4 HeroJourney From The Light

Label:

Reinforced Records – RIVET 1235

Format:

Vinyl , 12", 33 ⅓ RPM

Country:

UK

Released:

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 ByReinforced Music
  • Published ByWestbury Music
  • Distributed BySRD
  • Mastered AtJTS Studios

Credits

  • Producer, Written-By4 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

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 5 021260 123563 >
  • Barcode: 5021260123563

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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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

  • System.10's avatar
    System.10
    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...
    • blowie's avatar
      blowie
      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!
      • deejayvenom's avatar
        deejayvenom
        The record that made me want to make records! Took hardcore to a new level of intricacy & production & still sounds like the future!
        • M27underground's avatar
          M27underground
          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)
          • vkubrick's avatar
            vkubrick
            The Element (High Noon) it's one of the most insane song i've ever heard, True classic, ahead of 1993, ahead of 2016.
            • O_Z's avatar
              O_Z
              Still sounds like something from another planet, a true visionary piece of music.
              • bojcot's avatar
                bojcot
                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?
                • stringz23's avatar
                  stringz23
                  Edited 13 years ago
                  journey 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!
                  • Alain_Patrick's avatar
                    Alain_Patrick
                    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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