Nightmares On Wax Smokers Delight ( The Film)
Warp Records present Smokers Delight a short film celebrating 25 years of Nightmares On Wax s seminal 1995 LP. Smokers Delight, Nightmares on Waxs second album, was one of a handful of records to define a generation. It took George Evelyn from his electronicgenreblending debut 1991s A Word of Science into releasing his muchloved downbeat blend of soul, hiphop, dub and timeless club sounds, for which he has become renowned. Interviewed in Joe Muggs book Bass, Mids, Tops; NOW expands on his inspiration and headspace at the time of creating Smokers Delight: It was all the things that turned me on: reggae, soul, and through sampling and digging, hip hop was the backbone. Thats why youve got the dub influences on there, and the lovers rock soulful influence in there. That album is the DNA of everything that turns me on musically. At the time people used to say to me, Youve definitely got a Nightmares sound, Id be like, Really, what do you mean But where I am now today,
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