UNKLE is a collective of Trip-hop/Abstract hip-hop which was born as of the beginnings of the label Mo' Wax under the supervision of the producer James Lavelle. At the origin called U.N.K.L.E. , the name of the group loses its points at the time of the exit of its first album.

Chronology

It is James Lavelle, owner of the young label Mo' Wax, which had the idea of this collective. It wished to make U.N.K.L.E. an ambitious movement of the Abstract hip-hop, young musical current. It joins together Tim then Goldsworthy , Kudo (of the Japanese collective Major Force ) and James Lavelle which produces between 1994 and 1997 a series of maximum. Many a DJ is invited, like Geoff Barrow of Portishead.

The collective is made somewhat forget, then reappears in 1998 for the exit of their first album, Psyence Fiction , where Tim Goldsworthy and Kudo was replaced by DJ Shadow. Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Mike D of the Beastie Boys and Richard Ashcroft took part in the album.

In 2004, new album ( Never, Never Land ), but this time, it is Richard File which replaced Shadow . 3D of Massive Attack like Ian Brown and Josh Homme of Queens off the Stone Age is invited. Lavelle also makes take part two groups of the label : South and The Psychonauts .

Style, claims, spirit

The collective U.N.K.L.E. wants to be experimental and out of the beaten paths of the modern music. The use of samples of origin very diverse (cross for example on same the mix The Beatles, DJ Shadow and DMX) altered in order to allow the amateur a basically divergent listening of the original pieces, makes it eclectic and unforeseeable when to the publication and especially to the contents of its albums.

The respect of the right of copyright or intellectual property remains obviously when with him contrary to the ideals of the group. No legal mention is observable on the majority of the albums that this one asserts, except for most known and marketed; in a rather logical way, those are not signed and a good part do not distribute herself any more but in Bootleg or on pirate networks.

The general kind is resolutely electronic, but without notorious particularization: entremèlent themselves with the wire of the pieces of environments which can approach to the Trance, the Trip-hop or the lyrics resolutely Hip-Hop. Several committed cinematographic references will be noted, of which THX 1138 of George Lucas, or Clockwork orange , of Stanley Kubrick.

Discography

Albums

Declared like such
  • Psyence Fiction (1998) (Mo' Wax/A&M)
  • Never, Never Land (2004) (Island/Mo' Wax)
  • Edit Music For has Film: Director' S Cut (2005) (UNKLESounds) - 2CD
  • Defense Self-service - Never Never Land Reconstructed and Happy No-claims bonus (2006) (Total Underground/Mo' Wax) - 4 CD
  • War Stories (2007) (Surrender All)

EP and Individual

  • Mo' Wax vs. Major Force EMS Orchestra - The Time Has Like EP 1994 (Mo' Wax/A&M) - Split EP
  • The Time Has Like EP 1994 (Mo' Wax/A&M) - EP
  • Berry Meditation 1997 (Mo' Wax/A&M) - EP
  • Trilogy U.N.K.L.E 1997 (Mo' Wax/Toys Factory) - exit only in Japan.
    • Ape Shall Never Kill Ape (Vol.1) - EP
    • Rock'n'roll One (Vol.2) - EP
    • Last Orgy 3 - Special Remixes (Vol.3) - EP
  • Rabbit In Your Headlights 1998 (Mo' Wax/A&M) - individual
  • Be There 1999 (Mo' Wax/Island) - individual
  • Eye For An Eye 2002 (Island/Mo' Wax) - individual
  • In has State 2002 (Island/Mo' Wax) - individual
  • Reign 2003 (Total Underground/Mo' Wax) - individual
  • Self Defense EP 2006 (Total Underground/Mo' Wax) - EP
  • Burn My Shadow 2007 (Surrender All) - individual

DJ Mixes as UNKLESounds

Whose origin is obscure and could come from Bootleg S, official or not. It is about mixs musical, primarily taking for base the titles published in the above mentioned albums, but also of other very varied sources, of which it is difficult to get a specimen on the market. No legal mention is observable on the small pockets of these albums, with the exeption of the mention " UNKLESOUNDS".

  • Happy C Androids Dream Off Electric (2001) (UNKLESounds) - triple promotional CD (500 specimens), which was seen distributed in Bootleg by CMB.

  • Happy C Androids Dream Off Essential (2002) (UNKLESounds) - double promotional CD which was seen distributed in Bootleg by CMB under the title " Big Brother Is Watching"
  • Never Never Land Throw Down (2002) (Fabric) - promotional CD carried out for one evening VIP for the promotion of " Never Never Land". He saw himself distributed in Bootleg by CMB.sous the name " Worl War III" who also takes again one mix of UNKLE vs The Scratch Perverts dating from the period " Psyence Fiction".
  • Where Wild Things Are (2003) (UNKLESounds) - promotional CD distributed gracefully and very few specimens at the time of one evening to Japan
  • Edit Music For has Film - After Dark Prolog (2004) (UNKLESounds) - promotional CD distributed at the time of one evening organized to the ICA of London. He saw himself distributed (officially?) accompanied by second CD.

New titles on compilations and BOF

  • Headz II (1996) (Mo' Wax/A&M)
  • Drunk Lonely - The Beach OST (1999)
  • Sexy Beast - OST (2001)
  • Goal! - OST (2005)

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Site of fans (English)
  • Chronic and topicality of UNKLE

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