The story behind "Flaming June" with BT | Muzikxpress 083 

What is your favorite BT production or remix?

BT is a musical genius. It's not even open for debate.

Its honestly a mystery to me how these videos haven't gone semi viral. Incredible insight.

flaming june is a MASTERPIECE, it'll be enjoyed for generations

I got to interview BT back in 97 before he really got big before a rave he was performing at , dude was so humble down to earth and cool just like this interview video. They don't make 'em like this anymore, 100%

BT remembers all of the instruments he used in a track 22 years ago and I can barely remember what I got for my birthday. Genius for sure.

I love how he remembers all the synths used years ago in great detail. Excellent interview as always!

It sounds like you could get BT talking for hours about everything!!! Great glimpse into Flaming June.

Only 4.7k view? This interview should be exposed! Milllions of views. Inspiring for musician with passion! Love the interview

How could there have been NO audience for this track and music in his country!? BT thank you for carving your own path bro, it’s been a great ride since this piece! Record stores, yyeeehh

BT is a massive perfectionist, and it shows.

There may have been no market in the US but at 16 years old, I was up at 2AM on Napster downloading this song :)

BT was one of the first tance artists I was into and it was all thanks to the Digital Empire compilation which had Flaming June. Being a late 90s raver I consumed alot of X and this track (along with just about anything from BT) could almost bring me to tears. But after the build up and the beat drops back in you instantly get so hyped you can't help but dance. I saw him twice and to hear this, Remember and Blue Skies live is AMAZING and BT would get SO energetic while hammering away on the synths that those shows will never be forgotten. I also got to see him play a remix of Smells like Teen Spirit which was bad ass. When you sit in the dark and really open your ears and your mind to absorb just how much is truly happening in his compositions. There is NO other electronic producer that can match him on the technical side of production. Try to name a song that is as memorable as Flaming June, Mercury & Solace or Godspeed that is also as complex yet flawless...I'll wait. And lets not forget his more funky tracks like Love Peace & Grease or NEver Gonna Come Back Down.

I 100% agree with the comment about how timeless the track is. I was 1 year old when this track came out, i first heard it in 2015 and i thought wow, this is literally better than any trance release i have heard since i started listening in 2009.

What an amazing song. Even till this day i still listen to this. I remember listeing to this during my high school years. Brings back so much good memories.

" I can tell you some real specifics" Brian responding to what gear he used for flaming june 23 yrs ago. BT is my inner nerds hero

BT is also one of my first artist I found in the Pre internet era. I was here in the United States without peers like him. That’s why I named myself Trancextend during Yahoo chats. And my goal was to extend my love for this new music that was making waves in Europe. Yet at home there was the typical American music.Thank Twan and BT for your video. Huge studio bro!! Wow.

One of the tracks that takes a special place in my heart, thanks Brian!

‘Dreaming’ was amazing. Vocal trance juxtaposed with breakbeats and early ‘breaktweak’ effects, acidic bass lines, lovely orchestral elements like the strings section - it had a bit of everything. I think I recall Brian saying this was recorded in the Mac OS9 and probably Cubase days. The mind boggles at how he did something so amazing with the tech at the time. Total nostalgia for me, yet it still maintains a sound of an optimistic future... Love it

BT has been a musical inspiration and influence for me for two decades. He's contributed so much to electronic music and paved way for so many other artists out there. I remember calling in to request Flaming June to play on our university's local radio station one time, and my friends were in awe when they heard it for the first time. Interesting to hear how some of my favorite classics come about. I hope we get to hear those demo versions of Flaming June someday; also curious on what video game that is he's composing for. I know he had done the soundtrack for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. Thanks for these great interviews, Twan. Now let's interview that black cab driver in England that gave the track title! 😄

I found BT at a time of my life where I was looking for music to help ease the depression I was suffering. I fell in love with "Flaming June" instantly. It's part of my life and I listen to it almost everyday. Thank you BT! From a fan in Australia ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Absolute legend. Back when you had to use a physical room full of gear 😂 glad I was there, including having met BT a few times in the 90’s, but I don’t miss those days at all 🤙🏽😎🖤🕺

an acoustic genius of the first order. BT will be remembered as the Mozart of the electronic scene, but more humble, more productive, and more human.

You can feel how this man love what he is doing, hearing it talk about all of his projects and talk passionately about each one is just freaking amazing... what a such inspirational man... I just love this man he is amazing... thank for the interview was great as always!

Flaming June is brilliance. Thank you, BT, for sharing so much information

My favourite trance track... first heard it when Oakenfold played it at Amnesia in Ibiza in 1997... ! Thank you for the memory BT! Cool guy!

I remember him playing in the afternoon at Tribal Gathering 1996 or 7 and the sheer glee on his face to be there was wonderful. What an event that was.

