Marc Mac - All Power To The People (Black Vinyl)

Marc Mac – All Power To The People returns on 180g black vinyl as a key volume in the producer’s Beats & Knowledge series. Marc Mac, one half of 4hero and a foundational figure in UK electronic music, uses the album format as a form of audio documentary. Original boom-bap, jazz and soul production is built around speeches, interviews and historical broadcasts, allowing rhythm and testimony to carry equal weight.

This volume centres on the Black Panther Party, its community programmes, political analysis and the state response to its organising. The sequence moves from the reflective “Intro (Peace)” into “We Gonna Be Heard”, “Problems Of The Poor” and “High On People”, establishing a clear focus on collective action and material conditions. “I Am Fred Hampton” and “Cointelpro” confront surveillance and repression, while “Breakfast Program” and “Healthcare” draw attention to the practical community work that was central to the movement.

Marc’s beats never treat the source material as an accessory. Drums, samples and harmonic fragments are arranged to support the meaning and cadence of each voice, producing a record that feels like a carefully paced mixtape and a historical narrative at once. “Only People Can Save The World”, “The Needs Of The People” and “Sense Of Protection” underline the series’ continuing relevance, connecting archival speech to questions that remain unresolved.

All Power To The People forms part of a six-album body of work alongside It’s Right to Be Civil, Extend the Knowledge, Message From Soulville, Generation X and The Invisible Soldiers. Collectively, the records preserve history through the language of independent beat production and encourage the listener to investigate beyond the grooves. This repress is housed in a weighted card cover, shrink-wrapped and pressed on 180g black vinyl. It is a powerful recommendation for collectors of conscious hip-hop, jazz-based beats, political spoken word and documentary sound collage.

The complete nineteen-track sequence is retained, allowing the narrative to unfold gradually across both sides and giving the historical voices, instrumental passages and transitions the space required to register fully.