Mind Fruit by Opus III

Mind Fruit, the 1992 debut from English electronic outfit Opus III, arrived on PWL International and East West carrying "It's a Fine Day", which had gone to number five in the UK that February. The group was singer Kirsty Hawkshaw out front, with producers and players Kevin Dodds, Ian Munro and Nigel Walton behind the machines, and the hit was a rave-era makeover of a 1983 record by Jane & Barton, Hawkshaw's pure, floating voice gliding over a techno pulse.

The rest of the album is stranger and more bookish than its dancefloor reputation suggests. They take on King Crimson's "I Talk to the Wind" from In the Court of the Crimson King, borrow from a Samuel R. Delany novel for "Stars in My Pocket", and set a recited translation of Omar Khayyam's verse to a groove on "Into This Universe". Running through it all is the green, feminist message the band pushed in its lyrics, sleeve notes and videos.

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