Inner City / Altern8

Back to 1991 on this track. Altern8 were let loose on what was a relatively pedestrian gospel-house track and turned it into a classic rave track that still sounds up today.

Sendspace Inner City - Let It Reign (Altern8 Know The Score Remix)

First video today - well I'm not sure if anybody, and I mean anybody has ever come close to topping this as the best techno pop song ever. Get yer suggestions in the comments in now...

Klaxons / South Central

Took me a little while to dig out this one - only a couple of years ago but seems to have disappeared from the net despite the popularity of the Klaxons. I suspect they covered Kick's Like A Mule rave classic "The Bouncer" as a pisstake, that somehat backfired on them as they got tagged with the "nu-rave" albatross. Kicks Like A Mule returned the favour by "covering" Gravity's Rainbow, which you can hear on their myspace. South Central managed to put the rave back into the Klaxon's version however with their illicit bootleg remix

Sendspace Klaxons - The Bouncer (South Central Remix)

Still not as good as the original though ...

Annie Lennox / N-Joi

Now this really is creating a miracle. From the smallest of vocal samples, N-Joi managed to totally de-contruct the Aberdonian warbler into a rave queen.

N-Joi have been unfairly dismissed as one hit wonders (thanks to their uber-smash hit "Anthem") but it's perhaps more than a little unfair given the strength of their back-catalogue. I strongly recommend you try and track down a copy of their album "Inside Out" as well as their "Live In Manchester" EP*.

I don't believe there's much I can say about Annie Lennox that hasn't already been said. Let's just leave it at that.

• Sendspace Annie Lennox - Little Bird (N-Joi Remix)
  

I think you should probably have some N-Joi for the video rather than Annie Lennox. You know how to use you-tube as well as I do if you really want to see the original version

*it's not really live by the way ...