current_members years_active label article_title background genre origin name
nigel champion mark franklin saffron 1990 present & ndash ; 1995 2002 & ndash ; deconstruction records rca logic records n-joi
 group_or_band electronica , house southend , essex , england n-joi
n-joi

n-joi is an english production duo from southend , essex , england , consisting of nigel champion and mark franklin , -lrb- who met at alleyn court prep school -rrb- with sometime vocalist/front person saffron .
champion went to framlingham college and franklin to felsted school but met up again after school in 1987 .
between 1991 and 1996 they entered the u.s. `` billboard '' hot dance club play chart five times , all of them hitting the top 10 .
two of the songs went to number one : `` mindflux '' in 1992 and `` the new anthem '' in 1996 , which was a new version of their debut single `` anthem , '' itself a top five dance hit from 1991 .
in 2006 they returned to the top of the official uk dance chart with a set of remixes of their biggest uk hit `` anthem '' .
