As well as releasing sixth UNKLE album The Road: Part II (Lost Highway), 2019 sees Mo’ Wax founder James Lavelle celebrating 30 years as a club DJ. The 2014 Meltdown Festival curator has been a resident at Fabric, Berlin’s Watergate, Ibiza’s Space and Tokyo’s Womb as well as producing mixes for Cream and Fabric. Growing up in Oxford, Lavelle worked at legendary London record shop Honest Jon’s, starting his revolutionary Mo’ Wax label in 1992 with a loan from his boss Mark Ainley. Lavelle released DJ Shadow’s genre-straddling masterpiece Endtroducing in 1996, and two years later the pair unleashed the UNKLE cut-and-paste classic Psyence Fiction. Fusing hip-hop, trip-hop, indie-rock and electronic music, the record featured a stellar cast of vocalists including Thom Yorke, Richard Ashcroft and Ian Brown. Lavelle has also worked with Queens Of The Stone Age, produced remixes for bands including Massive Attack and The Verve, written several film soundtracks and nearly worked on a James Bond film with Danny Boyle. Here are 10 standout projects from an incredible career that has never strayed far away from the world of vinyl.
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