RIP Guru Josh – DJ Dead At The Age Of 51

Guru Josh, the Rave DJ who wrote the song “Infinity” about the emerging rave scene in England, has died at the age of 51. Josh was dealing with mental problems, like depression, and wanted to see his family for Christmas. Josh then emailed his manager at six in the morning to take him to an airport and book a flight. The Dj’s manager found him that Sunday morning, at a later time, in his home dead. The cause of death was suicide.

DJ Guru Josh may have had that one single, but he wasn’t always this historical DJ. Guru Josh emerged on the British music scene following the post acid house, a portion of house music that developed in Chicago in the middle of the 1980s, and become famous through his single hit “Infinity.” The song was a blended fusion of synthesizer and saxophone that anyone could feel the licking and pulsing of the beat and can easily dance to. Eventually the single became re-issued in 1990 and then in 2008 as a remix version of the 1989 single with the help of DJ Klaas.

Although Guru Josh is originally from Jersey, music is one of his prime passions that he developed a knack to finely tune into a lifetimes work. Before he was just Guru Josh he worked under DJ names such as Syndrone and Crazy Organs, following his study of dentistry in 1981. Guru Josh started out with just a simple keyboard player at the Sands Nightclub and eventually became the DJ that would hit the house music scene with that one hit wonder “Infinity” in 1989. The song was originally about how a friend of his in England, where Guru Josh was performing in London with his rock band Joshua Cries Wolf one year later, was organizing a rave warehouse party of the singles same name. The song eventually achieved success being played over and over again in Germany, England, Portugal, and Austria.

Eventually Guru Josh would dip into other tidbits of the music scene, he worked in multimedia production and still made some music on the side. Josh moved to the island of Ibiza to focus more on music and art. He worked on making 3D glass art under the name Louie Fabrix and sold most of his creations in art exhibitions in New York, Paris, and Berlin.