Career
Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy co-founded Mo"Wax in 1992. In 1996 Mo" Wax released one of electronic music"s most celebrated albums, DJ Shadow"s seminal Endtroducing. Soon after this Lavelle started work on an album with DJ Shadow under the name.
The resulting release Psyence Fiction featured collaborations with Richard Ashcroft, Mike Doctorate, Badly Drawn Boy and Thom Yorke.
lieutenant featured collaborations with 3D of Massive Attack and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age among others He is a longtime resident at Fabric in London, mixing the inaugural Fabric Live mix album.
He has also mixed three DJ mix albums for Global Underground. He has produced a number of film soundtracks, including Sexy Beast.
Also an in demand remixer, he has reworked tracks by Garbage, The Verve, Beck and Massive Attack.
In an August 2006 interview with The Skinny, Lavelle revealed that he was working with Chris Goss and Autolux on the follow-up to Never, Never, Land, entitled War Stories. Of the album"s direction, he said “lieutenant’s rawer than "‘Psyence Fiction’" and Never, Never, Land although it’s more in the vein of the traditional singer/songwriter. If the first record was does hiphop and the second record was does electronic, then this one is like does rock, but it’ll hopefully still have its continuity.” WWIII - sounds versus
"I became a DJ because I couldn"t breakdance and I was no good at graffiti." "I"m into a whole concept, it"s a whole scene.
I"m totally involved in lieutenant 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." 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.".
