Coming Home by Nightmares On Wax
compiled
by DJ E.A.S.E.
CD
Release date: Out now!
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"Everybody has the right to feel good. And with that in mind, my selection of music sanctions that right. ENJOY & FEEL GOOD!" (E.A.S.E., Nightmares On Wax)
With great pleasure and a wide smile, Stereo Deluxe opens the next chapter in that big and ever expanding book of comfy audio delight, known to many as the well established „Coming Home“ series. Following up on seriously personal selections by a.o. Tim Love Lee and Nouvelle Vague, this „Coming Home“ volume provides a truly individual choice of stand out tunes selected by George Evelyn aka E.A.S.E., the positive force behind Nightmares On Wax.
With a prolific producer / dj career going strong for more than two decades now, as well as quite an influential album back catalogue made of pure genre classics (e.g. „Smokers Delight“, „Car Boot Soul“) and the most recent Nightmares On Wax longplayer „Thought So“ (released in 2008) still causing goosebumps & headnods on a global scale, E.A.S.E. always keeps an ear to the street of course, while at the same time always listening to his heart and soul.
And so it comes as no surprise that his „Coming Home“ selection holds a decent choice of great music which has inspired him over the years, nicely blended in with some N.O.W. rarities and tasty contemporary exclusives... including a selection of tracks by artists courtesy of his very own label imprint, WAX ON records... some co-produced and mixed by our man himself.
After every journey,E.A.S.E. comes home to a recording studio located in the magical island Ibiza. That’s why „cool“ sounds are definitely highly recommended at all times. As they just sound so much better in that sun!
This N.O.W. volume fuses many styles, moods and genres. There's a certain amount of contemporary dj friendly electronica in the mix – from funk via deep 21st century soul, down to grimey future sounds and back – but there’s also those real „classics“ too (e.g. Jimmy Cliff, Johnny Osbourne, Carla Thomas, The Heptones a.o.). There is UK rap by Roots Manuva - and a true Erykah Badu anthem celebrating hip hop culture. Eclectic beat wizardry by Mr. Scruff - and the sounds of Marvin Gaye, too. Guaranteed to make you feel just at home. It’s all in the mix... united by pure positivity, inna N.O.W. stylee.
Coming home? Let E.A.S.E. share his headphones with you... take a seat and enjoy. Coming home from a journey simply means that the next journey has only just begun. „Coming Home“ selected by Nightmares On Wax is the soundtrack to that journey.
Tracklisting
1. Donald Byrd – „Places And Spaces“
2. Lee Everton – „So Proud Of You (Gelka Remix)”
3. Erykah Badu – „The Healer”
4. Jimmy Cliff – „Those Good, Good Old Days“
5. Roots Manuva – „A Man's Talk”
6. Johnny Osbourne – „Love Is Universal”
7. Gelka – „Soon”
8. The Deadbeats – „Got What I Want“ *
9. Mr. Scruff – „Hold On”
10. Nightmares On Wax – „Da Feeling (Rapscallion Remix)”
11. Negghead – „Build It Up” *
12. The Heptones – „Book Of Rules (Instr.)”
13. Carla Thomas – „I’ve Fallen In Love With You”
14. Marvin Gaye – „After The Dance (Instr.)“
15. Nightmares On Wax – „Damn (Marcel Remix)”
16. Hungryghost – „ESQ” *
17. Guts – „Cry & Smile“
18. Sola Rosa – „Del Ray“
* exclusive Tracks
Coming Home
compiled
by Nouvelle Vague
CD
Release date: Out now!
Nouvelle Vague is the exceptionally successful project of French music producers Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin. Their unusual and charming rearrangments of various new wave and post-punk classics has become a classic itself.
Accordingly, Libaux and Collin have, with help from their singers (among others Melanie Pain, Gerald Toto), bared the heart and soul of songs by Joy Division, The Clash or Blondie and translated them into chanson and bossa nova spheres on their last two albums. For the second part of the “Coming Home” compilation, they have come up with a special concept, which is a credit to its name that also refers to the French film genre: “Coming Home” compiles 20 pieces that are all taken from movie soundtracks.
Nouvelle Vague introduces the remotely obscure and strange as well as the obviously glamorous grand gesture. They do so simply as a matter-of-course, a circumstance which is definitely based on qualitative substance and the protagonist’s long experience. As a matter of fact, a –and again- classic of classics like this one can’t simply be compiled by the way. Especially film music has a tough act to follow, because on the one hand it seems familiar, and on the other hand it also has to prove itself without visual backing.
With this “Coming Home” episode, Nouvelle Vague accomplish the rare feat of creating their own oevre from compositions of most diverse masters from various decades in a homogeneous context that, with all due respect to originals and a cautious approach, always knows exactly how the dramaturgy of their own mind-movie works. Chapeau!
