Heard this when I was 16 on the radio and never knew what it was but always wanted to know, it came up in a playlist yesterday, I am 41. Still as amazing as the first time I heard it... Love
Man, I've not heard this track for such a long time. I had forgotten all about it. It brought tears to my eyes. So glad I got to hear it again. Beautiful track. 👏👏❤️
Nice cover. I still remember when The New Rotary Connection did this in 1971. I miss Charles Stepney (producer, and genius producer of EWF until his untimely death, shortly afterwards) and I really miss my girl, Minnie Riperton, one of the band members. This song really is THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.
I was today years old 56 in December, when I found out this was a remix from 1971. I was 3 or 4 and it all makes sense why I fell in love with this and the "original" remixes. This D&B version is great and the other Nuyorican version is the one that brought tears. It is more gospel...GOD/DESS spell.
This tune still moves me. I feel such a strong nostalgia when I hear this. It brings me back to high school when I first started listening to drum'n'bass and jungle. Blissful times, for sure...
I could listen to this forever. When people ask me what's your favourite song, it's hard to choose, but I've come to this, this is my favourite song of all time. Thank you rotary connection, & great remix 4 hero.
I should copy/paste your com' because this is exactly what i feel about this pure gold song. First time i heard it was on Fun Radio (Paris 101.9 FM) in April 1997. I only found it back in 2004, with name and title etc. (there was no service like Shazam back then :) This song is everything.
Yes! Yes! I remember hearing this on Hot Ice in the Afternoon, from 2 PM - 6 PM on WCLK, Clark Atlanta University radio station. They played acid jazz, some of the most amazing art work in Atlanta! This is when I first heard of Masters at Work!
OOH MY GOD. I have been searching for this song for years. It was the transition music of a TV station in my country for years. Almost 20 years ago now. So happy to find this
the feeling the soul that this song exudes with it complexity that ranges from beautiful to magnificent to just a pure work of art. my soul is weeping on the inside , and love is streaming down my face and its awesome.
Time to bump this one up again :). Summer in Norway - sun went down couple hours ago but is just about to reappear. Nothing better than listening to this gem :)
Hard to put into words what this song means,that hasn't already been said,apart from,what global pandemic. Almost forgot. I'll be playing this until I die.
heard this track today on chilled soul radio station! downloaded the album immediately! still great to know there’s still amazing music out there to be heard!
What more can be said about this album but pure class that will stand the test of time. what a collection of so many great artists under the those that live up to their joint name, masters at work.
Man, found again! Heard this in the end 90s on a radio station & played after it on my Rhodes several years after without finding this gem anywhere... Love the Rhodes chords in it so much.
I keep going back to this because it's a random Journey I gotta make, cause physically I cannot. I've given up on so much and yet I'm still here. I feel like it's pointless to try. but people made this wonderful great, thoughtful song. Why am I limiting myself? The sky isn't the limit anymore. I just need to be free. Free from this technological world.
😕 god this song is supernatural... reminds me of places I've never been. Timez yet to be had... 😏 girls to love. Ergggh I can't stay away from ethereal space... drain me quick b4 I explode. 🙂
Good to see some love for the original artists who did this song. I have to say this version of the song is excellent. I have never heard a bad version of this song. I really enjoy the modernistic/futuristic vibe of the MAW - 4-Hero's version. The song has always been ahead of its time, tho.
hmmmmm I don't know about that minie had a quality that was so great in her voice that made the original shine. shot the complexities were on another level not to mention it sounded so much more organic. non the less I like both.
Close your eyes & this will drift you off to another place. A proper summer track. 4 hero you absolutely smashed it with this. I can't understand with the crappy mainstream music that's being produced these days, tunes like this are overlooked. This is so much classier and well produced than the likes of Katy Perry, Calvin Harris & all that other shite people are doing right now.
I bought this CD back in1999, just by the musicians on the back cover, was i surprised by the great songs on this cd, and this song is my favorite followed by the eddie palmieri tune..its solid gold allright...
Whoever loves this amazing piece of music is definitely a friend of mine..
What up homey! ;)
Hello, though this remix sounds quite good, i love better the original version, much more powerful : ruclips.net/video/X5IMA6iqL5M/видео.html
Life suddenly becomes simple when you hear this song…
Holy shit what an astute comment. You're totally right... haha
So well said😊
indeed
Heard this when I was 16 on the radio and never knew what it was but always wanted to know, it came up in a playlist yesterday, I am 41. Still as amazing as the first time I heard it... Love
That is awesome man. I am happy you found it.
