The Man From Mo’Wax

16th August 2018

Capture, a production studio in London, are about to release its new documentary film about James Lavelle and his legendary record label Mo’Wax Records.

There are also cinema screenings for the film in Bristol from the 30th August.

Below is the trailer, which features parts from four tracks, DJ Shadow’s Organ Donor, Lonely Soul and The Knock (featuring the Beastie Boys) and Thom Yorke’s acapella version of the UNKLE track ‘Rabbits In Your Headlights’ that Thom gave Capture special permission to use.

For a list of all the Bristol cinema screenings, to go check out The Man from Mo’Wax facebook page. You can get your tickets from either ourscreen.com or through the website.

The Bristol screenings are:
30th August, 20:00 at the Orpheus Cinema in Henleaze.
31st August, 18:30 at the Everyman Cinema in Clifton.
3rd September, 18:00 at the Everyman Cinema in Clifton.
4th September, 18:00 at the Everyman Cinema in Clifton.

Check it out!

Mo’ Wax was a UK-based record label owned by James Lavelle, who founded it in 1992 with Tim Goldsworthy. Steve Finan became co-owner shortly after. The label came to recognition for being at the forefront of trip hop, turntablism and alternative hip hop during the mid-1990s. The label is also responsible for bringing attention to the graffiti artist Futura 2000 by using his artwork on many of its releases in the early to mid-1990s. Lavelle ended up signing partial ownership of Mo’ Wax over to A&M Records (now part of the Universal Music Group) in 1996. Currently, some of the Mo’ Wax catalogue is part of the Beggars Group, but there are rumors that the label itself has folded and is no longer putting out new releases.

The name ‘Mo’ Wax’ is a shortened form of ‘Mo’ Wax Please’, which was the title of a column James Lavelle wrote in the magazine Straight No Chaser and the club night he ran (Saturdays at the Fridge in Brixton and with Patrick Forge at the Gardening Club). This in turn was influenced by the Freddie Roach LP, Mo’ Greens Please on Blue Note records.

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