Flashback Friday Music Share – 01/29/2016

I had to search the forum to make sure I didn’t already post anything I put up today.

My mood is for old rave techno with a more “live performance” aspect, which I think is missing too much in this world of Jesus poses at big fests in front of a massive crowd. I actually long to see the “live band”/”live act” aspect come back.

Here’s one I love:

Title: Mindflux
Artist: N-Joi
Label: RCA

Genre(s): Rave Techno
Year released: 1991

I remember catching this video one day in my late teens, and immediately ran out and found a cassette of the infamous EP N-Joi released of their four big rave tunes. I later bought a vinyl when I started DJing.

N-Joi themselves are a duo of Nigel Champion and Mark Franklin. Their story is like many rave acts of the time, some musically-inclined creatives who built a powerful live act in their work. They later added in vocalist Saffron to create their first big hit “Anthem”.

Beyond the tweaky sounds of this tune, I just loved the video, as it showed how cool live acts were at raves and fests.

Gerd, I hear that Sydney Youngblood tune often on the Slovak radio stations my wife tunes into on the internet.