*Buy this at Discogs (identifying versions which contain this mix isn’t easy. None of them on Discogs match the time on this video, which was the version played by Peel on 29/1/93.)
Peel played Mindstream to act as a taster for a Meat Beat Manifesto Peel Session which was due to be broadcast on the following Saturday. It worked out as a classic case of musical bait and switch as the seductive guitar riffs, dulcet vocals and gentle comedown lyrics of Mindstream seduced this listener into wishing I’d known about Meat Beat Manifesto at the time; I can promise that if I had heard this in 1993, I’d have bitched to anyone who would listen as to why they weren’t more widely known. However, the session shows that Meat Beat Manifesto were too confrontational for a mainstream dance scene that wanted its hits served happy, simple or novelty.
Mindstream was treated to remixes by Aphex Twin and Orbital. If you want a sign of how good the track was, Orbital were so happy with the work they did on it, that they mixed out Jack Danger’s vocals, added some extra synths and presented it as a track on their Brown album called Remind. Great art begetting great art.
Video courtesy of MickeyintheMix.
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