my other early exposure being to rave music being a friend's older brother who'd bought the Messiah CD single that was released in the U.S.
I've always wondered why Messiah out of all the hundreds of anonymous UK ardkore acts at the time was the one that got a major label U.S. push
but whatever the reason "Thunderdome" is still 100% the fuckin jam
the video is very excellent, kitchen sink early 90s rave aesthetics meet a perfect encapsulation of a pre-Internet view of "cyberspace"
i.e. hackers straight out of William Gibson, "cybersex" (the chorus ofc references "Automatic Lover") clips from
Akira
there's also also an
adult version too hxc for YT with porn clips spliced in
Fight Club style in re cybersex