Total Science comes to Opium this Friday

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Jul 24th 2005, 1:22pm By queenseyes

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Jason Greenhalgh (Q Project) & Paul Smith (Spinback) comprise Total Science.

The pair first met in 1987, both living in and around the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, England and brought together through a mutual love of hip-hop and school girls. Greenhalgh was the first into the studio, with "Freestyle Fanatic" launching his career in 1991. However it was the establishment of the Legend imprint and specifically Greenhalghis "Champion Sound", 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 under the name Funky Technicians, with "Got to Believe" 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 Basement, Lucky Spin and Good Looking. After six years of recording singles for Legend and others, the pair established the CIA label and changed their name to the now familiar Total Science guise in the closing months of 1997, with the help of Brillo from Timeless.

The pairis pioneering of a revival in old-school sounds and arrangements, together with Digital and Reinforced, dominated drum & bass throughout 2001. After this followed releases on high-profile labels such as 31 Records, True Playaz, Reinforced and Soul:r.

2004 began with a new studio set up, allowing the duo to up the ante on output and quality, with releases on CIA & Advanced, including No. 1 Sound, A.C.I & Voices and a return to Metalheadz with Defcom 69/Loose Ends. - www.urbantakeover.co.uk Experience Summer of Bass at Opium Lounge this Friday as Total Science hits Buffalo. Opium Lounge is located at 680 Main Street in Buffalo. Opium is the place where international djs spin every Friday. Special guests include Hippie, D-Phunk & Bill Bacon. Tickets are $10 for this 18 and over show :10pm-4am.

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