N-Joi

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90s

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They released "Anthem" performed by Saffron, whiched stormed the national cahrts at No.8. They were probabaly the most successful dance act at this time which also enabled other acts to becom established by setting 'formula' for keyboard artist to preform live. "Anthem" was also doing extremely well in th USA and entred the Billboard charts at No.1.

N-Joi formed in 1990 when Nigel Champion and Mark Franklin were only 20 years of age. In the late 80's early 90's dance music was unheard of in the National Charts and the underground warehouse parties were still illegal, which is where you would find N-Joi. There weren't many artists in the UK producing dance music and the market was very limited. Only artists such a Moby, Blackbox, Happy Mondays etc. were getting their material into the charts and that was because they were vocal driven. At this stage not a single instrumental dance tracks had entered the charts until N-Joi. Their first release on De-construction Records (BMG) was 'Adrenalin' which was a hard hitting, full on techno sound. Top of the Pops was not ready for this, as Janice Long, looking stunned said "Oh, I do like a good lyric, don't you?" to the camera. N-Joi had only ever played live to no less than 30,000 people at most of the legal and illegal parties. This was the beginning of their journey into bringing underground dance music to the forefront of the public consciousness. 'Adrenalin' entered the national charts at No.19, which they also performed (without lyrics) on Top of the Pops.

They soon were in big demand and hooked up with singer / performer Sam Sprackling aka Saffron. She brought a sexier edge to the band on stage and it also enabled them to bring vocals to their underground sound, making themselves more appealing to a wider audience. They released 'Anthem' performed by Saffron, which stormed the national charts at No.8. They were probably the most successful dance act at this time which also enabled other acts to become established by setting the 'formula' for keyboard artists to perform live. 'Anthem' was also doing extremely well in the USA and entered the Billboard charts at No.1. N-Joi then released 'Live in Manchester' which was very different to the more commercial hit 'Anthem', but still entered the charts at No.36. By now N-Joi were busy touring the USA, UK, Europe and Australia and it wasn't too long before international artists such as Madonna and Annie Lennox were requesting remixes. They remixed 'Little Bird' for Annie Lennox but they unfortunately were too busy gigging to remix for Madonna and they had to decline her offer! N-Joi's manager at the time had taken on an unknown rave act called 'The Prodigy', who loved what N-Joi did so much that they decided to form a band themselves. Eventually over the years 'The Prodigy' became more successful than N-Joi but still wanted to perform with them, so when they were offered a tour they requested N-Joi to support. Subsequently N-Joi toured the UK supporting 'The Prodigy'.

After a very tiring tour of the USA, N-Joi decided to go their separate ways, but they were still getting requests to gig, and occasionally they did! In about 1996 they decided to go for it one last time and put together an album of new material 'Inside Out' entered the national top 50.

A legendary Rave band that throughout the nineties had four UK top 20 hits, two Number 1’s in the U.S.A Billboard

and were the initiators of the “keyboard dance band” revered by the likes of the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers.

Since re-forming in 2006 Njoi have had four top 10 dance chart hits including the remake of their Biggest hit “Anthem”, and have been well on their way to writing a new Album of cutting edge dance that is up there with the best of them, but due to a huge increased demand from promoters, the younger generation and the massive resurgence in OLD SKOOL club nights, they decided to take time out from their busy schedule of writing music for Film and TV and re-form to play their famous old sets, from the “LIVE IN MANCHESTER” ep and let the BASS KICK.