Event
JAMES LAVELLE (UNKLE) @ POLENG LOUNGE
Saturday, September 23rd
Pink Mammoth & DJ Havoc with YBR Promotions present a live DJ set from MO'WAX creator:
JAMES LAVELLE (UNKLE www.unkle.com)
With over 10 years in the game, James has blown minds throughout the industry, working with the likes of DJ Shadow, Thom Yorke, Mike D, Badly Drawn Boy, Massive Attack, Primal Scream, The Cult, Stone Roses and more. Don't miss this eclectic set as James takes us on a musical jouney.
opening set:
DJ Havoc (frisco OG, Compression)
www.djhavocsf.com
Special Guest DJ:
Motion Potion (Sunset Promotion, The Fringe)
YBR dj Support
Lifeone (YBR, Lower Hater)
Pink Mammoth djs in the front room:
Derek Hena . Gravity . Greg Smoke . Trevor Anderson
Live percussion by Alejandro and Justin
Doors at 10:00pm . 21up only
POLENG LOUNGE (1751 Fulton at Masonic)
www.polenglounge.com
this event will sell out! Presales strongly suggested
$15 door .
JAMES LAVELLE BIOGRAPHY
Described once as the Hunter S. Thompson of DJs, James Lavelle's career has spanned the last 18 years, and at 32 he remains as individual a figure in contemporary music as he was as a teenager, when he first gate-crashed his way in with the genre-shattering MoWax records. Back then he was obsessed with early street culture, DJing with Gilles Peterson at That's How It Is (the legendary club which lasted over 10 years), working with the visionary designer Nigo on Bathing Ape, and launching a label in MoWax. Now he divides time between his internationally-renowned DJ career, his UNKLE act with singer/producer Richard File, and a brand new independent set-up: Surrender-All, which combines music, fashion and art.
The DJing takes him to clubs like Womb in Tokyo and Fabric in London (which he was resident for 5 years) and he has been involved in working with designer Antonio Berardi. UNKLE are readying their third album after the international success of "Psyence Fiction" and its follow-up, "Never Never Land". And Surrender is a new creative centre that connects everything Lavelle is interested in " a record label, a studio, a clothing line" to one, independently-run axis. "There's a whole new set-up. Trying to keep everything as simple as possible," says Lavelle bursting as ever with ideas.
As a young teenager growing up in Oxford, James became obsessed with early Hip Hop DJs such as Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa, giving him his first sense of identity. After seeing the earliest, and now famous, British Hip Hop documentary "Bombing", which focused on the legendary sound system The Wild Bunch, James soon decided that DJing was going to be his thing. Contrary to the mis-quote "I wanted to be a DJ because I couldn't breakdance", the true reason James chose this path was through ultimately trying to find an identity in the oppressive, non-encouraging music culture of eighties England, which he found through DJing and the whole package of Hip Hop (breakd
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LocationPoleng Lounge
1751 Fulton (at Masonic)
San Francisco, CA 94117
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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