Nightmares on Wax – Coming Home (2009) (CD) (320 kbps)

Posted: 11.01.2014
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After multiple decades in the vanguard of electronic music, George Evelyn’s Nightmares on Wax has little left to prove, so his volume in the Coming Home mix-album series is appropriately a subdued affair. It has plenty of influences represented, and a few new tracks from associated producers, but as on any great NoW album, the vibe is smooth and the hour-plus runtime is never disturbed by surprises (which can be good or bad depending on the listener). Coming Home has plenty of examples of the NoW-type music: one of the prime examples of Donald Byrd’s ’70s fusion days, island tracks by Jimmy Cliff and Johnny Osbourne, soul from Marvin Gaye and Carla Thomas, and next-generation rap from Roots Manuva and Erykah Badu. It also has several tracks or remixes from NoW themselves, or their associated Wax On label. (These are low-impact groovers with little to focus on but plenty of atmosphere.) Marvin Gaye’s instrumental of “After the Dance” is especially revealing as an influence.

01. Donald Byrd – Places & Spaces [6:17]
02. Lee Everton – So Proud of You [Gelka remix] [3:50]
03. Erykah Badu – The Healer [4:01]
04. Jimmy Cliff – Those Good, Good Old Days [3:48]
05. Roots Manuva – A Man’s Talk [3:47]
06. Johnny Osbourne – Love is Universal [3:44]
07. Gelka – Soon [4:15]
08. The Deadbeats – Got what I Want [exclusive track] [5:22]
09. Mr. Scruff – Hold On [5:04]
10. Nightmares on Wax – Da Feeling [Rapscallion’s got jah feeling] [5:32]
11. Negghead – Build it Up [exclusive track] [4:17]
12. The Heptones – Book of Rules [instrumental version] [3:30]
13. Carla Thomas – I’ve Fallen in Love with You [2:43]
14. Marvin Gaye – After the Dance [instrumental version] [4:25]
15. Nightmares on Wax – Damn [Marcel remix] [5:34]
16. HungryGhost – ESQ [exclusive track] [3:53]
17. Guts – Cry & Smile [3:00]
18. Sola Rosa – Del Ray [4:32]

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