PAST BUT THE DREAM / NANJING ROAD

The debut 7' from Wax Thematique label founder and producer Nathan Womack, merges the Sublime Frequencies label's knack for detecting the most interesting sounds from far-flung zones and Madlib's cosmopolitan, funky sonic travelogues. Side A's 'Past But The Dream', was constructed from records found on a Vinyl digging trip in Bangkok, Thailand. It moves with that sidewinding swagger common to Far East Asian groups of the '60s for whom rock was not second nature-and it comes out sounding fresher for that obstacle. Side B's "Nanjing Road" is smoldering songcraft that goes down like an elixir of baroque prog magic from 1971 Italy.?Re-built and sampled from vinyl discovered in an underground electronics market in Guangzhou, China, this is exit music for a film that makes you swallow your heart. -Dave Segal