Review
Twenty years after its original release, Nightmares On Wax’s 2006 downtempo benchmark In A Space Outta Sound has been entirely disassembled and reconstructed by UK dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood. Rather than dispensing standard remixes, Sherwood treats In A Space Outta Dub as an exercise in foundational rebuilding. As noted by BrooklynVegan, the producer "rebuilds them from the ground up, bringing in his stable of On-U Sound all-stars to play on them."
The resulting compositions strip away the slickness of George Evelyn’s originals to emphasize heavy reverb, dread basslines, and tactile analog instrumentation. Critics point to tracks like “You Bliss”—a mutation of “You Wish”—as prime examples of this transformation. AllMusic observes that while the track's central Stax guitar sample remains intact, it is now "submerged by smoky saxophone and an organ that sounds like it was lifted from the Doors' LA Woman sessions." The album leans heavily into this humid atmosphere, trading relaxed trip-hop pacing for deeply anchored, echo-laden dub rhythms that stretch and fracture the source material into thrilling new shapes.
