4 Hero – Journey From The Light
Label: |
Reinforced Records – RIVET 1235 |
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Format: |
Vinyl
, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
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Country: |
UK |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
Style: |
Jungle |
Tracklist
| Other Side | |||
| Ai | Journey From The Light | 5:07 | |
| Aii | The Element (High Noon) | 4:56 | |
| This Side | |||
| AAi | The Power | 5:01 | |
| AAii | In The Shadow (Sundown) | 5:32 |
Companies, etc.
- Published By – Reinforced Music
- Published By – Westbury Music
- Distributed By – SRD
- Mastered At – JTS Studios
Credits
- Producer, Written-By – 4 Hero
Notes
"You Have Now Entered The Darkside"
Shout outs to our Prototype Plate Crew & The Detroit Massive
℗ & © Reinforced Music/Westbury Music.
Shouts on the sleeve
SHOUT OUTS TO KEVIN SAUNDERSON, DJ TONE, CLAUDE YOUNGE, D. WYNN & THE WHOLE KMS CREW, MIKE HUCKLEBERRY, MAD MIKE & U.R., HARDWAX, EDDIE FAWLKES, THE DETROIT MASSIVE & ALSO MIKE FILLY.
Track Ai samples:
Vocal from Brainstorm - Journey To The Light
Vocal from First Choice - Love And Happiness
Synth/strings from Earth, Wind & Fire - Daydreamin'
Track Aii samples:
Vocal from Don MacLean - American Pie
Synth from Brian Eno - Final Sunset
Track AAi samples:
Dialogue from the film Fist Of The North Star - "it it, at this moment, I'm more powerful than you ever were"
Vocal from Boogie Down Productions - Necessary
Shout outs to our Prototype Plate Crew & The Detroit Massive
℗ & © Reinforced Music/Westbury Music.
Shouts on the sleeve
SHOUT OUTS TO KEVIN SAUNDERSON, DJ TONE, CLAUDE YOUNGE, D. WYNN & THE WHOLE KMS CREW, MIKE HUCKLEBERRY, MAD MIKE & U.R., HARDWAX, EDDIE FAWLKES, THE DETROIT MASSIVE & ALSO MIKE FILLY.
Track Ai samples:
Vocal from Brainstorm - Journey To The Light
Vocal from First Choice - Love And Happiness
Synth/strings from Earth, Wind & Fire - Daydreamin'
Track Aii samples:
Vocal from Don MacLean - American Pie
Synth from Brian Eno - Final Sunset
Track AAi samples:
Dialogue from the film Fist Of The North Star - "it it, at this moment, I'm more powerful than you ever were"
Vocal from Boogie Down Productions - Necessary
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 5 021260 123563 >
- Barcode: 5021260123563
Other Versions (5 of 7)
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Journey From The Light (Remixes) (12", 33 ⅓ RPM) | Reinforced Records | RIVET 1235R | UK | 1993 | ||
| Journey From The Light (CD, Single) | Reinforced Records | RIVET 1235 CD, RIVCD 1235 | UK | 1993 | |||
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Journey From The Light (Remixes) (Promo, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM) | Reinforced Records | RIVET 1235R | UK | 1993 | ||
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Journey From The Light (Promo, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM) | Reinforced Records | RIVET 1235 | UK | 1993 | ||
| Journey From The Light (12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo) | Reinforced Records | RIVET 1235 | UK | 1993 |
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Reviews
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One of the most daring and innovative hardcore records ever released. While it isn't one that I return to often, you can't deny how utterly ridiculous and forward-thinking this record is! There are mind-bending stretches and effects all over the place, and sounds twisted in ways that probably seemed unthinkable when this was released. "In the Shadow" is definitely my favourite though - makes me feel like I'm actually in the darkness!
On a side note, it's also made me realize the creativity that's missing from a lot of newer releases - many of them (but not all) are rehashes of the same old ideas, but I think we should take a leaf out of Reinforced's book again and continue pushing the genre forward... -
At 2:38 - The Element - G O O S E B U M P S every tiiime! I bought my mint copy from a 2nd hand store around 2001 and had never heard it before. I got into Reinforced around 1995 so never heard the earlier hardcore stuff. There was a bit of a hardcore revival in the early 2000's and I got some great tracks around then including Autechre's first 12". I paid £10 for both Journey from The Light and Cavity Job. Best £20 I ever spent! Never bore of this record!
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The record that made me want to make records! Took hardcore to a new level of intricacy & production & still sounds like the future!
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I had a friend once tell me that the dial tone and connection sound triggers some a Manchurian candidate effect.....I'm afraid 4hero was more than aware of that when creating the emotional hangover of a section in IN THE SHADOW (Sundown mix) -
The Element (High Noon) it's one of the most insane song i've ever heard, True classic, ahead of 1993, ahead of 2016. -
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im looking for the origin of the vocal gymnastics sample that sits in 2.10 ->onward in journey from light. i've managed to track nearly all samples in the song.. but not that one.. anyone know?
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Edited 13 years agojourney from the light is simply a work of art. Still sounds as daring and radical today as it ever did. I wonder how 4 hero themselves look back on this tune, as while i'm sure that they've become more musically accomplished over the years, their subsequent output has been far less interesting in of atmosphere and emotion. This is peak era jungle!
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4 Hero's masterpiece "Journey From The Light" figures among those Hardcore-Jungle classics you cannot miss the chance to listen; it says that the release was meant to stay as an example of how the breakbeats hardcore scene should run out from the commercial highlights and get back into the underground atmosphere.
You can easily notice it through the tune's ensemble, from those future electronic synths, phaser effects, vocal and beat stretches by Marc Clair & Dego, darker moods, melted with samples from the hottest Funk-Soul beats by the drummer Mack Johnson from the classic "Funky Mule" (1969) by Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm, and also Belita Woods lead vocal sample "Some people think it's in the sky!" from the Soul-Disco classic "Journey To The Light" by Brainstorm, 1978.
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