Artist: Nightmares On Wax: mp3 download Genre(s): Electronic Other Discography: Mind Elevation Year: 2002 Tracks: 13 Keep On CD5 Year: 2000 Tracks: 6 Carboot Soul Year: 1999 Tracks: 10 A Word of Science Year: 1999 Tracks: 15 Still Smoking CDEP Year: 1996 Tracks: 4 Smokers Delight Year: 1995 Tracks: 16 The combined throw of George Evelyn and Kevin Harper, Nightmares on Wax were ane of the brightest musca volitans on the post-rave British techno map out out of the early '90s. Although the mathematical group was afterward pared back to only Evelyn and a smattering of contributors, NOW's debut album, A Word of Science, was -- along with early tracks by LFO, Tuff Little Unit, and Tricky Disco -- a of the essence span between the competing influences of New York home and electro, Detroit techno and soulfulness, London rave and acid, and the burgeoning eclectic method of the years to come. Forming in the late '80s in West Yorkshire as an phone extension of Evelyn and company's b-boy crew the Soul City Rockers, NOW's first nucleotide singles, "Deft" and "Backwash," were both extremely regarded, and the latter blastoff into the pop singles Top 40. The subsequent album set a respectable deal of the base for the downtempo experimental hip-hop/electro-funk worked over by Mike Paradinas, Luke Vibert, Spacer, and others, and earned the chemical radical a chew pip among techno's select crew of next-step innovators. The mathematical group withal disbanded following Science's acquittance, with Harper going away to act on a DJ career and Evelyn turning out a handful of house tracks on Warp's Nucleus subsidiary company before settling into sleeping room woodshed mode. Following a four-year hiatus, Evelyn resurfaced with a cart track on the Mo' Wax Headz compilation and, shortly subsequently, Smoker's Delight, fundamentally an subservient hip-hop record album with a distinctively British eclecticism. Still involved with the same sorts of genre-spanning sampler-and-sequencer experiments, Smoker's Delight is likewise less obvious, suited more to echo listenings than premature material. The same was likewise on-key for 1999's Carboot Soul, Evelyn's first base album as part of a deal with American indie judge Matador for domestic distribution. In 2000, NOW produced the first base new corporeal by De La Soul in several years, included on an EP (The Sound of N.O.W) featuring the rap pioneers. Following hot on its heels was a volume in the Studio !K7 mix series DJ Kicks. Two eld later, Evelyn delivered his fourth LP, Creative thinker Elevation. A thirster gap preceded the release of his twenty percent proper LP for Warp, only In a Space Outta Sound finally appeared in March 2006. |