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VARIOUS (JAMES
LAVELLE)
'BARCELONA'
GLOBAL UNDERGROUND
3LP/2CD
SEPTEMBER 2002
James Lavelle’s
‘Barcelona’ mix album represents another leap forward
for Global Underground. For the very first time,
groundbreaking British DJ James Lavelle is presenting
the mix – this time, from one of Europe’s coolest cities:
Barcelona.
On Friday
June 21st 2002, Barcelona’s “Nitsa Club” was blown away by an
outstanding set from Lavelle, which incorporated everything from
hard-nosed, tech-house beats to funky breaks and deep house. In September, Global Underground release Lavelle’s stunning big-screen mix,
which includes tracks as diverse as the breaks of DJ Shadow,
Rennie Pilgrem,
Meat Katie,
Drumattic Twins,
and Evil 9,
the funky grooves of Thomas
Bangaltar,
Layo & Bushwacka,
Phil Kieran, FC
Kahuna, Ils,
and Leftfield,
and the liquid melodies of Sasha,
Peace Division,
Pitch Black,
and Smithmonger
amongst others.
James
Lavelle
already has an enviable international reputation as a DJ, a mover, a shaker,
a producer, and an agent provocateur. Like his sometime collaborator, former
Stone Roses singer Ian Brown says, Lavelle lives a truly global
lifestyle and is as at home in Tokyo as he is London. He famously started
young – running clubs in his native Oxford when he was just 14. As a
teenager he launched the groundbreaking Mo’ Wax label which first broke a
new, instrumental hip hop sound along with the careers of artists like DJ
Shadow. ‘Psyence Fiction’, the first album by his Unkle project, featured
collaborators like Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and former Verve singer Richard
Ashcroft – and found acclaim all around the world. For four years the
Monday nightclub ‘That’s How It Is’ at London’s “Bar Rhumba”, he ran with
acid jazz pioneer Gilles Peterson was one of London’s most groundbreaking
nights. Now his frenetic monthly Fridays at “Fabric” are one of the
capital’s hottest sessions. And it’s through playing at clubs like “Fabric”,
being exposed to a whole host of great music, that Lavelle has
incorporated the harder, housier sound he showcases on this mix into his
previously more known sets of breaks and beats.
