Phreek was a studio group produced by Patrick Adams in 1978. Phreek hit it … Read Full Bio ↴Phreek was a studio group produced by Patrick Adams in 1978. Phreek hit it big with "Weekend" which has been covered by Class Action and Todd Terry and continues to be a popular club hit. Although Adams released many commercial studio acts in the late 70s, Phreek is certainly one of his best works. The album is solid all the way through.

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Weekend -
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@ladymoon

2y↑21

RIP Patrick Admas - the greatest disco producers of all times <3

@jaimeemontalvo8537

23w↑3

This was Madness on the dancefloor 🤣🤣 Two Dj's that played this tune and made sure you never heard it the same way, unless you heard it by them (fact) were Nicky Siano and
Larry Levan....many djs can confirm that😂😂 Masterful
💯💯❤️❤It was a treat on their dancefloors, or where ever they played it,
Chris Wilkeshire , thank you for my favorite dance tune 👏👏👏👏💯💯💯💯❤️

@coneyislandboo9048

4y↑5

Patrick Adams owned the 70's

@alston1951

11y↑17

Amen .These kids today don't know what they missed! we truly partied !

@ewb0712

12y↑16

I was a PG member from beginning to the end... Loved it ..travelled from Philly to NYC... would arrive @ midnite via train... walked down 7th ave and meet the dealers.. then up the dark ramp... bass pumping and vibrating off walls ....there till @ least 11:30am Sunday morn.... What an experience

@jaimeemontalvo8537

23w↑1

Home,💯💯 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👏👏🙏❤️

@Ayktd

13y↑11

THIS WAS AND STILL IS THE JAM!!! This version will forever be my favorite. You can hear the light strings of the orchestra, and the pure vocals of Christine - where she is not screaming to get her point across. When you can sing a song that has lyrical content that would not embarrass your parents or children if they were listening, you know gone are the days of making great music like this. Less is more, every time. Children of today will never know just how great our music was...sad but true

@DJVICARENA1978

4y↑13

There are so many songs Larry Levan influenced me to play as a DJ, However this song stands alone among so many memories. I was there when the crowd gave Larry a standing ovation when this song was played and worked to the end. Paradise Garage and Larry will live forever in our memories.

@jaimeemontalvo8537

23w

Yes indeed 👏👏👏💯💯💯❤

@willislee3687

12w↑1

What a sight. Thanks

@Margie75

3y↑4

The 70s and 80 had some great music especially this one . This tune gives me New York vibes. I was 3 years old in 1978 and I was boogieing in my Pampers. Lol😄😄😄

@1blessedbrotha

9y↑4

heard this while sweatin it out inside The Palace in Paris, July,1983
Thanks for the memories!

@issysanchez3390

1y↑1

Wow

@Latincas

11y↑25

Living in the LES the garage was just steps away being 53 a father of 6 and grandfather of 21 being a garage member got a lot of people in the club cause the experience had to be shared cannot dance like I use to but still do my kids freak out they cannot understand it the Garage was a lifestyle RIP Larry much love to all that have survived even 9/11 could not stop us we are here to teach so teach we will much Love to all dance on

@atrocchia

4y↑3

The 1970's & 1980's were the greatest. Two decades of creativity and innovation at their peak.

@festsmith6400

4y↑1

Hell yeah I was there from beginning to end. I saw class action sing this there!

@coneyislandboo9048

4y↑1

And high 5 to Patrick Adams. He never ceases to amaze me.

@doginthecity9635

6y↑9

This is the best version.......

@ITCHFLGS

13y↑3

Your right in Chicago at about 5am at the Power Plant or the Muzic Box it didn't matter when ever I heard this track I and the whole club lost it's mind. I've been lookin for this version for 24 year. I am so very happy that u posted this. Thank You, Thank You and Jack You!!!!!

@michaelm3528

10y↑55

Yes, everyone knew that when Larry threw this on at the 3 minute mark or so of the song that it was getting ready to Go Down!. The way he would separate the voices, bells, piano and then drop that Bass Laaawwwd!!! We would literally be flying, the more we flew, the more he worked it right down to the last piano stroke.. Many nights he would let it play out to the end to a "Standing Ovation".. True Story...

