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Hi, On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Rodney Perkins wrote:

quoted 4 lines Can anyone provide some good recommendations on what 4Hero releases to pick

> Can anyone provide some good recommendations on what 4Hero releases to pick > up? I'm not so much interested in the older breakbeat material as I am the > more recent "sophisticated" stuff. However, all solid pointers are welcome. > Thanks.

Start with 'Earth Pioneers'. That's a 6 track EP released before the album. If you like it, go a head with the album (I guess the single cd will do 'cause it features almost all the tracks from the doubpe cd), and finally you can decide wether you like to know what other people did with the music you just got to knew ... (bt, from what I remember most of the remixes on the singles are D'n'B, so you most probably won't like it) (BTW2, if you like it sophisticated try Tek9, that's Dego (one half of 4Hero) on a downtempo/hiphop-ish trip). Bye Sebastian -- Sebastian Herrfurth (seher@cs.tu-berlin.de) pages for Bernd Friedmann / Riz Maslen / Daniel Meier / DJ Krush / ... at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~seher/music.html

Get Jacobs Optical Stairway (aka Marc and Dego). One of my favoraite breakbeat releases ever. A nice blend of lazy synthesised jazz, Detroit flavors and tastefully done breakbeats which are manipulated enough so as to establish a groove without being too repetitive or delving into more drillnbass territory...of course 2 Pages is really nice, though some IDM purists might find it too 'produced' (and the vocals might bother some people). peace Nate On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Rodney Perkins wrote:

quoted 5 lines Can anyone provide some good recommendations on what 4Hero releases to pick

> Can anyone provide some good recommendations on what 4Hero releases to pick > up? I'm not so much interested in the older breakbeat material as I am the > more recent "sophisticated" stuff. However, all solid pointers are welcome. > Thanks. >

Sounds like a good plan. For the record, I am probably one of the few people on this list who like "Timeless" which 4Hero seems to have a slight hand in. If the DnB remixes come off like that (slight, superficial smell of soul/jazz w/o too much diva work), I would probably dig 'em. I am esp. interested in that sound obtained on the 4Hero remix of "Black Gold of the Sun" by Nuyorican Soul.

quoted 13 lines Start with 'Earth Pioneers'. That's a 6 track EP released before the

> > Start with 'Earth Pioneers'. That's a 6 track EP released before the > album. If you like it, go a head with the album (I guess the single cd > will do 'cause it features almost all the tracks from the doubpe cd), and > finally you can decide wether you like to know what other people did with > the music you just got to knew ... (bt, from what I remember most of the > remixes on the singles are D'n'B, so you most probably won't like it) > (BTW2, if you like it sophisticated try Tek9, that's Dego (one half of > 4Hero) on a downtempo/hiphop-ish trip). > > Bye > > Sebastian

On 25 Mar 99, Rodney Perkins wrote re: Re: (idm) 4Hero recommendations?:

quoted 2 lines I am esp. interested in that sound obtained on the 4Hero remix of "Black

> I am esp. interested in that sound obtained on the 4Hero remix of "Black > Gold of the Sun" by Nuyorican Soul.

For what it's worth, I still think the original is better (excellent song). I *

Hi, On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, John Bush wrote:

quoted 8 lines For the record, I am probably one of the

> > For the record, I am probably one of the > > few people on this list who like "Timeless"... > > Most underrated electronic album of all time, in my opinion. Maybe it was > Rob Playford doing the majority of the programming on "Timeless" (the > track), I just don't care 'cuz it's incredible (especially for 1994-95) and > completely unequalled since, to my ears. If anyone has objections (with > examples), I'd love to hear them...literally.

You won't hear me disagree. I liked the album (And the track) a lot, and I'm still listening to it once in a while.

quoted 1 line I even like "Sea of Tears" !!

> I even like "Sea of Tears" !!

'What are you doing here ?' 'I'm ??? the tears.' <- What she's saying ??? Great. Sebastian -- Sebastian Herrfurth (seher@cs.tu-berlin.de) pages for Bernd Friedmann / Riz Maslen / Daniel Meier / DJ Krush / ... at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~seher/music.html