Coming Home
compiled & mixed
by Tim Love Lee
CD
Release date: xx.xx.2007
It's truly absurd that a genre born as the
lovechild of the freedom of sampling technology
and a musically open mind ten years ago has
to suffer critics' slander, senseless labelling
or ultimately being written off, while its
numerous listeners are more than not interested
in if the sound they love is currently being
called Downbeat, Trip Hop, Easy Listening,
Abstract HipHop, Freestyle, House or whatever.
At the end of the day, it's about a good vibe
and something undefinable. You can only feel
it.
Tim 'Love' Lee is a true master of drastically,
hedonistically laid back vibes, be they slow
or fast. This stylistically at ease hippie
(if there is such a thing) has always been
ahead of his time. After a short sunny stint
as Hammond player with Katrina and The Waves
at the end of the 80s, he started producing
what has since amounted to quite a repertoire
of well-tempered (in both senses of the word)
bouncing music, rocking living room and dancefloor
alike: remixes for artists such as Shantel,
Gus Gus or Soul Wax, two groundbreaking albums
of his own ("Confessions Of A Selector",
"The Continuing Confessions Of Tim 'Love'
Lee"), and records by Groove Armada,
Tom Vek, Crazy Girl and others, which he released
on his label Tummy Touch, (...) founded in
1996. Everything flourished in Tim 'Love'
Lee's uncomplicated world of sound of joy
and pleasure without ever missing the crucial
bite. His own tracks, which even in the early
days bridged over to psyched-out folk sounds,
can mainly be distinguished by finding their
salvation in simple, yet irresistible bass
runs, nonchalant hooks ( ) and high-rising
bedrocks of beat, whilst avoiding small-time
and loin-lame programming orgies. And even
though his last year album was called “Against
Nature” and struck saturnine notes,
Tim 'Love' Lee is the last to be found tuning
against his own. Au contraire: Lee was sporting
a dapper moustache in a time when Franz Ferdinand
thought that to be a sportscar brand.
For “Coming Home” he has now collected
18 of his all-time favourite tracks. This
remarkably homogenous mixture breathes the
special 'Love' vibe of the unpretentious Brit,
not by compulsively dragging out the obscure,
but by masterfully bringing together intertwining
tracks by (amongst others) Dub Syndicate,
As One, Thomas Fehlmann/Gudrun Gut, The White
Sport and Jammin Unit. We hear Dub bass seesawing
next to Bossa Nova, circling ambient beats,
whilst a Tango sample muscles its way onto
the dancefloor, where crooked synths ( ) linger
and barenaked bongos illuminate the night
on wonderful songlines in the glow of low-lying
mirror balls.
Thus, “Coming Home” is not only
the showcase of a truly reliable gigolo (if
there is such a thing) making everybody perfectly
happy, but also a casual demonstration to
all formalists and know-it-alls that there's
one thing you need for good music: the love
of it.
Coming Home II
"warming up your
living area"
CD SD 080-2
Release Date: 25.03.02
Coming Home I
CD SD 050
… and it feels like COMING HOME
again!
What does your life sound like?
We here at Stereo Deluxe, as our company name
suggests, have been instrumental in supplyin`you
with the finest in-sounds from way-out. This
time we`re takin` it a step further.
Tell us, what do you do, when youre coming
home from work, college or a party, tired,
eventually too uptight to go to sleep, wandering
around, chillin’, surfin on your sofa,
hangin´ about? Our sound-couture labs
have dug deep and came up with a perfect solution,
just taylor-made for your needs:
COMING HOME,
music to dress houses by, refurbish rooms,
warming up your living areas.
Kitchen music? Attic sounds? Bedroom rockers?
Sound-furniture!
And if you know us, you know what to expect.
Your flat never looked so hip for the price
of a cd. A musique d`ameublement like the
old Satie was thinking of. Inflatable tonal
atmospheres.
No boring wallpaper or ambient drones, active,
vibrant, groovy stuff for all your domestic
interests: from swingy dish washing to funky
vacuum cleaning, hackin the net Latin style,
plundering your fridge the housey way. And
not to forget, toilettin’ away with
heavenly downtempo freedom. We all got it
here…
Compiled by DJ Oli Roesch, an expert in acoustic
bionautics, who already brought you modern
house hold favourites like the future lounge
and slow mo compilations.
Music to have a shower by, leap into horizontal
dancin, do your love thang and leaving the
f***in` telly switched off … or for
christ`s sake, turn it on and create your
own soundtrack for ... COMING
HOME!
COMING HOME
not only feels fantastic and sounds good,
it also looks great!