My God that an absolutely insane list of synth put into making Flaming June and it shows. It's literally like an electronic/Trance synonym of a classical piece of music. It's so rich in sound and texture, so brilliantly balanced where the various sound complement each other. No matter where I go with what kind of device for listening music Flaming June is ALWAYS there in the ultimate favorite list, I could literally turn on my every phone/mp3 player since last 15 years and there would be Flaming June on it. Thank You Brian for your wonderful music, thank You Twan for this episode, thank You black cab driver in England in june 1997 for the title!

Flaming June will always be linked to my Husky Achilles and I. As it was the first song he heard at my home and sadly but joyously Godspeed was what I played when I brought his ashes home

flaming june is one of my favorite tunes of all time

Why don't we see his music being remixed and played by the old skool underground djs these days?? The 90s was amazing for him..he was a god! Sasha was all over him. Global Underground was all over him. Flaming June, remember, mercury and solace, fibonnaci sequence, dreaming, Godspeed are some of the most amazing tracks (remixed tracks) ever made! I miss 90s BT!!!

His song «satelite» has Been with me since i was a teenager

A deeper guy than you think. Excellent interview with a ton of information. Looking forward to his new releases

BT is one of the most musically gifted human artists in existence today. Especially if you listen to This Binary Universe and These Hopeful Machines, you will know how much it is.

Thanks for this interview 🙏

It’s the one, to this day the one tune that’s perfect. Great memories, I was always excited and impatient to drop it.. Happy days, #oz #warehouse #Plymouth.

Oh sh*t I was thinking about this song just now and then I saw this video coming. Talk about coincidence

My favorite of his, timeless track.

Flaming June is probably one of my most favourite pieces of music of all time.. and I cannot believe it was recorded in my hometown of Manchester! Unbelievable!

Really interesting to hear from BT. One of my favourite producers of all time. Great to see how humble and grateful he is for how wel his records are received and you can just feel the passion for what he does just oozing out of him. Great interview.

I remember ringing up the box music channel to select this when it came out. Can't believe it's over 2 decades ago, still sounds fresh.

5:50 OMG please, please, please release that full original version of Flaming June. I think so many people would LOVE to hear it :)

Hearing this at Cream Amnesia a few years ago when Paul van Dyk dropped it is right up there...what a tune!

He sounds so gentle

Flaming june... One of the most unique pieces created... One of my musical inspiration

I'd love to have a copy of the original he talks about here. BT one of the ultimate greats! Twan great interview as always

This has always been one of my favourite tunes. The Perfecto Fluoro triple CD album I bought back in the 90's had this on it and many other of my favourite tunes. I need to find that orchestral version right now. I also didn't realise I'd missed so much of his music. Those ambient albums sound very appealing.

BT's 1995 essential mix got me into underground dance music #bow 👌🏽👌🏽

Happy happy joy joy Birthday Brian!!

Great interview! One of the most interesting I’ve watched on this channel, I’m surprised it doesn’t have more views. He is a great communicator

Yo BT, this song is in regular rotation in my writing playlist. Thanks for the inspiration!

When people say the words iconic and classic Flaming June immediately springs to mind, it still raises the hair on my neck ..... a lot of emotion for me in the dance scene back in the day

cannot wait! Flaming June is one of personal favorites of all time

This MAN created ART in Natural form

Release the planet 4 version please. One of the best to ever do it. Changed what i thought electronic music could be. So many great compositions. Rare and remixed is a masterpiece.... Many great nights to your work

Great and timeless song from BT! It just has a wonderful and unique feel to it! Words can't describe it! I'm 40 now and I listen to this song with just as much pleasure as I did back in the day and will continue to do so until the end of my life! He created something amazing for the world and I wish him the best!

Such a down to earth person. His personality is also in his music and that's why people love it so much. Again a great interview as always. Keep it up.

love that song, he should release what he recorded in the studio!! Love the quick echoy part

Twon, I closed for BT in the late 1990s in Buffalo, NY, USA. Before I went on, I got to interview (I still have it on mini-cassette and need to transfer it) him and just generally hang out. It was around the time Flaming June came out. Anyway, after the show he invited friend and I on his tour bus and gave us what were supposed to be a 'few beers'. My friend not being very gentlemanly, proceeded to drink ALL of the booze he had on his tourbus and it resulted in BT kicking us OFF his tour bus! Haha. Anyway, I've bumped into him a few times since and he remembers that time well. We always chuckle at 'That time in Buffalo'. I'll never forget just how passionate he was about music and technology as well. He comes across as arrogant in interviews, but I could see it was just him truly expressing love for the craft and his peers that inspired him. Years later I handed him one of my own productions and after bumping into him a year after that, I asked him what he thought. He completely started flipping out about a certain sample I'd used from Tears For Fears and how I managed to make it the way I did. It was a huge compliment because that technique was a direct lift from what BT used to do with editing breakbeats. There's very few times I've been in total awe from one of my production heroes, but that was the ultimate compliment to a person who could barely string two notes together (me)!

