Nightmares on Wax celebrate their most iconic album’s 20th Anniversary

Coming off the heels of the hugely successful mixtape Echo45 Sound System, This project serves as another vital cultural reconnection to a sound that has quietly soundtracked the last two decades.  

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In many ways, it speaks to both the past and present of Evelyn’s career. The 2005 album was his original paean to the reggae culture he had grown up with in West Yorkshire, a scene of homemade speaker boxes and heavy rhythms on imported 12”s. A formative influence that he also revisited on his latest mixtape, Echo45 Sound System (released at the end of last year). Both records see the original influences filtered through the producer’s unique sensibility, blending Jamaican sounds with soul, jazz, hip-hop and an unparalleled ability to flip a sample into an earworm hook.  

In A Space Outta Sound is perhaps the most ubiquitous record you may not recognise the title of, seeping into the public consciousness via the massive success of tracks such as “You Wish” and “Flip Ya Lid”, heard around the world in  countless public spaces. While it stands as Nightmares On Wax’s biggest record globally and most commercially successful body of work, its influence has undoubtedly permeated culture in a way that transcends the artist’s name. The soulful vibrations of these tracks have become a much-heard soundtrack to modern existence. This anniversary marks the moment to finally connect the dots between the songs people know and love, and the record they came from.