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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. Mo Wax is a UK-based record label owned by James Lavelle, who founded it in the early 1990s. ... Gilles Peterson Gilles Peterson is an influential DJ and record-label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz and Talkin Loud he has been associated with the careers of countless well-known artists of the 1990s. ...

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.^[1] DJ Shadow (born Josh Davis in 1972)[1] is an American DJ, turntablist, music producer and songwriter. ... Endtroducing. ... For other uses, see Uncle. ... Psyence Fiction is the title of the debut album by the group UNKLE, released in 1998 for MoWax. ... Richard Paul Ashcroft is an English singer-songwriter born on September 11, 1971 in Billinge Maternity Hospital in Billinge Higher End, Lancashire (now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester). ... The Beastie Boys as depicted on the cover of their 1992 album Check Your Head. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is a Grammy-nominated English musician, best known as the lead singer of the band Radiohead. ... For other uses, see Neverland (disambiguation). ... Robert Del Naja (born 21 January 1965, in Bristol, England), also known as 3D, is an English artist and musician. ... Massive Attack are an English trip hop band. ... Joshua Michael Homme (born May 17, 1973[2] in Palm Springs, California) is an American Rock musician. ... This article is about the American rock band. ...

He is a long time resident at Fabric in London, mixing the inaugural Fabric Live mix album.^[2] He has also mixed two progressive house albums for Global Underground. Fabric is a nightclub in London, United Kingdom. ... The London nightclub Fabric has released monthly compilation albums mixed by popular DJs since November 2001. ... Progressive electronica is a collection of electronic music genres which draw upon progressive music, generally, and include the sub-styles of progressive trance, progressive house, progressive techno and progressive breaks. ... Global Underground is a series of progressive house compilation albums, which reflect the performances of high profile DJs in venues from around the world. ...

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.^[3] Sexy Beast (2001) is a British film directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley and Ian McShane. ... A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The Verve (originally Verve) are an English rock band formed in Wigan, Greater Manchester in 1989 at Winstanley Sixth Form College, by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. ... This article is about the musician. ... Massive Attack are an English trip hop band. ...

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.”^[4] Chris Goss Christopher Goss, better known as Chris Goss is an American record producer and musician, who is not only known for his work on albums by Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age, but also as the frontman of desert rock band Masters of Reality. ... Autolux are a Los Angeles-based trio comprised of Eugene Goreshter (lead vocals, bass), Greg Edwards (guitar, vocals), and Carla Azar (drums, vocals). ... For other uses, see Neverland (disambiguation). ... War Stories is the third album from UNKLE. The album is slated for release in Japan on June 20, 2007 Europe and the UK on July 9, 2007, followed by a July 24 release date in North America. ... Psyence Fiction is the title of the debut album by the group UNKLE, released in 1998 for MoWax. ... For other uses, see Neverland (disambiguation). ...

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.” Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. ... Clint Mansell (born Clinton Darryl Mansell, 7 January 1963, in Coventry, England) is a Golden Globe nominated musician and composer. ... Born July 15, 1951 in The Bronx, Ferrara started his career in his teens, making amateur films on Super 8. ...

Lupe Fiasco mentions Lavelle along with DJ Shadow in the single "Superstar." Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 16, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois) better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco, is an American rapper. ... DJ Shadow (born Josh Davis in 1972)[1] is an American DJ, turntablist, music producer and songwriter. ...

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)

Psyence Fiction is the title of the debut album by the group UNKLE, released in 1998 for MoWax. ... For other uses, see Neverland (disambiguation). ... War Stories is the third album from UNKLE. The album is slated for release in Japan on June 20, 2007 Europe and the UK on July 9, 2007, followed by a July 24 release date in North America. ...

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)

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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."^[5]

References

External links

• James Lavelle discography at MusicBrainz
• Mo' Wax website