Kids, stay in school, and keep your heads in those books, this guy started out as a nerd for music with very few friends, and now he has become a legend in my book, the love for learning is how legends are born, props BT.

Used to be one of the tunes we’d have on in the car driving home in the early morning after a night at TRADE. Brings back great memories.

Genius, thank you for the class tunage BT.

Flaming June is polished perfection. It was THE track that got me into trance and, still to this day, is cutting edge sound that takes you to euphoria

Seems like a really nice guy.

The reason for the name of one of the most well known Trance tunes of all time…😮

By far one of the best trance tunes made from late 90’s/early 2000’s and brings back so many great memories of playing it out in the clubs. Still sounds timeless today

Amazing! BT is such a humble guy.

I have listened to his tracks and mixed them not knowing how awesome this guy really is, such a humble yet passionate person.! Thank you for this wonderful interview, I still play this track in my car In Australia today remembering the great times of the early 2000s and going to clubs and festivals back in the UK. Top track and top bloke!

"at some point I should release this... people haven't heard the full version I made at Planet 4" - umm, yeah! Would LOVE to hear this at some point, Brian. Big, big fan of this track.

Incredibly captivating interview Twan. Brian was so candid. Flaming June is 1 of my GOAT's for sure. I'm also going to make a case for Loving You More. That is another masterpiece if listened to properly. Force of Gravity & Skylarking are both still on my playlist too. Brian is a nothing short of a legend in our industry. Love how incredibly humble he is too.

Really makes me cherish my FJ12" even more! Thanks Bri!!

Great interview. Please update us with a new BT interview about "Mercury and Solace!"

Love BT's music so much. Flaming June is one of my most favorite song. I can't count how many times I've been listening this masterpiece for these years.

Phenomenal track and great insight

Great interview,although im surprised he didnt mention PvD,who worked with him on the 'original mix' which made the track so popular,and you can clearly hear PvD's influence in it. (the version that is playing in the background).

What a cool humble guy - flaming June to this day is one of the best melodies

To accomplish something this magnificent during the pre internet era shows pure talent. BT is a great personality. Thanks Twan. This interview is very inspirational👍🏼

LEGEND! Movement in still life changed my life. Top 5 best electronic music producers FOR SURE! Been a fan since 99' Weather it's his trance, progrssive, breaks, ambient or pop productions. I can not describe in words how much respect i have for his music. The guy is and always has been years ahead of the game. What an absolute fantastic musician. LOVE YOU BT !!!!!!!!!

BT talks about how Flaming June speaks to people who weren't even alive yet. I was born in 98 after this came out and this is my favorite trance song of all time. I am also from the US so even though it's gotten better, it sucks not growing up with the classic trance scene because of my age and my location. I am a big fan of Tori Amos too and love some of the remixes of Blue Skies so it was cool he worked with her when she is not really known for doing dance music

One of the greatest records of all time

Flaming June - one of my all time favourite trance tracks

What a cool and generous guy.

Great interview, such an intriguing man.

It doesn´t get any better than this! Thank you! So fascinating to hear that BT had that turnaround piece first when he wrote this. That´s always been my favorite part of the whole composition. I love when BT talks about this kind of stuff!

24 minutes of goosebumps. thank you for this.

I don't really follow anything BT has done since 2003. But everything he did between 1995-2003 and hearing it during those years was very special. He has created a great world for him now, and I like how he can clearly remember all that detail from those times and how great it still is.

This track is so legendary. Big summer anthem for life!

Woohoo...at last,BT is here😍🙌😇🕺🕺🕺😁Thank You BT sir and Muzikxpress...You're just Fantastic

YES YES YES Please release the full version. To have this track in its entire glory and have it up to modern recording standards would be amazing.

Pineapple belongs on pizza. burning all my BT vinyl as we speak.

Really thoughtful answers. Seems like a great guy.

BT genius! And such a humble guy

Great interview Twan, bet he could fill a few episodes easily!

Already cannot wait for this!

BT is such a dude. An he makes absolute face melting bangers. Thanks Brian for helping to make my 9ps so special.

love comes again!!!

Legend Rocks 🤗

Since its release “Ima” has been in constant rotation on every playback device I’ve owned. It’s in my top three “if I were stranded on a deserted island and could only have three albums to listen to….”. Amazing amazing work.

Classic. Loved it when Sky Sports used to use it in their news bulletins in late 90s along with Don't Stop by ATB...

Great Interview, I loved BT Flaming June, in Clubland 97