Same with me man except I was 17 or 18 when I listened this on the radio & found it now in my 40s again. Crazy
Wow, I'm Glad you found it!!!
Same here :) Heard it on Fun Radio Paris April 1997
I also heard this in Lagos Nigeria when I was 14,,,listening to it now in Mirandela Portugal
This remix gave me chills the first time I heard it 20 years ago, it still does.
This is MUSIC for the SOUL and SPIRIT! What a BEAT! A CLASSIC! The JOINT! Peace and Love! I completely forgot about this song until today!
This track never gets to old. Absolutely beautiful.
I still get the chills listening to this.
I've just bought a car. It has a CD player stuck playing one CD, this is track 2. I'm totally hooked!
Ain't heard this in yrs,tnx BBC6🎉!☮️&❤from sunny Oslo.Time flies,use it,fly
Man, I've not heard this track for such a long time. I had forgotten all about it. It brought tears to my eyes. So glad I got to hear it again. Beautiful track. 👏👏❤️
Nice cover. I still remember when The New Rotary Connection did this in 1971. I miss Charles Stepney (producer, and genius producer of EWF until his untimely death, shortly afterwards) and I really miss my girl, Minnie Riperton, one of the band members. This song really is THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.
Wow I never knew all of this! Thank you
I never reaided Minnie Ripperton sang in this song
Loved that artist, always loved this song. So powerful ❤
*realised
I was today years old 56 in December, when I found out this was a remix from 1971. I was 3 or 4 and it all makes sense why I fell in love with this and the "original" remixes. This D&B version is great and the other Nuyorican version is the one that brought tears. It is more gospel...GOD/DESS spell.
WOW
Melonski, forever the black gold of the sun. Rest in peace brother.
Has an Air/Zero 7 vibe to it. I love it
*Zero 7 has a this vibe to it.
Back when tunes were tunes and people didn't sing like auto tuned robots. Love this.
What a treat!!!! Love this melody and message!!!!!
This tune still moves me. I feel such a strong nostalgia when I hear this. It brings me back to high school when I first started listening to drum'n'bass and jungle. Blissful times, for sure...
I keep coming back to this song, a real masterpiece of music
I could listen to this forever. When people ask me what's your favourite song, it's hard to choose, but I've come to this, this is my favourite song of all time. Thank you rotary connection, & great remix 4 hero.
I should copy/paste your com' because this is exactly what i feel about this pure gold song. First time i heard it was on Fun Radio (Paris 101.9 FM) in April 1997. I only found it back in 2004, with name and title etc. (there was no service like Shazam back then :) This song is everything.
Copy/paste twice. Wonderful song, best remix ever.
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Though a good version the original just has that mystical sound which makes it the best in my opinion 👍🏿
Rotary Connection is the original.. Beautiful record.. ❤️✌️
Timelessly stunning!
This is the best song of all time and always will be
Probably the most powerful soul connecting song of my life ❤️
If there ever were a masterpiece … this is it
The original was the true masterpiece.......this is very close tho, especially with the drum and bass section
COOL G RAPP
@@quincyg8031 it is soooo rare that a cover/remix can be almost as good as the original...almost.... Dego absolutely killing the production on this
Yes so proud of jocelyn browns accomplishments..honored to be in her fold.....since I was five years old
Agreed a hundred percent
Thank you Jamal Ahmad for putting us on to music like this for the last 30 plus years. Only on WCLK 91.9 Atlanta. Tune IN. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes! Yes! I remember hearing this on Hot Ice in the Afternoon, from 2 PM - 6 PM on WCLK, Clark Atlanta University radio station. They played acid jazz, some of the most amazing art work in Atlanta! This is when I first heard of Masters at Work!
I want to say Ken Batie (RIP) played this on "Hot Ice" but it's been so long.
Exactly
Absolutely adore this version.
This song gives me life... 😊😊
i am glad.
YES, water like inspiration
exactly
This song gave life to the love of my life
to me as well
The sound of musical perfection.
