4-Hero is a band, comprising Dennis 'Dego' McFarlane, Mark 'Marc Mac' Clair, Gus Lawrence, and Ian Bardouille. They are based in Dollis Hill, North London. As well as being a band, they also run the Reinforced record label. Dollis Hill is an area of North-West London, England. ... North London is that part of London which is north of the River Thames. ...

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. Box Log Falls, Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia Jungle refers usually to a dense penileforest in a hot climate. ... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated dnb) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... The Mercury Music Prize is a music award given annually for the best British or Irish album of the previous 12 months. ... Two pages was 4 Heros Mercury music prize shortlisted album of 1998. ...

Their style was initially uptempo breakbeat house and techno, and has progressed to hardcore, jungle, and drum 'n' bass. Comparisons have been drawn between them and East London band Shut Up and Dance, with both bands evolving in the early 1990s as a rapprochement between the breakbeat-driven African-diasporic musical structures of hip-hop and reggae, and the dark, European reconstruction of the techno sound popularised by the likes of Joey Beltram, CJ Bolland, and Mundo Muzique. 4 Hero both embraced the dynamics of populist rave culture, and maintained an avant-garde status as innovative and experimental producers. They trailblazed genre-crossing studio techniques like timestretching and pitch-shifting. Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straighted 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). ... House music is a style of electronic dance music, the earliest forms of which originated in the United States in the early- to mid-1980s. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ... There are several musical genres known as hardcore: Hardcore punk is a subgenre of punk rock, sometimes considered related to heavy metal Hardcore techno is a subgenre of techno closely related to the Gabba style, and includes Happy hardcore Breakbeat hardcore aka oldskool hardcore is the predecessor of Drum and... // Musical Derivation Jungle - derived from Ragga-Jungle - derived from Jungle-Techno - derived from Hardcore (aka UK Rave Breakbeat) Explanation of the Name The name Jungle has hazy origins. ... Drum and bass (drum n bass, drumnbass, DnB, dnb) is an electronic music style. ... Shut Up and Dance was Paula Abduls second album release in 1990. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from 2000 and 2001. ... Joey Beltram (born November 6, 1971) is an American DJ and record producer, known best for the pioneering techno music recordings Energy Flash and Mentasm, with which he was supposedly trying to emulate the hard-edged energetic style of his heroes Led Zeppelin. ... C.J. Bolland (born Christopher Jay Bolland, on 18 June 1971, in Stockton-On-Tees) is a Belgium-based electronic music producer and DJ. Although invariably associated with Belgium, CJ Bolland was, in fact, born in the UK, and it was England that provided his first musical influence. ... Mundo Muzique (born May 19, 1971) is an American record producer, known best for the pioneering techno music recording Mentasm and Acid Pandemonium. Mentasm (co-produced with Joey Beltram) became iconic within rave culture, as it was the track that gave birth to the mentasm riff (also known as the... Timestretching, time stretching, timescaling or pitch control is the process of changing the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch. ... Time stretching is the process of changing the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch. ...

Early Output

4 Hero's first EP, Combat Dance (1990) underpinned the sub-bass pressure of the bleep 'n' bass artists associated with Sheffield's Warp Records, such as LFO and Nightmares On Wax, with mid-tempo hip-hop-style breaks. Their next release, Mr Kirk's Nightmare (1990), pivoted around the 'Give the Drummer Some' break (taken from the Isley Brothers) and a morbid vocal sample ("Mr Kirk. Your son is dead. He died of an overdose."), connected dancing at raves with oblivion (often pharmolocologically-induced), and parodied the moral panics in the tablod media concerning rave culture and the use of dance drugs like ecstasy. EP can stand for: EP is the IATA code for Iran Aseman Airlines Extended play, a music recording (usually consisting of several tracks, but shorter than a typical album) European Parliament, the parliamentary body of the European Union Evolutionary psychology, a belief that psychology can be better understood in light... This article is about the year. ... Warp Records is a pioneering independent UK record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in electronic music. ... LFO may refer to: In electronic music, a low frequency oscillation. ... DJ EASE Nightmares on Wax is DJ and musician George Evelyn, also known as DJ EASE (Experimental Sample Expert), from Leeds, UK. The musical style is a combination of electronica sounds and hip hop beats, often regarded as Chill Out. Nightmares On Waxs music is released on Warp Records. ... The Isley Brothers are an American pop, R&B, funk and soul group who began their musical career in Cincinnati in the early 1950s. ... MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), most commonly known by the street name ecstasy or XTC, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family, whose primary effect is believed to be the stimulation of secretion as well as inhibition of re-uptake of large amounts of serotonin as well as dopamine and...

Throughout the early 1990s, 4 Hero continued to produce tracks under different pseudonyms, which reflected the various mutations of rave.

• Manix. Juvenile, happy-hardcore style popular at large-scale rave events ('Feel Real Good' and 'Head in the Clouds', both 1992).
• Tek 9. Jazz-tinged, Detroit techno vibes, which retained the accelerated speeds of hardcore ('You've Got to Slow Down', 1993)
• Tom and Jerry. Ragga structures of jungle's mainstream breakthrough ('Maximum Style', 1994).

They maintained their 4 Hero moniker for perhaps their most celebrated single release, "Journey From the Light" (1993), which was a violent reaction to the chart-busting commercial rave tracks, and functioned as a progenitor of the 'darkcore' sound that characterised early jungle. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Dancehall. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ...

