Total Science; a household name in the world of Drum & Bass, a duo who have firmly cemented their place in the genre’s hall of fame with more than 20 years of music that is not only staggering in quantity, but is also of almost unbelievably consistent quality. To be honest I don’t think there’s much more I need to say about these guys, their music speaks loudly enough for itself. We’ve been lucky enough to have Paul aka Spinback and one half of Total Science here to pick his brain about history, influences, new music and much more.
Hi Paul, how’s it going this morning?
Yeah not bad thanks, still a bit tired but ready to go! haha
Ok awesome, lets get straight into it then. We’ll kick thing off with a bit of history. I’ve read that you and Quiff were brought together by a mutual love of hip hop, but what was it that drew you to the hardcore scene?
Well first and foremost it was mainly drugs! haha
Haha I can imagine that was a big part of the scene at the time.
But seriously, we started going out to a pub in the town centre of Oxford which used to play a lot of early house/bleep music, like Warp Records and that sort of stuff, which was new to us at the time and got us into that sort of sound....