Manix - Rainbow People (4 Track Remix)

Excellent 4 tracker, improves on the original ep 100%, I love the original hardcore jungalism mix, but the remix just pips it for me, the rainbow people remix is the stand out track on this ep for me...

Is the original version of "Let Your Mind Be Free" by Nicky Blackmarket (Nick OD)?

This is an excellent early 4 tracker from Reinforced, and also one of the remix EPs a collector should take note of as it slightly outdoes the original Rainbow People EP in my opinion. A lot of the tracks on here take a slower, '91 influenced breakbeat hardcore tempo. The "Exclusive Remix" of Hardcore Junglism is perhaps a bit of an iffy start, not representing the best use of this choice as it doesn't quite measure up to the faster and tougher original (though it's still a very nice tune with some good piano sections). After this, however, we get three definite Reinforced gems. The remix of Rainbow People is a soulful piano/organ take on the original which goes quite downtempo in places. This is a perfect example of, as another reviewer once said, 4 Hero's use of almost psychedelic melodies which conjure up beautiful and happy thoughts at its absolute best here. The Let Your Mind Be Free Remix (which is actually a bit faster than the other tracks at more of a '92 hardcore speed) is an energetic piano hardcore tune with the perfect typical Reinforced combination of harsh and euphoric melodies, it's more manic than the original and a perfect example of the sound this label used to do best. Then, finally, we have an absolute stomper... The Try To Love Me Remix takes the chirpy original track and turns it into a rough hardcore tune with a mix of hip hop influences, it's the opposite of the happier option the Rainbow People remix went for, but it works excellently, highlighting the darker and more aggressive side of the early 4 Hero productions at a slower pace which works nicely.A very good EP if you want a taster of what 4 Hero, Manix and Tek 9 were doing with hardcore at the time, with both their classic euphoric and harsh influences all right here. The original Rainbow People EP is still worth checking out, though, for the original mixes of Hardcore Junglism and Rainbow People, which are great in their own right.

Back, more years now than a care to count, i was a raver. I used to purchase on a saturday morning the odd 12", the prodigy etc.. Then i had to take a little holiday. When fit again I decided to track down those nameless tracks that graced my underground hardcore mix tapes. So, now being the year 1995, the golden age was not long gone but most certainly past, a mate of mine then DJing a more club sound, still had a couple of boxes of 'old' hardcore. "Throw some on", so i said one afternoon and it was then and there that i first set my eyes apon that runic R. This record here to be exact, four songs, all different, all great. A finer example of hardcore breakbeat you will not find. Classic.