Recent Material

The Parallel Universe LP (1994) is widely regarded to be the first drum 'n' bass album. It explored sounds that had not been generally associated with jungle up until that point: fusion jazz-style synth washes, chord multitracking, and oleaginous female vocals professing transnational peace and a new age discourse of unity with Mother Earth. This served as a prototype for their more recent full-length releases, such as the MOBO award-winning Two Pages (1998) and Creating Patterns (2001), which almost entirely jettisoned the tension and schizophrenia of their early material in favour of complex, mid-tempo breakbeat structures. They have also ventured in the realm of 'live' musicianship by going on tour. Mother Earth is a common metaphorical expression for the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life. ... Mobo can refer to: Motherboard Mobo, Masbate, a municipality in the Philippines MOBO, an acronym for Music Of Black Origin (Awards) This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

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The main players in 4 Hero first came to prominence in the late 80s when they set up a Pirate radio station. The founding members of the group are Marc Clair, Dego McFarlane, Ian Bardouille and Gus Lawrence. After setting up the radio station the four then set up Reinforced Records to release their own productions as 4 Hero. 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. The term pirate radio lacks a specific universal interpretation. ... A rave (sometimes referred to as a rave party) is an all-night dance event where DJs and other performers play electronic dance music and rave music. ... This article is about the year. ... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated dnb) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ...

Goldie met 4 Hero 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 Ruffige Cru and MetalHeads monikers with forward thinking releases on the legendary Reinforced label. Goldie at a rave in Springfield, Massachusetts (taken in 2003) Clifford Price, better known as Goldie (born December 28, 1965 in Wolverhampton) is a British electronic music artist, disc jockey, and actor. ...

In 1995 NME voted Parallel Universe the album of the year in its dance category. Parallel Universe is the first album by the drum and bass goup 4 Hero. ...

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 "...one of the best remixes ever...". The next year, they rose again to mainstream visibility with their second studio album as 4 Hero, Two Pages (1998). Released on Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud record label, the double-CD album blended jazzy double bass, flowing breakbeats and a brew of mysticism, spiritualism, astrology, U.F.O.s, and environmentalism. Ursula Rucker, Carol Crosby and Face provided vocals alongside a few other special guests. 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. Masters At Work is the house music production and remix team of Kenny Dope Gonzales and Little Louie Vega. ... Two pages was 4 Heros Mercury music prize shortlisted album of 1998. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Gilles Peterson Gilles Peterson is an influential DJ and record-label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz and Talkin Loud he has been associated with the careers of countless well-known artists of the 1990s. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... Mysticism from the Greek μυστικός an initiate (of the Eleusinian Mysteries, μυστήρια meaning initiation[1]) is the pursuit of achieving communion or identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight; and the belief that such experience is an important source... Spiritualism is a religious movement, prominent from the 1840s to the 1920s, found primarily in English-speaking countries. ... Astrology refers to any of several systems, traditions or beliefs in which knowledge of the apparent positions of celestial bodies and related information is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting and organizing knowledge about personality, human affairs and terrestrial events. ... UFO can mean: Unidentified flying object United Future Organization, a Japanese-Brazilian electronic jazz band UFO, the rock band that previously featured Michael Schenker UFO, the Gerry Anderson TV series United Farmers of Ontario, a political party that formed the government in Ontario from 1919 to 1923 U.F.O... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into environmentalist. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Mercury Music Prize is a music award given annually for the best British or Irish album of the previous 12 months. ...

Their third album Creating Patterns (2001), featured another Ursula Rucker collaboration, an appearance from Jill Scott, and a cover of Minnie Riperton's classic 1970s song Les Fleur with Carina Andersson as the lead vocalist. The latter was featured in a Baileys commercial in 2004, and in a 2005 Stycast. Creating Patterns is the third studio album by the british drum and bass group. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Jill Scott Jill Scott (born April 4, 1972) is a Grammy award winning jazz and rhythm and blues and neo-soul singer hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Minnie Riperton (1947-1979) Cover of her best selling album, Perfect Angel, which contains Lovin You Minnie Julia Riperton (November 8, 1947 - July 12, 1979) was a soul singer from Chicago, Illinois, most noted for her abilities in the whistle register and her 1975 hit single Lovin You. Having possessed... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Les Fleur is a song from 1971. ... Carina Andersson is a female soprano. ... Baileys Irish Cream (the registered trade mark omits the apostrophe), is an Irish whiskey- and cream- based liqueur, made by R. J. Bailey & Co. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2004 the group released a compilation album consisting of two discs. The first disc contained 4 Hero Remixes, while the tracks on disc 2 are remixes of 4 Hero tracks by other artists. This was released on their new label Raw Canvas. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Album discography

• In Rough Territory (1991)
• Parallel Universe (1995)
• Two Pages (1998)
• Two Pages Reinterpretations (1999)
• Creating Patterns (2001)
• The Remix Album (2004)

1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Parallel Universe is the first album by the drum and bass goup 4 Hero. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Two pages was 4 Heros Mercury music prize shortlisted album of 1998. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Two Pages Reinterpretations is a compilation album of 4 Hero tracks remixed by other artists. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Creating Patterns is the third studio album by the british drum and bass group. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Remix Album is a compilation album featuring tracks produced and remixed by 4 Hero. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Official site
• Discography at rolldabeats.com
• Artist entry at discogs.com