@njplr

10y↑12

Truer words were never spoken. This song is FABULOUS, but when I think how it used to sound at Garucci's, with Larry breaking it down just as you said, and on that incomparable sound system, (and with that added oomph from the tab of acid taken earlier!) OMFG. And then when it was all over, the silence, in which we clapped and shouted and vowed our undying allegiance to the High Priest of Dance...sigh. 84 King Forever.

@michaelm3528

10y↑5

***** Thank you.... Did you get to go the #LarryLevanWay street party last month? If not, there's a couple hours of great videos that Red Bull recorded. I posted a couple here on my page in May. They're titled "Listen to The Party! Pt 2". When you get a chance have a look and listen. Francois K & the fellas did great job so the highest quality Headphones or sound system is a must.. Enjoy...

@maximillionvogue

10y↑5

Michael Wiseman Man I'm sitting here in 2014 feeling your stories.. just know they were replayed out again here in the Chi - I remeber leaving the tuesday night party going straight to school after a large coffee and a fritter!!!! same clothes - C/O 86

@michaelm3528

10y↑8

max vogue Yes indeed, there used to be a Wed. night party at Zanzibar in Newark that Al Murphy started for and featuring Larry playing. Many Thursday's I'd go from the Dance floor to the Shower then to straight to work. I laugh about it now because I was definitely the hottest of messes.. In a good way.. lol..Great memories.

@maximillionvogue

10y↑4

Least you took a shower bro... #maniwasdisgusting

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@keithstarnes365

2y↑4

Rest in peace dear friend Patrick Adams, Larry would pop the confetti in Garage on this.

@issysanchez3390

1y↑1

A genius. I was honored to work with his music.

@subwaygoddess1

4y↑6

When I hear this, I think of dancin on a hot, sweaty dance floor , jumpin, trippin, and that whistle around my neck...

@loosestudios

12y↑5

The song "Weekend" was originally recorded on Atlantic Records by Patrick Adams' studio group Phreek which Wilshire was once a member.[2][3] The song was heavily played by Larry Levan yet it was commercially unavailable therefore it did not enter any charts.[4] In the early 1980s, William Socolov, the co-owner of Sleeping Bag Records, invited Levan to make a new version of "Weekend". It became more successful than its original version, peaking at number 54

@issysanchez3390

1y↑1

I have the deeper longer story since I did the original mix.

@loosestudios

@@issysanchez3390 Do tell Come on with your come on

@darrenmonty2432

11y↑3

I used to loose my mind on the dance floor when Larry would play this. Damn, those were the days. When the night life in NYC was good and fun. It seems as though the club scene here in NY is not what is used to be. Glad I was around to enjoy it.

@ramizzware7428

5y↑3

So Happy I danced to this on the stage at The Paradise Garage with my best friend Mick RIP Mick

@jacquelinebollettiero491

12y↑3

This is my all time favorite dance song I have been looking for it for about 20 years Thank you for putting it back out there I listened to this when it was from underground no one knew this song only in the clubs

@mrob75

11y↑19

Anyone remember dancing to this at the discos? I just tried dancing to this alone here at home and ran out of breath! lmao! We were so thin and in shape back then!

@mr.j-pascall-5744

Must of been heaven (not getting out of breath), go to Disco parties.

@victorcapella2298

10y↑20

Picture this... 2 the Garage, 6am, feeling nice just got a taste of the spiked punch, baby powder the floww is sooooo smoothe,and you find a friend for real, for real.... Awesome track!!! God bless you Larry!!!

@evelynpino8049

7y↑5

omg it was like waking up to the sun you never wanted it to end The garage Fridays the loft saturdays

@skfj67

7y↑5

Evelyn Pino So wish i could have experienced the Loft more than once (1995), I've been to the Paradise Garage only once too (Aug. Of 87), I'm from NJ and used to hear people talk about both clubs but was at the time addicted to Zanzibar, plus i was just starting to really hang hang LOL. How did you like Club Shelter in the early 90's?

@carolynntubman1461

Evelyn Pino Awesome memories

@carolynntubman1461

6y↑3

skfj67 I partied at Zanzibar a couple of times - even saw Sylvester and 2 Tons of Fun perform there but NYC clubs were my thing.

