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Basement Jaxx - Red Alert - 1999
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RakiGenre: Videos
Date of Set: 1999
Filesize: 12.60 MB
Total Downloads: 6
Biography of Basement Jaxx
Following in the footsteps of the Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx (Brixton's disc jockeys Felix Burton and Simon Ratcliffe) play exuberant, catchy, frantic post-techno music with reggae and latin overtones in the underground hits that they released during the 1990s: Be Free (Atlantic Jaxx, 1995), Samba Magic (1996), Fly Life (1996), Get Down Get Horny (1996), Belo Horizonti (credited to The Heartists), Urban Haze (1997), Wish Tonite (1997). Unlike most techno musicians, they compose songs, songs that stand on their own. The early recordings will surface on Atlantic Jaxx (Beggars, 2001).
Basement Jaxx's first album, Remedy (Astralwerks, 1999), built on the creativity of the previous EPs. They mix latin music (Bingo Bingo) and hip-hop (Jump N'Shout). They indulge in the robotic ballet of Yo Yo, and sculpt the surreal and pounding Same Old Show. They triumph with the soul-poppy Red Alert and the exuberant flamenco-ish Rendez-Vu. At best, their style is derivative of 'garage house', the style born in the late 1980s our of New York gay clubs that basically set sexy rhythm'n'blues crooning to a techno beat. At worst, their tracks are trivial dancefloor cliches.
With Rooty (Astralwerks, 2001), instead, Buxton and Ratcliffe composed a tribute album to rhythm'n'blues, from Romeo (virtually a sendup of the Tamla style) to Get Me Off (that harks even further back in time to the girl-groups of the 1950s) to Do Your Thing (a charming throwback to the jump-blues bands of the 1950s), with nods to tex-mex (Broken Dreams), Caribbean music (I Want You), funk (Jus 1 Kiss), etc. The artistic value is very low, though, throughout the proceedings. They mostly provide generic dancefloor exuberance, such as the hit Where's Your Head At.
A much more somber work, Kish Kash (Astralwerks, 2003) finds Ratcliffe and Buxton in a bluesier state of mind (the string-laden Good Luck, vaguely reminiscent of Gloria Jones's Tainted Love, Living Room, Feels Like Home, If I Ever Recover), that does not sacrifice the arrangement gimmicks and the avantgarde raps, but rarely (Supersonic) addresses the dancefloor. The single Lucky Star (featuring rapper Dizzee Rascal), the nod to electro-clash of Cish Cash ( Siouxsie Sioux on vocals), the Prince-like funk-soul Right Here's the Spot (featuring Me'shell Ndegeocello) and Plug It In ('N Sync's JC Chasez on vocals) mainly rely on imitation and the appeal of household names.
Basement Jaxx's first album, Remedy (Astralwerks, 1999), built on the creativity of the previous EPs. They mix latin music (Bingo Bingo) and hip-hop (Jump N'Shout). They indulge in the robotic ballet of Yo Yo, and sculpt the surreal and pounding Same Old Show. They triumph with the soul-poppy Red Alert and the exuberant flamenco-ish Rendez-Vu. At best, their style is derivative of 'garage house', the style born in the late 1980s our of New York gay clubs that basically set sexy rhythm'n'blues crooning to a techno beat. At worst, their tracks are trivial dancefloor cliches.
With Rooty (Astralwerks, 2001), instead, Buxton and Ratcliffe composed a tribute album to rhythm'n'blues, from Romeo (virtually a sendup of the Tamla style) to Get Me Off (that harks even further back in time to the girl-groups of the 1950s) to Do Your Thing (a charming throwback to the jump-blues bands of the 1950s), with nods to tex-mex (Broken Dreams), Caribbean music (I Want You), funk (Jus 1 Kiss), etc. The artistic value is very low, though, throughout the proceedings. They mostly provide generic dancefloor exuberance, such as the hit Where's Your Head At.
A much more somber work, Kish Kash (Astralwerks, 2003) finds Ratcliffe and Buxton in a bluesier state of mind (the string-laden Good Luck, vaguely reminiscent of Gloria Jones's Tainted Love, Living Room, Feels Like Home, If I Ever Recover), that does not sacrifice the arrangement gimmicks and the avantgarde raps, but rarely (Supersonic) addresses the dancefloor. The single Lucky Star (featuring rapper Dizzee Rascal), the nod to electro-clash of Cish Cash ( Siouxsie Sioux on vocals), the Prince-like funk-soul Right Here's the Spot (featuring Me'shell Ndegeocello) and Plug It In ('N Sync's JC Chasez on vocals) mainly rely on imitation and the appeal of household names.
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