4 Hero – Where's The Boy / Cooking Up Yah Brain
Label: | Reinforced Records – RIVET 1216 CD |
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Format: | CD, Maxi-Single |
Country: | UK |
Released: | |
Genre: | Electronic |
Style: | Breakbeat, Hardcore, Jungle |
Tracklist
1 | Burning | 4:46 | |
2 | Cooking Up Yah Brain | 5:18 | |
3 | Time To Get Ill | 5:08 | |
4 | Where's The Boy (Trial By Ecstasy) | 4:20 |
Credits
- Producer – 4 Hero
Notes
Track durations taken from PC they are not shown on this release.
Published by Westbury Music/Reinforced Music
Published by Westbury Music/Reinforced Music
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 5 021260 121620 >
Other Versions (4)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Recently Edited | Remixes (12", 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM) | Reinforced Records | RIVET 1216 R | UK | 1992 | ||
Cookin Up Ya Brain / Where's The Boy? (12", 33 ⅓ RPM) | Reinforced Records | RIVET 1216 | UK | 1992 | |||
Recently Edited | Cooking Up Yah Brain (Remixes) (12", 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM, Test Pressing, White Label) | Reinforced Records | RIVET 1216R | UK | 1992 | ||
Recently Edited | Cooking Up Yah Brain (12", Promo, 33 ⅓ RPM) | Reinforced Records | RIVET 1216 | UK | 1992 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- Edited one year agoMy first contact with 4 Hero was in the early 90s when I listened to the BFBS Experience show with Steve Mason.
Cooking Up Yah Brain and some other UK Hardcore tracks cutted together as a mixtape had been my soundtrack day after day, month after month. Till today I like this raw power, this fresh strength of brutal arranged breaks, samples and sounds.
Only with one thing of this release I got later more and more a strange, uncomfortable feeling.
What was the reason to build a track around the situation of a father, who got told that he lost his son because of a drug overdose?
Yes, its a sample from something but was this situation so funny to make a track about it? Should it be a warning?
To me this would not make sense to warn with a track which is a rocket for the peak time of a rave, where probably drugs are used. On the maxi cd cover there is even a coffin to visual the situation carried by the samples.
If you have been a raver in this hot decade I am quite sure that you know people who have died because of this drug lifestyle.
With this view back its not funny anymore, many people have died much to early.
For sure this samples "Your son is dead" and the other related vocal samples of this track got huge attention back in the days on the dancefloor or in the recordshop whilst listening with a friend to the hot breaks. But it also could be felt as a brazen shit onto the drama of those who lost an important person - the parents, the brothers, the sisters, the friends and and and... At least to me nowadays it ain't funny any more but for sure I do know, that people may file this under black humor.
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