4hero are a UK act based in Dollis Hill, North-West London. The main members of this group are Dennis 'Dego' McFarlane and Mark 'Marc Mac' Clair. As well as being a recording artists, they also run the Reinforced record label. 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. 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. 4hero both embraced the dynamics of populist rave culture, and maintained an avant-garde status as innovative and experimental producers. They trail blazed genre-crossing studio techniques like timestretching and pitch-shifting.
1 | Wrinkles in Time | Parallel Universe |
2 | Terraforming | Parallel Universe |
3 | Follow Your Heart (Pt. 2) | Parallel Universe |
4 | People Always Criticize Us | Parallel Universe |
5 | Dauntless | Two Pages Reinterpretations |
6 | Humans | Two Pages |
7 | We Who Are Not as Others | Two Pages |
8 | Twothesme | Creating Patterns [Limited Edition] |
9 | Another Day | Creating Patterns [Limited Edition] |
10 | Shadow Run | Parallel Universe |
11 | Time | Creating Patterns [Limited Edition] |
12 | The Day of the Greys | Creating Patterns [Limited Edition] |
13 | Universal Love | Two Pages |
14 | Planetaria (A Theme from a Dream) | Two Pages |
15 | No Imitation | Parallel Universe |
16 | Wormholes | Two Pages |
17 | Conceptions | Creating Patterns [Limited Edition] |
18 | Escape That | Two Pages Reinterpretations |
19 | Les Fleur | Creating Patterns [Limited Edition] |
20 | Unique | Creating Patterns [Limited Edition] |