On the Nile is the debut studio album by American electro artist Greg Broussard under the alias of The Egyptian Lover.

[2][3] Broussard found that he had so much fun in the studio recording it, he wanted to return to do a solo project.

[3] Broussard explained that he developed the music on the album as he would do a DJ show, finding he "wasn't a good composer or producer or anything like that.

Everything was cutting like a DJ and that was kind of rare back in the day because nobody did records like that.

"[4] As part of electro hop genre, Broussard's music drew from musicians such as Parliament/Funkadelic, Prince and Afrika Bambaataa.

[9][10][11] Macola pressed records for anyone willing to pay the rate of $1,000 for five hundred copies.

[6] For the album cover, which both Broussard and Record pressing plant owner Don Macmillan felt was not commercial enough, Macmillan purchased the costumes and rented Egyptian memorabilia and hired the photographer to shoot the cover.

[4] In a retrospective review, AllMusic noted that "The Egyptian Lover never had great rapping skills, but he was definitely an original and imaginative producer/writer -- and his risk-taking spirit serves him well on definitive, high-tech tunes like "Egypt Egypt," "My House (On the Nile)," and "Girls."

On the Nile isn't the only Egyptian Lover LP that is worth owning, but most fans insist that it is his most essential and consistent album—and they're absolutely right.

"[1] Reviewing the album in his book The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop, Peter Shapiro declared the album to be "one of the definitive documents of early LA electro-hop" praising tracks "Egypt, Egypt", "Girls" and "My House (On the Nile)" as electro classics.