OOH MY GOD. I have been searching for this song for years. It was the transition music of a TV station in my country for years. Almost 20 years ago now. So happy to find this
welcome home :)
@@Pirike74that feeling... perfectly said
This album changed the course of my life in the 90’s. Such a phenomenal album. Timeless.
What’s not to love about this - 4Hero keeping that sublime early 70s soul vibe alive!
Ahhhhhhh...
This song is water to dry ears.
Oh yeah. I want to live in the world that this song creates.
Yes, iVe heard the original. Fave song ever?
Paris 1998, Radio Nova, best summer ever of the growth of the internet...
youkounkoun bluediamond ahhhhhhhhh radio nova.......
it's been more that 20 yrs. this is a remake.
ben oui..... t'as tout dis!!!!!
Un des grands moment de Nova ......!!!
Just a timeless classic praise be !
This peice of music is life itself
I just discoverd this diamant of a song! Now in love with it forever. Can not stop listen to this masterpiece! Food to the soul🙌❤🙌
This is so magical!!! I love 4hero!
Une pure pépite !❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
First heard this on Radio 1 Pete Tong on a Fri night in ‘97 such a tune.
Randomly heard this on a Sunday morning. I was luck enough to come in at 2:58, and hear the most beautiful part of this song. Truly masterful.
Switches from phenomenal to anazing!
I used to listen to this when i was stationed in Germany
The best song ever (probably)
I LOVE THIS TUNE!! it reminds of a bright sunny day in late May....warm not too hot!! You can feel the ENERGY!!!
This was a band way ahead of it's time, and this remix does the song justice. Respect, mos' def! Miss Phil Upchurch's guitar, though.
Absolutely an ambient, transformative work, that makes the the heartbeat match rich, syncopated passion punctuated by percussive perfection!!!!!!!
Omg... totally forgot about this song. Heard it back in the 90s on a friends cd. Such a wonderfull tune.
it's the guitar at the beginning that does it for me, its pure soul
This remix is WAY better than the original. Love it. Love the beats
the feeling the soul that this song exudes with it complexity that ranges from beautiful to magnificent to just a pure work of art.
my soul is weeping on the inside , and love is streaming down my face and its awesome.
Such a lovely way with words, and a fitting tribute to a sing that emanates a wealth of emotions, pride, ecstasy and rhythm
The more I listen to this the more I respect its genius. I also really like MAW remix. Think its equally a masterpiece
First heard this at the Jazz Cafe in London when we were 17 yo (admittedly all under age) in the early 90s
The cure for a case of the blues. This and "It's alright, I feel it". Super powerful.
Like Drawde I too was captivated by this at a young age.... Its timelessness bears only assent upon hearing it...
If i'm ever down. THIS goes on repeat with the volume WAY UP.
A modest flex of musical genius
A good antidote to the cold winter months when driving to work. Love it
Time to bump this one up again :). Summer in Norway - sun went down couple hours ago but is just about to reappear. Nothing better than listening to this gem :)
Seriously good.
Omg since 1997 ... 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
4hero at their best. Timeless track that never really gets stale.
+B Klein
Easily on my top list, what a great tune
+B Klein - there is many from this year / genre but this track blows them all away . . best drum n bass remix ever
Anything Dego and 4Hero touch from that era is golden dude
A lovely dnb mix of a reimagining of an obscure funk track...just great from start to finish
It's probably one of their best. Indeed from start to end there is no contesting it, its still a solid track. Makes me wish I still had the CD
This is the 4Hero remix of the song, with a little drum n bass jungle music vibe. Absolutely fabulous! :-)
One of my favorite.im a drummer I have so many but definitely on my top 10
Gary Varalla I bet you like the drumming on Man With A Movie Camera by The Cinematic Orchestra then.....I'm sure the latter were influenced by this.
JESSIE-MAY VENTOUR 4hero 👌
@@garyvaralla3333 whats your top ten man, i need more music like this :)
Polyrhythmic not jungle
Louie did this last night Blue Note with Elements of Life Band was amazing!!! 1997 !!!
Hard to put into words what this song means,that hasn't already been said,apart from,what global pandemic. Almost forgot. I'll be playing this until I die.
heard this track today on chilled soul radio station! downloaded the album immediately! still great to know there’s still amazing music out there to be heard!
Reminded of this masterpiece thanks to One Day 👌🏾 #Netflix
back in the day when music was fine
so good
very unusual and mellow, is this jazz? chill out music, very nice coach. :)
hi Richard! so cool to see you here just now lol... sorry for being late!
