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  • Summary: This is the two-disc compilation of George Evelyn's work with Kevin Harper and Robin Taylor-Firth as Nightmares On Wax.
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  • Record Label: Warp
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Trip-Hop, Techno, Downtempo, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance, Ambient Breakbeat, IDM
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  1. 85
    The sheer variety of genres in this remix collection is just one indication of the breadth of influence that N.O.W has exerted over the past two decades.
  2. Aug 8, 2014
    80
    All of it fits together surprisingly well here--a satisfying, if imperfect, sampling.
  3. Magnet
    Aug 8, 2014
    75
    What's interesting to note is, with instrumentation technology improvement, Evelyn appears content to capture analogue warmth. [No. 111, p.57]
  4. Aug 8, 2014
    70
    Basically, each successive Nightmares on Wax album has featured new music made from the same basic ingredients. But, as N.O.W. Is the Time proves, those ingredients usually add up to a flavorful, highly-enjoyable, quite possibly pot-laced brownie.
  5. The cream of their output is undeniable--the Air-like stringed beauty of ‘Les Nuits’, gut-wobbling soul wailer ‘I Am You’ and early singles ‘Dextrous’ and ‘Aftermath’--but there’s an awful lot of so-so wallpaper here, especially for a Best Of.