@Swoop2565

2y↑1

Zanzibar was cool….but sometime the system was too much (loud) for a smaller club

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@daimonperez5571

7y↑25

We can all agree, we all miss THE PARADISE GARAGE !!!!! JUST TO BE FREE WITH THE MUSIC- ALL THE LOVE .......

@artemisnectar7

3y↑1

Yezzzz🙏🏽🤲🏽🌪🤸🏽‍♀️💃🏽💃🏽🔥🔥

@port2344chester

13y↑11

A true mountain moving tune....LARRY dug a hole in the floor with this trax....get the baby powder for the following weekend...this version holds just as much substance as the remake IMO.... both are dance classics. Play either version & it if classic lovers who known his/her music will run to the floor & get his/her groove on. R.I.P. Larry & the P.G. you are missed BIG TIME!

@darrenmonty2432

12y↑7

I used to loose my mind when Larry Levan play this. On of my all time favorite dance classics.

@mrdjlilray

10y↑30

Long Live Larry Levan!!! When we called it UNDERGROUND her in NYC...before it was called HOUSE.

@maximillionvogue

10y↑3

we call this branch of house underground house/disco so not so much is lost in the translation

@jamesrichardson1637

9y↑2

THATS RIGHT BRO

@BHDread

Underground House.....it later combined

@Muswell

9y↑12

Wow - I'd never heard this original version - only the Todd Terry remix.
Great stuff.

@ciresoprano3776

6y↑6

Whoa shit I had no idea ....I thought Class Action joint was the original....I remember The class action version and the Todd Terry project version came last....I was 6 when this version came out wow. You learn something new every day.

@elbarrio104

4y↑2

PARADISE GARAGE THANK YOU LARRY

@housemusiccatalog2279

6y↑25

Patrick Adams sure knows a good bass line, damn.

@tyrondavis6727

6y↑1

Check mate, point action taken 🍜🍷🇺🇸🎹

@coneyislandboo9048

5y↑1

Patrick Adams helped make Disco/Dance music what it is today

@planchaone

12y↑1

YES YES YES, YOU WERE THERE, I LOVE IT, MOST PEOPLE DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS TO DANCE TO LARRY'S MASTERFULL EXPRESSION TRANSMITTED TO US ON THAT DANCE FLOOR...TECHNOLOGY DOES WONDERS BUT GUT FEELINGS IN MUSIC LIKE THOSE DAYS ARE TRULY MISSED OUTHERE MUCH LOVE AND BLESSINGS

@mlcody6453

1y↑1

Boston here: LOVED this version the best. Jeff Tilton and Wendy Hunt ("Blendella") could mix in and out of this like crazy. Miss them both and REALLY miss my days at Boston-Boston/15 Lansdowne Street

@festsmith6400

4y↑2

Loved this still have the vinyl saw Class Action sing this at the Garage.(Damn I want to go home! Tears every time! Larry Brody Noel come get me !!!!

@cromanxx1

4y↑11

A hard hitting gem from our generation. Simply a spiritually beautiful tune.

@elspethboyd8074

43w

Incredibly beautiful!

@Mannchild11

7y↑2

Not just the garage people...everywhere. Any club you went to killed this. Talk about a classic!! Love saves the day

@drpatesimplelife

8y↑12

everything, and i mean everything sounded fabulous at the "Garage".

@skfj67

Pate Allen Purvis, Jr. I can relate but what'd think of RLA's 2nd masterpiece at Club Zanzibar?

