#THROWBACKTRACK THURSDAY: Faithless — Insomnia (Monster Mix)

Remember Napster? Mid 90s, pretty much the origin of the digital piracy controversy?

Well, back in the day I got on Napster — the original one — and started looking for tracks to download but there wasn’t anything like an indexing system and certainly not a naming/tagging convention for the files. So I would search for terms like “electronic” and “remix” and download whatever came up.

I listened to these tracks for years. Since I was far too shy to go to a club, they were my only connection to the blossoming rave culture that I was missing out on. Frequently, I never learned the artist or the track name. I had a bad hard drive crash several years ago that wiped out a lot of my old Napster tracks, but I took the survivors to a song-identifying website and most of them finally got names.

And this is one of those old Napster tracks. A classic that I’m sure everybody knows. “Insomnia” was first released in 1995 by Faithless and has been re-mixed and re-released plenty of times. I’d love to hear some current remixes of it too.