About Total Science
The pair first met in 1987, both living on Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, England and brought together through a mutual love of hip-hop. Distracted by the arrival of hardcore in the early nineties, record collecting was quickly followed by DJing and eventually production.
Greenhalgh was the first into the studio, with "[r=319804]" as [[artist:Q Project]] launching his career in 1991. However it was the establishment of the [Legend](http://www.discogs.com/label/Legend+Records+(UK)) imprint and specifically Greenhalgh's track "Champion Sound" from the "[r=84127]", which really took their profile above and beyond the slew of anonymous white labels that were dominating the music at the time.
In 1994, the pair started recording together, with "[Got To Believe](http://www.discogs.com/release/84159)" the first in a series of records which pushed the label away from the fizzling darkside movement and more towards the epic string sections and rolling beats which started to appear on labels like [[label:Lucky Spin Recordings]], [[label:Basement Records]] and [[label:Good Looking Records]]. They also worked Saturdays in the Record Basement shop in Reading.
After six years of recording singles for others, the pair established the [[label:C.I.A.]] label in the closing months of 1997 with the help of Brillo from [[label:Timeless Recordings]]. The release of "[r=5570]" for [[artist:Goldie]]'s label [[label:Metalheadz]], breathed a new lease of life into the project, and the pair achieved a further boost with a well-timed [[artist:Bad Company]] remix of "[Champion Sound](http://www.discogs.com/release/10368)" which conjured further interest in what they were doing at their own label.
Their debut album "[r=129273]" exposed a further field of interest, with downtempo experiments logged as a series of 'breaks' on the majority of their early EP's extended to some superb deep house, this breadth taken a step further with their [[label:Skindeep]] imprint which has forged broken beat to considerable acclaim.
Their pioneering of a revival in old-school sounds and arrangements, together with labels [[label:Digital UK]] and [[label:Reinforced Records]], dominated drum & bass throughout 2001 and beyond.