With its nostalgic echo, classic single Insomnia by Faithless is one of dance music’s best-known tracks, still as popular today on its 30th anniversary as it ever was. The pioneering 1995 progressive house track was created by the group’s composers Sister Bliss, real name Ayalah Bentovim, and Rollo Armstrong, along with late vocalist, guitar player, programmer and producer Maxi Jazz, real name Maxwell Fraser, who died in December 2022. I was DJing all the time, pretty delirious, sort of DJing almost seven nights a week. “His speciality was his poetry, his philosophy, his agenda that he brought to the lyrical aspect of Faithless, and that you could put that in dance music. She remembers she shared a love of Joni Mitchell and jazz music with Jazz, while he and Armstrong had a passion for dub reggae.

Source: Irish Examiner December 22, 2025 19:30 UTC