Loved this right from the first time I heard it on Pete tong radio 1 many years ago
What more can be said about this album but pure class that will stand the test of time.
what a collection of so many great artists under the those that live up to their joint name, masters at work.
Man, found again! Heard this in the end 90s on a radio station & played after it on my Rhodes several years after without finding this gem anywhere... Love the Rhodes chords in it so much.
I keep going back to this because it's a random Journey I gotta make, cause physically I cannot. I've given up on so much and yet I'm still here. I feel like it's pointless to try. but people made this wonderful great, thoughtful song. Why am I limiting myself? The sky isn't the limit anymore. I just need to be free. Free from this technological world.
Are you alright buddy? 2 years later I know, just read your words x
Remember the first time I came across this by accident...bloody hell...opened my ears and my mind...now I send it to many others...bloody hell again !
😕 god this song is supernatural... reminds me of places I've never been. Timez yet to be had... 😏 girls to love. Ergggh I can't stay away from ethereal space... drain me quick b4 I explode. 🙂
This song change my life 12 years ago
after this endless moons beside rediculeous luv this beauty is till beside me! yer and f**** me im still play it twice cause it`s nice #rewind
1970's/Washington DC/Rock Creek Park/Dupont Circle. Played the Rotary Connection version. Explosive in my brain right now.
What about Malcolm X park...???? Georgetown too???? Smoke's...Summer in D.C....
Good to see some love for the original artists who did this song. I have to say this version of the song is excellent. I have never heard a bad version of this song. I really enjoy the modernistic/futuristic vibe of the MAW - 4-Hero's version. The song has always been ahead of its time, tho.
This track never disappoints 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Amazing awesome fantastic almighty 70s 😊😊😊😊😊😊
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Mc 🧠 7:38
a drum & bass version??? had no clue. . . but I've loved this song since college, circa late 1990s-2000s and still today
A master piece 💯💯💯💯💯😤😤😤
I love this song!
It's like having a best friend you only skip into now and then but really enjoy the time spent
Summer's here. I'm bringing this classic remix back to life.
Love the piano in this track...
I used to teach people how to play it back in the day when it was cool with a few people. Great riff.
🤯
Still sounding as good as ever! Love this so much!!
This is my first time listening to this 2021 October and I am going to listen to this over and over and over......... ...
I can't believe it's been 20 years since it's release.
Those were our Golden Years.
This is nothing less than an AMAZING tune :)
+45 you mean. ROTARY CONNECTION-"I AM THE BLACK GOLD OF THE SUN" (1971)
Me thinks the remix beats the original
hmmmmm I don't know about that minie had a quality that was so great in her voice that made the original shine. shot the complexities were on another level not to mention it sounded so much more organic. non the less I like both.
Netflix's She's Gotta Have It!! Well, not this version. Still appreciate this
4 Hero take an awesome interpretation and make it even better. Love the 97 track, this is gorgeous
Schnapper Rock Tutukaka
The Ibiza of Northland New Zealand
I still remember the first time I heard this album.
Close your eyes & this will drift you off to another place. A proper summer track. 4 hero you absolutely smashed it with this. I can't understand with the crappy mainstream music that's being produced these days, tunes like this are overlooked. This is so much classier and well produced than the likes of Katy Perry, Calvin Harris & all that other shite people are doing right now.
Can't compare it to mainstream music. But i see your point :)
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Sat listening to this on a deserted beach in Spain, could life get any better, my go too tune whatever the mood.
ruclips.net/video/AIvI7_u0zkE/видео.html try this.
Just one of those classic forever&ever
I had the cd when it came out got lost. Kept trying but couldn't remember the correct name till now. Glad i found it. Thanks
Notting Hill Carnival 1997. An absolute treat :)
I don't know how i came here but i love it
a sublime timeless classic. piece of work..... merci 4 hero!! :)
I bought this CD back in1999, just by the musicians on the back cover, was i surprised by the great songs on this cd, and this song is my favorite followed by the eddie palmieri tune..its solid gold allright...
Marsha Ambrosius brought me here....wonderful track.
milltic9 what’s the association?
Too Impressive. Too inspirational! Makes me transwarp in the transatlantic. Boricua pride like off the rock of Indian tribes: Taino, Aztecs and all!