Nightmares on wax - batofar

Name: Nightmares on wax - batofar
Uploaded: 2002-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Le Batofar opened as a Paris electronic music venue in 1999, quickly becoming a fixture of the city's alternative and electronic nightlife on the Seine. Nightmares on Wax — the project of Leeds-born DJ and producer George Evelyn (DJ E.A.S.E.), releasing on Warp Records — was a central figure in the UK downtempo, trip-hop, and chill-out…

2002 · Post-Millennial Downtempo / Early Warp Digital Era (2002–2003) · music video

2002Post-Millennial Downtempo / Early Warp Digital Era (2002–2003)UK Downtempo / Warp Records Chillout & Trip-Hop continuum, early-2000s phase

What this video is

Le Batofar opened as a Paris electronic music venue in 1999, quickly becoming a fixture of the city's alternative and electronic nightlife on the Seine. Nightmares on Wax — the project of Leeds-born DJ and producer George Evelyn (DJ E.A.S.E.), releasing on Warp Records — was a central figure in the UK downtempo, trip-hop, and chill-out movements that defined a generation of electronic home-listening culture. The…

Why it matters

This video exemplifies the anti-commercial, durational visual language associated with early-2000s Warp Records ambient and downtempo aesthetics — a deliberate rejection of MTV's high-edit, high-brightness conventions. It documents the cultural intersection of UK electronic music and Paris's…

Read the full researched annotation on RAD →

More: All Nightmares on wax videos · Browse channels · Turn on the TV →