Hero is a band from Dollis Hill, North London, comprising Dennis 'Dego' McFarlane, Mark 'Marc Mac' Clair, Gus Lawrence, and Ian Bardouille.McFarlane and Clair also run the Reinforced record label.Career
They are renowned as pioneers and frontrunners in jungle and drum and bass, and the group obtained a Mercury Music Prize nomination for their 1998 album Two Pages.He died of an overdose."Throughout the early 1990s, 4hero continued to produce tracks under different pseudonyms, which reflected the various mutations of rave.Feel Real Good' and 'Head in the Clouds', both 1992).Detroit techno vibes, which retained the accelerated speeds of hardcore ('You've Got to Slow Down', 1993)
Tom and Jerry.The main players in 4hero first came to prominence in the late 80s when they set up a Pirate radio station.The group became known in the rave community as early as 1990 for their hit Mr Kirk's Nightmare, and the conception of drum and bass was helped with a series of releases on Reinforced Records.Goldie met 4hero at a performance in London's Astoria, from which Marc and Dego went on to collaborate and bring the sounds "in his head" to life forming the Rufige Cru and MetalHeadz monikers with forward thinking releases on the legendary Reinforced label.In 1997 one of their most celebrated tracks, a remix of Nuyorican Soul's Black Gold of the Sun was released to critical acclaim with Louie Vega himself describing it as "...The next year, they rose again to mainstream visibility with their second studio album as 4hero, Two Pages (1998).CD album blended jazzy double bass, flowing breakbeats and a brew of mysticism, spiritualism, astrology, U.The album gained critical acclaim and a place on the shortlist for 1998's Mercury Music Prize as well as picking up a MOBO award in the same year.The first disc contained 4hero Remixes, while the tracks on disc 2 are remixes of 4hero tracks by other artists.This was released on their new label Raw Canvas.Mixmag described it as "their finest album to date" and awarded it the title of Album of the Month in its January 2007 issue.This page was last modified 19:43, 28 January 2008.Need help choosing DVDs or movies?Use of this site signifies your agreement to the terms of use.