James Lavelle
James Lavelle ( born 1974 in Oxford ) is a British DJ, musician, music producer and label owner. He is the founder and owner of the music label Mo ' Wax.
- 3.1 UNKLE
- 3.2 James Lavelle
Life and work
As a teenager, James Lavelle operated as a DJ and organized parties in his hometown. At the age of 18, he founded the label Mo ' Wax, the next Lavelle own projects artists like DJ Krush, Blackalicious, Money Mark ( keyboard player for the Beastie Boys ), Dr. Octagon and South provided a platform. Among the first releases was 1993, the single "In / Flux" by DJ Shadow. On Mo ' Wax released in 1996 and Shadows groundbreaking debut album Endtroducing ....., a little later Lavelle began to work with him on the UNKLE project. The artwork of many Mo' -Wax releases, including the first two UNKLE albums, bears the signature of the graffiti artist Futura 2000.
Lavelle is considered the head of UNKLE, in the media, the name due to changing musical cohort is often used synonymously for James Lavelle. Lavelle own publications fall under musical trip-hop, hip-hop, breakbeat and drum and bass. Lavelle is also in demand as a remixer, but he mostly used the dotted notation by UNKLE or his own name. So in the past have been developed also remixes for Massive Attack, The Verve, Beck, Ian Brown, Garbage, Placebo and Depeche Mode.
2008 Lavelle as UNKLE wore in a remix version of the X-Files theme song to the soundtrack of the second X-Files movie I Want to Believe, on which also the song "Broken " can be found from the UNKLE album War Stories.
His younger brother Aidan Lavelle is also active as a DJ.
UNKLE
Lavelle with DJ Shadow
James Lavelle UNKLE founded in 1994 with Tim Goldsworthy, a school friend, who himself was later successful as a producer and remixer and one of the founders of DFA Records. In the same year they brought on Mo ' Wax the hip-hop single "The Time Has Come EP" out. After disagreements with Goldsworthy about the musical direction of future UNKLE releases Lavelle began to work under the same mark with Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow.
After much preliminary work was published in 1998 the first album Psyence fiction, that and with different Gastvokalisten as the rapper Kool G Rap, Thom Yorke ( Radiohead ), Richard Ashcroft ( The Verve ), Mike D ( Beastie Boys) and the then largely unknown British musician songwriter Badly Drawn Boy has been added. The first single they decided on the written by Josh Davis and Thom Yorke "Rabbit in your Headlights ", whose publication was accompanied by a visually unusual, highly acclaimed video by Jonathan Glazer. For the second single " Be there " Ian Brown contributed to the instrumental track of the album " Unreal " lyrics and voice. DJ Shadow then turned back to their own projects.
Lavelle with Richard File
Since 2002, Lavelle worked with Richard File, which already participated in the development of Be There EP, on a new UNKLE album. In 2003, she published Never, Never, Land, which, among other trip hop and electro-pop collaborations with Ian Brown and Mani ( The Stone Roses, Primal Scream ), Josh Homme ( Queens of the Stone Age), Robert Del Naja aka 3D ( Massive Attack ) and Joel Cadbury (South ) and the singles " Eye for an Eye", "In a State" and " Reign" contained. Together brought Lavelle and file under the name UNKLESounds various DJ mixes out, including Edit Music for a Film ( 2005).
With Richard File and the third UNKLE album War Stories, in which, among other things, Chris Goss ( Masters of Reality ), Ian Astbury ( The Cult ), Autolux and again Josh Homme and Robert Del Naja was involved. The album, whose artwork was designed by Del Nada, was released in July 2007 and brought the singles " Burn My Shadow", " Hold my Hand " and " Restless" out. The title " Hold my Hand " was also used for the soundtrack of the American film drama 21. In January 2008 File announced to want to continue to dedicate a new musical project, the band We Fell to Earth.
Lavelle with Pablo Clements
During the production phase of the third UNKLE album War Stories James Lavelle already working with Pablo Clements together, which claims to a longtime friend Lavelle. As part of the duo The Psychonauts ( with Paul Mogg ) for drum- and beat -heavy, sample-based tracks known, takes Pablo Clements now with influence on the direction of the project UNKLE towards a live band. First, however, still aligned as concept albums End Titles ... Stories for a film and End Titles ... Redux appear (2008).
The fourth album Where Did The Night Fall ( 2010) already shows the greater focus on a few electronic and instrumental based live band. In addition to Pablo Clements as the main partner Sleepy Sun, The Black Angels, Autolux, Big In Japan, Katrina Ford, Elle J and Mark Lanegan interact with as well as those artists who have already participated in War Stories: Gavin Clark and Joel Cadbury (formerly South ). Pablo Clements refers to the style of the album as eclectic and psychedelic.