4am Kru

The Spiel

It would be easy to imagine 4am Kru were born in an instant flash of blinding light. After all, the truest way to experience their music is in the timeless white heat of a manic rave dancefloor as they deliver their literally sweat-drenched live show. Those live shows seemed to arrive fully-formed and, along with a barrage of online and vinyl releases, have seen them snowballing as they roll through clubs and festivals, building a passionate following and doing bigger and bigger shows up to and including warming up arenas for Chase & Status. And the way they condense the purest essence and energy of early 90s rave and jungle seems so natural, it feels like it must be done on pure instinct. In fact, though, the genesis was anything but instant – or at least, Howie and Stu, the core of the Kru, had to put in years of painstaking experimentation to set the scene for its explosion.