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Released right on the cusp of Jamiroquai's explosive Travelling Without Moving era, this track represents a brilliant collision between the underground UK Jungle scene and mainstream acid jazz/funk.

I’ve been thinking about Queen Machine, the unreleased track Jamiroquai only played once in Barcelona 2025 (yes… I was lucky enough to hear it live 😄), and I’m starting to think its disappearance may be more significant than just a setlist adjustment.

The common explanation is that it was removed because the show was running too close to curfew, which could absolutely be true. But honestly, after hearing it, I always had the feeling it sounded more like a work in progress than a finished album track.

To me it had a very electronic disco / Hi-NRG vibe, but it felt flatter and less developed than Disco Stays The Same or Shadow in the Night. Some sections lowered the energy a bit, and it felt a little too long and repetitive. Not bad at all, just… preliminary.

Now that Jay Kay has confirmed that Disco Stays The Same was "radically changed" and went through multiple revisions, I’m wondering if Queen Machine may have suffered the same fate:

• heavily reworked into something different
• partially absorbed into another song
• or quietly dropped from Album 9 altogether

And honestly, this wouldn’t be unusual for Jamiroquai, they’ve done this before:

• Do That Dance evolved into Scam
• Let Me Believe evolved into Manifest Destiny
• Brother Like You was dropped
• Midnight Funk, Cannabliss, Funk Odyssey, and Shoot The Moon all disappeared in different ways
• even Synkronized was heavily reworked before release

Jamiroquai has always used live shows as a kind of testing ground, so maybe Barcelona gave us a glimpse of an early version of something that no longer exists in that form.

Curious what others think. Did anyone else feel Queen Machine sounded unfinished? Or do you think it’s still on Album 9, just in a very different form?

Have you got any clear photo of darren? I need it for an edit please

So the official Jamiroquai Instagram just uploaded an instagram post with the track to their post being "Disco Stays the Same "Stop the War"" while promoting ticket sales of their Latin American Tour.

Also recently, thanks to Jamirofan2000, he reposted an instagram post from Rob Harris who was with Paul Turner in a intensely red lit environment where they were dressed to the nines relatively recently. (https://www.instagram.com/p/DYEJHgZDhz1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)

Something tells me that DSTS (Disco Stays the Same) might be the leading Single and them teasing it this way while promoting the ticket sales for their Latin American Tour might be indicative of an imminent single release maybe being released alongside a music video that with some band members featured in it?

I mean, they ended their post with the tease of "What's that song?! 👀"

So dance anthem hit prior to the smooth 70 ballads like Shadow in the Night with who knows what else is in the album like Queen Machine and Diskokid????

For further context, mastering should be done after they submitted for mixing on April 9th, and they have to coincide regular press support before their European Festival Tour after mid June.

I mean, all roads lead to Travelling Without Moving, am I right?

Are there any Jamiroquai songs you cannot/or love listening to because it has been tied to an experience of some sort?

For me it's Tallulah and SDISJ, I played so much during my time with my first love, SDISJ though I can play a lot but Tallulah reminds me too much of that love that ended in June, so I don't play it as often :(

Tell me yours.