DJ Shadow, a nerdish record collector turned DJ/producer from California - real name Joshua Paul Davis - was involved with both: ‘Psyence Fiction’, the debut studio album from UNKLE, the trip hop supergroup (shudder) put together by Lavelle, is the label at its bloated nadir, an overextended mish mash of fashionable ideas and ill-fitting guests that rode a wave of hype into the British top five in August 1998. If you want an alternative approach to the Mo’Wax story and the avant beat scene that the label fostered, however, the easiest way is to listen to two Mo’Wax records, born just two years apart, which showcase the label at its very best and utter worst. It is a label whose spectacular rise and demise merited its own film, an honour it eventually received with the release of The Man From Mo’Wax, a 2016 documentary that took a searingly honest look at the life of Mo’Wax founder James Lavelle. Mo’Wax was undoubtedly one of the most important British record labels of the 1990s, showcasing a kind of retro futuristic approach to art, where aesthetic vision seemed to matter just as much as musical genre.
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