James Lawson
DJ and producer · UK
On the bill with trance[]control: Massive @ Heaven, London (19 November 2004)
Background
James Lawson is a UK hard dance producer, remixer, engineer and DJ. In a 2026 podcast he described how a chance win in a DJ competition launched his career and how he then moved to London; by 2002–03 he was releasing on Nukleuz, including its Hard Trance EP and Frantic Residents EP series. [1, 2]
At the time
In 2004 he released the Riot! Gear EP with Ed Real on Riot! Recordings, "Amnesia" and "On A Roll" with Nick Sentience on samplers for Sentience's album Universal Language, and "Inside Of Me" with Steve Hill on Masif. [1, 2]
Later
With Matt Williams he formed The Edison Factor, which by 2006 performed as a live hard dance act with guitar, trombone, drums and keyboards at events such as Global Gathering; that year he also started work on a solo album. He kept releasing into the 2020s, including 2026 remixes of his track "Incendiary Device" on PureAF Records. [1, 2, 3]
Elsewhere
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