The Wednesday Classic #2

After a forgettable false start peddling iffy acid jazz, Mo’ Wax made a stylistic shift in 1994, kickstarting a four-year period that continues to resonate two decades on. The first Headz compilation is a neat 18-track digest of that transition, a declaration of what was to come. Influences, ambitions and comments on the status quo of the time are found in the slowed down grooves and samples as well as the track titles: ‘Ravers Suck Our Sound’, ‘Contemplating Jazz’, ‘In Flux’, ‘The Time Has Come’. The titular beatheads may have seemed like a stoned, uncreative bunch at the time but their aesthetic has proven resilient. Alongside obvious names like DJ Shadow, La Funk Mob and R.P.M, Headz also featured Nightmares On Wax, Autechre, Howie B. and various members of Major Force

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Headz - A Soundtrack Of Experimental Beathead Jams

 Disc 1

1. Freedom Now Meditation • Patterson
2. Contemplating Jazz • Attica Blues
3. Symmetrical Jazz Flapper Till 5AM mix • Awunsound
4. Stars • Nightmares on Wax
5. Ravers Suck Our Sound • La Funk Mob
6. Miles Out of Time Astrocentric Mix 'n' Beats • M.F. Outa 'National
7. The Inside • RPM
8. Lowride • Autechre
9. Wildstyle (The Krush Handshake) • Olde Scottish

Disc 2

1. Lost and Found S.F.L. • DJ Shadow
2. Destroy All Monsters  • Skull
3. .....Don't Fake It • Deflon Sallahr
4. 2000 • RPM    
5. Slipper Suite  (i) Jeremy's Velvet Slippers
(ii) Moonraker (iii) Unspeakable Acts
Palm Skin Productions
6. The Time Has Come • Unkle and The Major Force Orchestra    
7. Head West – Gun Fight at the O.K. Corrall • Howie B. Inc.
8. They Came in Peace  • Tranquility Bass
9. In-Flux • DJ Shadow

 

	British "trip hop" label owned and run by James Lavelle. Launched in 1992, defunct in 2002

Label: Mo Wax – MWCD026
Series: Headz
Format: FLAC
Country: UK
Released: Oct 31, 1994
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: Downtempo, Trip Hop