{{Short description|British dance act}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Liquid | image = | caption = Eamon Downes a.k.a. Liquid live at SEOne in London. | image_size = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = Eamon Downes | origin = England | instrument = | genre = {{flatlist| * House * techno * breakbeat hardcore * rave * trance }} | occupation = | years_active = 1991–2025 | label = {{flatlist| * XL Recordings * Art & Craft }} | current_members = | past_members = Eamon Downes<br />Shane Heneghan }}
'''Liquid''' was a British dance act that originally consisted of Eamon Downes (a.k.a. Ame)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/461524-Ame|title=Ame|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=17 May 2020}}</ref> and Shane Heneghan (a.k.a. Model).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/551709-Model-3|title=Model (3)|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=17 May 2020}}</ref>
==Biography== Liquid's first and best-known track, "Sweet Harmony", layered the house music of CeCe Rogers' "Someday"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Liquid-Sweet-Harmony/release/13074|title=Liquid - Sweet Harmony|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=17 May 2020}}</ref> over rolling breakbeats. It was originally released in 1991 on a self-pressed white label ''Liquid EP'' of 500 copies, and was re-released on XL Recordings in 1992.<ref name=kmag>[http://www.kmag.co.uk/editorial/blogs/old_skool/liquid-sweet-harmony Old Skool Classic: Liquid - Sweet Harmony] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131081922/http://www.kmag.co.uk/editorial/blogs/old_skool/liquid-sweet-harmony |date=31 January 2010 }} (Interview with Ame), Kmag 2010, accessed 19 February 2010</ref>
"Sweet Harmony" was followed by ''The Future Music'' EP which included "Liquid Is Liquid". Heneghan's departed from the group after its first two releases, but Liquid continued to be successful with "Time to Get Up" and "One Love Family", both of which were chosen as ''Mixmag'' 'singles of the week'. The first three Liquid EPs were produced by Jezz Wright at Blockhouse.
The ''NME'' described their 1995 debut album ''Liquid Culture'' as "sophisticated, soulful techno."{{Citation needed|date=February 2009}}
Liquid's singles have charted in the top 40 in the UK,<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 323}}</ref> and in Europe, and have performed live in many countries.
"Sweet Harmony" was re-released again, on XL Recordings, in December 2007, with remixes by James Talk, Dave Spoon and Streetlife DJs. A further drum and bass remix of "Sweet Harmony" by Danny Byrd was released in early 2010.<ref name=kmag/>
Downes, who was the only remaining member of Liquid, died on 21 July 2025, after a five-year battle with brain cancer.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/tributes-paid-after-death-of-eamon-downes-aka-ame-of-rave-legends-liquid-this-one-really-hurts-3879864|title=Tributes paid after death of Eamon Downes, AKA Ame of rave legends Liquid: "This one really hurts" |work=NME|date=21 July 2025}}</ref> He was 56.
==Discography== ===Albums=== *''Culture'' (1995) *''Energy Flows'' (2017) *''Back to Rave 1'' (2018) *''Spacemonkey'' (2019) *''Lethal'' (2021) *''Back to Rave 2'' (2023) *''Atmospheric Rave'' (2023)
===Singles and EPs=== *''Liquid EP'' (1991) *"Sweet Harmony" (1992) - UK No. 15,<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> BPI: Silver<ref name="BPI">{{cite certification|region=United Kingdom|access-date=23 June 2023 |artist=Liquid}}</ref> *''The Future Music EP'' (1992) - UK No. 59 *"Time to Get Up" (1993) - UK No. 46 *''Liquid Love EP'' (1994) - UK No. 93 *"Sweet Harmony"/"One Love Family" (1995) - UK No. 14 *"Closer" (1995) - UK No. 47 *"Strong" (1998) - UK No. 59 *"Orlando Dawn" (2000) - UK No. 53 *"Sweet Harmony" (2004) - UK No. 87 *"Sweet Harmony" (Danny Byrd featuring Liquid) (2010) - UK No. 64 *"Toxic Drop" (2019) *"Get Straight/Clout Chasing" (with Fast Eddie) (2020) *"Dove Removal Machine" (2021)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{discogs artist|artist=Liquid}}
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