4Hero - Play With The Changes

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As pioneers of jungle and drum n bass, they massively changed the face of 90s music and made a huge contribution to dance culture.

Play with the Changes will be their first album for 6 years in a prolific career that has gained critical acclaim, a Mercury nomination, MOBO award and widespread respect from the music fraternity.

Influenced by underground techno as much as Chicago soul, their music is a synthesis of past and future, artificial and organic, strange and familiar. Intertwining live and electronic sounds, 4hero create futuristic soul.

Play with the Changes is a richly textured and musically complex album. Fluttering, delicate beats mutate into orchestral excursions. Strings and live drums give way to abstract sounds and disjointed electronica.

Poetess extraordinaire and long-time cohort Ursula Rucker lends her lyrical wisdom to The Awakening and Grammy award winning legend Jody Watley makes a special appearance.

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After releasing early rave classic Mr Kirk's Nightmare, they established Reinforced Records and unleashed Goldie onto the world, as well as material by Doc Scott, Photek Peshay and Grooverider.

Parallel Universe set a precedent for successive drum and bass long players and was labelled NME album of the year. Two Pages, their debut album for Talkin' Loud in 1998, was one of the most anticipated albums of that year and was nominated for a Mercury music Prize and also won 4hero a MOBO award. 2001's Creating Patterns explored more acoustic sounds and featured Jill Scott, soul-folk legend Terry Callier and 60's psychedelic poet Mark Murphy. As well as working with some of the great voices of soul, they set new standards as remixers and their stunning reinterpretation of Black Gold of the Sun caused Louie Vega to label it "...one of the best remixes ever...".

Using various pseudonyms more recently Visioneers and DKD., and through their own labels, (Reinforced, Raw Canvas, 2000 Black, Omniverse and Twisted Funk) Marc and Dego continue to venture into hitherto unknown musical fields, create sounds that no-one else has imagined and work with diverse and talented musicians, poets and singers. Their pedigree is beyond dispute and their music has always has a much deeper significance than simply moving the crowd.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Morning Child - feat. Carina Andersson
2. Take My Time - feat. Jack Davey
3. Look Inside - feat. FACE
4. Sink Or Swim - feat. Lady Alma
5. Give In - feat. Darien Brockington & Phonte of Little Brother
6. Play With The Changes - feat. Talita Long & Larry Mizell
7. Something In the Way - feat. Bembe Segue & Kaidi Taitham
8. Stoke Up The Fire - feat. FACE
9. Awakening - feat. Ursula Rucker
10. Sophia
11. Superwoman(Where Were You When I Needed You?) - feat. Terry D
12. Why Don't You Talk?
13. Bed Of Roses - feat. Jody Watley
14. Dedication To The Horse

4 HERO LIVE DATES:

23 Feb 2007
20:00
4hero UK LP launch party @ The Big Chill House
London, UK

4 Mar 2007
20:00
The Big Chill Bar
London, UK

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