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soulROCKS minitape pt.12

soulrocks — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:39:23 +0000

Track listing
1. Aaron Livingstone – Alright Then
2. Little Dragon – After The Rain (Trackademicks Remix)
3. Fonworth Bentley – Venice Beaches
4. Dego – All That She Knows
5. Zo!/Phonte – Everything She Wants
6. J*Davey – No More

PUT ME ON IT LIVE AT THE CAMP

soulrocks — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:48:53 +0000

PUT ME ON IT are proud to present the first in a special series of live events at the C.A.M.P. in Shoreditch on Thursday 15th September 2011.

We’re launching with a very rare and special live show from Dego (4Hero/ 2000 Black) performing his recently released album “A Wha’ Him Deh Pon?” with a live band, featuring London’s finest musical talent.

Supporting will be Tanya Auclair, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist performing her original brand of experimental pop much lauded by the likes of Gilles Peterson.

Eric Lau, our resident DJ, will be holding it down with an original selection of goodness until 1am.

To top it all off the inspirational Sri McKinnon will be launching her new exhibition “Mindscapes” (upstairs), Mrs Mck’s Pudding Club from Relay Tea Room will be selling the most delicious selection of cakes and treats you’ve ever seen, and United 80 will have a musical pop up shop!

Advance tickets are on sale now: http://putmeonit.ticketbud.com/live-2000black

PUT ME ON IT LIVE AT THE CAMP

Thursday 15th September (9pm-1am)

Dego “A Wha’ Him Deh Pon?” Live

Tanya Auclair

Eric Lau

The C.A.M.P., 70-74 City Road, EC1Y 2BJ (Old St Tube)

£5 advance/ before 10pm (£7 after)

www.putmeonit.com // info[at]putmeonit.com

4Hero

soulrocks — Wed, 18 May 2011 07:40:54 +0000

In the beginning, the name 4 Hero did actually mark the presence of a quartet. Mark Mac and Dego first hooked up with Iain Bardouille and Gus Lawrence in 1986, through their mutual adoration for hip-hop and involvement in the Strong Island FM pirate radio station. By 1989, Mark Mac and Dego were recording percussive breakbeat experiments and becoming increasingly involved with the breakbeat scene, while Bardouille and Lawrence gradually moved into management of the quartet’s newly formed Reinforced Records. The label debuted with the Rising Sun EP by Mark and Dego, credited to 4 Hero. The second EP, “Combat Dance”, became a big seller in the dance community, though a shady distributor reneged on payment of the profits. Though they were still in the rave scene, 4 Hero’s subsequent recordings also revealed a growing interest in the flip side of rave’s increasingly elegiac feeling. 4 Hero’s 1991 LP debut “In Rough Territory” sketched a sinister path through breakbeat. This was followed by “Parallel Universe”. The smooth sound reflected more of a debt to old – school Detroit techno and Chicago house. Three years after their last album, they signed to Talkin’ Loud and released third album, “Two Pages”.

It was nominated for Britain’s Mercury Prize, and prompted the remix album “Two Pages: Reinterpretations” in 1999. “Creating Patterns” appeared in late 2001, boasting collaborations with Mark Murphy, Terry Callier and Jill Scott. www.4hero.co.uk