nightmares on wax

Nightmares On Wax, a DJ and producer whose real name is George Evelyn will be performing in Belgrade. His gig will be premiered on Sunday, June 24, at brand new raft Kucica. This Brit became popular due to his unique music style (down-tempo, groovy, electronic and house) accompanied by perfect mixing skills.

Nightmares on Wax is currently on European tour, which aims to promote “Shape The Future”, the latest album from 2018 and during this tour he will be visiting Belgrade for the first time in his long-lasting career

Tickets can be purchased at the entrance at the price of 1000 RSD.

Originally the combined project of George Evelyn and Kevin “Boywonder” Harper — the latter of whom was eventually replaced by Robin Taylor-Firth — Nightmares on Wax became one of the brightest spots on the post-rave British techno map of the early ’90s. NoW‘s debut album, A Word of Science, was — along with early tracks by LFOTuff Little Unit, and Tricky Disco — a crucial bridge between the competing influences of New York house and electro, Detroit techno and soul, London rave and acid, and the burgeoning eclecticism of the years to come. Formed in the late ’80s in West Yorkshire as an extension of Evelyn and company’s b-boy crew the Soul City RockersNoW‘s first singles, “Dextrous” and “Aftermath,” were both highly regarded, and the latter shot into the U.K. pop singles Top 40. The subsequent album laid a good deal of the groundwork for the downtempo experimental hip-hop/electro-funk worked over by Mike ParadinasLuke VibertSpacer, and others, and earned the group a secure spot among techno’s select crew of next-step innovators.

The group nonetheless disbanded following Science‘s release, with early contributor Kevin Harper leaving to pursue a DJ career and Evelyn turning out a smattering of house tracks on Warp’s Nucleus subsidiary before settling into bedroom woodshed mode, often joined by Taylor-Firth. Following a four-year hiatus, Evelyn resurfaced with a track on the Mo’ Wax Headz compilation and, soon after, Smoker’s 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, Smoker’s Delight was also less obvious, suited more to repeat listenings than previous material. The same was also true for 1999’s Carboot SoulEvelyn‘s first album as part of a deal with American indie label Matador for domestic distribution. In 2000, NoWproduced the first new track by De La Soul in several years, included on an EP — Sound of N.O.W — featuring the rap pioneers. Following 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 bigger gap preceded the release of his next proper LP for Warp, but In a Space Outta Sound finally appeared in 2006, while 2008’s Thought So… and the unmixed selector compilation Coming Home followed closely behind. Evelyn continued to work as a downtempo DJ, collaborated with Jazzanova arranger Sebastian Studnitzky, and released Feelin’ Good, another eclectic set of productions, in 2013. The following year brought a retrospective set, N.O.W. Is the Time, to celebrate 25 years of activity. Morgan GeistOptimo‘s JD Twitch, and Ashley Beedle, among others, granted remixes. Evelyn issued the Ground Floor EP, featuring Andrew AshongWolfgang Haffner, and Acid Mondays, in 2016. The next year, he released the first in a batch of singles that preceded the early-2018 set Shape the Future.