Mo Wax, Pussyfoot, Yellow Productions

Mo Wax, Pussyfoot, Yellow Productions
By Victor Le Broussois

You are atop the mountain of hypertext, cocked for the descent and ready to slalom the Trip Hop course, intertwined between hip hop and techno. Its rap lyrics are few and far between. The so-called Slowbeat rythm is smooth.
	The three labels are representative of the growing Trip Hop industry, building on the inspiration and perspiration of young managers whose imagination covers everything from music to album graphics simply billed as "Artwork"
The Mo Wax label is the rare Trip Hop bird winging in from London, courtesy of 22-year-old manager James Lavelle. Mo Wax is transnational in creation, owing its existence to a multinational lot including Japanese DJ Krush, American DJ Shadow and many Brits. A pioneer label, Mo Wax, legalized Trip Hop and has remained at the fringe of the acceptable.
To be at Mo Wax - when the label ignored the value of a contract - meant no Mo Wax two months later and possible capitalization of one's own artistic creation. That's why Howie B. - the producer of Bjork, Massive Attack and U2 - left Mo Wax. Since recording Skylab, an experiment between House and Trip Hop, he started the Pussyfoot Label which quickly became a subsidiary of Delabel.
	Flash! French DJs Chris and Yellow are at the forefront, recording soundtracks for an imaginary movie. Yellow Label Productions showcases five artists who lead music into a nethervisual world.

Mo Wax:	Faces Z. Source.
	Excursion (7 records, soon available as CD)
	Dj Shadow. What does your soul look like. MWO 27 CDV
Pussyfoot:	Best Foot Forward
Yellow Productions:	La Yellow 357

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