@larryvuchanovich1150

8y↑13

Use to rock to this jam in the Garage

@coneyislandboo9048

and the Limelight

@tyrondavis6727

6y↑5

I have been looking for this song for weeks, if not, for years. The last time I ever heard this song is probably back in early 2006, when Joe Causing playing on WKTU-FM here in NYC. The only problem that either I never knew or forgot who is playing is the group,Phreek.
On the personal note, this is the 40th Anniversary of this 1978-79 dancing disco song. So it really kinda reminded me of my childhood, only I was still a little toddler when I heard this radio, or was watching the late Dick Clark's classic American Bandstand on ABC. Also, Soul Train, which is on WPIX 11-Alive/Channel 11( subsequent nowadays CW-11), ABC's Weekend Special after the Saturday Morning Cartoons, and all the perks, the works, everything.
That's when I was technically supposed to be playing with my toys, and listen to my alphabet music, at my toddler age. Ughhhhh,oh well , that brings back memories, I remembered and enjoy this beautiful disco song, and I appreciated this.
And you young millennials, you and I need to have a little sit-down meeting about this song. So you better be taking notice.
Happy 40th Birthday of this song Phreek's classic Weekend (1978/79-today)🎂💎🍁☕.
Check out Mick Jackson's Weekend. Sounds different, but a great 1978-79 song hit too.🍕🍹

@issysanchez3390

1y↑1

I mixed Phreeek and worked Mick Jackson

@mayena

4y↑3

If anyone familiar with Class Action version (1983). Still sang from the same leading vocalist, Christine Wiltshire.

@issysanchez3390

Yes that was a good idea on Larry’s part.

@marilynmary97

9y↑15

this song was the bomb back in the day at the paradise garage

@vincent61532

4y↑1

definitely

@skinnynicci

2y↑3

RIP Mr. Adams

@broderick9100

7y↑7

Larry Levan and a nice dose of MDMA he tore the fucking club apart every time he played this song.

@dennisnichols3432

2y↑2

Pure Shakedown 🕺🏿🎩👌🏿💯🚀

@broderick9100

7y↑9

Larry Levan a great hit of MDMA and of course my Newark, NJ friends on the dance floor. Roxanne, Christine, Eric, Zakia and the rest know who you are.

@davidtrumper4122

8y↑3

Absolutely fantastic.

@coneyislandboo9048

4y↑5

Any shout outs to Patrick Adams?

@randee53161

12y↑5

i sweated so much to this song this music ..i started a rain forest!!!!!

@thomaszwingmann4157

Fantastic!I See Christie Shire live next Month at Trinity Party in Hamburg,great!👊🤩😘😎

@samjf1

5y↑3

It’s called just pure good damn music.. 💃🏻

@jermainerainey2763

5y↑3

Tee Scott tore it up,. RIP

@darrenmonty2432

12y↑4

OMG. I remember i could be getting tired from dancing for gods knows how long then about to take a break, then Larry would play something like this and i would get my second wind. I used to be a sweaty mess.

@allancesterjr4494

This was a confetti tune !

@reginaldcottrell9813

7y↑3

house music at it`s best . these were the rel good times

@daimonmarioperez9501

6y↑4

At The PG you know when this came on you had to find somebody or somebody would find you, and dance until the sweat came running down your face. Down to the last piano note. Then the raw barking and clapping and giving it up to the one and only Larry Levan... Wake up Daimon it wasn't a dream you were there. You and sooo many others. A home we found for the weekend.

@jaimeemontalvo8537

23w

Yes indeed, those were the days
👏👏💯❤️

@garyragin9966

9y↑15

....Larry Levan and microdots! What a great combination back then. Yeeeeaaaaahhhh Baby!!!!

@jamesrichardson1637

9y↑2

hey Wob all I can say is LARRYYYY

@jamesrichardson1637

9y↑1

I'm good bro how you

@lotuskissed

12y↑1

I remember a hot, sweaty packed Warehouse and Frankie would spin this song...AND man did we jam! *those chi-town northern nights back in the day*:)

@suekitt1401

8y↑6

AHHHHH, WE LIVED 4 THE WEEKEND 2 HIT THE DANCE FLOOR 4 MIDNIGHT 2 MAWNING MARATHONS, YES LAAAAAWD.

@Asianbeard

13y↑2

Just wish I could have seen Levan himself in action mixing this song like a pro. I'll bring disco back in my DJ sets! I'll make you proud levan!

@dangermouse1337

12y↑4

I'm a "kid" (21) sort of and this stuff is my shit I wished they had clubs that played this instead of the same top 40 crap over and over again

@angelarichardson5801

8y↑7

you went crazy on the floor when this came on

@alston1951

11y↑3

This was definitely Larry' s theme song !

@cbrown1611

12y↑2

The jam!!!!!!!!!!!

