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4 HeroWhere's The Boy / Cooking Up Yah Brain

Label:Reinforced Records – RIVET 1216 CD
Format:
CD, Maxi-Single
Country:UK
Released:
Genre:Electronic
Style:Breakbeat, Hardcore, Jungle

Tracklist

1Burning4:46
2Cooking Up Yah Brain5:18
3Time To Get Ill5:08
4Where's The Boy (Trial By Ecstasy)4:20
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Credits

  • Producer4 Hero

Notes

Track durations taken from PC they are not shown on this release.

Published by Westbury Music/Reinforced Music

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 5 021260 121620 >

Other Versions (4)

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Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear
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Remixes (12", 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM)Reinforced RecordsRIVET 1216 RUK1992
Cookin Up Ya Brain / Where's The Boy? (12", 33 ⅓ RPM)Reinforced RecordsRIVET 1216UK1992
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Cooking Up Yah Brain (Remixes) (12", 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM, Test Pressing, White Label)Reinforced RecordsRIVET 1216RUK1992
Recently Edited
Cooking Up Yah Brain (12", Promo, 33 ⅓ RPM)Reinforced RecordsRIVET 1216UK1992

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Reviews

  • basslovingcat's avatar
    basslovingcat
    Edited one year ago
    My 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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    • Avg Rating:4.24 / 5
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