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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 [a=Q Project] launching his career in 1991. However it was the establishment of the [url=http://www.discogs.com/label/Legend+Records+(UK)]Legend[/url] 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 "[url=http://www.discogs.com/release/84159]Got To Believe[/url]" 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 [l=Lucky Spin Recordings], [l=Basement Records] and [l=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 [l=C.I.A.] label in the closing months of 1997 with the help of Brillo from [l=Timeless Recordings]. The release of "[r=5570]" for [a=Goldie]'s label [l=Metalheadz], breathed a new lease of life into the project, and the pair achieved a further boost with a well-timed [a=Bad Company] remix of "[url=http://www.discogs.com/release/10368]Champion Sound[/url]" 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 [l=Skindeep] imprint which has forged broken beat to considerable acclaim. Their pioneering of a revival in old-school sounds and arrangements, together with labels [l=Digital UK] and [l=Reinforced Records], dominated drum & bass throughout 2001 and beyond.