Enjoy this re-released remix of 4hero’s Play With The Changes, courtesy of UK producer st/rr. Remixing the work of your idols is a daunting task but st/rr had certainly created a jam here. st/rr decided to flip the last few minutes of the original, added his own percussion and created a mysterious ambience in the process. We are proud to have it as part of…
Visioneers remix of 4hero’s The Action is our Song for Sunday. “Nice, smooth and easy”. That’s how the YouTube uploader describes Visioneers’ remix of 4hero’s The Action and we couldn’t have put it better ourselves. The track is featured on 4hero’s 2004 The Remix Album, a double-disc LP containing tracks remixed by 4hero and 4hero tracks remixed by others. If you’ve never heard of Visioneers,…
Enjoy this 30 minute radio promo mix by 4hero’s Marc Mac made a few years ago. There’s always a good time for some 4hero and I was pleasantly surprised to find a Soundcloud mix made by Marc Mac. The half hour mix comprises of some studio outtakes, vocal cuts and a gorgeous nu jazz cover of The Pharcyde’s Runnin’. Tek 9 and Visioneers also make…
4hero’s Marc Mac produces the rugged and raw “That Is That” for T.R.A.C., featuring Yahzeed Divine. When thoughts are drawn towards 4hero and, more specifically Marc Mac, his pioneering work in drum & bass and his later fusion with nu jazz instantly come to mind. But his tremendous hip hop production can’t be overlooked and it more than shines through on T.R.A.C.’s This Is That….
Our Song for Sunday this week is Sonar Kollektiv Orchester’s cover of 4hero’s Universal Love. An album from 2009 that may have ducked under your musical radars was 4hero presents Extensions, an album of 4hero covers featuring a wide variety of orchestras and musical collectives. One such group were Sonar Kollektiv Orchester out of Germany and they had the honour of opening the album with…
4hero’s Another Day featuring Jill Scott is our Song for Sunday. Being the unsung pioneers of drum and bass actually gave 4hero a slight advantage when it came to evolving their sound. It meant they wouldn’t be forever attached to the genre, allowing them to experiment and develop. Creating Patterns was 4hero’s fourth album and as a follow up to their seminal LP Two Pages,…
Lost In Music, an oldschool drum and bass documentary from 1996, is our Saturday Matinée feature presentation. Drum and bass or jungle? Whatever you choose to call that oldschool vibe, the music was synonymous with the rave culture of the 90s and helped to bring out the careers of influencers such as 4hero, Goldie and Fabio and Grooverider. Apart from the classic music, you get…
A taste of Brazil in this week’s Song For Sunday with Patricia Marx’s Menino. Patricia Marx is criminally underrated. It doesn’t help that there is a more famous woman by the same name and she therefore dominates the top search result on Google. Regardless, the Brazilian Patricia Marx’s talent is undeniable and having achieved success in her native country in the 90s released two brilliant…
Marc Mac of 4hero rekindles life into an old name to release The Third Adam. Following on from Waajeed’s techno project is Marc Mac, one half of UK drum & bass pioneers and unsung heroes of the genre 4hero, who has today released The Third Adam on iTunes and Bandcamp. Marc decided to go by the name Nu Era for the project, an old nom…
Our Song For Sunday goes out to the great Terry Callier. It’s with great sadness that we inform you that Terry Callier passed away today. The Chicagoan soul, jazz and folk singer was 67 and has left us with a superb legacy of music, spanning five decades. With that in mind, we have decided to dedicate today’s Song For Sunday to the great man. The…