Liam on vocals, Stuart Clarke on guitar, Den Brodie on bass and Dan Moody on drums. That was Genshi in the early 90s.

I actually tracked down Dan Moody’s Youtube account where he has uploaded a bunch of their tracks just a few weeks ago.

The first demo had four songs, “Electricity“, “Inside My Head” and “Left Behind” and “Flying“. The second demo had the songs “Last Day“, “Mouse“, “Choke You” and “Delay“.

The band continued releasing demo tapes. Sadly I can’t find when they were released. The third demo had again four songs, “Wish Away“, “Out of Place“, “Mystery Girl” and “All too Late“.

Demo number four had the songs “Face is the Window“, “Collide“, “Burn” and “Relief“. These are the names of the songs in the description area but “Burn” appears as “Just Pretend” and “Relief” as “Belief”. Liam, the vocalist, was no more at this point, Stuart Clarke doing guitar and vocals now.

A fifth demo also exists. This one had “A Thought of Somewhere“, “A Chance Meeting“, “Soul Frequency” and “Sassy“. At this point I see a lineup change, just Dan Moody on drums and Den Brodie on bass from the original lineup and it mentions they had a female vocalist. No name given.

On demo six we have a female vocalist with a name now, Anna. Stuart Clarke as guitarist is again credited. Five songs: “Headstrong“, “Long Gone“, “Alibi“, “Tide” and “Kick“.

Demo number seven! So many! This one four songs again, “You Don’t Need“, “Blue“, “Branded” and “Wish Away (Acoustic)“.

Then we find some more songs, three untitled tracks by Genshi. Instead these are collaborations, probably from more recent times, between Dan, Den and Stuart.

We also know that the band hailed from Surrey. Whereabouts? Not sure. I think they may have hailed from Epsom as there is a Soundcloud account by Dan Moody saying he is located there (at least now). Sadly there are no songs by this 90s band. Also I am not 100% sure the band was named Down Spin.

I know too that Dan is these days involved with the band Glow. And there in the about section I see that the band actually hailed from Croydon. Great! That’s a win.

Now the big mystery is if they were called Genshi of course. What confuses me is that stoneeyedkiller has uploaded the track “Mystery Girl” and credits the song to a band called Down Spin or Downspin, maybe that was the name of the band came after.

That’s what I found. What else can you guys add to this? Would be good to know a bit more about this mysterious band!

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Genshi – Mystery Girl