Booking James Murphy

James Murphy Biography

The DJ and producer James Murphy was born in 1970 and grew up in New Jersey. Long before he became the founder of DFA Records, Murphy worked as a sound engineer and as a member of a number of different groups throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, often going by the moniker Death from Above, which eventually became the inspiration for his record label.

Shortly after the turn of the new millennium, James Murphy founded LCD Soundsystem, an electronic dance group which released its debut single, “Losing My Edge,” to critical acclaim and commercial success. With LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy released the band’s self-titled debut, and the follow-up albums Sound of Silver (2007) and This is Happening (2010), in addition to a number of extended plays and the live album The London Sessions (2010.) The works spawned the singles: “Give It Up,” “Movement,” “Tribulations,” “Someone Great,” “Big Ideas,” “Drunk Girls,” “I Can Change,” and “ Daft Punk is Playing at My House” and “North American Scum,” both of which charted not only in the UK but also in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe.

James Murphy remained with LCD Soundsystem all the way up to 2013, but in 2009 he also forayed into film scoring, writing the soundtrack for Greenberg. In recent years, James Murphy has also collaborated with such artists as OutKast, Arcade Fire, and Gorillaz, and he served as producer for Yeah Yeah Yeah’s album Mosquito (2013.)