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- Listen to whole "Smokers Delight" album - Real Audio, Audionet.
- Nightmares on Wax album review, biography, band links, music clips, pictures, and more....
- Biography
- Nightmares on Wax bio (cuurent) - at Matador site.
- MUSE Interview - Nightmares On Wax
Nightmares on Wax Formed 1988 in Yorkshire, England Genres Rock Styles Techno, Club/Dance, Trip-Hop, Electronica Labels Warp (3) AMG Pick Carboot Soul [1999] - MatadorThe 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. Additionally, Evelyn has completed remixes for Sabres of Paradise, among others. -- Sean Cooper, All-Music Guide
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British Acid House - from: "Acid House" map
British Techno - from: "Techno" map
British Techno - from: "Club/Dance" map
American/British Techno - from: "Trip-Hop" map
- from: "Ambient Techno" map
Discography:
1991 A Word of Science Warp
1995 Smoker's Delight Warp
1999 Carboot Soul Matador
EP
1996 Still Smokin' Warp
1994 Best of House Best of House [UK]