Nightmares on Wax
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
The group nonetheless disbanded following Sciences release, with Harper leaving to pursue a DJ career and Evelyn turning out a smattering of house tracks on Warps Nucleus subsidiary before settling into bedroom woodshed mode. Following a four-year hiatus, Evelyn resurfaced with a track on the Mo Wax Headz compilation and, soon after, Smokers Delight, basically an instrumental hip-hop album with a distinctively British eclecticism. Still involved with the same sorts of genre-spanning sampler-and-sequencer experiments, Smokers Delight is also less obvious, suited more to repeat listenings than previous material. The same was also true for 1999s Carboot Soul, Evelyns first album as part of a deal with American indie label Matador for domestic distribution. In 2000, NOW produced the first new material by De La Soul in several years, included on an EP (The Sound of N.O.W) featuring the
ap pioneers. Following hot on its heels was a volume in the Studio !K7 mix series DJ Kicks. Two years later, Evelyn delivered his fourth LP, Mind Elevation. A longer gap preceded the release of his fifth proper LP for Warp, but In a Space Outta Sound finally appeared in March 2006.
