Watch: The Man from Mo’Wax 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – A pulsating documentary charting the extraordinary life and career of underground DJ icon, music producer and global trip hop mogul, James Lavelle. Starring DJ Shadow, 3D of Massive Attack, Futura, Ian Brown, Grandmaster Flash and Josh Homme..
Plot: James Lavelle played his first DJ set at 14, launched pioneering record label Mo’Wax at 18 and released the genre defining UNKLE album Psyence Fiction at 22. His phenomenally rapid rise seemed limitless, but it’s only when you’re going so fast that the wheels fall off. The Man from Mo’Wax tells the remarkable story of one of the most enigmatic yet influential figures in contemporary British culture. Unearthed from over 700 hours of footage including exclusive personal archive spanning three decades, we get the rare opportunity to watch a boy become a man in the world of music. The result is an exhilarating, no holds-barred ride into the life of an extraordinary man and an equally extraordinary era, taking in some decidedly flawed decision-making (both personal and professional), Lavelle emerges as an innovative artist who thinks big and consistently overcomes adversity.
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Serious 90’s nostalgia trip.
I am the same age as Lavelle, and contend that the 90’s hip hop and electro music has never been surpassed – apart from DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Portishead, Massive Attack and the Beastie Boys (all referenced in this doco.), think Lamb, The Chemical Brothers and Leftfield just for a start; then the more underground artists like Coldcut, DJ Spooky, Kid Loco, Herbert, Coil…Even if you were not into the scene, this was an entertaining biography following the dramatic peaks and troughs in the life of a gifted visionary and flawed human; even a kind of everyman story – perhaps resonant for every privileged gen-X male. It is questionable whether Lavelle is really an artist, or just a kind of curator – a particularly creative, ambitious marketing and A&R man, who was in the right place and time to make a career from his passion.
So many of the people interviewed in this film are fascinating in their own right, artists and producers pivotal to this early 90’s London music scene and the amazing art that it produced – not only in the electronic genre, and not only music.
There have been some great music docos recently, and I look forward to more – especially this year’s “Sisters with Transistors” which I haven’t tracked down yet. So despite my obvious bias I believe this an objectively engaging piece of storytelling and recommend it unreservedly.
Fantastic !
I can’t speak enthusiastically enough about The Man from Mo’Wax. As a child of the late ’70s, this documentary hits a sweet spot for me in that the main players were all huge influences on me in my late teens and early twenties and the soundtrack plays like the soundtrack to my own personal coming of age biopic.More than that though, whilst I find the subject and the music of this documentary thoroughly engaging from a nostalgic perspective the narrative portrayed here is enthralling, the character arcs both fascinating and captivating.
The Man from Mo’Wax feels well-paced, and crucially with so many interesting dynamics to explore and so much source material to call on it didn’t feel like the filmmakers had tried to cram too much information into the film, fortunately, they also avoided the trap of leaving too much out. The film gives a great insight into the creative process and what can be achieved when people with different strengths of character come together in pursuit of a common vision; and in stark contrast what happens when those common visions diverge, people stop communicating and self-interest and ego prevail.
I enjoyed The Man from Mo’Wax from start to finish, from young enthusiastic can-do (f*$k you) attitude to an older and wiser reflection on how things came to be.
No judgement just an honest and open retelling of what went down.
I thoroughly recommend this film 10/10.
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Director Matthew Jones
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Actors James Lavelle, DJ Shadow, Ian Brown
Country United Kingdom, Japan, United States
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