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Carboot Soul | 
 enlarge | Artist: Nightmares On Wax
Label: Matador Records
Category: Music
New (3) Used (13) from $5.58
Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 183726
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 744861035725
EAN: 0744861035725
ASIN: B00000I6MK
Release Date: April 20, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | 'Les Nuits' | | • | Morse | | • | Ethnic Majority | | • | Jorge | | • | Finer | | • | Ease Jimi | | • | Argha Noah | | • | Fire In The Middle | | • | Survival | | • | Capumcap |
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Amazon.com
Like other DJ composers, Nightmares on Wax mentalist George "Herbs" Evelyn has stopped flea-market shopping for vinyl records out of car trunks (boots, if you're English) and started rummaging around in his own mind. The gorgeous retro soul strings, vocal choruses, and chill-out trip-hop he finds rolling easy up there in his fog bank are a definite maturation of the Philly-soul redub and bass-boss Barry White attitude that was pioneered on 1995's Smoker's Delight. Since then, though, Evelyn has scratched a ton of vinyl to get to the truth: nothing is warmer than live bodies. This album was still made with a drum machine and just enough wax to keep it in the boot, but bass, keys, guitar, and vocals are live. The real secret to this soft summer vibe is that Evelyn doesn't simply hand over the vocals and let the pieces become wannabe soul singles. Instead, these cuts maintain a jazz attitude recalling George Benson's Breezin'--not his most technically challenging playing, but a laid-back, perfectly executed distillation offered up like a gift. Unwrap the fragile jazz riff of "Fire in the Middle" or the upbeat, Fifth Dimension-like background vocal and hip-hop scratch of "Ethnic Majority" and the bad-ass horn funk of "Ease Jimi." Beware of a short little strings-and-bass dub called "Jorge": If this one gets in your ears once, you'll be humming the one-word chorus all summer. --Dean Kuipers
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Good buy for chilling out!!! March 13, 2004
What a great selection of smooth and chilled tracks!!! "Carboot Soul" is my favorite homework and relaxing music. It's very calming with KILLER basslines!!! I enjoy the entire album, but my favorites are "Morse", "Ease Jimi", and "Ethnic Majority".
I have heard most of the new CD, "Mind Elevation", and it doesn't have quite the flow and mood setting of this album. I do like a few tracks on "Smoker's Delight", but I don't own the album yet. I agree with Robert J. S. that "Night's Interlude" is better than "Les Nuits" because it is so original and is sampled by everyone!!! The original is the best but "Les Nuits" is still a great relaxer.
All I know now is that "Carboot Soul" is my favorite N.O.W. album so far. Pick this one up if you feel like groovin' and chillin' to some great music!!!
 Dull and repetitive January 8, 2003
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
There is just not much creativity to this music. Repetitive drum machine beats mixed with repetitive smooth jazz samples does not make for great "chill" music, but simply music which is dull and uninspired. Chill music can still have energy and variety. Actually, it simply MUST. I think there is some really good trip-hop and downtempo music out there, for example: Massive Attack - Protection, DJ Shadow, some albums in the Cafe del Mar series, Moby b-sides, LTJ Bukem Logical Progression...
 4-and-a-half stars.... my first full-price impulse buy October 1, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bought it yesterday @[a store]. I would give it 5 stars, the music is 5 star material - so tender & sweet & sexy (most likely to become my soundtrack to this coming winter) but at 50 minutes it's just too damn short... I need more of this music...
Latenightlovemagic September 10, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are few - too few - dance albums out there geared towards LeMore. Zero 7, probably. Air, nah, too many trombones and French horns during inopportune moments. The occasional Back to Mine, possibly, or rare Ibiza compilation. And then George Evelyn/DJ Ease/Nightmares on Wax's Carboot Soul, despite the "herb" references in the credit liners. Don't know how ginko biloba fits in with music, but the ten songs here seductively deliver an hour of one-on-one magic. "Les Nuts" with epic strings sampled from Pure Strings Orchestra, now appears on 12,844 - hold on, now 45, chillout albums, so let's just agree that it really is All That and move on. Slowly of course, the beats here all coast slower than your pulse. And there's not much more really; some bass and guitar, the occasional light, scat vocals of Sara Winton, and a continual re-jigger of that formula for a smooth, unobtrusive, undeniably sexy, listen. Bit of a subversively catchy chorus and handclap on "Ethnic Majority," soft, soft singing on "Finer," or "Survival," actual songs, or some muted horns slipping in on "Easejam." Nothing jarring, nor too catchy, not too perky, just a big, warm blanket of an album for those times when you want to get under the covers. Just wrap up in 50 minutes, mind you.
Latenightlovemagic September 4, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are few - too few - dance albums out there geared towards l'amour. Zero 7, probably. Air, nah, too many trombones and French horns during inopportune moments. The occasional Back to Mine, possibly, or rare Ibiza compilation. And then George Evelyn/DJ Ease/Nightmares on Wax's Carboot Soul, despite the "herb" references in the credit liners. Don't know how ginko biloba fits in with music, but the ten songs here seductively deliver an hour of one-on-one magic. "Les Nuts" with epic strings sampled from Pure Strings Orchestra, now appears on 12,844 - hold on, now 45, chillout albums, so let's just agree that it really is All That and move on. Slowly of course, the beats here all coast slower than your pulse. And there's not much more really; some bass and guitar, the occasional light, scat vocals of Sara Winton, and a continual re-jigger of that formula for a smooth, unobtrusive, undeniably sexy, listen. Bit of a subversively catchy chorus and handclap on "Ethnic Majority," soft, soft singing on "Finer," or "Survival," actual songs, or some muted horns slipping in on "Easejam." Nothing jarring, nor too catchy, not too perky, just a big, warm blanket of an album for those times when you want to get under the covers. Just wrap up in 50 minutes, mind you.
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