...

1 Brandon Block

Never mind the time he drunkenly thought he'd won a Brit Award and stumbled onstage to collect it. The 90s Ibiza superstar's descent into an ounce-a-day cocaine addiction is documented in his self-published biography The Life And Lines of Brandon Block: 'I was chatting to some girls on the terrace of BCM Mallorca when a piece of my septum fell out. Several of those lady friends vomited, while I calmly put the mangled piece of flesh, gristle, blood and white powder on top of an empty bottle of beer." Charming

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