Carboot Soul

Carboot Soul

ASIN: B00007L9O8

Track Listings

1. Les Nuits

2. Morse

3. Ethnic Majority

4. Jorge

5. Finer

6. Ease Jimi

7. Abgha Noah

8. Fire In The Middle

9. Survival

10. Capumcap

11. Les Nuits (DJ Spinna Mix) (Bonus Track)

12. Finer (Paul Nice Mix) (Bonus Track)

13. Burn Me Slo (Feat OC) (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Reissue of 1999 album includes three bonus tracks, 'Les Nuits' (DJ Spinna Mix), 'Finer' (Paul Nice Mix), & 'Burn Me Slo' (feat. O.C). Warp. 2003.

Tracks:

Nuits
Morse
Ethnic Majority
Jorg
Finer
Ease Jimi
Argha Noah
Fire in the Middle
Survival
Capumcap

Album Description

Reissue of 1999 album includes three bonus tracks, 'Les Nuits' (DJ Spinna Mix), 'Finer' (Paul Nice Mix), & 'Burn Me Slo' (feat. O.C). Warp. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

ON THE LOW END!.......2007-06-18

IF YOU LOVE HIP HOP FLAVORED INSTRUMENTALS WITH THAT DEEP LOW BASS,THEN THIS IS THE ONE YOU MAY WANT IN ROTATION,BEEN A FAN OF THIS OUTFIT FOR A MINUTE NOW, AND THEY NEVER CEASE TO DELIVER......

Perfect Album.......2007-06-08

Very few albums are perfect or close to it. This album is complete perfection. The beats are mellow yet hip and the bass is just cool. I had no idea what I had been missing musically until I heard this album. What's not to love? This album flows soooooooo well! A must own!

Masterpiece.....................2007-05-26

.........or, as Merriam-Webster would define it, "a supreme intellectual or artistic achievement".

Seriously, this recording is perfection from beginning to end. An absolute favorite of mine.

chill music at its best.......2005-10-16

this CD is awsome if you like this type of music. if you like this type of music BUY IT!!!

Soulful "Carboot".......2005-05-15

Nightmares on Wax is one of those legendary one-man bands who crop up every now and then (also known as George Evelyn, but that doesn't sound as cool). Even the "merely good" work by people such as he is astounding, inventive and really fun.

And "Carboot Soul," his third album, is no exception: it's an amazing mixture of chillout electronica and acid jazz. It's a bit less hazy than his 1995 "Smoker's Delight," but that isn't surprising -- here Evelyn pulls on various influences to flavour his music. The title fits this album: it's soulful, yet it has as many influences as a "carboot" rummage sale.

It begins on a symphonic note in the epic "Les nuits," which seems to herald a new music direction. Don't be deceived. The symphonic build-up leads to funky grooves and jazzy flavours in "Morse," which continues to the brassy "Easejimi," the mellow murmurs of "Finer," and the wonderfully peculiar "Argha Noah." Say that last title out loud, and you'll understand the joke.

But there is a slightly more delicate style near the end, when Evelyn switches to the gently rippling guitar of "Fire in the Middle," the melancholy acid jazz of "Survival," and the eerier, more symphonic sound of "Capumcap." Evelyn ends the album on a high note, with those sensitive, lower-key songs.

It's hard to find groups as good as Nightmares on Wax -- scour the top hundreds, and you won't find anything like this. I personally found "Carboot Soul" in a tiny hole-in-the-wall music store, in the "used" bin, although it's hard to imagine why anyone would discard an album like this.

Despite the chillout label, Evelyn's music has a sort of relaxed warmth that counterpoints the icy sound of many other bands. He also has a good ear for samples and beats, lacing them with razor-sharp drums and some wonderful brass instrumentation. Sara Winton's rich voice is used well, crooning, "A bottle like a model shipwreck/where did it come from?/Where will it go?/A face without a name/survival..."

"Carboot Soul" is another triumph by Nightmares on Wax, and another wonderful display of George Evelyn's considerable talents. An absolute joy.

Average customer rating:

Good buy for chilling out!!!
Dull and repetitive
4-and-a-half stars.... my first full-price impulse buy
Latenightlovemagic
Latenightlovemagic

Carboot Soul
Nightmares on Wax
Manufacturer: Matador Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I6MK
Release Date: 1999-04-20

Tracks:

'Les Nuits'
Morse
Ethnic Majority
Jorge
Finer
Ease Jimi
Argha Noah
Fire In The Middle
Survival
Capumcap

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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

Customer Reviews:

Good buy for chilling out!!!.......2004-03-13

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.......2003-01-08

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.......2002-10-01

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.......2002-09-10

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.

Latenightlovemagic.......2002-09-04

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.

Carboot Soul
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Carboot Soul
Nightmares on Wax
Manufacturer: Assoc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JOJR
Release Date: 1999-05-24

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