The Man from Mo'Wax

James Lavelle entered the music world young. He wrote for a magazine first. Then he put on club nights in London. He was very young when he started his own label. The label was called Mo’Wax. Before long he was a known name. Then he began making his own music. The project he set up is called UNKLE. That shift sits at the centre of the story. His work with DJ Shadow was both fruitful and painful. The documentary rests on an archive spanning more than thirty years. It was cut down from hundreds of hours of footage. The fall is told as much as the rise. James Lavelle and DJ Shadow appear in the hundred and nine minute documentary, a Japanese, British and American co-production Matthew Jones finished in 2016.