James Lavelle (born 22 February 1974)[1] is an Englishelectronic musician, record label owner and curator. He founded theMo'Wax record label in 1992, and has been the only constant member ofUnkle.
Lavelle was born and grew up in Oxford.[1] He began a club night in Oxford called Mo Wax Please while working at Bluebird record store in London.[2] He later moved to London and worked forHonest Jon's and contributed a column toStraight No Chaser.[2]
Lavelle later curated the 2016 exhibition "Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick" atSomerset House.[14] He was the subject of 2016 documentary filmThe Man from Mo'Wax.[15]
"I became a DJ because I couldn't breakdance and I was no good at graffiti."[15]
"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."[16]
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."[17]
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