James Lavelle

James Lavelle (born 22 February 1974) is an English electronic musician,

James Lavelle
record label owner and curator. He founded the Mo'Wax record label in 1992,
and has been the only constant member of UNKLE. He directed the 2014 edition
of the Meltdown festival on London's South Bank, and curated the 2016
exhibition Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick at Somerset House.[1] He was the
subject of 2018 documentary film The Man From Mo'Wax.[2]

Contents
Career
Selected discography
UNKLE
Mix albums
Quotes James Lavelle in June 2014
References Background information
External links Born 22 February 1974
Oxford, England
Origin London, England
Career Genres Trip hop,
Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy co-founded Mo'Wax in 1992.[3] electronica, big
beat
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 Occupation(s) DJ, recording
album with DJ Shadow under the name UNKLE. The resulting release Psyence artist, record label
Fiction featured collaborations with Richard Ashcroft, Mike D, Badly Drawn boss
Boy and Thom Yorke. In 2003, he released a follow-up to Psyence Fiction, titled Years active 1990–present
Never, Never, Land, though this album saw DJ Shadow replaced by Richard File Associated acts Unkle · Queens of
as the second full-time member of UNKLE. It featured collaborations with 3D the Stone Age ·
of Massive Attack and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age among Radiohead · The
others.[4] Verve · Massive
Attack · Beastie
He is a longtime resident at Fabric in London, mixing the inaugural Fabric Live
Boys · Oasis ·
mix album.[5] He has also mixed three DJ mix albums for Global Underground.
Badly Drawn Boy
He has produced a number of film soundtracks, including Sexy Beast. Also an in · South · Ian
demand remixer, he has reworked tracks by Garbage, The Verve, Beck and Brown
Massive Attack.[6]

In an August 2006 interview with The Skinny, Lavelle revealed that he was working with Chris 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."[7]
Lavelle produced the title track for longtime collaborators Queens of the Stone Age's 2013 album ...Like Clockwork, which
reached number one on the Billboard 200 making it the first Queens of the Stone Age album to top the charts in the United States.
The album was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album.

In 2014 he was asked to direct the Meltdown festival, following in the footsteps of David Bowie, Patti Smith and Jarvis Cocker.
His lineup included concerts by Joshua Homme, Max Richter, Neneh Cherry, Goldie and Mark Lanegan. The event culminated
with a live UNKLE:Redux featuring an guest appearance from former member DJ Shadow.

Lavelle has scored the soundtrack for Danny Boyle's upcoming anthology series Trust starring Donald Sutherland and Hilary
Swank.[8]

Selected discography

UNKLE
Psyence Fiction (1998)
Never, Never, Land (2003)
Edit Music for a Film: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Reconstruction (2005)
Self Defence: Never, Never, Land Reconstructed and Bonus Beats (2006)
War Stories (2007)
More Stories (2008)
End Titles... Stories For Film (2008)
Where Did the Night Fall (2010)
The Road: Part I (2017)
The Road: Part II (Lost Highway) (2019)

Mix albums
Cream Live Two - Disc 3 (1996)
Tribal Gathering 96 - Disc 3 (1998)
FabricLive.01 (2001)
GU023 Global Underground, Barcelona (2002)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Beats? (2001)
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)
GU037 Global Underground, Bangkok (2009)
GU041 Global Underground, Naples (2015)

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."[9]
References
1. https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/daydreaming-with-stanley-kubrick
2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2394029/
3. Kev Geoghegan (13 June 2014). "Meltdown is 'something joyous' says curator James Lavelle" (https://www.bbc.c
o.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27698391). BBC News. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
4. discogs (http://www.discogs.com/artist/James+Lavelle)
5. Fabric (http://www.fabriclondon.com/label/catalogue.php) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/2007030611270
9/http://www.fabriclondon.com/label/catalogue.php) 2007-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
6. residentadvisor.net (http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj_profiles.asp?ID=17) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/
20060907083346/http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj_profiles.asp?id=17) 2006-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
7. theskinny.co.uk (http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/44466-james-lavelle-what-became-of-the-man-from-unkle)
8. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5664952/fullcredits
9. skinnymag.co.uk (http://www.skinnymag.co.uk/content/view/2201/149/) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20
060929013601/http://www.skinnymag.co.uk/content/view/2201/149/) 2006-09-29 at the Wayback Machine

The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 (https://books.google.com/books?id=gZIjT8PgJMEC&pg=PA

295), p. 295, at Google Books

External links
Inspiring interview about James Lavelle's creative journey by SUBvert magazine (http://www.subvertmagazine.co
m/blog/james-lavelle/)
James Lavelle (https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3947b8f1-33ad-49c1-8c77-ec5e226b7dbc) discography at
MusicBrainz

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