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artist : nightmares on wax
album : still smokin i (vinyl)
year : 1996
genre : lo-fi
label : warp records (wap76)
website : www.warprecords.com
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supplier : karmacoma
ripper : karmacoma
rls-date : 18/07/00
encoder : fhg radium mp3 codec v1.263
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a gambia via vagator beach (scruff mix)
aa stars (vocal mix)
2 tracks (11:12)
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the combined project of george evelyn and kevin haper, nightmares on
wax were one of the brightest spots on the post-rave british techno
map of the early '90s. although since pared back to just evelyn and
a handful of contributors, n.o.w.'s debut album, a word of science,
was, along with early tracks by lfo, tuff little unit, and tricky
disco, a crucial bridge between the competing influences of new york
house and electro, detroit techno and soul, london rave and acid,
and the burgeoning eclecticism of the years to come. forming in the
late '80s in west yorkshire as an extension of evelyn and co.'s
b-boy crew the soul city rockers, n.o.w.'s first singles, "dextrous"
and "aftermath," were both highly regarded, and the latter shot into
the pop singles top 40. the subsequent album laid a good deal of the
groundwork for the downtempo experimental hip-hop/electro-funk
worked over by mike paradinas, luke vibert, spacer, and others, and
earned the group a secure spot among techno's select crew of
next-step innovators. the group nonetheless disbanded following
science's release, with harper leaving to pursue a dj career and
evelyn turning out a smattering of house tracks on warp's nucleus
subsidiary before settling into bedroom woodshed mode. following a
four-year hiatus, evelyn resurfaced with a track on the mo' wax
headz compilation and, soon after, smoker's delight, basically an
instrumental hip-hop album with a distinctively british eclecticism.
still involved with the same sorts of genre-spanning sampler-and-
sequencer experiments, smoker's delight is also less obvious, suited
more to repeat listenings than previous material. the same was also
true for 1999's carboot soul, evelyn's first album as part of a deal
with american indie label matador for domestic distribution. in
2000, now produced the first new material by de la soul in almost
two years, and the group also appeared on now's 2000 ep, the sound
of n.o.w.
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greetings to sweetbeats, quadrophenia, sour, mindscape, emission
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