NIGHTMARES ON WAX - In A Space Outta Sound Review

The steady decline of once-great electronic artists seems to be preordained these days. It seems like hardly a month passes when I don't slip in a new record by a musician who was making superior sounds in the 1990s, only to find a tired retread of their past achievements or, worse, a pitiful attempt to go pop....full text BE it Motown, Caribbean reggae or infectious African percussion, Nightmares on Wax has black music culture nailed.

To have so many different influences laid out on one record, and still make it coherent is a fantastic feat....full text Alongside LFO, Sweet Exorcist and Tricky Disco, Nightmares On Wax helped create the whole 'bleep' scene of the early nineties, while also thrusting Sheffield's fledgling Warp Records straight on to the cutting edge of early electronic music, a position they still hold to this very day. Having toyed with the whole chill out idea as early as 1991 with Nights Interlude on debut album A Word Of Science, then completely defining it with 1995's Smokers Delight and subsequent Carboot Soul long-player, producer George Evelyn could easily have become a victim of his own success....full text