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For the past 30 years, James Lavelle has been at the forefront of global club culture.
Known as much for his highly eclectic DJ sets as for his production work with
UNKLE, Lavelle has been lauded as a highly influential tastemaker and musical
curator.
He continues to produce albums under his UNKLE moniker, working with a myriad
cast of musical collaborators including Thom Yorke, Michael Kiwanuka, Mark
Lanegan, Massive Attack, Brian Eno and Josh Homme. The most recent UNKLE
album, The Road: Part II / Lost Highway topped the Billboard Electronic Album chart
in 2019. With UNKLE, Lavelle has won the MPG Award for remixer of the year four
times in the past seven years and has reworked tracks for artists as diverse as Beck,
London Grammar, Radiohead and Wu-Tang Clan.
March 2021 saw UNKLE release the first in a two-part mixtape project, Rōnin I,
which featured the singles ‘Do Yourself Some Good’ and ‘If We Don’t Make It’,
both A Listed at BBC Radio 6Music. 2022 will see UNKLE release Rōnin II, the
second part of the project.
Presented by Bristol Beacon.
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