Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight (Vinyl 2LP)
Gatefold Double LP • Printed Inner Sleeves • Includes Download Code
Bass that sits low and stays there. Breakbeats slowed to walking pace, dusty at the edges, never quite locked to the grid. Soul records surfacing through the haze for a bar or two before sinking back under. Guitar and Rhodes drifting in from somewhere else in the building. Four sides that ask nothing of you except that you don't get up.
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By 1995 George Evelyn had already helped define one Warp sound. Smokers Delight is him walking away from it. Where the early Nightmares On Wax records were bleeps and rave breaks, this one slows everything to a crawl and builds a full album out of the hour after the club, all dub bass, jazz keys and soul samples worn soft.
Evelyn produced, mixed and programmed it across three Yorkshire studios, Fon in Sheffield, T.T.B. in Wakefield and Touchwood in Leeds, with a small cast of players brought in to keep it from sounding like a machine. Robin Taylor-Firth's keys turn up across half the record, Chris Dawkins plays the guitar that stretches "Pipes Honour" past nine minutes, and Shovell adds percussion to the closer. Underneath it all sit the samples that give the record its warmth, Quincy Jones on "Nights Introlude", The Dells on "Me + You", Smokey Robinson on "(Man) Tha Journey".
Released 25 September 1995 on Warp, it barely troubled the charts and went on to become one of the most quietly influential British records of the decade, the template for two decades of downtempo that followed. This is the Warp gatefold double LP reissue, cut at Loud Mastering and pressed at Optimal, with printed card inners and a download code.
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