@BHDread

5y↑1

Class Action version too....both SLAM

@Multi1628

8y↑5

The house piano especially at the end! Christine! Patrick Adams! 1978 dance classic - thank you for posting! 12 people have no ears!! DAVEDJ

@skfj67

39 MORE!!!.....people must've cut theirs OFF to be with the sad 12, LOL

@t.j.rympalski4673

7y↑2

great intro! :15 seconds in it really gets good

@user-bk3js2rh8j

42w

Man the night Larry played at Zanzibar he played this oh my god it went down the greatest night of ever had in a club Larry we love and u will be forgotten the best to play had down

@anthonyblackwell7740

8y↑21

this was the theme song for the early eighties, until the aids epidemic took away our loved ones. still we left our mark and it must have been something because 30 years later the music is considered by many to be the most creative decade in music history. long live PARADISE.

@shawnashawnte2805

8y↑1

@skfj67

Anthony Blackwell YO!!! Bruh? Ain't that something amazing!!!?? I try to tell younger (and some our age that didn't hang back in the day) what the 1980's meant to music as a whole!!!! So much so that...in many many ways the MOVIE/MUSIC &FASHION industries are STILL!!! ...chasing the 1980s. It made too many hits and WAY too much mula $$$$$

@vivian9538

I wish I had been there!!! Long live the PARADISE GARAGE!!!

@anwarphilip7460

FORGET THE '80S... THE SINS OF THE SEVENTIES GAVE WAY TO THE CEST POOL OF THE EARLY TO MID 80'S(PRE AIDS). EVEN THAT DIDN'T STOP SOME PEOPLE.

@unnecessarydrama61

12y↑2

This is truly one of the legendary classics! Like this much better than the Class Action version, but that's just me.

@wicklowlad53

9y↑2

a great tune.gotta dance.

@hmadaryl68

9y↑2

Love tha 70's vibe!! mmm... mmm... mmm... <3

@planchaone

12y

WE LIVED IS RIGHT,LOL, LIKE YOU SAY, THE BREAK OF THIS PARTICULAR SONG WAS TRULY AN ORGASM WITH MUSIC, EVERYTIME HE PLAYED IT, AND WHAT GREAT EXPERIENCES THEY WERE ON THAT FABULOUS DANCE FLOOR

@kentjackson9515

8y↑8

those were the acid days at the warehouse . Frankie knuckles.baby 2 06,jefferson.yessssslll.

@MrDywayne

9y↑2

I danced a many dances to this classic...

@kfullman

10y↑1

Yes this was the one at 7:00 AM David would put this on, on a Saturday morning and Donald would put this on, on a Sunday morning down in Catacomb's and we would loose it. I can remember I would be calling myself walking around thinking I should go home. I would be back on the dance floor. Whew those were the days.

@jermainerainey2763

5y↑1

DJ Eric From Blues,. Still at it!!!

@ewb0712

12y

Only experienced Catacombs once..nice.. but a true Garage patron.. even travelled to D.C( can't remember the place there).,... Love NYC Garage

@tomasmorey1269

7y↑6

Phreek - Weekend 1978

@hansmarinkelle134

46w

SURE IT ISFROM THAT YEAR?

@tomasmorey1269

46w↑1

@@hansmarinkelle134 Well, it sounds late 70s funk. Some of those funk tracks have been taken to house productions: Larry Levan, Todd Terry, in exemple. I was 4 y.o., but it´s writen on the label. I believe it was rounding that years.

@theselecterdjkirk

11y↑1

We are so excited to have Leroy Burgess performing for the first time in San Francisco Sat. June 29th, 2013 at our Sweater Funk 5 Year Anniversary - Elbo Room. Join us if you're in the area.

@lom888

8y↑11

I was listening to the Class Action version and thought "Man, if this song were cut in the '70s, using the technology and disco ethos of the time and not overproduced with all of the electronic sound effects it would be a divine track..." Little did I know...

@skfj67

7y↑1

lom888 LMFAO!!! GOTCHA!!!

@oneguyz11

5y↑3

lom888 I myself hated that class action version, this is the one I remember from the garage in NYC and Zanzibar in Newark NJ, this would get the floor poppin like nothing else!!!!

