“Here’s a relaxed playlist featuring tracks from some of my favourite producers and writers. Perfect for chilling, having a smoke, cooking, driving, or easing into the evening. Enjoy G x”Listen to other Herb Sundays playlistsFor the American holiday weekend, who better to give the plug to than one of the greatest chillers of all time? Nightmares On Wax, initially a group and then a solo project of George Evelyn, is a known electronic music staple. Evelyn has also entries on the mix series DJ-Kicks, LateNightTales, and Back To Mine, forming basically an EGOT of downtempo.Young GE (un)loading the boot with tasty samples. Credit unknown: ill find it!Clipped from the Warp site bio: As Warp Records longest serving signing N.O.W opened doors to new sonic landscapes for countless producers and musicians. Via his father and juxtaposed with soca from the islands, young George’s imagination was captured by the likes of Curtis Mayfield, Sarah Vaughan and Quincy Jones. In his early teens, inner city bass heavy reggae sound systems would also make their mark. But it was the arrival of hip-hop in the UK, complete with its loop, sample, cut ‘n’ paste aesthetic that would provide the icing on the cake and a way forward. George alongside then writing partner Kevin Harper made his first contribution to the sonic continuum with two defining singles of the emerging rave scene, 1989’s ‘Dexterous’ and 1990’s ‘Aftermath’.And before I go any further, Herb Sundays is not a weed reference. I am often asked this, but it’s just not the case, though I suspect this blog/newsletter would be 10x more popular if it were.Only in recent years have I understood how influential N.O.W. is and was. In my chat with James Lavelle a few years back, I finally correctly placed Evelyn as a chief arbiter of that uncanny bridge between Techno and Hip-Hop, Dub and Bleep. Being my age and American, Nightmares On Wax was a project I took for granted; it was always just there. I suspect some of it may be that Americ