Liquid
Group who originally comprised Eamon Downes and Shane Honegan, until the latter party left. They had become one of the first progressive house acts in the Top 20, with 1992's Sweet Harmony, recorded while they were still a duo, as a reaction to the ‘louder faster’ rules of hardcore techno. It cost only £200 to record yet saw them grace UK television's Top Of The Pops stage. Downes re-emerged in 1993 on the XL roster, after a period in the shadows with the TIME TO GET UP EP. He maintains that he calls himself Liquid because he ‘likes the odd drink’. Early influences were dub maestros such as Barrington Levy and Scientist.