@lom888

@@oneguyz11 Ever since you posted this comment I took the time to learn more about the Paradise Garage and Zanzibar, and it opened up a world of outstanding tracks for me. Thank you for sharing your experience

@issysanchez3390

1y↑3

It took me 8 hrs to create this mix

@elspethboyd8074

43w

Christine performing the vocal on both I think?

@subwaygoddess1

12y↑1

Gonna find a friend yeeaaahh!

@TheNickJonesExperience

5y↑1

Issy Sanchez killed this mix!

@Movemaker12

12y↑2

man i miss the garage

@johnpetty9310

On my one and ONLY visit to Paradise Garage i only remember like 5 or 6 songs being played that night (a strong 4 for sure) ... And this is one of them, he played it right the show , ARNOLD JARVIS (TAKE SOME TIME OUT) & LOLA of DINOSAUR L ,she sang a lil bit of GO BANG and then WAX THE VAN.

@alainvincent1309

7y↑3

This One Knocks So Hard!!!!!

@jennyvillarreal3264

life was so good & carefree

@25thstreetlucky

11y

that place there was the one and only Clubhouse...damn i miss those nights/mornings...sigh.

@brklynusa

4y↑1

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@cubanpinga

14y

This was IT back at the garage dayz.

@tocabocastories1623

9y↑34

Our first generation disco folk didn't need energy drinks to dance past sunrise

@dgenerate707

9y↑21

true but they did coke

@billie44

8y↑13

+Elle Mimeux I now we took acid lol

@arizenza6

7y↑3

Say It Elle!!

@zillazilla702

7y↑3

Elle Mimeux Just coke, huh?

@carolynntubman1461

MidwestOutsider707 Ahhh the good ole days

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@sjtToo

10y↑11

Don't try this at home, kids! Or maybe do? ;) Song structure analysis, Wow Haa!

@richardsanchez5089

5y↑1

Tonight is the night, going to find a friend (always) to spend the weekend, to be 17 years old, out and proud, living in NYC and dancing your ass of at 7 a.m. feeling no pain at the Garage, oh fuck yeah, miss you Larry and thanks for keeping my waist at 29 inches

@henryc1006

I still and will never ever forget those days,, but you left early,, we would leave the clubs around 9 or 10 am.. and took us another hour or so to find our car.,

@richardsanchez5089

5y↑1

@@henryc1006 Oh no Henry, i never made it to the Garage until the earilest 5:30 a.m., at 7 was when the real drugs would kick in and this song would come on. Would leave Sunday afternoon when the place would close find my shades and then head over to the Ice Place for the afternoon tea dance. lol

@henryc1006

@@richardsanchez5089 pop a 714,, and you be ready to go,, LMAO,...

@kentjackson9764

7y↑2

206 Jefferson fk. babyyeah what good memories from this song....

@stoneyislandfilmwork

14y

The class action version is what we used to bump in Hyde Park back in the early 80's much soulful version, an the beats are harder in the class action version.

@cubanpinga

13y

we pumped all night long. Danced, danced,and danced was the in those days.

@garyragin9966

1y↑1

A Paradise Garage National Anthem

@ldmckenzie2011

13y↑4

6:30am with coffee and donuts.....PG had a life of its own!

@jamesrichardson1637

9y↑6

how many times did I dance too this

@ewb0712

11y

Oh yes, the big big speakers danced on and in front of them.... Miss my Garage

@sekhmetbastet

13y↑1

WoW, Leroy had it on Smash!!!! Didn't hear this when it came out though. First heard it in 95.

@issysanchez3390

It’s was 98

@issysanchez3390

@marilynjuly

7y↑1

YAAAAAASSS!

@tmontyb10011

14y↑1

@chrisNova777 Yep and a Christine sings the Class Action version too. Personally, I prefer her vocals on this version.

@planchaone

12y

JAJAJAJAJA,THIS WAS THE ORGAZM OF THE NIGHT,LOLSTILL ONE OF MY TOP FAVORITE OF ALL TIMES,MISS THAT PLACE WITH A PASSION, THOSE WERE THE FUKING DAYS,AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW, MUCH LOVE AND BLESSINGS

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