James Lavelle

James Lavelle

James Lavelle (born 1974 in Oxford, England) is a DJ, electronic recording artist and record label boss. He is best known for producing work in the trip hop, breakbeat and house music genres.

Born into a family with a strong tradition of music, Lavelle first began by learning the cello with his Granny in Oxford.

While attending Cherwell Upper School, Lavelle's music career started at 15 when he ran block parties in Oxford. At only 18 he started the Mo' Wax label, taking the name from his club night at the time, "Mo' Wax Please". Around the same time he started the "That's How It Is" night with Gilles Peterson, which went on to become one of London's longest running nights.

In 1996 Mo' Wax released one of electronic music's most celebrated albums, DJ Shadow's seminal "Endtroducing.....". Soon after this Lavelle started work on an album with DJ Shadow under the name UNKLE. The resulting release "Psyence Fiction" featured collaborations with Richard Ashcroft, Mike D, Badly Drawn Boy and Thom Yorke. In 2003, he released a follow up to Psyence Fiction, titled "Never, Never, Land", though this album saw DJ Shadow replaced by Richard File as the second full time member of UNKLE. It featured collaborations with 3D of Massive Attack and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age among others. [ [http://www.discogs.com/artist/James+Lavelle discogs] ]

He is a long time resident at Fabric in London, mixing the inaugural Fabric Live mix album. [ [http://www.fabriclondon.com/label/catalogue.php Fabric] ] He has also mixed two progressive house albums for Global Underground.

He has produced a number of film soundtracks, including "Sexy Beast". Also an in demand remixer, he has reworked tracks by Garbage, The Verve, Beck and Massive Attack. [ [http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj_profiles.asp?ID=17 residentadvisor.net] ]

In an August 2006 interview with skinnymag.co.uk, Lavelle revealed that he's working with Chriss Goss and Autolux on the follow up to "Never, Never, Land", entitled "War Stories". Of the album's direction, he said “It’s rawer than '‘Psyence Fiction’' and "Never, Never, Land" although it’s more in the vein of the traditional singer/songwriter. If the first record was UNKLE does hiphop and the second record was UNKLE does electronic, then this one is like UNKLE does rock, but it’ll hopefully still have its continuity.” [ [http://www.skinnymag.co.uk/content/view/2201/149/ skinnymag.co.uk] ]

Of other forthcoming projects, he revealed “I’m working on a film with Darren Aronofsky at the moment. It’s a collaboration between me and Clint Mansell who did the score, it’s to remix the score and do a whole new DVD package, the film is unbelievable. I’m working on a documentary about Abel Ferrara as well.”

He has recently finished working alongside his brother Aidan Lavelle on the soundtrack for the movie of the popular sci-fi series The X Files.

Lupe Fiasco mentions Lavelle along with DJ Shadow in the single "Superstar."

elected discography

UNKLE

*"Psyence Fiction" (1998)
*"Never, Never, Land" (2003)
*"" (2005)
*"" (2006)
*"War Stories" (2007)
*"More Stories" (2008)

Mix albums

*"Cream Live Two - Disc 3" (1996)
*"Tribal Gathering 96 - Disc 3" (1998)
*"Fabric Live 01" (2001)
*"GU023 Global Underground, Barcelona" (2002)
*"Do Androids Dream of Electric Beats?" (2003)
*"Do Androids Dream of Essential Beats?" (2003)
*"WWIII - UNKLEsounds vs. U.N.K.L.E." ((Bootleg) 2004)
*"GU026 Global Underground, Romania" (2004)
*"Big Brother is Watching You" (Bootleg of Do Androids Dream of Essential Beats) (2005)

Quotes

*"I became a DJ because I couldn't breakdance and I was no good at graffiti."
*"I'm into a whole concept, it's a whole scene. I'm totally involved in it. We cover hip-hop fused music. We want to do this rock hip-hop thing. We are gonna launch a mad hip-hop/thrash fused band, a young Beastie Boys kind of thing. I'm into the total energy of the Beasties and that whole kind of skate thing. I want that energy and total madness surrounding the whole idea."
*On Mo' Wax: "We put out 200 records in 4 or 5 years, I don’t think I’d ever be able to do that again. I don’t think I could ever work like that again, it was just insane." [ [http://www.skinnymag.co.uk/content/view/2201/149/ skinnymag.co.uk] ]

References

External links

*MusicBrainz artist|id=3947b8f1-33ad-49c1-8c77-ec5e226b7dbc|name=James Lavelle
* [http://www.mowax.com/home.htm Mo' Wax website]


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