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James Murphy

In 1992, rather than accept a job writing for the TV series Seinfeld, James Murphy (born in New Jersey in 1970) persevered with music, working as a sound engineer for the American post-punk band Six Finger Satellite. He became DJ Death from Above, a nickname that would have a lasting influence on his career. After founding the label DFA Records (for Death from Above) in 2001, he went on to form the electro-dance-punk collective LCD Soundsystem, which quickly became a benchmark in the genre. But that wasn't enough for the insatiable James Murphy, who went on to work alongside a ho...