Jan Johnston (born February
21, 1965 in Salford, Lancashire,
England)
is a female singer.
In the early 1990s she was signed to Columbia
Records as part of the pop duo JJ which gained some
recognition touring the UK.
However when the band project failed she changed musical
genres and started appearing on many dance and trance
releases, mostly on the Perfecto Records label. Her voice
is featured in some of Brian Transeau's and many other
trance music producer titles.
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Contents
- 1 Discography
- 1.1 JJ
- 1.1.1 Albums
- 1.1.2 Singles
- 1.2 Jan
Johnston
- 1.2.1 Albums
- 1.2.2 Singles
- 1.2.2.1 Solo
- 1.2.2.2 Collaborations and guest vocals
- 1.2.3 Unreleased material
- 1.2.3.1 Emerging
- 1.2.3.2 Miscellaneous
- 2 External
links
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Discography
JJ
Albums
Singles
- 1990 "If I Never See Sunday"
- 1990 "Slide Away"
- 1991 "If This is Love"
- 1991 "Crying Over You"
Jan Johnston
Albums
- 1994 Naked But for Lillies
- 2000 Emerging
Singles
Solo
- 1994 "Paris"
- 1994 "Alive"
- 1998 "Asking Too Much" (featuring Jamie Myerson) (US only; non-album)
- 2001 "Flesh" (debut Perfecto Records single release;
non-album)
- 2001 "Silent Words" (second Perfecto single release; from
unreleased album Emerging)
- 2002 "Am I on Pause?" (third Perfecto single release; vinyl
only; non-album)
- 2003 "Calling Your Name" (Thrillseekers
re-recorded version with new vocals; Platipus
Records; vinyl only; non-album)
Collaborations and guest vocals
- 1995 Libra Presents Taylor - "Anomaly - Calling Your Name"
(BT-produced track which samples "The Prayer" ("Paris" B-side))
- 1997 Submerge - "Take Me By the Hand"
- 1997 BT - "Remember" and "Lullaby for Gaia"* (from the BT
album ESCM
(*US Version only))
- 1998 Freefall - "Skydive" (single release, re-issued in
2000)
- 1999 BT - "Mercury & Solace" (single release from
BT album Movement in Still Life)
- 1999 BT - "Dreaming" (single release) & "Running
Down the Way Up" (backing vocals) (from the BT album Movement in Still Life)
- 1999 BT - "Sunblind" (from the Japanese version of Movement
in Still Life/BT Compilation R&R)
- 1999 Cloak - "Quiet Then" (from the OST compilation album
"Hackers Vol. 2")
- 1999 Libra presents Taylor - "Anomaly" (overhauling remix a
single release with new video)
- 2000 Tomski - "Love Will Come" (single release)
- 2001 Tiësto - "Close to You" (from the
Tiesto album In My Memory)
- 2002 Cosmic Gate - "Raging (Storm)" (single
release)
- 2003 DJ Cor Fijneman - "Venus" (European and US single
release)
- 2003 Paul van Dyk - Reflections
album featuring Johnston on vocals on "Kaleidoscope", "Homage", "Like a
Friend", "Spellbound"; "Nothing But You" features Norwegian vocals "Jeg
har ingenting men jeg har alt nar jeg har deg" which translates to "I
have nothing but I have everything when I have you." - also a single
release.
- 2003 Svenson & Gielen - "Beachbreeze"
(single release)
- 2003 "Calling Your Name" (re-recorded with new verses
& releases as a Jan Johnston single)
- 2003 BT - "Communicate" (from the 2003 BT album Emotional
Technology) (unofficial single, 2 known remixes
have been made)
- 2004 Serge Devant - "Transparent" (single release with
multiple mixes)
- 2005 Cosmic Gate - "I Feel Wonderful"
- 2005 Paul Oakenfold - "Delerium"
- (from The Club OST Soundtrack Mix album (TV
series OST))
- 2006 Leama & Moor - "Waiting" -
(from the Leama & Moor album Common Ground)
Unreleased material
Emerging
Jan recorded a second solo album entitled Emerging
in 1999/2000 as a result of signing to Paul
Oakenfold's Perfecto label. Upon delivering the album to the
label it was considered not dancey enough for the club kids Oakenfold
wanted to sell it to and the album was shelved and sadly never
released. The album track list was:
- "Silent Words"
- "Emerging"
- "Before"
- "Alligator Waters"
- "Unafraid"
- "Superstar"
- "Freeze Frame"
- "Is Disaster Coming"
- "As the Cracks Appear"
- "No Excuses"
- "21st Century Cinderella"
- "God's Plan"
Even though not recorded for Emerging, a
track entitled "Flesh" which Johnston wrote and recorded with Brian
Transeau in 1997 during the same sessions as "Remember" was decided to
be released as the first single on the Perfecto label. The original BT
mix is still unreleased to this date. The version used on the single
release was a Paul Oakenfold edited version of the famous Tiesto Remix.
"Silent Words" was released as follow up single to "Flesh" in
a shortened butchered edit.
Some of the other album tracks did appear on various releases;
- "Unafraid" was remixed by Paul Oakenfold and featured on
the soundtrack album to the 2001 film Swordfish.
- "Superstar" (a cover of
the Carpenters
classic) was originally intended as the lead single from Emerging and
was remixed by Todd Terry amongst others. A video was
even made for the song but has never been seen. Remixes of this track
appeared on various Oakenfold compilation albums.
- Remixes of "As the Cracks Appear" appeared on the Oakenfold
vinyl only promo release A Perfecto Summer.
Miscellaneous
- Johnston wrote and recorded a track entitled "Religion"
with Paul Oakenfold in 1999 which was performed live but has never seen
a commercial release.
External links
