Mo’ Wax — Where Are They Now: About & Contents

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Mo’ Wax — Where Are They Now

4 min readJul 24, 2020

About my series of articles “Mo’ Wax — Where Are They Now” and a list of articles written so far…

As I was finishing my book, Making Psyence Fiction, I started to think about what projects to work on next. I had cut a lot of content from the book relating to Mo’ Wax and the assorted artists who released music on them so I thought it might be interesting to write a book detailing every release. I thought it’d be interesting to create a Yearbook and interview every artist, detail their work, and include photographs of their discography. But I realised this would take years to pull off, and I’d just spent three years working on a book about one album and I needed a break. Still I wanted to keep writing.

I decided instead to look at where these artists went after Mo’ Wax, and specifically try to find out where they are now. So far it has been mostly straight forward, and in a future article I will detail my research techniques. But for now I wanted to list the articles written so far, and what I will be working on in the future.

There are still so many artists to look at, and while some have had extensive careers, others have dropped off the map. There are also those who only appeared on Mo’ Wax compilations such as Headz and Headz 2, and perhaps I will look at those artists in another series following the completion of this project, but for now I am only looking at artists who released their own album or single on Mo’ Wax.

Some of these articles are long, while others are quite short. Sometimes this is because I couldn’t find any information about the artist, or they just didn’t do anything outside of releasing one 12". For those artists who have had ongoing careers I have tried to summarise their life while also detailing things which may interest readers. It’s been an interesting project, but I’m not finished yet.

Written in order of Mo’ Wax catalogue number

MW001 — Repercussions (1992)

MW002 — Raw Stylus (1992)

MW003 — Palm Skin Productions / Simon Richmond (1992)

MW004 — Marden Hill (1993)

MW005 — RPM (1993)

MW006 — Federation (1993)

MW007 — Mistura (1993)

MW011 — El-Malo (1993)

MW012 — DJ Takemura (1993)

MW014 — DJ Shadow (1993)

MW016 — Step (1993)

MW017 — La Funk Mob (1994)

MW019 — Dee C. Lee (1994)

MW020 — Attica Blues (1994)

MW021 — Deep Joy (1994)

MW022 — Visionistics (1994)

MW025 — DJ Krush (1994)

MW028 — UNKLE (1994)

MW031 — Sam Sever And The Raiders Of The Lost Art (1995)

MW032 — Money Mark (1995)

MW035 — Luke Vibert (1996)

MW037 — Rob Dougan (1995)

MW040 — Andrea Parker (1996)

MW046 — Doctor Octagon (1996)

MW047 — AIR (1996)

MW049 — Innerzone Orchestra (1996)

MW051 — Innervisions (1996)

MW065 — Urban Tribe (1996)

MW073 — Sukia (1997)

MW075 — Deborah Anderson (1997)

MW078 — Liquid Liquid (1997)

MW083 — As One (1997)

MW084 — DJ Q-Bert (1997)

MW092 — Peshay (1998)

MWR105 — Major Force West (1999)

MWR109 — Blackalicious (1999)

MWR110 — Quannum (1999)

MWR115 — DJ Assault (2000)

MWR116 — Psychonauts (1999)

MWR117 — South (1999)

MWR121 — DJ Magic Mike (2000)

MWR122 — Divine Styler (2000)

MWR127 — Nigo (2000)

MWR139 — Malcom Catto (2001)

MWR141 — David Axelrod (2001)

MWR146 — Parsley Sound (2001)

MWR147 — Skelf (2001)

MWR148 — Black Lodge (2001)

MWR149 — Tommy Guerrero (2001)

MWR151 — Jordan Fields (2001)

Excursions

Between 1995–1996 Mo’ Wax released ten 12" singles under their Excursions sublabel. Some artists released music on the main Mo’Wax catalogue too.

MWEX 001 — The Prunes (1995)
MWEX 002 — iO (1995)
MWEX 003 —Olde Scottish. See: Skelf / Howie B (2001)
MWEX 004 — David Caron (1995)
MWEX 005 —Solo + Rich File / Aura / Forme
MWEX 006 — Midnight Funk Association (1995)
MWEX 007 — DJ Shadow / Chief Xcel. See: DJ Shadow (1993) and Quannum (1999)
MWEX 008 — Stasis (1996)
MWEX 009 — Solo (1996)
MWEX 010 — Twig Bud (1996)

Vecta

Between 2000–2001 Mo’ Wax released four 12" singles under their Vecta sublabel.

MWV 001 — Beans (2000)
MWV 002 — Divine Styler (2000)
MWV 003 — Lenky (2000)
MWV 004 — Atmos (2001)

Other Releases

After Mo’ Wax closed, there were two more releases which featured the Mo’ Wax branding. One by Rammellzee and later some by Elliott Power. Also of note is Ilian Walker aka Ils who contributed to many Mo’ Wax releases between 1995–1997 but his only solo track on the label was for Headz 2B.

Headz 2B — The Force aka Ilian Walker aka Ils (1996)
VF132 — Rammellzee (2014)
MWMA001 — Elliott Power (2015)
Mo’ Wax — Unreleased Records (1992–2002)