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HISTORY 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 . 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. In 1995 NME voted Parallel Universe the album of the year in its dance category. 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. 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. 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 . DISCOGRAPHY
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