Various Artists - Late Night Tales: Nightmares On Wax Various Artists

2 LP TRACKLIST: SIDE A A1 Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie - Midnight Marauders 7:21 A2 Ian Brown - The Gravy Train (N.O.W. Mix) 5:01 A3 Tony Allen ft Damon Albarn - Every Season 4:07 A4 The Rootsman - Show Some Love 5:39 SIDE B B1 King Kooba - California Suite (Vagabond Mix) 6:03 B2 Quincy Jones - Listen (What It Is) 4:14 B3 Cortex - La Rue 4:27 B4 Tom Scott and The L.A. Express - Sneakin’ In The Back 4:34 SIDE C C1 Search - Action Tape 1 (Madscope Mix) 5:29 C2 Large Professor - Bout That Time 4:03 C3 Tranquility Bass - Cantamilla 4:31 C4 Mad Doctor X - Intergalactic Throwdown 6:04 SIDE D D1 Dusty Springfield - Spooky 2:44 D2 Focus - Having Your Fun 3:43 D3 Nightmares on Wax - Brothers On The Slide Dub (Exclu- sive Cover Version) 4:23 D4 Brian Blessed - The White City Part 1 (Exclusive Spoken Word) 10:18 LP FORMAT DETAILS: Pressed on double 180 gram virgin vinyl. Includes 30cm art print. Including download codes for the unmixed tracks and original DJ mix in MP3 / FLAC / WAV formats. OVERVIEW: This aint no normal nightmare, kid. This is Nightmares On Wax, aka DJ EASE, aka George Evelyn. Born under a bad sign, with lino in hand, Mr. Evelyn went forth into the world and breakdanced (brokedance?). Its what you did in the 80s when you were young, loved hip hop and couldnt rap for toffee. When house arrived they turned their clever hands to it. Bleeps and beats is what it was. Thats what everyone said. But there was always a bit more than a bunch of bleeps to what Nightmares On Wax did. The north never really took the name very seriously (Sweet Exorcist even named their album Clonk as a pisstake). Then George flipped the script and went and did Smokers Delight, the beats not so much seminal as semolina: gloopy and slow and sweet and lovely. And now we have this: a 2024 reissue of his seminal Late Night Tales compilation. Tom Scotts Sneakin In The Back — one of the most sampled beats in hip hop — makes an appearance in its full glory, while Quincy Jones, the inspiration for NOWs Nights Interlude, backs up the classics with ‘Listen (What It Is)’. Evelyns hip hop sensibility is to the fore throughout and nowhere is this more evident than on ‘Intergalactic Throwdown by former Freestylers DJ, Mad Doctor X. And can we forget the sublime version of the Classic IVs Spooky by darling Dusty? No, we cant. Finally — oh, finally! — there is the now-traditional cover version, with George serving up a soupy version of Brothers On The Slide that gives a nod of respect to the orig- inal British funk soul brothers, Cymande. This aint no nightmare at all: its Nightmares On Wax.