Monday's Long Songs

In 2006 Nightmares On Wax released In A Space Outta Sound, a classic of its kind, mid- 00s Warp records bleepy/ dubby electronica. To celerbate the 20th anniversary of its release in March this year a new version came out, an Adrian Sherwood reworking of George Evelyn's entire album (and haven't we we've sped from March 2026 to September 2026 in the blink of an eye).

The original album contained a bunch of tracks that were aimed at the centre of the unconscious, tracks that operate in a very chilled out, downtempo state. I Am You is six minutes forty two seconds of spaced out dub cut with jazz, soul and slow, stoned hip hop. Minimalist but filling the room when played at some volume with singer Mozez adding a deep vocal. 

I Am You

On the Sherwood remix album, Inna Space Outta Dub, I Am You becomes Looking At You Dub, the On U sound and players stretching the song out and finding new spaces to play- a heady dubbed out excursion that seems to go on much longer than its six minutes twenty seconds running time. 

Looking At You Dub

Night Dubbin

I missed this at the end of last year and have become somewhat addicted to it over the last few days. Nightmares On Wax have released 8 albums and various singles since 1989 (mostly on Warp). In A Space Outta Sound from 2006 was the last one I got, an album of laid back, downtempo reggae inspired grooves but somehow still seeming to be in a straight line from the bleep 'n' bass releases in 1989. There's a new one called Shape The Future out now. Back in December this came out as part of a remix 12" of the track Citizen Kane. The original is gospel-hip hop-soul. For this 10 minute excursion Ron Trent sets the vocal (by Mozez) to a skippy, propulsive Chicago house beat and allows the groove to whisk us away to a future where the machines have made gospel their own.