Radio 4

Named following a P.We.L. music, Radio 4 revives the past due-’70s/early-’80s post-punk of rings like Gang of Four, Objective of Burma, and P.We.L. by coordinating scratchy acoustic guitar riffs with danceable grooves. The music group was shaped in 1999 in NEW YORK by bassist Anthony Roman, guitarist Tommy Williams, drummer Greg Collins, percussionist P.J. O’Connor, and keyboardist Gerard Garone, and quickly documented a three-song EP for New Jersey’s Gern Blandsten label. Their 2000 debut, THE BRAND NEW Music and Dance, made by Tim O’Heir, came into Radio 4 in to the rates of gritty, guitar-driven, N.Con.C. rock and roll & rollers. In early 2001, Radio 4 returned into the studio room with O’Heir to record the 12″ Dance towards the Underground, including a dance remix from the name monitor. The remix signaled a fresh path for Radio 4, one which would mine their cool riffs and dub-inspired bass lines to make a sound that could merge rock and roll and dance. After slicing demos inside a Brooklyn cellar studio room, Radio 4 visited focus on their second recording, Gotham!, using the acclaimed creation duo DFA, comprised of Tim Goldsworthy and Wayne Murphy. The makers’ encounter with electronic performers such as Wayne Lavelle’s U.N.K.L.E. task and David Holmes, in addition to bands that blend rock and roll and electronica just like the Rapture and Primal Scream, was the ultimate ingredient essential to understand Radio 4’s genre-beating eyesight. Gotham!, released on Gern Blandsten in 2002, is definitely a brilliant mixture of guitars, dub, beats, squeaks, loops, keyboards, and handclaps that evokes the very best post-punk dance rings like Gang of Four and provides it today’s increase of energy. The record garnered significant amounts of positive press, publicity on MTV2, and extended their group of fans, both in the home and in European countries, a lot. In 2003 the music group landed a cope with Astralwerks and released an EP comprised of a recently recorded edition of “Dance towards the Underground” and also a couple of remixes by serves like Playgroup as well as the Faint. The music group documented its third record, Stealing of the Nation, with manufacturer Max Heyes within an underground studio room in Brooklyn. It had been released in Sept of 2004.