Rare Essence has been played on NTS in shows including The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Louise Chen, featured first on 14 July 2015. Songs played include Disco Fever and Your Love (Makes My Temperature Rise).

Rare Essence, affectionately known by their fans as "THE WICKEDEST BAND ALIVE", grew from a relationship between four childhood friends: Quinten "Footz" Davidson, Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson, Michael "Funky Ned" Neal and John Jones. After school, the four young musicians would get together in each other's basements and play top forty hits from such influential bands like Parliament/Funkadelic, Cameo, and Confunkshun. Eventually the band adapted more players and conformed to the…