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By 1989, Mark Mac and Dego were recording percussive breakbeat experiments and becoming increasingly involved with the rave and hardcore breakbeat scene, while Bardouille and Lawrence gradually moved into management of the quartet's newly formed Reinforced Records. The label debuted with the Rising Sun EP by Mark and Dego, credited to 4 Hero. The second EP, Combat Dance, became a big seller in the dance community, though a shady distributor reneged on payment of the profits. The pair criss-crossed the country during the late '80s and early '90s, DJing and playing at raves while they struggled to earn enough money for Reinforced to stay afloat.
Though they were still in the rave scene, 4 Hero's subsequent recordings also revealed a growing interest in the flipside of rave's increasingly elegiac feeling. The single "Mr. Kirk's Nightmare" included samples of a policeman telling a suburban father that his son has died of an overdose, and the statement of intent in the titles "Journey from the Light" and "Cookin Up Ya Brain" was self-evident. 4 Hero's 1991 LP debut In Rough Territory also sketched a sinister path through the breakbeat scene, leagues ahead of other producers and on the cutting edge of a style that wouldn't peak for well over five years later.
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