English DJ, George Herbert Evelyn, better known as Nightmares On Wax, in his heyday, the late '90s, Smoker's Delight and Carboot Soul, the latter a personal favorite, he was as big a deal as most DJs get. I mean he packed clubs. He was not EDM stadium DJ big but he was big with the DJ music heads, the people into DJ Shadow and The Avalanches records. I'm pretty sure this one, NIGHTMARES ON WAX in a space outta sound, 2006, can fairly be called middle or later NoW, and by middle '00s a trip hop/downtempo backlash had set in, but the NoW sound system powered on. Rolling out deep salubrious ambient dub vibes, leaning too heavy on old Blue Note and Neo-Soul falsettos at times maybe, but in peak songs like "FYL"* the secular churchy deep soul techno groove is a DJ funky dub gold universal. Play on repeat and it is a hypnotic trance: "What are we supposed to do living in a time like this?" My best okay boomer translation: imagine Booker T & the MG's came up in England in the 1990s, rave music, massive reggae sound systems, and funky underground hiphop. Or perhaps better NoW is a churchy secular soul inflected homage to '90s underground crate diving hiphop, with oodles and oodles of left liberal peace & happiness vibes (overcoming too much pain and misery). Anyway, another deep track masterpiece from NoW. Discerning dad rockers with a taste for groove music should be counting them up. Hup two.*-other peak cuts, "You Wish," "I am You," "African Pirates."
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